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Ein Fremder ruft an

Originaltitel: Phone Call from a Stranger
  • 1952
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 35 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,9/10
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Ein Fremder ruft an (1952)
Film NoirDrama

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuWhile awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled ... Alles lesenWhile awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.

  • Regie
    • Jean Negulesco
  • Drehbuch
    • Nunnally Johnson
    • I.A.R. Wylie
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Bette Davis
    • Shelley Winters
    • Gary Merrill
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,9/10
    3251
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Jean Negulesco
    • Drehbuch
      • Nunnally Johnson
      • I.A.R. Wylie
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Bette Davis
      • Shelley Winters
      • Gary Merrill
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      • 1 Gewinn & 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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    Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    • Marie Hoke
    Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters
    • Binky Gay (Mrs. Michael Carr)
    Gary Merrill
    Gary Merrill
    • David L. Trask
    Michael Rennie
    Michael Rennie
    • Dr. Robert Fortness
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Eddie Hoke
    Evelyn Varden
    Evelyn Varden
    • Sally Carr
    Warren Stevens
    Warren Stevens
    • Marty Nelson
    Beatrice Straight
    Beatrice Straight
    • Claire Fortness
    Ted Donaldson
    Ted Donaldson
    • Jerry Fortness
    Craig Stevens
    Craig Stevens
    • Mike Carr
    Helen Westcott
    Helen Westcott
    • Jane Trask
    Hugh Beaumont
    Hugh Beaumont
    • Dr. Tim Brooks
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Genevieve Bell
    • Mrs. Fletcher
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Lulu Mae Bohrman
    • Restaurant Patron
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Douglas Brooks
    Douglas Brooks
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Ralph Brooks
    Ralph Brooks
    • Airplane Passenger
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Steve Carruthers
    Steve Carruthers
    • Restaurant Patron
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Perdita Chandler
    • Mrs. Brooks
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Jean Negulesco
    • Drehbuch
      • Nunnally Johnson
      • I.A.R. Wylie
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    8bkoganbing

    The Last One Tells The Tale

    Phone Call From A Stranger casts Gary Merrill, Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie and Keenan Wynn as four complete strangers who bond during a cross country flight that ends in tragedy. Of the four Merrill survives the plane crash and feels it his duty to call on the survivors that the three others left. In the process he works out a few issues for himself.

    Michael Rennie was a prominent doctor who became a whole lot less prominent after he got out of a vehicular homicide charge by throwing the blame on the other man in the car. Merrill calls on wife Beatrice Straight and son Ted Donaldson who've been living with an alcoholic for many years.

    Shelley Winters had left her husband Craig Stevens and his domineering mother Evelyn Varden to seek some fame and fortune on the stage. She was returning home in defeat. Varden is one truly hateful woman, a kind of Sophie Tucker like entertainer on steroids. Merrill conceives it his duty to give Varden a temporary comeuppance of sorts.

    The most poignant tale is that of Keenan Wynn. Wynn is a traveling salesman, one of those characters who is constantly 'on'. Keenan borrowed a bit from his borscht belt comedian character from The Hucksters for this role. He carries a picture of his wife Bette Davis from her pinup girl days in a Betty Grable poise in a bathing suit. The Davis that Merrill meets is quite a bit different than what Wynn showed the others. In fact Davis when she recites her own story paints a picture of Wynn as a person of real character that you would never suspect in meeting him casually. This role may have been Keenan Wynn's best screen performance, at least I think so.

    The Davis/Wynn story is the best, but the others aren't bad either. The writing by Nunnally Johnson from an I.A.R. Wylie story is just superb and Jean Negulesco gets great performances from his cast. Phone Call From A Stranger is a soap opera, but an intelligent and moving one that may wring a tear from a few hardened hearts.
    Barry-44

    A twisting, thoughtful movie.

    Phone Call From A Stranger will be worth the watch for any Shelley Winters or Bette Davis fans. I watched the old, 1952 black and white movie on a drizzling afternoon and surprisingly, the flick made me feel real good. Why, you ask? On back of the movie packet it tells you that "A plane crash puts an end to the sufferings of three ill-fated passengers ..." With that alone, one would assume that it's a totally 'down' movie. However, it is not. It's like that old saying that my grandmother used to make, "In everyone's life a little rain must fall". Well, I guess she was right if one is to enjoy the sunny days. Which, Phone Call From A Stranger turns out to be: a sunny day after much rain.

    This movie will make you feel good about yourself. I promise. I think that's what so great about older movies; no special effects to disturb the real meaning of movies: the actors and actresses.

    A must-see for classic movie fans.
    7dglink

    Solid Drama with Little Seen Bette Davis Performance

    Gary Merrill's plane is delayed by weather, and he waits in a small airport terminal with three strangers: Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie, and Keenan Wynn. All four have complex pasts, and, over the course of the night, they become friends and share secrets. A tragic crash leaves only one of the four alive, Gary Merrill, which is no spoiler because the advertising blurb reveals that plot point. Thus, Gary makes the "Phone Call from a Stranger" to the families of the three friends who died. Although a clever and engaging story device, the disparate stories tidy up a bit too quickly and neatly. However, the cast is entertaining, and the film is engaging throughout its 96-minute running time.

    Merrill is solid as David Trask, a lawyer with his own issues, who links the stories. Shelley Winters shines as Binky Gay, an entertainer who never quite made the big time and lives in the shadow of her celebrity husband and mother-in-law. Winters's role is showy, and she plays both her character and Trask's enhanced version of her character with panache. Keenan Wynn is the perpetual clown, who grows tiresome to his friends and eventually to the audience. Beyond the four central characters, even the small parts are big in this film. A young Beatrice Straight plays Michael Rennie's wife; Evelyn Varden is Sally Carr, an aging nightclub headliner; and Bette Davis appears near the end to show her then husband, Merrill, how to face his own character's crisis.

    "Phone Call from a Stranger" is not a classic, but rather a solid programmer from the early 1950's with an above-average cast and some good performances. While the film does not merit repeat viewings, except perhaps to appreciate a little known Bette Davis role, the story is told with a good pace, and any time spent in the company of these fine actors is well spent.
    8blanche-2

    Absorbing 20th Century Fox melodrama

    Gary Merrill is the stranger making the phone calls in "Phone Call from a Stranger," a 1952 film directed by Jean Negulesco and also starring Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Michael Rennie, Beatrice Straight, Craig Stevens and Bette Davis. Unable to forgive his wife for an affair, David Trask gets on a plane, where, due to the plane being late and an unexpected stopover because of bad weather, he becomes friendly with three passengers: a performer (Winters), a salesman (Wynn) and an alcoholic attorney (Rennie) and hears their stories. The salesman seems a happy man with a knockout for a wife; the performer has a horrid mother-in-law, a former vaudeville star with whom she competes, but she loves her husband; and the attorney has resolved to go to the DA and admit responsibility for an accident that happened a few years earlier which has destroyed his marriage. When the plane crashes, Trask is the only survivor of the four. He visits each of the victims' families to pay his condolences and possibly put some matters right. Then he learns from one of the family members the importance of putting his own life back together.

    This isn't a particularly big-budget film - it's in black and white; some of these actors were under contract to Fox; others are not huge names with the exception of Davis. Her role is short but worth the entire film, though all the performances are very good and the stories heartfelt. The attorney's family story is heavy drama, with the son believing his mother drove his father away. The performer's family story is the comic relief as the mother-in-law right out of hell gets her comeuppance. And the tear-jerker is the scene with the salesman's wife. Davis is often criticized for being overblown and mannered, and yet she was always capable of giving a restrained performance as she does here and also did in "All This and Heaven Too" and "Watch on the Rhine." There are other treats as well. Shelley Winters is pretty and vivacious in a wonderful role for her, Keenan Wynn is excellent as the loud salesman, and as the attorney, Rennie is an appropriately sad and reflective figure. Gary Merrill is very likable as Trask. Though he never really made it to big star status, he was a dependable actor, very handsome and masculine. Of course he and Davis had sparks in "All About Eve" - so much so that they got married in real life - and there's a nice chemistry between them here as well. It's nice to see them when they were happy together. They also did a very good British film together, "Another Man's Poison." My only complaint is the at times overpowering musical score.

    Very entertaining and highly recommended, especially for Davis fans.
    mermatt

    Study in conscience

    This is an interesting story with a great cast. The survivor of a plane crash meets the other people in the lives of those he met on the plane before the crash. This framework provides a fascinating study in conscience and human nature.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The film was the third and final on-screen pairing of real life husband and wife Gary Merrill and Bette Davis. The other two pictures are Alles über Eva (1950) and Gift für den Anderen (1951).
    • Patzer
      Behind the opening credits, the taxi that's taking Trask to the airport passes two movie theaters at least three times, as if the rear projection of stock footage was on a continuous loop. The movies playing at these theaters are "Homestretch" and "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," (at the McVickers), both released five years before this film. The McVickers was a well known Chicago theatrical site, but the taxi arrives at the MIDLAND CITY, IOWA airport, and a flight FROM Chicago is among those listed on the arrival schedule.
    • Zitate

      Marie Hoke: Dull, foolish, vulgar to some but not to me. To me he was a man like a rock. Nothing could shake him. Nothing could shake his love. It was from him that I learned what love really was. Not a frail little fancy to be smashed and broken by pride and vanity and self pity. That's for children. That's for high school kids. But a rock as strong as life itself indestructible and eternal.

    • Verbindungen
      References Die zwei Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
    • Soundtracks
      The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
      (uncredited)

      Music by Gaston Lyle

      Lyrics by George Leybourne

      Sung by the passengers on the airplane

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 22. Dezember 1952 (Westdeutschland)
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    • Offizielle Standorte
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    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • 5301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(ambulance races past Tilford's restuarant at the corner with La Brea Ave.)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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