The Scarlet Hour
"Another Dramatic Hit From Academy Award Director Michal Curtiz !"
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
"Another Dramatic Hit From Academy Award Director Michal Curtiz !"
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Carol Ohmart
Pauline 'Paulie' Nevins
Tom Tryon
E.V. 'Marsh' Marshall
Jody Lawrance
Kathy Stevens
James Gregory
Ralph Nevins
Elaine Stritch
Phyllis Rycker
E.G. Marshall
Lt. Jennings
Edward Binns
Sgt. Allen
David Lewis
Dr. Sam Lynbury
Billy Gray
Tom Rycker
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
The Kiss Off. The Scarlet Hour is directed by Micahel Curtiz and written by Rip Van Ronkel, Frank Tashlin and John Lucas. It stars Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, E.G. Marshall, Elaine Stritch, Jody Lawrance and James Gregory. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by Lionel Lindon. It has been a hard to locate film noir for may a year, which when you consider it's directed by such a titan of classic cinema comes as a surprise. The plot dynamics are very familiar to noir fans, and coming as it does late in the original film noir wave it does lack a bit of freshness, but there's little deviations in the shenanigans of the principals to at least give this its own identity. We essentially have an abused wife (Ohmart) having an affair with one of her husbands (Gregory) employees (Tryon). They plan to run away together but need money to do so. As it happens, during one of their love sessions in a parked car they over hear crooks planning a jewelry robbery and she convinces her man to hold up the thieves so as to take the jewels for themselves. In true noirville form this becomes a road to nowhere and danger lurks on every corner, with dodgy alibis, unrequited passions and a few twists and turns to keep the narrative perky. This is no shoddy production either, it comes out of Paramount and the presence of Curtiz shows you that the studio wasn't merely making a contract filler. Though the absence of chirascuro from Lindon is a shame, we do get some nifty sequences such as violence enacted that we only see via shadows. There's moments of humour as well, while there's also a musical surprise as Nat King Cole turns up to croon Never Let Me Go. Cast are fine, Ohmart has classic fatale looks and legs from heaven, but her character trajectory is a little muddled in the writing. Tryon plays the dupe competently, Lawrance sparkles in a secondary role, as does the scene stealing Stritch. I'd stop at calling this a hidden gem, as some other amateur reviewers have, though it does rather depend on how many other similar noirs you have seen previously. This doesn't come close to Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice or Thérèse Raquin, but that doesn't stop it being a good film, because it is and for sure it's well worth noir fans tracking it down. 7/10
เดวีย์ กอร์ดอน นักมวยชาวนิวยอร์กที่กำลังจะหมดสัญญาอาชีพ ตกหลุมรักกลอเรีย ไพรซ์ นักเต้น แต่ความสัมพันธ์ที่กำลังเบ่งบานของพวกเขากลับต้องสะดุดลงเมื่อวินเซนต์ ราปัลโล เจ้านายจอมรุนแรงของกลอเรีย ผู้มีสายตาจับจ้องกลอเรีย ทั้งสองตัดสินใจหนีออกจากเมือง แต่ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะทำได้ วินเซนต์และพวกอันธพาลก็ลักพาตัวกลอเรียไป และเดวีย์ถูกบังคับให้ออกตามหาเธอในมุมที่เสื่อมโทรมที่สุดของเมือง โดยมีศัตรูซ่อนตัวอยู่ในเงามืด
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หลังเกิดเหตุกราดยิงในเมืองเล็กแห่ง หนึ่ง มือปืน (แอรอน พอล) ได้หลบหนี จากที่เกิดเหตุ จนกระทั่งเวสลีย์ (แดนนี่ เมอร์ฟีย์) เด็กชายหูหนวกวัย 10 ขวบ ไปพบเขาเข้าและช่วยเขาซ่อนตัวอยู่ใน โรงนาร้างของครอบครัว ระหว่างที่การ สืบสวนคืบหน้า คู่หูต่างขั้วทั้งสองเฉียด อันตรายหลายครั้ง จนเวสลีย์ต้องตั้ง คำถามว่า “ใครกันแน่คือศัตรูตัวจริง" นี่คือผลงานจากผู้สร้างซีรีส์ Breaking Bad ร่วมด้วยนักแสดงคุณภาพคับคั่ง อาทิ อลิซาเบธ วินสตีดและสกู๊ต แมคแนรี่ ภาพยนตร์ระทึกชวนหยุด หายใจที่จะพาผู้ชมสำรวจสายสัมพันธ์ อันตรายระหว่างเด็กชายและผู้ร้าย หลบหนี
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