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Recherché pour meurtre

Titre original : Wanted for Murder
  • 1946
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  • 1h 35min
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Derek Farr, Dulcie Gray, and Eric Portman in Recherché pour meurtre (1946)
A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.

  • Réalisation
    • Lawrence Huntington
  • Scénario
    • Percy Robinson
    • Terence de Marney
    • Emeric Pressburger
  • Casting principal
    • Eric Portman
    • Dulcie Gray
    • Derek Farr
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,8/10
    977
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Lawrence Huntington
    • Scénario
      • Percy Robinson
      • Terence de Marney
      • Emeric Pressburger
    • Casting principal
      • Eric Portman
      • Dulcie Gray
      • Derek Farr
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    • 9avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Eric Portman
    Eric Portman
    • Victor James Colebrooke, alias Tom Maren
    Dulcie Gray
    Dulcie Gray
    • Anne Fielding
    Derek Farr
    Derek Farr
    • Jack Williams
    Roland Culver
    Roland Culver
    • Chief Insp. Conway
    Stanley Holloway
    Stanley Holloway
    • Sgt. Sullivan
    Barbara Everest
    Barbara Everest
    • Mrs. Colebrooke
    Bonar Colleano
    Bonar Colleano
    • Cpl. Nick Mappolo
    Jenny Laird
    Jenny Laird
    • Jeannie McLaren
    Kathleen Harrison
    Kathleen Harrison
    • Florrie
    Bill Shine
    Bill Shine
    • Det. Ellis
    Viola Lyel
    Viola Lyel
    • Mabel Cooper
    John Salew
    John Salew
    • Det. Walters
    John Ruddock
    • Glover
    Edna Wood
    • Miss Kemp
    George Carney
    George Carney
    • Boat Rental Agent
    Mary Mackenzie
    • Girl at Fair
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    • Guide in Madame Tussaud's
    • (as Wilfred Hyde White)
    Moira Lister
    Moira Lister
    • Miss Willis
    • Réalisation
      • Lawrence Huntington
    • Scénario
      • Percy Robinson
      • Terence de Marney
      • Emeric Pressburger
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    8hitchcockthelegend

    Just Call Whitehall 1212

    Wanted for Murder is directed by Lawrence Huntington and adapted to screenplay by Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland, Barbara Everest and Maurice Cowan from the play by Terence De Marney and Percy Robinson. It stars Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway. Music is by Mischa Spoliansky and cinematography by Mutz Greenbaum.

    Nifty little thriller noir this, basically it finds Portman as the sinister Victor James Colebrook, a man with murderous instincts born out by bad seed lineage in his family tree. Can intrepid Chief Inspector Conway (Culver) nail his man before he kills yet again? Imperative since Victor has latched onto Anne Fielding (Gray), and although he is in love with her, he doesn't know how long he can contain his blood lust.

    Thought to be influenced by a real life serial killer, Huntington's movie is very Hitchcockian in tone. Story unfolds by night in a London of dimly lighted foggy streets and dense shadowed parks, and by day it's the hustle and bustle of the city that provides a backdrop of false normalcy. As the tormented Victor goes about his way, leading his double life as a cunning member of society who dotes on his mother – and that of a strangler of women – the makers ensure the surroundings suit the persona.

    A chapter of the story set at a carnival pulses with unease, a visit to a wax museum really gets to the heart of the evil, a murder sequence that is off camera strikes all the right terrifying notes, and a quite brilliant passage that sees witnesses come face to face with the killer in Conway's office is superbly performed by all involved. Then there is the finale that plays out at night (naturally) at the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park. Wonderful!

    Portman (A Canterbury Tale/Dear Murderer) was a British treasure, an actor whose career begs for reappraisal by classic film fans. Here he is right on the money as the complex sociopath who detests what he has become and even dangles clues for the police to follow. Yet he also slips easily into society with a measured calmness that is rather chilling. Portman quite simply is excellent. As are Culver and Holloway as the sort of coppers Britain could do with having more of these days!

    With Pressburger as part of the writing team it's no surprise to find the script tight and the dialogue snappy, Huntington (The Upturned Glass) and Greenbaum (Night and the City) never miss the chance to accentuate the psychological tremors by way of smart visuals, and Spoliansky's music is devilishly spectral like. It probably could have been shorn of ten minutes and the Dulcie Gray/Derek Farr romance gets a little twee at times, but this is well worth checking out and deserves to be better known. 8/10
    7stills-6

    Very effective British thriller

    It's all very nicely done. I had barely, if ever, heard of any of the leads in this movie before I saw it. I was expecting a sloppy film noir set in London, but it was a pleasant surprise when the dialogue and the players were as good as they are. The story is tight, mostly, and there is real tension and unexpected humor. Overall, it was very effective.

    I was particularly impressed with Eric Portman as Colebrooke. There was not much of a tradition playing sociopaths at this point in the movies. Of the few that had been portrayed, Cagney in "White Heat", for example, is much more histrionic and obvious than Portman is here.

    I might quibble with some plot points and some really heavy-handed staging, but really this is much like middle Hitchcock without all of the psychological mumbo-jumbo to push it along.
    8Handlinghandel

    Marvelous British Suspense Film

    Don't be put off by the generic title. This is a film of subtlety and grace.

    Eric Portman is perfect as the troubled protagonist. Dulcie Gray enchants as the vulnerable yet strong-willed heroine. And the supporting cast is uniformly excellent.

    This is a variation on the Jack the Ripper theme. Someone is strangling young women, sending notes to Scotland Yard in advance. Ronald Culver is absolutely right as the chief inspector on the case.

    The psychology may be painted with slightly broad strokes. But the acting elevate that: The pain felt by all concerned is palpable. We do not admire the killer but we have understanding of the person's behavior. The victims and would-be victims are touching. And the attempts by secondary characters to help are persuasive and upsetting to us.
    7CinemaSerf

    Wanted for Murder

    I always thought that Eric Portman was never much more than an efficient actor; rarely does he ever deviate from his usual, rather linear, style of performance. This one, though, is a bit different and he is rather good as the son of a hangman who, losing his grasp on reality, is obsessed with strangling young women. With the police (Roland Culver & a rather entertaining Stanley Holloway) hot on the trail, he falls for Dulcie Gary ("Anne") and for the first time, he has doubts about what to do next... Lawrence Huntingdon has done a decent job with a solid cast based on quite an intriguing Percy Robinson play - and the last twenty minute build to quite an exciting crescendo that takes more than a casual swipe at red tape and the "more than my job's worth" brigade... Certainly worth a go - you might spot Wilfred Hyde-White at Madame Tussaud's!
    6kalbimassey

    Worth hanging around for

    How ironic that Eric Portman's opening volley should be an ill tempered retort to girlfriend, Dulcie Gray for leaving him HANGING about for an hour and a half. Her plausible explanation of a prolonged delay on the Tube failing to quell his ire.

    Portman is Victor Colebrooke, a man not so much haunted, as fully immersed and entirely consumed by the spectre of his deceased father, a notorious hangman in the late Victorian era, for whom job satisfaction was off the scale, as he wallowed in the morbid pleasure of the ultra-brief working relationships he forged with his clients and a sadistic smugness at his prolific turnover. His infamy recognized by a waxwork on display at Madame Tussaud's chamber of horrors in his dishonour.

    Any expectations of a murder mystery, whodunnit, or a final 'Cor, I never thought it were 'im!' are quickly dispelled and if you think for a moment that amorous, affable bus conductor, Derek Farr isn't quite the ticket, he immediately proves to be a fare minded all-round good guy.

    No! 'Wanted for Murder' is a largely grim parable, offset by a couple of surprisingly comic moments, portraying Portman's inherent insanity and morbid passion for killing, targeting young women in London parks after dark, rendering them post dusk no-go areas in the process. Further, he taunts detective Roland Culver with postcards, not of the 'Weather beautiful, wish you were here' variety, but with chilling predictions of where he intends to strike next. Yet, between the lines lurks a cryptic cry for help and a veiled self-loathing.

    'Wanted for Murder' plays out as a sombre depiction of a man imprisoned within himself, enduring a meltdown into murderous madness, and the brittle breakability of the 78 R. P. M. Record: Several smashed accidentally by a gramophone shop manageress and one deliberately in a fit of rage, by Portman. Was it on RCA, Victor?

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    • Anecdotes
      Mary Mackenzie's debut.
    • Gaffes
      After a handkerchief is discovered near a murder victim, an inspector from Scotland Yard tries to track down the owner via the laundry mark on it. The next scene shows a commercial laundryman carrying a wicker laundry basket into a home. Outside the home, the laundry basket bears the number "T 31". Upon entering the home the laundry basket bears the number "T 14".
    • Citations

      Sgt. Sullivan: There's one other thing sir. Course, you can take this for what it's worth.

      Chief Insp. Conway: Yes?

      Sgt. Sullivan: My wife says she's certain there's going to be another murder tonight.

      Chief Insp. Conway: Your wife isn't the strangler by any chance, is she?

      Sgt. Sullivan: Not that I know of sir. Only she's just got a feeling that's all. She's septic. Er - psychic...

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      The cast list in the opening credits finishes with etc. etc.
    • Connexions
      Referenced in Dela: Case #30: The Gas Killer (2024)
    • Bandes originales
      A Voice in the Night
      Lyric of Song by Mischa Spoliansky

      Music by Mischa Spoliansky (uncredited)

      Sung by Lizbeth Webb

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    • Date de sortie
      • 23 juin 1948 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Wanted for Murder
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Royal Exchange, Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, City of London, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Maren buys flowers)
    • Société de production
      • Marcel Hellman Productions
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    • Durée
      • 1h 35min(95 min)
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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