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Io amo

Titolo originale: A Free Soul
  • 1931
  • Passed
  • 1h 33min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,6/10
3110
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in Io amo (1931)
CrimeDramaRomance

Un avvocato alcolizzato che ha difeso con successo un famigerato giocatore d'azzardo con l'accusa di omicidio si oppone quando sua figlia dallo spirito libero viene coinvolta sentimentalment... Leggi tuttoUn avvocato alcolizzato che ha difeso con successo un famigerato giocatore d'azzardo con l'accusa di omicidio si oppone quando sua figlia dallo spirito libero viene coinvolta sentimentalmente con lui.Un avvocato alcolizzato che ha difeso con successo un famigerato giocatore d'azzardo con l'accusa di omicidio si oppone quando sua figlia dallo spirito libero viene coinvolta sentimentalmente con lui.

  • Regia
    • Clarence Brown
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Adela Rogers St. Johns
    • Becky Gardiner
    • Philip Dunning
  • Star
    • Norma Shearer
    • Leslie Howard
    • Lionel Barrymore
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,6/10
    3110
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Clarence Brown
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Adela Rogers St. Johns
      • Becky Gardiner
      • Philip Dunning
    • Star
      • Norma Shearer
      • Leslie Howard
      • Lionel Barrymore
    • 65Recensioni degli utenti
    • 28Recensioni della critica
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    • Vincitore di 1 Oscar
      • 4 vittorie e 2 candidature totali

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    Interpreti principali27

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    Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer
    • Jan Ashe
    Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard
    • Dwight Winthrop
    Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore
    • Stephen Ashe
    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • Ace Wilfong
    James Gleason
    James Gleason
    • Eddie
    Lucy Beaumont
    Lucy Beaumont
    • Grandma Ashe
    Roscoe Ates
    Roscoe Ates
    • Man Shot at in Men's Room
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ann Brody
    Ann Brody
    • Hamburger Saleslady
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Slouch
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Clarence Burton
    Clarence Burton
    • Detective
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    James Donlan
    James Donlan
    • Reporter
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    • Birthday Party Guest
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Francis Ford
    Francis Ford
    • Skid Row Drunk
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Henry Hall
    Henry Hall
    • Detective in Raid
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    George Irving
    George Irving
    • Johnson - Defense Attorney
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edward LeSaint
    Edward LeSaint
    • Judge
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Eric Mayne
    Eric Mayne
    • Party Guest
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Sam McDaniel
    Sam McDaniel
    • Casino Valet
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Clarence Brown
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Adela Rogers St. Johns
      • Becky Gardiner
      • Philip Dunning
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    Recensioni degli utenti65

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    10Ron Oliver

    Lionel Barrymore Gives An Oscar Winning Acting Lesson

    They are alike, this father & daughter. Liberal, passionate, willful - they live life on their own terms, disdaining their narrow-minded relations. Few regrets & even fewer apologies cloud either conscious - yet each harbors a character trait that threatens to destroy them. Hers is emotional instability; his, acute alcoholism. Although both will make bad choices that will haunt them, each will continue to see their reflection in the other, unique & individual, A FREE SOUL.

    Based on a book by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Norma Shearer gets top billing in this aged but enjoyable soap opera, and she is very good, turning on the histrionics most effectively. But it is Lionel Barrymore who gets full honors - and a Best Actor Oscar - for his portrayal of her brilliant, tragic, lawyer father. Masterfully, he dominates his every scene. His final appearance, a tempestuous summation to a murder trial jury, is considered a classic.

    Playing the two very different men in Shearer's life are Clark Gable & Leslie Howard. Gable is excellent, oozing the virility that was about to make him a huge star. Howard deftly underplays his less flashy role and becomes the film's calm center. James Gleason as Barrymore's factotum, and Lucy Beaumont as Barrymore's patrician mother, both give memorable performances. Film mavens will spot Edward Brophy as one of Gable's henchmen & master stutterer Roscoe Ates as the man in the washroom window.
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    The beginning of Gable

    "A Free Soul" made Hollywood take notice of a young actor by the name of Clark Gable.Slapping leading lady Norma Shearer around,he portrayed masculinity like no star,with the exception of perhaps Jim my Cagney, had done before him.Lionel Barrymore won the Oscar for his very good performance of the alcoholic defense lawyer. I've always found him overacting his parts but he's very believable in this movie.Norma Shearer is also very good,but still overdoes the dramatics with her silent screen acting.But she's really a stunner in the quiet parts. Leslie Howard has once again one of his thankless parts which doesn't tax his ability at all.A very enjoyable picture.
    7Nate-48

    Shearer is an 11, the script is a 5

    To get an idea of how great magnetic and radiant shearer is here, consider that she matches her scenes with Clark Gable, lionel Barrymore and Leslie Howard and wipes the floor with all of them. Don't get me wrong they are all very good here but this movie is a star vehicle for shearer and it is her movie. She does all of the shining. If you appreciate her, this movie is a must see even though the film drags on and the script is average at best. I wouldn't be surprised if this served as an inspiration to courtroom dramas like Perry Mason and Matlock later on.
    9secondtake

    I think the world of the acting, the story, and the modern issues so plainly confronted

    A Free Soul (1931)

    Clark Gable says, "I'm telling you." And Norma Shearer, dressed in a sexy silk dress, replies, "Oh no, you're not. Nobody is."

    That sums up this astonishing movie. I can't believe A Free Soul is so little known, or that so many viewers don't get the depth of its meaning then...and now. Throw in three of the most amazing actors of the early 1930s--Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, and Norma Shearer--and you can't help be impressed, and moved, and intrigued. It's about strength of character (three or four characters, in fact). It's about being a modern person, and having modern problems. And it's about facing them, openly, honestly.

    So what holds it back? Well, for one thing, it has a lot of talk, a lot of simple dialog about some very not simple things. If you accept the characters and their need to talk, you will see a very honest confrontation with alcoholism, and with what is at first a kind of sex addiction, or what is later developed to be simply unbridled love for a man outside of marriage. But the parallel between two temptations is real, and rather powerful, and the sacrifices each of the two afflicted characters make is intense. Barrymore (as the one nipping the bottle) and Shearer (as the one too much in love, or in love with lovemaking) play their parts perfectly. They have moments of extraordinary clarity, and moments of abandonment. And they confront each other in a way that is completely reasonable.

    There are other aspects here worth at least lifting an eyebrow at, namely the very close relationship, almost as platonic lovers, between these two. Gable as a lovable but brutal and deceptive gangster is perfect, too--gorgeous and hard, charming and untrustworthy. The milieu is well developed, from barroom to hotel room to courtroom. This isn't a Warner Brothers knock-you-out crime film, it isn't even Three on a Match, for an example of a compromise between a woman's picture and a gangster flick. It's a heady drama, beautifully laid out and progressively involving, with director Clarence Brown (famous for a whole string of such interpersonal, romantic dramas over several decades) knowing what makes a film really matter.
    8bkoganbing

    Not With My Daughter

    For those of you who did not have the dubious pleasure of seeing one of Elizabeth Taylor's lesser films, The Girl Who Had Everything, here's the original film it was taken from. A Free Soul is the story of a girl who misuses the freedom her father gave her in her upbringing.

    The film is based on a story Adela Rogers St. John wrote, that drew from her relationship with her father, famed criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers. Rogers set the mold for the famous criminal attorneys we've seen in action down to today. Unfortunately he was a man with a severe drinking problem which in the end got the better of him.

    He did not come from the upper crust that Lionel Barrymore as Stephen Ashe comes from. In fact the real Earl Rogers's father was a minister. Yet Barrymore creates a compelling and brilliant, but dissolute figure who raises his daughter to be broadminded and tolerant and to despise some of the snobs from her class.

    Norma Shearer takes the lessons to heart only too well. She leaves stalwart beau, polo playing Leslie Howard, for gambler/racketeer Clark Gable. Gable's a client of Barrymore's who Barrymore got off on a gambit that Johnnie Cochran used successfully defending O.J. Simpson and he's rather full of himself.

    Barrymore turns out to be a bit of a snob himself in the end, telling Gable he's not good enough for his little girl. Of course Norma has her own ideas.

    This film was the first really big break for Clark Gable. Movie audiences went for his animal magnetism in a big way. Even though Barrymore won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance by virtue of an unforgettable courtroom speech at the finish, it was Gable who got all the newspaper print.

    Norma Shearer got a Best Actress nomination, but lost to fellow MGM contract player Marie Dressler for Min and Bill. A Free Soul which was a pre-Code film, explored the theme of sexual satisfaction ever so gingerly, but in a way after 1935 could not be seen for thirty years on the screen. Shearer is also giving one of her best screen performances.

    Leslie Howard I'm afraid had real little to do, but look patient and noble as the society polo player. Howard exuded class and distinction even when he's penniless as in The Petrified Forest. So much the better for him when he's dressed in tails.

    A Free Soul is light years better than The Girl Who Had Everything and holds up very well for today's audience.

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      When the mule chases James Gleason, not a stuntman, is knocked down by the animal, a scene which wasn't planned, as Norma Shearer's reaction attests.
    • Blooper
      After the cross-examination finishes, Stephen Ashe begins his summation to the jury. However, he is the defense attorney, and the prosecutor takes the first summation. This "factual mistake" is, in fact, not an absolute, as it depends on the state where the trial is held. For example, in a criminal case (which this is) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the defense goes first and the Commonwealth last. (If it were a civil case in PA, the Plaintiff would go first.)
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      Jan Ashe: Tell me, Eddie. Has he been drinking?

      Eddie: Well... uh...

      Jan Ashe: A lot?

      Eddie: Well, it wouldn't be a lot for a camel or one of them things.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Some of the Best (1944)
    • Colonne sonore
      By the River Sainte Marie
      (1931) (uncredited)

      Music by Harry Warren

      Played as background music during the restaurant scene

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    • Data di uscita
      • 20 giugno 1931 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • Un alma libre
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Yosemite National Park, California, Stati Uniti(Jan, her father and Eddie go camping)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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