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Thirteen Women

  • 1932
  • Approved
  • 1h 13min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,2/10
2101
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Thirteen Women (1932)
Psychological HorrorSupernatural HorrorCrimeDramaHorrorMystery

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  • Regia
    • George Archainbaud
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Tiffany Thayer
    • Bartlett Cormack
    • Samuel Ornitz
  • Star
    • Irene Dunne
    • Ricardo Cortez
    • Jill Esmond
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,2/10
    2101
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    • Regia
      • George Archainbaud
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Tiffany Thayer
      • Bartlett Cormack
      • Samuel Ornitz
    • Star
      • Irene Dunne
      • Ricardo Cortez
      • Jill Esmond
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    • 32Recensioni della critica
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    Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne
    • Laura Stanhope
    Ricardo Cortez
    Ricardo Cortez
    • Police Sergeant Barry Clive
    Jill Esmond
    Jill Esmond
    • Jo Turner
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Ursula Georgi
    Mary Duncan
    Mary Duncan
    • June Raskob
    Kay Johnson
    Kay Johnson
    • Helen Dawson Frye
    Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge
    • Grace Coombs
    C. Henry Gordon
    C. Henry Gordon
    • Swami Yogadachi
    Peg Entwistle
    Peg Entwistle
    • Hazel Clay Cousins
    Harriet Hagman
    • May Raskob
    Edward Pawley
    Edward Pawley
    • Chauffeur Burns
    Blanche Friderici
    Blanche Friderici
    • Miss Kirsten
    Wally Albright
    Wally Albright
    • Bobby Stanhope
    Leon Ames
    Leon Ames
    • Undetermined Role
    • (scene tagliate)
    Phyllis Fraser
    Phyllis Fraser
    • Twelfth Woman
    • (scene tagliate)
    Betty Furness
    Betty Furness
    • Thirteenth Woman
    • (scene tagliate)
    Julie Haydon
    Julie Haydon
    • Mary
    • (scene tagliate)
    Allen Pomeroy
    • Bit Part
    • (partecipazione non confermata)
    • Regia
      • George Archainbaud
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Tiffany Thayer
      • Bartlett Cormack
      • Samuel Ornitz
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    9sdiner82

    Irene Dunne vs. Myrna Loy square off in a terror train.

    This fascinating, hypnotic RKO 'A' film bombed so badly that the studio withdrew it from release, chopped out 15 minutes (from 74 to 59), and disposed of it on the bottom end of double bills. The question is: Why?

    Even after 70 years, "Thirteen Women" is an eerie, lushly produced thriller that provides more genuine chills than in any of today's counterparts. For movie buffs, the real treat is seeing Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy (both of whom within a year or two would emerge as two of Hollywood's most bankable and respected leading ladies) slumming in a nasty pre-Code creeper about a half-caste sorority girl (Loy) who enlists the aid of a sinister spiritualist to exact revenge on the prejudiced campus "ladies" who expelled her from their club a few years earlier. One by one, and by devious means, Loy (still playing slant-eyed fiends, but not for much longer, thank God!)meticulously plots and carries out the not-for-the-squeamish deaths of her victims--until the last one alive, Irene Dunne, happily married with an adorable young son, remains her sole surviving target. After her plans to poison the toddler go awry, Loy goes bonkers and boards the train where the police (it certainly takes them long enough to figure out what's going on) have secreted Dunne until they apprehend Loy. The climax--with a dagger-wielding Loy chasing the terrorized Dunne through one car to the next--is a corker--meticulously copied and working equally well a half a century later in the climax of "Terror Train" (with Jamie Lee Curtis duking it out with a transvestite psycho). Even chopped to 59 minutes, "Thirteen Women" is still a landmark horror film. The most baffling mystery is why audiences rejected it in 1932. Perhaps it was ahead of its time. Depression-era loved mysteries--but uncensored exercises in sheer terror like "Thirteen Women" were too scary for comfort (even today, it provokes an unsettling series of shocks that make it the "Psycho" of the '30s--and even the "Psycho" of 30 years later had to overcome initial critical pans before audiences pounced on it and lapped up every sick, terrifying minute.) Hopefully, the 15 minutes a worried RKO cut from the original prints of "Thirteen Women" will be discovered and restored so we may someday see this unexpected treasure as it was intended to be seen. Meanwhile, even the expurgated version (shown occasionally on Turner Classic Movies--check the listings) is as dazzling and brazen a shocker Hollywood turned out in the early 1930s--before the Hayes Office took over and thwarted any further movie from going as gleefully and sadistically over-the-top as the delicious "Thirteen Women." (Even MGM had to severely edit "Freaks" to placate horrified censors and audiences.)
    6bkoganbing

    Sorority killings and torment

    Watching Thirteen Women I wonder what Merle Oberon must have thought. She lived in real life what Myrna Loy's character was experiencing in the film. It was only after she died that it came out that Merle was of mixed racial origin. She successfully passed her entire life.

    Loy who was in fact Caucasian until she became the incarnation of the perfect wife and mother played a whole lot of these exotic characters. She borrows a bit from her performance as Fu Manchu's daughter in playing a woman who is exacting terrible revenge on members of a sorority at a finishing school who discovered her background and used it to get her expelled. It was her ticket into the white world and respectability as she saw it.

    Using C. Henry Gordon as a phony swami she has unpleasant horoscopes made against her thirteen enemies. Loy doesn't want to just kill them, she wants to torment them and uses Gordon as her means. Loy wants maximum satisfaction.

    In the case of Irene Dunne who she sees as her chief enemy Loy also has plans for Dunne's child as well.

    A whole lot of women dominate this film as the sisters like Kay Johnson, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge and more. Ricardo Cortez plays the police sergeant who tracks down Loy and Edward Pawley plays another of the men she uses in her fiendish schemes.

    As this was a before the Code film, there was some frank talk about racism under the guise of snobbery. No doubt that Dunne and the rest were guilty of it. It drove Loy off the deep end and she enacts a terrible vengeance.

    A really good before the Code film that should be better known.
    6Doylenf

    Interesting little museum piece from 1932...

    What struck me first about THIRTEEN WOMEN (just shown on TCM this evening), is the fact that it has a musical score by Max Steiner at a time when early thirties movies seldom used much music on the soundtrack for atmospheric purposes. But here, at least, Max does let loose with some sinuous exotic strains for a few scenes.

    The second thing was how beautiful MYRNA LOY photographed, playing a half-caste who is determined to avenge what snobbish sorority sisters did to her in finishing school where she was exiled because she wasn't white. Loy at this stage was still playing these exotic roles, complete with slanting eye make-up--but as a woman with an hypnotic gaze she was quite convincing. C. HENRY GORDON as Yogadachi, the fake Swami, was rather hammy here--whereas five years later he was very effective as a turban-wearing Indian in CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

    ***POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD***

    IRENE DUNNE is the last of the sorority girls to survive and the last one to be punished by Loy. However, as suspense builds to a climax aboard a speeding train, Loy's plan fails with the police hot on her trail.

    The 59 minute running time means that some fifteen minutes were cut from the original release and it shows. The ending is much too abrupt and before you know it "The End" is flashed on the screen. Someone was busy with the scissors on this one, particularly during those final moments.

    Would love to see the complete film some day, but I suppose that's not going to happen if the footage hasn't been restored by now. All the performances are rather standard, including RICARDO CORTEZ as the detective who's able to solve the case. FLORENCE ELDRIDGE is almost unrecognizable as one of the women and KAY JOHNSON is a bit over the top as one of the victims who shoots herself.

    Summing up: Not bad and certainly worth a watch.
    8mrsastor

    Perfect Rainy-night Fright Film

    This campy little coo-coo bird has to be seen to be believed. Beware of anonymously sent bouncy balls. I first saw this film many years ago on the early American Movie Classics (before it was destroyed by commercials and awful movies); I made of point of watching it because I was reading Myrna Loy's autobiography at the time and she mentioned this film.

    Modern viewers may be a bit surprised to find that there is really nothing new in film-making; everything in the psychological thrillers and slasher films over the years that terrified you is done here, and better. Like the rest of the reviewers, I am nearly insane with wonder at what the famous missing 15 minutes might hold (I know a scene further developing the Peg Entwistle character was deleted), but the existing version of this film is a tight, entertaining hour of suspense.

    Exotic and beautiful Ursula Georgi sets out across America to reek her revenge on those upper crust white gals that ousted her from her school sorority and ruined her chance in life to "pass" as one of the elite. If you can actually locate the book this is based on, it's a very enlightening read, for therein we learn that poor Ursula was whored out as a young girl. An orphanage finally placed in her in the sorority with the rich white girls to save her from her life of degradation and exploitation. I believe Ms. Loy must have read the novel, she plays Ursula with a clear awareness of the horrors of her young past. By ostracizing and then kicking her out of the sorority, the rich snobs destroyed her chance to escape and live among the rich and respectable. No wonder she is murderously furious with them. A round robin letter, horoscopes of dread, the stink-eye from Ursula and former sorority sisters end up in the obituary column one by one.

    Even today, this hour long film is tensely paced and engaging. Ricardo Cortez is always a pleasure to watch, a smooth, beautiful man and a superb actor who brings a touch of class to all of his work. Young Myrna Loy is beginning to show the prowess that would make her one of the most successful of all 20th century actors. If you love 1930's films, this is a very unique and interesting one, you won't be sorry.
    7AlsExGal

    Malevolent Myrna

    Ursula Georgi (Myrna Loy) is a half-white, half-Indian girl who a missionary sends to an exclusive finishing school so that she can learn to "pass" as white. But the 13 women in a particular exclusive sorority learn that Ursula is "half caste'", expose her, and as a result she is expelled from the school. If these racial attitudes all sound very archaic it's because they are, but then this film is over 90 years old. So bear with me.

    So Ursula has apparently been itching for revenge ever since. And 15 years later she puts her plan into action. One of the girls asks for horoscopes for all 13 from the imminent Swami Yogadachi. His lover happens to be Ursula who has hypnotic powers of her own. Yogadachi casts the horoscopes, which seem at least semi positive. Ursula then puts the Swami in a deep sleep and replaces the horoscopes with her own for each woman, warning of death, prison, insanity, etc. With Yogadachi's usefulness to her finished , she then hypnotizes him so that he runs into the path of a moving train. This woman is NOT a nice person!

    But Ursula never seems to finish what she starts. She disposes of only three of the 13 women when they read the horoscopes, become obsessed with the inevitability of their predicted fates, and actually cause their horoscopes to come true. Ursula then becomes oddly focused on Laura Stanhope (Irene Dunne) who is urging the others to ignore these horoscopes as so much hogwash. She seems determined to break Laura, not because she was particularly cruel to her, but because she is resisting her little game. Complications ensue.

    The film does have something to say about the power of the mind over situations. And Ursula is not in the least bit a sympathetic character given that she has no natural affection towards anyone. She has enemies and men she uses to get revenge on those enemies - Those are the only two kinds of relationships she seems to have as an adult.

    I'd say the one hokey thing that the film does consists of the special effects. For some reason a bright star appears in the center of the screen every time a sorority sister fulfills her face or Ursula hypnotizes someone to do her bidding. It's short at just under an hour and pretty entertaining.

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      There were only 11 actresses in the movie, not 13. Scenes involving the remaining two, Phyllis Fraser and Betty Furness, ended up on the cutting room floor. Several other roles also were telescoped in the editing process when the film was shortened from its original 73 minutes to 59 minutes for theatrical release.
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      In the newspaper with the headline "Horoscope Murders Still Baffle Police", there are two other stories with the smaller headlines of "Air Hero Honored" and "Judge Carrol Hands Out Good Advice and Admonitions with Stiff Fines". It can be seen that the text of those stories is composed of random lines of text.
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      Jo Turner: I do envy you, Laura. To me, life is just an ashtray full of cigarette butts.

      Laura Stanhope: Why don't you marry again, Jo?

      Jo Turner: Oh, I would if I were sure of getting a kid like Bobby.

      Laura Stanhope: What about the present fiancé?

      Jo Turner: Oh, he's a lot of fun. But all he wants is a well-stocked cellar, a racehorse, bridge... anything but babies. Laura, why don't you marry again sometime?

      Laura Stanhope: No. I could never be dependent on anyone again. I love standing on my own feet.

      Jo Turner: I wonder if any woman can.

      Laura Stanhope: Why not?

      Jo Turner: I say, do you remember how you were always afraid the boys would go too far, and I was afraid that they wouldn't?

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    • Data di uscita
      • 16 settembre 1932 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • La Grande Station, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(train station)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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      • Black and White
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