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Marchands d'illusions

Titre original : The Hucksters
  • 1947
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 55min
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Clark Gable in Marchands d'illusions (1947)
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

  • Réalisation
    • Jack Conway
  • Scénario
    • Frederic Wakeman
    • Luther Davis
    • Edward Chodorov
  • Casting principal
    • Clark Gable
    • Deborah Kerr
    • Sydney Greenstreet
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    • Réalisation
      • Jack Conway
    • Scénario
      • Frederic Wakeman
      • Luther Davis
      • Edward Chodorov
    • Casting principal
      • Clark Gable
      • Deborah Kerr
      • Sydney Greenstreet
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    • 20avis des critiques
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    • Récompenses
      • 3 victoires au total

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    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • Victor Albee Norman
    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    • Kay Dorrance
    Sydney Greenstreet
    Sydney Greenstreet
    • Evan Llewellyn Evans
    Adolphe Menjou
    Adolphe Menjou
    • Mr. Kimberly
    Ava Gardner
    Ava Gardner
    • Jean Ogilvie
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Buddy Hare
    Edward Arnold
    Edward Arnold
    • Dave Lash
    Aubrey Mather
    Aubrey Mather
    • Mr. Glass
    Richard Gaines
    Richard Gaines
    • Cooke
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Max Herman
    Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley
    • Georgie Gaver
    Clinton Sundberg
    Clinton Sundberg
    • Michael Michaelson
    Gloria Holden
    Gloria Holden
    • Mrs. Kimberly
    Connie Gilchrist
    Connie Gilchrist
    • Betty
    Kathryn Card
    Kathryn Card
    • Regina Kennedy
    Lillian Bronson
    Lillian Bronson
    • Miss Hammer
    Vera Marshe
    Vera Marshe
    • Gloria
    Ralph Bunker
    Ralph Bunker
    • Allison
    • Réalisation
      • Jack Conway
    • Scénario
      • Frederic Wakeman
      • Luther Davis
      • Edward Chodorov
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    8telegonus

    Ad Man's Progress

    The Hucksters has a lot of good clean fun with the advertising business of the 1940's. Clark Gable, newly discharged from the service, returns to his old haunts as an ad man and finds himself involved with two women, a tyrannical client, and an obnoxious, not too talented radio comedian. This is high class melodrama, and has some pretty good satirical moments, though I don't think that the guys who wrote it were as smart as they thought they were, it's a decent, watchable movie.

    One can see Gable slipping into middle age here, and though he seems spry enough, he's clearly not the man he was five years earlier, and I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner are attractive if otherwise unremarkable as the women in his life. Sidney Greenstreet does a nice turn as the sinister, demanding client. Keenan Wynn's the one to watch here, as the (so-called) comedian Gable must contend with; and he does a smashing job, managing to be pathetic, sympathetic and obnoxious all at once, not, I imagine, an easy thing for an actor to do.

    Worth keeping an eye out for: excellent production values from MGM's art department in its glory years. Marvelous sets, expert lighting. The movie is a pleasure to look at, if not always to listen to.
    dougdoepke

    A Curiosity with Continuing Relevance

    Gable's a commanding presence and appears in about every scene. His ad-man character Victor Norman is none too likable, but that's the way it should be, given the shark tank he's swimming in. I found the first part rather tedious as Victor bounces around socially and professionally to no particular purpose. The second part, however, picks up noticeably as the plot thickens. Vic's a self-assured man looking to make big money in advertising, but has his own uncompromising ideas on what sells. Thus, he's either a man of principle capable of better values, or a mercenary man who will only reluctantly sell out. Which of the two wins out emerges as the plot's crux.

    Of course, being Gable he has to have an active love life, and that means deciding between the gentile Kay (Kerr) or the vibrant Jean (Gardner). Frankly, Kerr's given a basically one- dimensional role that doesn't hold much interest. I can see why she was afraid Gardner would steal the picture (IMDB). The movie's satirical part emerges with Greenstreet's portrayal of the caricatured soap kingpin Evan Evans. He presides over Beautee Soap's advertising interests like a gelatinous cretin, spitting on the table, tossing hats out the window, and dumping water on hapless underlings. It's here that the film makes a jolting statement about the industry, given Evans' unchallenged authority. At the same time, a reckoning between him and Gable's Norman shapes up as inevitable. All in all, the movie stands now as something of a curiosity, with lessons about commercialism that I expect still stand, whether radio, TV, or internet streaming.
    6moonspinner55

    Sophisticated, well-dressed, and just a little bit dull...

    Clark Gable is in good form playing an advertising ace, unemployed after spending the last four years in the Army, talking his way into a top Wall Street radio and print agency and landing the company's biggest account: Beautee Soap, run by a despicable, disrespectful tyrant. Sydney Greenstreet is the spitting, bug-eyed soap czar who keeps all his yes-men clucking like frightened geese, and his scenes around the conference table very nearly go over the top (but their payoff is in the finale); Deborah Kerr is a glamorous war widow whom Gable chases; and young Ava Gardner is well-cast as a nightclub singer--and Gable's rebound girl after Kerr plays tough-to-get. It's a slick, handsome piece of refined goods, not satiric as one might expect, though not quite stuffy, either. There are leisurely laughs, a cute sequence with Gable and Gardner on the train to Hollywood, and a satisfying wrap-up. If the picture doesn't exactly deliver fireworks, it does gives us Gable nicely contemplative, blowing kisses at the girls while at the same time re-examining his place in the work force. **1/2 from ****
    9planktonrules

    One of Gable's better films, though it is often forgotten

    This film is a very cynical look at the advertising business. Gable plays a slick liar who could charm the stripes off a snake who sets out to charm a widow for his own ends. However, over time he grows to hate himself and his sleazy business--ultimately culminating with a confrontation with the revolting and incredibly disgusting Sidney Greenstreet! Speaking of Mr. Greenstreet, he is FABULOUS in the film as the president from a soap factory with no soul. You MUST see the segment when he is first introduced, as it is one of the most memorable and disgusting scenes in the 1940s! You gotta see it to believe it! Also notable is the performance of a young Keenan Wynn as an obnoxious and untalented star. He does a good job of being annoying!
    9bkoganbing

    Tyrants are everywhere

    The Hucksters, a really good film about the advertising game, became instantly dated almost from its release. A new box with both voices and pictures was invading American living rooms in 1947 just around the time this fine film was released. So a film about advertising for the radio became immediately dated.

    The situations and the ethics involved in those situations however are still as real today as they were post World War II.

    Clark Gable who had done three years service in World War II brings just the right dimension to the character of Vic Norman who is anxious to restart his career in the advertising game. But also having been fighting against tyranny overseas, you know it's only a matter of time before he and Sydney Greenstreet clash head on.

    I don't know what deal Louis B. Mayer made with Jack Warner to get Greenstreet over to MGM for his part as Evan Llewellyn Evans the soap king, but it was well worth it. Next to his movie debut as Casper Guttman, this is Greenstreet's best moment on screen. Greenstreet is the sadistic tyrannical head of a soap manufacturing firm who delights in making everyone jump at his slightest whim.

    The one who jumps the highest is Adolphe Menjou. This is also one of Menjou's finest roles as Kimberley the head of the agency that has Greenstreet's account and where Gable wants to work. Menjou is one ulcer driven man who started his agency with Greenstreet's account and has now worked himself into virtual slavery for the big money Greenstreet pays him. Menjou is quite an object lesson for where you could go wrong in the advertising game.

    Both Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner are in this film as Gable's love interests. This was Kerr's first American film and she basically set her image of refinement in this film. She's the English widow of an American general from World War II and Gable meets her by trying to sell her on endorsing Greenstreet's soap.

    This was Ava Gardner's first big role in a major film and even with a dubbed voice for singing, she's just fine as the nightclub singer who's got a big old thing for Clark Gable. This was the first of three films she did with Gable, besides Lone Star and Mogambo. Their chemistry is pluperfect.

    One of Greenstreet's whims is getting a radio show for a second rate burlesque comedian played by Keenan Wynn. Wynn himself has an interesting part. He's a second rate talent at best and you can see he really knows it. Yet he bluffs his way through life with a certain braggadocio which is charming in its own way.

    And Wynn isn't so totally offbase with his dream either. Five years before Buck Privates hit the screen, second rate burlesque comedians were what you would have described Abbott and Costello. Why shouldn't Keenan Wynn dream of their kind of success.

    Whenever I watch The Hucksters I'm reminded of Bewitched. Remember that Darren Stevens is also in the advertising game and half the plots of that show involved him dealing with a difficult client and Samantha working things out with a bit of nose magic. What was Bewitched in fact, but witchcraft and advertising.

    I'm sure dealing with Greenstreet, Gable wished that either Kerr or Gardner had a little nose twitch magic that he could have used with the soap king. Failing that he has to take a direct approach.

    And that folks, is something to sit through this very fine film to see.

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    • Anecdotes
      As the start of production neared, Ava Gardner got cold feet about co-starring with Clark Gable, whom she had idolized since childhood. Arthur Hornblow asked Gable to call her, and he told her: "I'm supposed to talk you into doing this thing. But I'm not going to. I hated it when they did that to me. But I hope you change your mind, kid, I think it would be fun to work together." The two remained friends for life.
    • Gaffes
      When Vic and Kay are lying on the beach at night, the background of the sea is a still shot; the waves stay fixed during the entire scene.
    • Citations

      Tie Sales Clerk: Anything?

      Victor Albee Norman: I want a very sincere necktie.

      Tie Sales Clerk: I beg your pardon?

      Victor Albee Norman: I want something that makes me seem sincere. You know, honest; genuine; upright; trustworthy.

      Tie Sales Clerk: Well... um, here's a handpainted one in four colors; at thirty-five dollars. Is that sincere enough?

      Victor Albee Norman: I think, my friend, any more sincerity would be downright foolhardy.

    • Connexions
      Featured in Inside the Dream Factory (1995)
    • Bandes originales
      Don't Tell Me
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      Written by Buddy Pepper

      Sung by Eileen Wilson (Ava Gardner singing voice)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 18 juin 1948 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Hucksters
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Fulton Fishmarket, Fulton Street, Manhattan, Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis(second unit)
    • Société de production
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      1 heure 55 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
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