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Impulse

  • 1954
  • 1h 20min
NOTE IMDb
6,0/10
312
MA NOTE
Arthur Kennedy and Constance Smith in Impulse (1954)
CriminalitéDrameMystère

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen his wife leaves for a vacation, a man gets into trouble when he gets romantically involved with a nightclub singer who tricks him into thinking he's committed a serious crime.When his wife leaves for a vacation, a man gets into trouble when he gets romantically involved with a nightclub singer who tricks him into thinking he's committed a serious crime.When his wife leaves for a vacation, a man gets into trouble when he gets romantically involved with a nightclub singer who tricks him into thinking he's committed a serious crime.

  • Réalisation
    • Cy Endfield
  • Scénario
    • Cy Endfield
    • Lawrence Huntington
    • Carl Nystrom
  • Casting principal
    • Arthur Kennedy
    • Constance Smith
    • Joy Shelton
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    6,0/10
    312
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Cy Endfield
    • Scénario
      • Cy Endfield
      • Lawrence Huntington
      • Carl Nystrom
    • Casting principal
      • Arthur Kennedy
      • Constance Smith
      • Joy Shelton
    • 17avis d'utilisateurs
    • 3avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux25

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    Arthur Kennedy
    Arthur Kennedy
    • Alan Curtis
    Constance Smith
    Constance Smith
    • Lila
    Joy Shelton
    • Elizabeth Curtis
    Jack Allen
    Jack Allen
    • Freddie
    James Carney
    • Jack Forrester
    Cyril Chamberlain
    • Gray
    Cameron Hall
    • Joe
    Jean St. Clair
    • Curtis' Next-Door Neighbor
    Bruce Beeby
    • Harry Winters
    Michael Balfour
    Michael Balfour
    • Sailor
    • (non crédité)
    Kenneth Cope
    Kenneth Cope
    • Hotel Desk Clerk
    • (non crédité)
    Fred Davis
    • Police Officer
    • (non crédité)
    Patrick Halpin
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    Victor Harrington
    Victor Harrington
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    John Horsley
    John Horsley
    • Police Officer
    • (non crédité)
    Sam Kydd
    Sam Kydd
    • Ticket Inspector
    • (non crédité)
    Charles Lamb
    • Mr. Palmer - Car Mechanic
    • (non crédité)
    Aileen Lewis
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Cy Endfield
    • Scénario
      • Cy Endfield
      • Lawrence Huntington
      • Carl Nystrom
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    Avis des utilisateurs17

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    Not ready for USA

    Arthur Kennedy went to England to shoot this stinker, one of innumerable Baker & Berman local productions made before that B-movie team hit paydirt with "Jack the Ripper" and other more commercial projects. It did not get an American theatrical release, like so many quota quickies of the period.

    He plays a realtor whose Good Samaritan aid to femme fatale Constance Smith gets him in big trouble. She's a night club singer involved with stolen diamonds and a boring set of uninteresting characters, hardly what B-movie fans cherished in the '40s and '50s -where's some snappy dialogue or fine acting?

    Instead the movie plods along, and en route to a sort of happy ending, Kennedy's misadventures never ring true. Clearly a short shooting schedule, near-zero budget and lack of imagination accounts for this not worthy time-killer.

    It's the duty of filmmakers to entertain or perhaps enlighten, but such drivel shot on automatic pilot is an insult to a paying audience, and fortunately US filmgoers were spared in this case. The director's credit is in question per IMDb, but hardly worth fighting for -I like to think that Cy "Zulu" Endfield was not responsible.
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    a fine Cyril Enfield unkown british film noir

    While his wife goes to London, a yankee (Arthur Kennedy) meets a beautiful lady (the sexy Constance Smith) and helps her with her damaged car. But everything gets more and more and more complicated. And she's so beautiful he cannot resist. Quite classic, but it's a true film noir story, directed with punch in usual settings but with so much efficiency, so many twists, as so often in british realistic film noir. Arthur Kennedy and Constance Smith live a strange love story, I wish the end would have been stronger. Yes, Cyril Enfield was a good director.
    5CinemaSerf

    Impulse

    Though it is short and sweet, Cy Endfield still struggles with this slightly contrived British murder/mystery. The rather wooden Arthur Kennedy ("Curtis") meets the glamorous "Lila" Constance Smith) in an hotel bar whilst his wife "Elizabeth" (Joy Shelton) has gone away for the weekend. After what seems like the briefest of introductions, he forgets any semblance of the sanctity of his marriage vows and as a result gets tangled up with some murderous diamond smugglers before a predictable ending. It's not a great example of the genre, more a rather stodgily paced vehicle for a visiting American star.
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    Unexciting, low-budget noir

    A bored man gets himself in a heap of trouble while his wife is away in Impulse, a 1954 British film starring Arthur Kennedy and Constance Smith, directed by Cy Endfield.

    Arthur Kennedy, a brilliant actor, did make some films in England, though I'm not sure why. He had a wonderful Broadway and US film career, receiving several Oscar nominations. On top of which, he had to work with Constance Smith. By 1954 she had been fired by Rank and dropped by 20th Century Fox. She came to a terrible end.

    In Impulse, he plays a real estate agent who is restless. He lives in a small town that offers no excitement. With his wife (Joy Shelton) away for the weekend, he goes to a bar and notices a beautiful woman (Smith) who seems to be ducking the police.

    Later, her car has broken down so he offers her a lift. She's a nightclub singer and has to get back to London. He attends the show.

    Before he knows it, he's involved with stolen jewelry, a murder, and dangerous criminals, not to mention a woman who can ruin his marriage.

    Actually, the stories of Smith and and Jean St. Clair, who played the neighbor, are much more fascinating than this film.

    From 1952 to 1969, St. Clair was married to Jack Baer, an art dealer who owned a gallery. They divorced in 1969, but in the early '70s, she was imprisoned for setting fire to his gallery.

    Constance Smith, as mentioned, was fired first from Rank for being difficult, then dropped by 20th Century Fox after a series of B films. She was replaced early on in the film "I'll Never Forget You" starring Tyrone Power.

    In 1962 she was sentenced to three months in prison for stabbing her boyfriend, documentary maker and film historian Paul Rotha. In 1968, she stabbed him for a second time and was charged with attempted murder. They married in 1974, and broke up in 1978. Smith tried several times to kill herself. Due to drug and alcohol addiction, her last years were spent in hospitals or working as a cleaner.

    Impulse pales in comparison.
    4Leofwine_draca

    Low key and undistinguished Tempean thriller

    IMPULSE is another typical British crime film, one that plays out in a very low key way and which features an imported American star in order to bring American audiences in. This time around it's a permanently stressed out Arthur Kennedy, playing a happily married man who decides to embark on a dalliance when his wife goes away for the weekend.

    His problems begin when he helps a stranded woman who turns out to be a femme fatale played by Constance Smith, whose real life was more torrid and tragic than any movie. Smith is excellent, by the way, and gives the best performance in the movie. Kennedy finds himself obsessed by her, but he doesn't know that she's involved with some ruthless criminals who think nothing of committing murder to get their way.

    Before long the film settles in the typical Tempean Films format, with a lone hero, the attractive women helping and hindering him, the thugs seeking to kill him, and the police always one step behind. It's rather undistinguished stuff that lacks a decent storyline to see it through and I was bored more often than not. Cyril Chamberlain's weary cop encapsulates the audience's mood on this one. Watch out for a youthful Kenneth Cope making his debut film appearance early on.

    I just wanted to correct one of the other reviewers on this sight: Charles de la Tour is not the pen name of Cy Endfield. He was a director in his own right who had children, one of whom is RISING DAMP actress Frances de la Tour. Something that would be rather impossible if he didn't actually exist!

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    • Anecdotes
      Feature-film debut of Kenneth Cope.
    • Gaffes
      At 12 min. Mr. Johnson is in Room 6. As he enters the bathroom there are no stockings hanging near the door. He walks to the window then returns to the door to turn on the light and walks into stockings. At 13 minutes when the maid enters the room the stockings are now hanging close to the wall which would have made it impossible to walk into without hitting the wall.
    • Citations

      Elizabeth Curtis: Darling, if hating Ashmore is making you hate,, everybody, we could move...?

      Alan Curtis: Well, I don't really suppose it's Ashmore...

      Elizabeth Curtis: Then it's me!

    • Bandes originales
      You're Gone
      Music by Stanley Black

      Lyric by Barbara Killalee

      Sung by Constance Smith (uncredited)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 1954 (Royaume-Uni)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • In die Falle gegangen
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(studio: made at)
    • Société de production
      • Tempean Films
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    • Durée
      1 heure 20 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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