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L'imprevisto

Titolo originale: Hi, Nellie!
  • 1934
  • Approved
  • 1h 15min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,9/10
622
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Paul Muni in L'imprevisto (1934)
ComedyCrimeDramaRomance

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story... Leggi tuttoThe managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.

  • Regia
    • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Abem Finkel
    • Sidney Sutherland
    • Roy Chanslor
  • Star
    • Paul Muni
    • Glenda Farrell
    • Ned Sparks
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,9/10
    622
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Abem Finkel
      • Sidney Sutherland
      • Roy Chanslor
    • Star
      • Paul Muni
      • Glenda Farrell
      • Ned Sparks
    • 18Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Paul Muni
    Paul Muni
    • Samuel N. Bradshaw aka Brad
    Glenda Farrell
    Glenda Farrell
    • Gerry Krale
    Ned Sparks
    Ned Sparks
    • Shammy
    Robert Barrat
    Robert Barrat
    • Beau Brownell
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    • J.L. Graham
    Kathryn Sergava
    Kathryn Sergava
    • Grace
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Fullerton
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Harvey Dawes
    • (as Douglas Dumbrille)
    Edward Ellis
    Edward Ellis
    • O'Connell
    Paul Kaye
    • Helwig
    Donald Meek
    Donald Meek
    • Durkin
    Dorothy Libaire
    Dorothy Libaire
    • Rosa Marinello
    • (as Dorothy Le Baire)
    Marjorie Gateson
    Marjorie Gateson
    • Mrs. Canfield
    George Meeker
    George Meeker
    • Sheldon
    Harold Huber
    Harold Huber
    • Leo
    Allen Vincent
    Allen Vincent
    • Nick Grassi
    Pat Wing
    Pat Wing
    • Susie
    Frank Reicher
    Frank Reicher
    • Danny
    • Regia
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Abem Finkel
      • Sidney Sutherland
      • Roy Chanslor
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    10Ron Oliver

    Rapid-Fire Newsroom Comedy

    Forced to write the Heartthrobs column, the former managing editor of a big city paper finds himself exposing a story of murder & political corruption.

    Fast-moving & fun, HI, NELLIE! is another example of the comedy crime picture that Warner Brothers was so expert at producing. Casts & plots could be shuffled endlessly, with very predictable results. While this assembly line approach created few classics, audience enjoyment could usually be assured. Here, the look & feel of the paper's busy newsroom is smack on the mark and the performances, even with a script that's too plot heavy, never fail to entertain.

    Consummate actor Paul Muni gets a rare chance at comedy here and pulls it off brilliantly, adding just the right amount of drama from time to time. Whether he's trashing his office in a fury, fighting with his boss or going nonchalantly into the headquarters of the enemy to collect information, Muni is never less than fascinating. He is teamed with the equally watchable Glenda Farrell, playing another one of her hard-boiled dames with a heart of gold. It is obvious from the script that their two characters were once lovers, but refreshingly no time is wasted with rekindling the flames - they are just chums, wary & respectful. Their unromantic chemistry adds much to the fun of the film.

    A fine cast of character actors helps move the story along. Ned Sparks plays his usual acerbic self as an investigative reporter loyal to Muni. Little Donald Meek is equally good as an aged office clerk who provides assistance on the hectic news floor for Muni & Farrell. Berton Churchill as the paper's publisher & Douglass Dumbrille as Muni's rival both score in their roles.

    Robert Barrat, Harold Huber & Edward Ellis all play dangerous bad guys who must be dealt with. Frank Reicher, fresh from his double stint as the captain in the KONG movies, here plays a none-to-savvy lawyer.

    Movie mavens will recognize an uncredited John Qualen as a tenement custodian.
    9Servo-11

    Paul Muni can play comedy!

    Having seen Paul Muni in so many dramas, I wondered if he could pull off comedy as well. I needn't have worried. Since he's teamed with Glenda Farrell, a master of the wisecrack, he gets solid support and the looks they exchange throughout the movie are priceless. One scene that I loved was when Glenda is pretending to be Nellie Nelson so that a woman will confide in her and she's bossing Muni around like he's her office boy.

    The plot isn't that original. In fact, there are several versions on the same theme (star reporter demoted), but this one has the star material to give it an extra life. Ned Sparkes also adds to the fun.
    8jacksflicks

    A great movie title and a Paul Muni showcase

    Hi, Nellie is one of the most arch, hilarious movie titles I've ever encountered. At first it sounds banal, but as it's tossed around in different scenes by different characters, it gets funnier and funnier. There's a barroom scene that's a howler.

    But rather than just a prop for the title's running gag, the story is quite interesting on its own. It involves a newspaper and corruption and a missing banker, and things aren't what they seem. We're taken through some amazing sets. it's impressive to see how many resources were plowed into them by the studio, from tracking shots of the cavernous newsroom, of teeming city streets, of the interior of an elaborate nightclub, all following Paul Muni, who, by the way, is a rough-and-tumble editor relegated to the lovelorn column by his publisher.

    And this is a great showcase for Muni. Most of his scenes show him in closeup. Remember, Cagney had Public Enemy and Muni had Scarface, both intensely focused on their personas. I think Muni, because of his stage background, overdraws his character in movie closeups. (He may have won the Oscar for Louis Pasteur because he wore a beard that restrained his over-expressiveness.) But hey, it's Muni, and it's fun to see him do his stuff.

    This is a comedy-crime flick, fast-paced, with rapid-fire dialog between great Warner players, so you have to pay attention. There's a scene where a dim young reporter tells Muni that the children's picnic he was assigned to cover didn't occur because the boat taking the kids to the venue ran aground on a sandbar and broke up, so he only had one paragraph to report. This is great stuff!
    6marcslope

    Hi, Paul

    Muni takes a break from all the heavy-breathing dramas he was turning out at Warners for this lively newspaper yarn, which takes an odd turn about halfway through. At first it's a "Front Page"-style comedy, complete with bustling newsroom, huffy editor, and speedy copy boys. Muni's demoted from managing editor for mishandling a story and relegated to taking over Glenda Farrell's lonely-hearts column (see also Montgomery Clift in "Lonelyhearts," a couple decades later). Oddly, these two bickering reporters don't romance each other. After being miserable in his new position and getting self-pitying drunk, he braces up and becomes the world's greatest lonely hearts reporter (thus all the "hi, Nellie!" mirth, which comes off today as homophobic and unkind). But then we transition into a convoluted newspaper drama, with Muni and the newsroom-a fine Warners bunch, with Donald Meek, Ned Sparks, Douglas Dumbrille-chasing down a missing executive and pursuing an unlikely course through Houston Street, Little Italy, and Greenwood Cemetery. It becomes less interesting, but Mervyn LeRoy, working at a furious Warners pace, keeps it brisk, there's a swell deco supper club set with a full-size carousel, and even the main-credits theme is memorable. Not top-drawer Warner Brothers, then, but enjoyable middle-drawer.
    71930s_Time_Machine

    Cheerful, lightweight entertaining fun

    You know instantly from the moment you see that WB shield and hear Leo Forbstein's jaunty music that you're going to enjoy this. It's one of those typical Warner Brothers fun, upbeat stories about "ordinary people" who first encounter misfortune then work out how to make it better. In this type of picture you're not going to get anxious or worried because you just know that everything's going to work out fine for them in the end. This was exactly what was needed to cheer up the audiences of The Great Depression and this one is still as entertaining today. There's nothing really special about this but as a cinematic equivalent to eating a box of chocolates, it's brilliant and guaranteed to keep you smiling all the way through.

    Why HI NELLIE is still so watchable now is because it is made so well. One of Warner's top directors, Mervyn LeRoy could turn his hand to anything and rarely made anything you would not want to see. To those of us familiar with old Warner movies, there's a few familiar faces here including the usually sombre and serious Paul Muni who is never, ever associated with light comedy. However, if you have no idea who Paul Muni was and stumble upon this, you would simply think that he'd being doing these types of light comedy roles all his life - he is absolutely superb!

    There's really nothing bad to say about this - as an example of this chewing gum for the masses type of entertainment, this is just right. The story, the script, the acting and the atmosphere are all spot on. If there were any vacancies at that newspaper office I would probably apply! Maybe Glenda Farrell should have had a meatier role (like she did in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM) since at the start of the picture she's a real go-getter reporter not afraid to get her hands dirty but towards the end, she seems to defer all the important stuff to the men - oh well, it was the thirties.

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      Filmed in 1933, but not released until January 1934, narrowly escaping the menacing slash of the Production Code.
    • Blooper
      At the Merry-Go-Round club, Leo removes Sheldon's hat. But, in the next long shot with Brad and Shammy looking on, Sheldon's hat is back on. Plus, he's slumped over and his face is not visible, so Shammy couldn't identify him. In the next shot, Leo has Sheldon's hat in his hand again.
    • Citazioni

      Samuel N. Bradshaw aka Brad: [upon leaving J.L.'s office after being fired] I'll be suing you.

    • Connessioni
      Edited into Gli angeli con la faccia sporca (1938)
    • Colonne sonore
      Hi, Nellie
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Music by Allie Wrubel

      Played during the opening credits and at the end

      Also played when Shammy spots Sheldon at the Merry Go Round Club

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    • Data di uscita
      • 20 gennaio 1934 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingue
      • Italiano
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Hi, Nellie
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Warner Bros.
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      • 223.000 USD (previsto)
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      • Black and White
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