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Egoismo fatal

Título original: The Glass Alibi
  • 1946
  • Approved
  • 1h 8min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.1/10
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Douglas Fowley, Anne Gwynne, and Paul Kelly in Egoismo fatal (1946)
CrimenDramaFilm NoirThriller

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaJoe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin (Anne Gwy... Leer todoJoe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin (Anne Gwynne (I)', are planning on Linda soon dying from her heart ailment. But, renewed by love, L... Leer todoJoe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin (Anne Gwynne (I)', are planning on Linda soon dying from her heart ailment. But, renewed by love, Linda's condition is rapidly improving, which prompts her impatient husband to scheme the "... Leer todo

  • Dirección
    • W. Lee Wilder
  • Guionista
    • Mindret Lord
  • Elenco
    • Paul Kelly
    • Douglas Fowley
    • Anne Gwynne
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.1/10
    140
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • W. Lee Wilder
    • Guionista
      • Mindret Lord
    • Elenco
      • Paul Kelly
      • Douglas Fowley
      • Anne Gwynne
    • 5Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 2Opiniones de los críticos
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    Elenco principal16

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    Paul Kelly
    Paul Kelly
    • Max Anderson
    Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley
    • Joe Eykner
    Anne Gwynne
    Anne Gwynne
    • Belle Martin
    Maris Wrixon
    Maris Wrixon
    • Linda Vale
    Jack Conrad
    • Benny Brandini
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Dr. John F. Lawson
    Cyril Thornton
    • Riggs
    Cy Kendall
    Cy Kendall
    • Red Hogan
    Walter Soderling
    Walter Soderling
    • Coroner
    Victor Potel
    Victor Potel
    • Gas Attendant
    • (as Vic Potel)
    George Chandler
    George Chandler
    • Bartender
    Phyllis Adair
    • Nurse
    Ted Stanhope
    Ted Stanhope
    • Drug Clerk
    Dick Scott
    • Frank
    Eula Guy
    • Connie
    Forrest Taylor
    Forrest Taylor
    • Charlie
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      • W. Lee Wilder
    • Guionista
      • Mindret Lord
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    5blanche-2

    Very poor print

    I may have seen this before.

    A reporter, Joe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), learning that an heiress, Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon) has a few months to live, seduces her in about five minutes and marries her so that he and his girlfriend Belle (Anne Gwynne) can be on Easy Street.

    Call it the power of love, but Linda doesn't die on schedule. The money Joe borrowed is running out, so he becomes desperate.

    Three notable things about this film: It was directed by Billy Wilder's brother; Anne Gwynne is the grandmother of Chris Pine; and putting gas in Joe's car cost 40 cents.

    Douglas Fowley's acting was awful, and even a dying woman looking for a few months of happiness wouldn't have married such a sleaze.

    There's a big twist ending but right before the denouement I remembered the rest of the plot. Not sure it was this film, but it was something very similar.

    Bad print.
    4F Gwynplaine MacIntyre

    Good twist ending, not worth waiting for

    'The Glass Alibi' is a no-budget grade-Z film noir, featuring a clever double-twist ending that I genuinely didn't anticipate.

    I'll credit actor Douglas Fowley with one of the greatest film performances I've ever seen, as the excitable silent-film director in "Singin' in the Rain". Most of Fowley's many, many other film performances are too small to require much acting ability. In 'The Glass Alibi', although third-billed, he has the lead role ... and his part is large enough to prove that he's a lousy actor when he hasn't got a first-rate script and direction. Fowley gives a one-note performance here as a cynical newspaperman.

    Paul Kelly is one of those character actors whose real life is more interesting than the characters he played. Kelly tended to play incorruptible authority figures, but was more believable in rare outings such as 'The Roaring Twenties', in which he played a violent and utterly amoral criminal. In real life, Kelly did two years for manslaughter. Here, he plays an honest homicide detective who has known Fowley since boyhood.

    The most interesting credit in this movie is the director: W. Lee Wilder, in this film and others, showed absolutely no talent as a director ... yet he was the older brother of Billy Wilder, one of the most important scripters/directors in the history of film. Apparently the brothers never got along: Billy often claimed that his entire family had been killed by the Nazis (which might have been his way of denying all knowledge of W. Lee's existence). In the entire running time of 'The Glass Alibi', there is only one slight bit of directorial cleverness. Early in the film, a tight close-up shows Anne Gwynne on the phone, assuring her gangster boyfriend that she still loves him ... while the camera pulls back to reveal Doug Fowley's head on her lap!

    Maris Wrixon (nice face, nice figure, hideous name) plays a millionairess with only six months to live. Her performance is warm and vivacious, which is part of the problem: she shows no bitterness, none of the behavioural traits of the terminally ill that were described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Wrixon's character has got one of those old-movie diseases that enables her to stay good-looking and energetic while assuring us that her days are numbered. When Fowley pretends to be romantically interested in her, Wrixon doesn't consider that he might have ulterior motives for marrying her.

    Anne Gwynne, whom I normally equate with good-girl roles, is splendid here as a tough tootsie. She performs one long scene in a tight-fitting dress that had me hoping she would sneeze.

    This film has NO production budget! When the radio stations in this movie aren't broadcasting police bulletins, they're all playing classical music (public-domain; no copyright problems). Homicide cop Kelly works out of a room that looks like a bank executive's office, with a secretary at a separate desk: the filmmakers clearly weren't able to afford a convincing squad-room set. Wilder is the producer of this film as well as its director, so I'll give him the blame for its terrible look. There are a couple of good lines of thick-ear dialogue: "While he's on ice, we'll be dancing at La Paree."

    After Fowley marries Wrixon with the intention of inheriting her millions, he decides she isn't croaking fast enough. He and Gwynne cook up a James M. Cain scheme to bump her off.

    I said there was a clever double-twist ending. Well, half right. The first twist completely surprised me; it was unexpected yet utterly plausible. But after that one hit me, the second twist was obvious. There are good performances by George Chandler (as a bartender who vaguely symbolises destiny) and by Victor Potel as a petrol-station attendant whom Fowley deliberately aggravates, so that Potel will remember him later and provide an unwitting alibi. Paul Kelly phones in his performance; he should have stuck to playing villains. I'll rate this movie only 4 points out of 10.
    10mctyler

    Nifty thriller with plot twists.

    A reporter marries a dying heiress though in love with the moll of an imprisoned gangster. When it appears his wife is in no hurry to die, the reporter and his girlfriend plan murder with an airtight "alibi." Alas, things do not go as planned (do they ever in the movies?). This may seem dated now but when viewed from its release date of 1946, it is a nifty thriller with good plot twists.
    5boblipton

    Wilder Turns Director

    Douglas Fowley is a reporter who lives above his means. He borrows money from a lot of people, including homicide detective Paul Kelly; Kelly is amused at Fowley's ability to do everything but write. When they meet rich Maris Wrixon, they're both interested, but when Fowley discover she has a heart condition, he asks her to marry him, and she agrees. But she doesn't die, and Fowley's debts and those of his mistress, Anne Gwynne, mount up. So they come up with a murder plan with a fool-proof alibi.

    It's W. Lee Wilder's first movie as director, and he directs it for melodrama, which is not a bad decision, even if it comes in as heavy-handed In some ways it's a variation on DOUBLE INDEMNITY, co-written and directed by Wilder's brother BIlly, but lacking the star power and bitter humor of that classic.

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      Banned in Australia because of its gangster theme.
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      Remade as The Big Bluff (1955)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 26 de noviembre de 1947 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • The Glass Alibi
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Republic Studios - 4024 Radford Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • W. Lee Wilder Productions
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