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El enviado del diablo

Título original: Alias Nick Beal
  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 33min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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Ray Milland, Thomas Mitchell, and Audrey Totter in El enviado del diablo (1949)
Drama políticoFantasía sobrenaturalFilm NoirHorror sobrenaturalDramaFantasíaMisterioTerrorThriller

Un fiscal de distrito alcanza el éxito político y la gobernación, pero pierde su sentido de la moralidad una vez que comienza a asociarse con el sombrío y quizás diabólico Nick Beal.Un fiscal de distrito alcanza el éxito político y la gobernación, pero pierde su sentido de la moralidad una vez que comienza a asociarse con el sombrío y quizás diabólico Nick Beal.Un fiscal de distrito alcanza el éxito político y la gobernación, pero pierde su sentido de la moralidad una vez que comienza a asociarse con el sombrío y quizás diabólico Nick Beal.

  • Dirección
    • John Farrow
  • Guionistas
    • Jonathan Latimer
    • Mindret Lord
  • Elenco
    • Ray Milland
    • Audrey Totter
    • Thomas Mitchell
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    • Dirección
      • John Farrow
    • Guionistas
      • Jonathan Latimer
      • Mindret Lord
    • Elenco
      • Ray Milland
      • Audrey Totter
      • Thomas Mitchell
    • 42Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 25Opiniones de los críticos
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    Ray Milland
    Ray Milland
    • Nick Beal
    Audrey Totter
    Audrey Totter
    • Donna Allen
    Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell
    • Joseph Foster
    George Macready
    George Macready
    • Rev. Thomas Garfield
    Fred Clark
    Fred Clark
    • Frankie Faulkner
    Geraldine Wall
    Geraldine Wall
    • Martha Foster
    Henry O'Neill
    Henry O'Neill
    • Judge Hobson
    Darryl Hickman
    Darryl Hickman
    • Larry Price
    Nestor Paiva
    Nestor Paiva
    • Karl
    King Donovan
    King Donovan
    • Peter Wolfe
    Charles Evans
    Charles Evans
    • Paul Norton
    Ernö Verebes
    Ernö Verebes
    • Mr. Cox - Tailor
    • (as Erno Verebes)
    Douglas Spencer
    Douglas Spencer
    • Henry T. Finch
    Arlene Jenkins
    • Aileen - the Fosters' Maid
    Pepito Pérez
    • Poster Man
    • (as Pepito Perez)
    Joey Ray
    • Tommy Ray
    Leon Alton
    Leon Alton
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    Edward Biby
    Edward Biby
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      • John Farrow
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      • Jonathan Latimer
      • Mindret Lord
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    8AlsExGal

    The devil is in the details

    A variation on the Faust theme, Thomas Mitchell plays an honest politician who is tempted with the state governorship if he follows the political advice given to him by a mysterious stranger who emerges from the fog (Milland). Among other things, Milland has the ability to predict, word for word, the exact dialogue that will occur between two people in a future conversation.?

    It seamlessly blends political drama, noir and Val Lewton-esque psychological horror. Ray Midland's portrayal is restrained, without sacrificing any of Nick Beal's monstrous evil. The subtle, malevolent smile on Milland's face as Thomas Mitchell's Foster has his epiphany reveals that, perhaps, Nick Beal is truly omnipotent. He's thought of everything, and there's no escape for poor Foster. The screenplay by Jonathan Latimer is outstanding. When Nick lectures Foster that in politics, and life, there are no absolutes, just shades of gray, I can't help but think of Broadcast News and Albert Brooks' speech about the devil - "What do you think the devil's going to look like if he's around? ... Nobody is going to be taken in by a guy with a long, red, pointy tail!"??

    The ending was a tad heavy-handed, but appropriate for the times. Audrey Totter was her usual terrific self. And George Macready is miles away from his sleazy character in Gilda. Director John Farrow, along with the production design, music by Franz Waxman and Lionel Lindon's chiaroscuro cinematography create a feeling of inescapable dread.
    9bmacv

    In this dark, half-forgotten gem, His Satanic Majesty delves into municipal politics

    Rarely spotted on TV even by midweek insomniacs, brushed aside even by aficionados of the Hollywood past, Alias Nick Beal is a top-notch movie that puzzlingly languishes in limbo. It's an unusual but successful cross of the supernatural fantasy films popular in the forties – like Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait, The Devil and Daniel Webster – with the grittier conflicts of the big-city exposés in film noir.

    Thomas Mitchell, a progressive and muckraking mayor, won't rest easy until he eradicates corruption from his unnamed town. But incriminating ledgers detailing the graft of a rival political-machine boss have been burned. Mitchell gets a call asking for a mysterious meeting at a waterfront bar, The China Coast Café, where, like a wraith out of the harbor fogs, materializes Ray Milland. Ordering Barbados rum (with its voodooish connotations), he introduces himself as Nick Beal, which seems to be the short Americanization of Beelzebub. He offers Mitchell the pristine ledgers, from which the mayor can nail down a conviction and propel himself to the governor's mansion; trouble is, now he's stuck with the sinister Beal.

    Unflappable in his suavity, Milland stays pitchfork-perfect in his scheme to strip Mitchell of his honesty and ideals. He enlists the help of bar floozie Audrey Totter, who turns herself into Mitchell's Gal Friday and diverts his affections from his wife (and conscience) Geraldine Wall. And every time Mitchell thinks he's compromised his principles for the last time or struck his final dirty bargain, in slithers Milland with another twist of the knife, a brand-new temptation. Finally elected to the statehouse, Mitchell finds that he's sold his soul to the very forces that he had always fought...

    Alias Nick Beal has to be, hands down, the most sure-footed movie John Farrow ever directed; he never slips in sustaining its spectral look or precarious tone. Totter, too, excels in a part that tests her range, from a cat-fighter in a sleazy dive through efficient political aide to repentant cat's-paw. This may be her most fetching performance, particularly in her drunken exchange with a bartender: `What time is it?' `You just asked me that.' `I didn't ask you what I just asked you, I asked you what time it is.' Mitchell and Milland can't be faulted at the top of a cast that includes George Macready as a preacher who can't quite place Milland: `Have you ever had your portrait painted?' he gingerly inquires. `Yes – by Rembrandt in 1655," comes the smug retort. (The screenplay is by Jonathan Latimer, who also penned The Glass Key, Nocturne, They Won't Believe Me, Night Has A Thousand Eyes, and The Big Clock.)

    This morality tale about the seduction and fall of a promising politician echoes themes explored in the same year's All The King's Men but adds a fanciful metaphysical dimension. That may look like a cop-out, a way to avoid tackling the issues realistically, but the metaphysics can be seen as metaphorical – Satan can be a symbol (and as Macready remarks, maybe he knows it's the twentieth century, too). Whatever one's take on The Spirit That Denies, the movie survives triumphantly on its own terms – the splendid and satisfying Alias Nick Beal doesn't deserve the obscurity that has come to enshroud it.
    7bkoganbing

    Seeds of destruction

    The Faust legend gets yet another retelling in modern post war America with Thomas Mitchell as an honest District Attorney looking for evidence to convict a racketeer. A conviction in this case will propel him to higher office.

    Into the story walks a gentleman named Nicholas Beal played with intensity by Ray Milland. The account books supposedly destroyed Milland says he can produce and produce them he does. Of course Mitchell is grateful and Milland becomes part of his inner circle.

    With Mitchell now being talked about for the governorship, Milland incurs the mistrust of all around him including Mitchell's wife Geraldine Wall and the Reverend George MacReady. MacReady who himself has played many a sinister character on the big and small screen knows sinister when he sees it. In fact he's the first to recognize Milland for what he is.

    When a man's influence doesn't work Milland plants Audrey Totter in Mitchell's circle. This is a whole lot like the way Ray Walston used Gwen Verdon to get at Tab Hunter in Damn Yankees. Only this is far more serious.

    Ray Milland who before The Lost Weekend played all kinds of light parts was now getting heavier dramatic fare in his career and handling it most successfully. He's probably at his most menacing on the screen in Alias Nick Beal.

    As for Mitchell for once he didn't die on the screen. Years ago I had a teacher who said that Thomas Mitchell had to have the record for screen deaths in major motion pictures. Although I can think of a few in addition to this one like Stagecoach and It's A Wonderful Life where he lived until the final end credits, I think the man that taught me might have had something. Mitchell is fine as a man desperately trying to do the right thing and having to contend with his own ambitions at the same time.

    Paramount normally did not go in for noir films, but in this case they produced one with classic satanic overtones. In the end Milland makes a rather interesting confession as the film ends. It explains his attitude and his character.

    I'd make it a point to check it out.
    8krocheav

    Alias Nick Beal - Eerie Morality Play

    This strange story of an honest crime-fighting district attorney certainly has several haunting moments. They involve a dark stranger who has the uncanny ability to appear and disappear at precisely the right moments. This suave, eerie gentleman offers vital evidence to our honest DA against a highly corrupt criminal - that would allow him to be put away forever. No self-respecting DA could pass this up at any cost - but what is the cost? With fog bound meetings on a lonely pier at the wrong end of town, the too good to be true deal is struck. - Now to cover the unrevealed cost.

    Wonderful direction and shadowy cinematography combined with superb performances make this a must see rarity. Most unfortunately it's been locked away in the MCA vaults since Paramount sold it in a package in the 50s. TCM HD is your only hope to see the newly re-printed copy - struck off for one of their Noir festivals. Let's hope they may offer it for sale on DVD sometime in future!

    Some Public Domain copy houses are offering M.0.D. Off-Air copies, some of which are poor but one from the UK, has a reasonably good/OK transfer on offer.
    9Hup234!

    Offbeat and well-done psychological drama.

    Nick Beal (not his real name) has a haunting way of whistling in the fog, in which he seems at home. It's a symbol of the mystery of the man, which softly, like the fog itself, reveals itself to us. There are absorbing scenes involving Ray Milland's interplays with George Macready, Thomas Mitchell and Audrey Totter, and there is Franz Waxman's soundtrack score, all contributing to the mood of apprehension which prevails throughout in this quiet study of power. Anything said further here would reveal what we soon learn of .... well, of the man who whistles. Highly recommended.

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    • Trivia
      Ray Milland wore the same hat and suit throughout the film, while Audrey Totter had 21 changes of wardrobe.
    • Errores
      (at around 53 mins) The mic and boom shadow can be seen to left of the door as Donna rushes Foster out the door of her apartment.
    • Citas

      Bum: Yes brethren, every word is true. I've walked in the darkness, glory be. I've wrestled the Devil and thrown him. I've pinned his shoulders to the mat. Yes, I've pinned his shoulders to the mat.

      Nick Beal: I wonder if he knows it's two falls out of three?

    • Conexiones
      Spoofed in Papá lo sabe todo: Mister Beal Meets His Match (1958)
    • Bandas sonoras
      A Mighty Fortress
      Written by Martin Luther

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      • 7 de julio de 1949 (México)
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      • Estados Unidos
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      • Alias Nick Beal
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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      • Paramount Pictures
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      • 1h 33min(93 min)
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