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La moglie bugiarda

Titolo originale: True Confession
  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 25min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,6/10
1835
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Fred MacMurray in La moglie bugiarda (1937)
Screwball ComedyComedyCrime

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.

  • Regia
    • Wesley Ruggles
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Claude Binyon
    • Louis Verneuil
    • Georges Berr
  • Star
    • Carole Lombard
    • Fred MacMurray
    • John Barrymore
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,6/10
    1835
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Wesley Ruggles
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Claude Binyon
      • Louis Verneuil
      • Georges Berr
    • Star
      • Carole Lombard
      • Fred MacMurray
      • John Barrymore
    • 30Recensioni degli utenti
    • 14Recensioni della critica
    • 73Metascore
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    Carole Lombard
    Carole Lombard
    • Helen Bartlett
    Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    • Kenneth Bartlett
    John Barrymore
    John Barrymore
    • Charley Jasper
    Una Merkel
    Una Merkel
    • Daisy McClure
    Porter Hall
    Porter Hall
    • Mr. Hartman
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • Darsey
    Lynne Overman
    Lynne Overman
    • Bartender
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • The Coroner
    Fritz Feld
    Fritz Feld
    • Krayler's Butler
    Richard Carle
    Richard Carle
    • Judge
    John T. Murray
    John T. Murray
    • Otto Krayler
    Tom Dugan
    Tom Dugan
    • McDougall
    • (as Tommy Dugan)
    Garry Owen
    Garry Owen
    • Tony Krauch
    Toby Wing
    Toby Wing
    • Suzanne Baggart
    Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel
    • Ella
    Eleanor Fisher
    • Reporter
    Beaudine Anderson
    • Autograph Hunter
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Herbert Ashley
    Herbert Ashley
    • Juror
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Wesley Ruggles
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Claude Binyon
      • Louis Verneuil
      • Georges Berr
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    8Sylviastel

    Great Lombard at Her Best!

    Carole Lombard plays Helen Bartlett, an aspiring writer, who is married to Ken Bartlett (played by Fred McMurray who was her co-star in other films). Her husband Ken is an aspiring and struggling lawyer. Una Merkel plays her best friend, Daisy. Hattie McDaniel has a small part as Ella towards the end of the film. John Barrymore is Charles Jasper. Anyway, Helen decides to earn extra money as a secretary to wealthy Otto Kraler. Things don't go as planned when she realizes his true motives. Otto is discovered murdered in his home and Helen is the prime suspect. Despite the obvious misunderstandings, Lombard makes you believe in her character despite the craziness of it all. I found the story to be somewhat weak in some parts. I never thought a murder could be turned into comedic terms. Anyway if you love Lombard in her slapstick comedy, you'll love and appreciate her in this film.
    7Bunuel1976

    TRUE CONFESSION (Wesley Ruggles, 1937) ***

    It's not often that Leonard Maltin puts down a vintage Hollywood 'classic' with top stars (calling it "alarmingly unfunny") – to find that same film, then, praised by an even more conservative critic as the late Leslie Halliwell seems even less likely (while conceding it has "longueurs and a lack of cinematic inventiveness", he considers it an "archetypal crazy comedy with many fine moments")…and, yet, that's just the case with this film! What's more, opinions about it continue to be mixed – as DVD Savant's unenthusing review ("truly a mess…really unsatisfying…this dog {of a comedy}" can attest!! So, I really didn't know what to expect here.

    I actually enjoyed TRUE CONFESSION a lot and feel it's one of Carole Lombard's better vehicles – though not quite in the same league as her four top films, namely Howard Hawks' TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934), Gregory LaCava's MY MAN GODFREY (1936), William A. Wellman's NOTHING SACRED (1937) and Ernst Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT OT BE (1942). The film has a wonderful premise: a female writer who's also a pathological liar admits to murder in order to promote the career of her struggling lawyer husband (who only takes a case if the accused is honest!).

    As I said, Lombard is somewhere near her best here – especially disarming when adopting a literal tongue-in-cheek attitude as she's hatching a new 'plot'. Male lead Fred MacMurray – in his last of four teamings with her, three of which are included in Universal's Lombard Collection set – plays second fiddle to the star, but his courtroom plea commands attention (his naivete, then, is demonstrated when he and Lombard awkwardly re-enact the 'crime' for the benefit of judge and jury). Savant is especially harsh on John Barrymore (one of the great theatrical performers, he occasionally revealed himself a superb character comedian with an agreeable tendency to ham): I personally found his performance as an opportunist with a philosophical streak and an over-sized ego brilliant. He pesters Lombard's best friend, Una Merkel (herself a delightful comic actress and a reliable presence in many a 1930s film), in the courtroom by first blowing and then taking the air noisily out of balloons; eventually, he catches up with Lombard and MacMurray (the former being guilty of perjury for having confessed to a murder she didn't commit) and proposes a blackmail scheme – which, however, blows up in his face.

    The supporting cast is equally well chosen: a typically nasty Porter Hall as the Prosecuting Attorney; Edgar Kennedy (the great Laurel & Hardy foil) is superb – and flustered as ever – in the role of the investigating cop; Tom Dugan, in one hilarious scene towards the beginning – the role is strikingly similar to that played by William Demarest in another Lombard/MacMurray vehicle I've just watched, HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE (1935); and Irving Bacon – again, his appearance is very brief but quite memorable as a befuddled coroner. The film was remade as CROSS MY HEART (1946), with Betty Hutton in Lombard's role – which I wouldn't mind watching if the opportunity ever arose, but don't really expect to be up to the original (even if Maltin actually thinks it's superior!).

    Trivia: director Ruggles (incidentally, brother of comic Charles) had a curious connection with Carole Lombard; not only did he direct her and future husband Clark Gable in their only film together – NO MAN OF HER OWN (1932) – but SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU (1942), also starring Gable…and which happened to be shooting at the time of Lombard's untimely and tragic death!!
    caribeno

    A rare gem! One of the first, brilliant screwball/black comedies! One of Carole Lombard's daffiest portrayals!

    A witty, original black comedy made at the height of the screwball comedy era of the 1930's. Carole Lombard's role originates the wacky wife that became a staple in films and television. Her efforts to make her husband (Fred MacMurray)a successful lawyer offer a still-relevant critique of what Americans tolerates of people "making it" and "getting ahead" in American society, in addition to sharp, witty comments on the meaning of celebrity in American society. The playing of MacMurray and Lombard as husband and wife is vibrant, sexy, wholly believable. They radiate a sense of joy playing off each other. The teaming of MacMurray, Lombard, and John Barrymore makes for one of the most memorable screen teamings ever. Una Merkel is sharp as Lombard's best friend. Beautiful, sunny, often noirish photography enhances the beauty of the stars and the black aspects of the plot.
    7AlsExGal

    Fred MacMurray's character is insufferable...

    ... and he's pathologically honest. In fact, Kenneth Bartlett is an attorney who will only take innocent clients. Someone should break it to him that the ethics of his profession - and the production code for that matter - only require that he not break the law himself and not suborn perjury. You're perfectly free to take guilty clients. They need counsel too.

    As a result, the Bartletts don't have much money because Kenneth Bartlett can't get any innocent clients. His wife Helen (Carole Lombard) is a novelist, but she wants to get a job to help out with the lack of funds. Ken tells her not to, but she finds one anyways that only requires that she work three hours a day five days a week and pays 50 dollars a week. But when she shows up her employer, Otto Krayler, turns out to be a wolf and attacks her. She hits him with something and runs away. When she later tries to sneak back into the house to get her purse and hat, the police show up at the same time because Krayler has been murdered. She is arrested for the murder, and Ken ends up defending her. Somehow, after talking to Ken, she figures the only way she can get out of this is claim she did kill Krayler, but it was because he was assaulting her.

    Helen is acquitted of the killing, and suddenly her fiction is in high demand and Ken starts getting more (innocent?) clients than he knows what to do with. They buy a large home on a lake. But then a monkey wrench gets thrown into all of this when an absurd criminologist (John Barrymore) shows up at the Bartlett home demanding a princely sum for Krayler's wallet - proof that he killed Bartlett. Complications ensue.

    Yes, Lombard's character does some wacky things like going through with being a defendant in a murder trial when she had nothing to do with the killing, but Ken told her that to claim anything other than what she did could lead to the death penalty. So Ken gets annoyed at her when she wants a job because they don't have enough money to live due to his pickiness with clients, he tells her to plead not guilty would lead to her execution so she lies and pleads self defense, and then he gets annoyed at her later because she seems to be enjoying their prosperity even though it came at the expense of Krayler's life - she knows it did not.

    I still rate this one pretty highly because the idea is a unique one and well executed, even if one major character is an unlikable drip.
    5jjnxn-1

    Carole's worst starring vehicle

    What a mess this thing is! Both lead characters are fools and irritating in the bargain. Carole's native intelligence shines through which actually weakens the movie since it reminds you that a woman obviously this smart would never do things so stupid. Fred's part is a dullard simp and even he would never believe the ridiculous things his wife comes up with. John Barrymore, or rather what's left of him at this point, is beyond hammy with another character that makes no sense. The only bright spot is Una Merkel who gives a sprightly, cute performance of the only person in the picture who seems like she would actually exist. Aside from her the movie is a dog.

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      During filming, Una Merkel rescued a movie prop man named Arthur Camp from drowning at Lake Arrowhead, California, when the backwash from her motorboat upset his skiff. She caught his suspenders with a boat hook and held him until help arrived from the shore. Camp was unable to swim.
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      John Barrymore's pant's legs are wet to the knees when he pushes off from the lake shore in his row boat, showing that there was previous action (film takes) where he got wet.
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      Ballistic Expert: I got the call about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning from the homicide bureau. I found the defendant, I mean, er, the deceased, laying, er, lying face down on the floor, I mean the rug. So I examined the uh, rug, or, er, uh, the body, and found that death was caused by two bullets, fired into his range, I mean, two bullets fired at close range into his lead, er, head.

    • Connessioni
      Referenced in Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: Fred MacMurray (1961)
    • Colonne sonore
      True Confession
      Music by Friedrich Hollaender (as Frederick Hollander)

      Lyrics by Sam Coslow

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    • Data di uscita
      • 24 dicembre 1937 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, Stati Uniti
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      • Paramount Pictures
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