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अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंCat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emoti... सभी पढ़ेंCat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.
Emilio Rodríguez
- Police Captain
- (as Emilio Rodriguez)
Renata Tarragó
- Solo Guitarist
- (as Renata Tarrago)
Paul Beradi
- Concert Audience
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
George Ghent
- Stresemann
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Robert Graves
- Extra
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
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I first came across this film in Ankara, Turkey in the 1970's and have been looking for it since. It's a "heist" film on the surface, a cat burglar after jewels. But it's far more than this, with troubling, dark sexual overtones. It features the actual "deadfall" against the background of Aranjuez' guitar concerto, and the suspense is terrific, especially the acting, with Caine at his underplaying best, and Eric Portman stealing the show with a subtle, great performance. Why this film is not a cult classic I don't know, unless its dark side is too much for viewers. It's really unforgetable, as proven by its 25 year hold on my imagination.
Henry Stuart Clarke (Michael Caine) is a cat burglar who has his work down to a fine art. While under cover in a retreat for recovering alcoholics, he is approached by an alluring woman Fé Moreau who has a proposition for him, he's suspicious but agrees to meet her aging husband, Richard,(Eric Portman)himself a professional burglar who is now struggling to pull off the big jobs due to his age. Together they agree to pull off a seemingly impossible heist. Derided on its initial release, Forbes' film is nonetheless an interesting if slow film, especially if you like films of its ilk, its also beautifully filmed and makes wonderful use of the stunning Spanish setting, it also has a memorable score by the great John
DEADFALL is a lushly photographed suspense story with a cat burglar theme, wallowing in a full bodied John Barry score--especially during the major heist involving MICHAEL CAINE's high climbing bit where he's breaking into a playboy's mansion. Clever editing permits cross-cutting between a concert hall suite and the burglary in progress. GIOVANNA RALLI is the pretty Italian woman married to the mastermind of the burglary--ERIC PORTMAN--an aged homosexual.
After the main burglary, the story sags from mid-point onward with talky scenes between Caine and Ralli where she talks about her failed marriage and revelations of a sordid kind. All of this leads toward a downbeat ending with explanations made that are supposed to be shocking but don't have the desired impact because by then the pace of the film has become too lethargic.
ERIC PORTMAN gets the best lines but the dialog is hardly up to the caliber of Tennessee Williams and that's what is needed here, considering the sort of material the story deals with.
Summing up: Handsomely photographed on locations in England and Spain, it's a so-so crime caper after a solidly suspenseful burglary. The John Williams score is its biggest asset.
After the main burglary, the story sags from mid-point onward with talky scenes between Caine and Ralli where she talks about her failed marriage and revelations of a sordid kind. All of this leads toward a downbeat ending with explanations made that are supposed to be shocking but don't have the desired impact because by then the pace of the film has become too lethargic.
ERIC PORTMAN gets the best lines but the dialog is hardly up to the caliber of Tennessee Williams and that's what is needed here, considering the sort of material the story deals with.
Summing up: Handsomely photographed on locations in England and Spain, it's a so-so crime caper after a solidly suspenseful burglary. The John Williams score is its biggest asset.
It deals with a cat burgler : Michel Caine who is hired by a rare and mysterious marriage : Giovanna Ralli , Eric Portman to execute a house theft . He has to carry out a cat burlar at a luxurious mansion at great risk to limb and life . Meanwhile , the burgler falls in love with the young wife of his gay accomplice .Michael Caine stood on a wall.. Michael Caine has a deadfall ! Michael Caine plunges into the world of the adulterious ... the treacherous ,.. and the perverse !
Thrilling and interesting film about house robbery with action , trills , emotion , a love story and replete with a Shirley Bassey theme tune . This is a stop-go thriller being slow-moving at times , but entertaining enough . Of course , the best scenes result to be when our starring bringing off a daring heist intercut with clips from the concert attended by the owners of the house he is stealing , otherwise the action is undermourished . Trio of protagonists are frankly well . Michael Caine is very good in his usual style as the resourceful stealer carrying out dangerous robberies . The beautiful spouse , the Italian Giovanna Ralli , is fine as the woman who has been mentally scarred by his dad's membership of the Gestapo . And Eric Portman steals the show as the good-manners and sophisticated thief . Along with these nice stars , there is a small group of secondaries appearing and delivering brief interpretations , such as : Leonard Rossiter, Philip Madoc , Vladek Sheybal , composer John Barry himself , cameo by prestigious writer who lived in Majorca and Nanette Newman who was Bryan Forbes' wife , as well as Spanish secondaries as Emilio Rodríguez and Santiago Rivero .
It contains a brilliant and colorful cinematography by Gerry Turpin, shot on spectacular location in Majorca Balearic Islands , Spain and Pinewood Studios , Buckinghamshire , England , U K. The motion picture was professionally directed by Bryan Forbes , though it has some flaws and gaps . Being the special mention for the haunting musical score by John Barry , adding a 20-minute guitar concerto to accompany the hold-up . Both , composer John Barry and filmmaker Bryan Forbes collaborated in six theatrical movies , being this Deadfall their final movie . Director Bryan Forbes was also a notorious actor who directed some acceptable movies , such as : "Whistle down the wind , The L-shaped Room, Seance on a Wet Afternoon , King Rat , The Whisperers , The Raging Moon, The Slipper and the Rose , International Velvet , Better late than never , The Naked Face" , among others. The picture will appeal to Michael Caine fans .
Thrilling and interesting film about house robbery with action , trills , emotion , a love story and replete with a Shirley Bassey theme tune . This is a stop-go thriller being slow-moving at times , but entertaining enough . Of course , the best scenes result to be when our starring bringing off a daring heist intercut with clips from the concert attended by the owners of the house he is stealing , otherwise the action is undermourished . Trio of protagonists are frankly well . Michael Caine is very good in his usual style as the resourceful stealer carrying out dangerous robberies . The beautiful spouse , the Italian Giovanna Ralli , is fine as the woman who has been mentally scarred by his dad's membership of the Gestapo . And Eric Portman steals the show as the good-manners and sophisticated thief . Along with these nice stars , there is a small group of secondaries appearing and delivering brief interpretations , such as : Leonard Rossiter, Philip Madoc , Vladek Sheybal , composer John Barry himself , cameo by prestigious writer who lived in Majorca and Nanette Newman who was Bryan Forbes' wife , as well as Spanish secondaries as Emilio Rodríguez and Santiago Rivero .
It contains a brilliant and colorful cinematography by Gerry Turpin, shot on spectacular location in Majorca Balearic Islands , Spain and Pinewood Studios , Buckinghamshire , England , U K. The motion picture was professionally directed by Bryan Forbes , though it has some flaws and gaps . Being the special mention for the haunting musical score by John Barry , adding a 20-minute guitar concerto to accompany the hold-up . Both , composer John Barry and filmmaker Bryan Forbes collaborated in six theatrical movies , being this Deadfall their final movie . Director Bryan Forbes was also a notorious actor who directed some acceptable movies , such as : "Whistle down the wind , The L-shaped Room, Seance on a Wet Afternoon , King Rat , The Whisperers , The Raging Moon, The Slipper and the Rose , International Velvet , Better late than never , The Naked Face" , among others. The picture will appeal to Michael Caine fans .
After seeing this, I could be persuaded why Caine's is so well known for making dud decisions as to the choice of his films. While comparisons are inevitably made with the earlier and strictly played for laughs Gambit, this is a thief movie with no humour whatsoever and as the film progresses from intrigue to jealousy, and then from drudgery to death.
Overdirected? Most critics say so, but in the main, this was one of the aspects I most liked about the film. An early scene where Caine talks to the a youthful Leonard Rossiter can be noted for the lack of any shot of them both together in conversation. Others however, are sheer melodrama and should never have made it to the final cut.
Interesting for early Caine fans only, as thereafter the attractiveness fades and only the director, Bryan Forbes, nice man as he is, can really be left to carry the can, so to speak. Speeding to a climax which is just plain odd, the film rather leaves too much detail unexplained. While it appears easy to fill in the gaps, not enough time elapses between the final revelations and the dramatic close, to believe that not one of the characters could have really thought sensibly about all of this, and therefore not taken such drastic actions. Bewildering though not without charm.
Overdirected? Most critics say so, but in the main, this was one of the aspects I most liked about the film. An early scene where Caine talks to the a youthful Leonard Rossiter can be noted for the lack of any shot of them both together in conversation. Others however, are sheer melodrama and should never have made it to the final cut.
Interesting for early Caine fans only, as thereafter the attractiveness fades and only the director, Bryan Forbes, nice man as he is, can really be left to carry the can, so to speak. Speeding to a climax which is just plain odd, the film rather leaves too much detail unexplained. While it appears easy to fill in the gaps, not enough time elapses between the final revelations and the dramatic close, to believe that not one of the characters could have really thought sensibly about all of this, and therefore not taken such drastic actions. Bewildering though not without charm.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाThis film was one of a whole series of expensive box-office failures released by Twentieth Century Fox in the late 1960s, eventually leading to a major financial crisis in the company. Some time after its release, Michael Caine told interviewers that he and Bryan Forbes had both agreed to make the film because each of them owed Fox a movie under old agreements. It is highly likely that Forbes was anxious to have a box-office hit following his previous film, "The Whisperers", a very personal low-budget project which had, as he had anticipated, failed to find audiences, but which had also (as he had not anticipated) failed to win laudatory reviews, in the main. The two films Forbes had directed immediately before that - "King Rat" (1965) and "The Wrong Box" (1966) had also been flops, and rather expensive ones. A glossy heist thriller with a popular leading man must have seemed a good way for him to restore his fortunes, but it performed very badly, financially, and was, for the most part, poorly reviewed. After its failure, Forbes made an even more costly movie, "The Madwoman Of Chaillot", which was generally deemed a fiasco, both financially and artistically. Forbes continued to direct intermittently for another twenty years, but his career never recovered.
- गूफ़At 56:13, during the applause at the end of the concert, John Barry accidentally but very visibly steps on the long flowing gown of the featured guitarist lady.
- कनेक्शनReferenced in Naked Angels (1969)
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- 2 घं(120 min)
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