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La carta delatora

Título original: Cause for Alarm!
  • 1951
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  • 1h 14min
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Loretta Young in La carta delatora (1951)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAn invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a se... Leer todoAn invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

  • Dirección
    • Tay Garnett
  • Guionistas
    • Mel Dinelli
    • Tom Lewis
    • Lawrence B. Marcus
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    • Loretta Young
    • Barry Sullivan
    • Bruce Cowling
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    • Dirección
      • Tay Garnett
    • Guionistas
      • Mel Dinelli
      • Tom Lewis
      • Lawrence B. Marcus
    • Elenco
      • Loretta Young
      • Barry Sullivan
      • Bruce Cowling
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    Loretta Young
    Loretta Young
    • Ellen Jones
    Barry Sullivan
    Barry Sullivan
    • George Z. Jones
    Bruce Cowling
    Bruce Cowling
    • Dr. Ranney Grahame
    Margalo Gillmore
    Margalo Gillmore
    • Mrs. Edwards
    Brad Morrow
    Brad Morrow
    • Hoppy - Billy
    • (as Bradley Mora)
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Mr. Joe Carston - Postman
    Georgia Backus
    Georgia Backus
    • Mrs. Warren
    Don Haggerty
    Don Haggerty
    • Mr. Russell
    Art Baker
    Art Baker
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    Richard Anderson
    Richard Anderson
    • Lonesome Sailor
    Gerald Courtemarche
    • Boy
    • (sin créditos)
    Jack Daley
    • Elderly Man
    • (sin créditos)
    Robert Easton
    Robert Easton
    • Tex
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    Bonnie Kay Eddy
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    Kathleen Freeman
    Kathleen Freeman
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    Greta Granstedt
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    Teddy Infuhr
    Teddy Infuhr
    • Boy
    • (sin créditos)
    Ivor James
    • Boy
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    • Dirección
      • Tay Garnett
    • Guionistas
      • Mel Dinelli
      • Tom Lewis
      • Lawrence B. Marcus
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    7bob_gilmore1

    Suspense Film certainly worth the money

    After picking up a cut-rate DVD box set containing 100 "mystery" films that have lapsed into the public domain I came across this thriller from 1951 about a dutiful housewife who watches her bedridden husband slip into paranoia. Whether the film possesses film noir bona fidas is not the question; the answer is that the film is quite effective at stirring up Hitchcock like thrills for the picture's final reels. The filmmakers even inject a note of ambiguity at the film's conclusion enough to make you wonder if the film's climax could perhaps be viewed from a different perspective.

    Like so many films of the era there are several things that do raise humorous eyebrows these days. At the onset Loretta Young is doing "housework"; struggling with an unruly vacuum cleaner while wearing an elegant dress that would be more than appropriate attire for a four star restaurant. It really wasn't that long ago that millions of women would have killed for Young's sedate upper middle class existence as a "housewife." The idea that a doctor would make a house-call (let alone two house-calls in one day) is a humorous artifact of a bygone era. Redgardless of the anachronistic humor, "Cause For Alarm" is a pleasant diversion.
    lawprof

    Hoppy Rules!

    "Cause for Alarm" isn't a great film but it captures the noir cinematic scene of the postwar period fairly well. Loretta Young's frenetic pursuit through hot suburban California streets to retrieve a dangerous missive is well done. Is anyone really convincing in a story of a WWII pilot working in the insurance industry and detouring into paranoia while stricken with a cardiac condition? Nah, probably not. But the movie is a nice visit back to the fifties.

    Early in the film Loretta Young walks out to her driveway and encounters - a celluloid ME. Attired in the exact same garb I wore in '51, a black cowboy outfit with two six(cap)-guns and riding a trusty trike, a not particularly adept child actor passes himself off as the one-and-only Hopalong Cassidy (as we grew older he became "Hopalong Catastrophe" but in the early fifties he was our unsullied hero). This kid even has the same toy I remember treasuring.

    All that nostalgia aside, this short film is diverting albeit not the finest example of noir cinema. Loretta Young was as beautiful as she was talented. Barry Sullivan is appropriately nuts and most of the rest of the cast give dependable color to their roles.

    This film definitely belongs in any noir retrospective.
    5hitchcockthelegend

    Picket fence paranoia!

    Cause for Alarm! is directed by Tay Garnett and adapted to screenplay by Mel Dinelli and Tom Lewis from a story written by Larry Marcus. It stars Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan and Bruce Cowling. Music is scored by Andre Previn and cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg.

    George Jones is suffering from a heart condition and confined to his bed. An aloof and suspicious man, he assumes his wife and doctor, the latter a good friend, are conspiring to poison him and outlines his suspicion in a letter to the District Atttorney. Getting his wife to pass the letter on to the postman, he gleefully tells his wife what he has done. So when he actually does die, shortly after, wife Ellen panics and sets about retrieving the letter.....

    Slight plot but well acted, Cause for Alarm! is an efficient pot boiling thriller. Tagged as a "suburban noir," it's a film that has had an up and down experience in terms of critical appraisal. What we can say now is that it does carry with it a degree of ambiguity, where once back in the day it was seen as a straight forward narrative, with Young's ever increasingly fraught wife trying to correct a wrong she hasn't in fact done; now it's quite possible that her telling of the story (via narration) is "arguably" a hokey smoke screen for a dastardly deed. It's the ambiguity, to me at least, that gives the film watchable value. For without it the film just plays out as a chase and deceive movie, one with a couple of colourful characters inserted in for plot suspense enhancement, and featuring a clumsy character thread about parental yearning.

    Production (in 14 days) and cast performances are good. Young engages by exuding genuine sweaty stress, and supporting turns from Margalo Gillmore and Irving Bacon, as annoyingly talkative aunt and postman respectively, leave favourable marks. Direction from multi genre helmer Garnett is nicely on the simmer, while Ruttenberg's photography brings shadows and light to this twitchy part of suburbia. But the ending, if indeed there are no tricks being played, is a thoroughly unsatisfying outcome. There are those who have delved deep in search of meaning and explanations of character motives and reactions, with that the film has an aura of mystery about it. Certainly there are more questions than answers unfolded during the relatively short running time, and that's OK, we like that Sullivan's bile based husband courts no sympathy. However, it may well be that the film was merely just meant to be a suspenseful little ole race against time drama, a tale about a woman who just married a less than honourable man.

    It's watchable and the paranoia elements do indeed bring it into the film noir realm, but your enjoyment of it may depend on if you side with the theory that there is more than meets the eyes and ears. Personally I have my doubts, and the thought of having to watch it again is about as appealing as painting Loretta's picket fence on the hottest day of the year. 5/10
    6wes-connors

    Return to Sender!

    Loretta Young acts up a storm as a woman (Ellen) married to a terminally ill man (George) who believes she is planning to murder him. Husband Barry Sullivan composes a letter to the District Attorney, explaining how exactly Young will commit the murder…

    The film is a showcase for Young, and she delivers a fine performance. The story, however, is very hard to accept. There are many things happening on the screen which needed to be more fully explained. For starters, the husband's illnesses - how does his heart condition affect his mind as manifested on screen? Then, there are several actions Young takes which do not seem to be the choices most level-headed thinking individuals would take. So, maybe she's not exactly a level-headed thinking individual?

    ****** Cause for Alarm! (1951) Tay Garnett ~ Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
    7sddavis63

    It Builds The Suspense Well

    In addition to a really good performance from Loretta Young as the increasingly desperate Ellen Jones, I give great credit to director Tay Garnett for the very effective build-up of suspense, which shifts gears partway through the movie but doesn't miss a beat in doing so. As Ellen, Young is playing a woman trying to nurse her gravely ill husband back to health. Unfortunately, George Jones' poor health has led him to become increasingly paranoid, and he's come to the conclusion that Ellen and his doctor are in love and trying to murder him. Ellen tries her best to "put on a happy face" as she deals with her increasingly difficult spouse, and then discovers that a letter she mailed for him was actually directed to the District Attorney, and accused her and the doctor of planning his murder. (As an added complication, George actually dies after the letter is sent.) The movie then shifts from George's paranoia to Ellen's desperation, as, after George dies, she frantically tries to get the letter back before it reaches the DA, but with every more desperate attempt to get the letter she seems to set herself up as more guilty. Where and how will this end?

    It's a very well done movie, with a lot of little things that gave it a feel of authenticity: the nosy neighbours, and the neighbourhood kid who pretends to be Hopalong Cassidy showing up at Ellen's house looking for cookies. The opening scenes, explaining how George and Ellen met and their mutual relationship with Dr. Graham, went on perhaps a bit too long. Then, at the end, there is an expected twist (because you always expect a surprise twist in a movie like this) but the expected twist wasn't the twist I was expecting, and it provided a somewhat humorous (and perhaps, therefore, slightly out of place) ending to an overall very enjoyable film.

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    • Trivia
      Producer Tom Lewis wanted Judy Garland for the leading role, but his wife Loretta Young also wanted it. She retained a lawyer who told him that he was discriminating against her because she was his wife. She got the part.
    • Errores
      Even if written on heavy 24-pound bond, a two-page letter, mailed in a standard #10 business envelope, with no additional enclosure-- which appears to be all that Jones composes and the doctor burns in a tabletop ashtray-- would not come close to exceeding the one-ounce limit for a standard first-class letter. 24-lb bond contains 500 sheets - a ream. Each ream weighs 6 lbs (or 96 ounces). Each sheet weighs 0.192 of an ounce. Treating the envelope as a third sheet, the total comes to just under 0.60 oz., just 1/10th of an ounce over halfway to reaching the 2-stamp limit.
    • Citas

      George Z. Jones: Ummm... my head.

      Ellen Jones: Is your head bothering you?

      George Z. Jones: Terribly... both of them.

      Ellen Jones: Would you like me to rub it for you?

      George Z. Jones: I couldn't think of anything nicer.

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      Edited into Muchachada nui: Episode #2.8 (2008)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 18 de julio de 1951 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Streaming on "ampopfilms" YouTube Channel
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • 116 N Oakhurst Dr, Beverly Hills, California, Estados Unidos(George & Ellen's house - since demolished and replaced)
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • Black and White
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