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Contrabbando a Shanghai

Titolo originale: Intrigue
  • 1947
  • Approved
  • 1h 30min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,8/10
273
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Contrabbando a Shanghai (1947)
AvventuraCrimineDrammaFilm noirRomanticismo

Nella Cina del dopoguerra, un pilota sottoposto a corte marziale trasporta merci di contrabbando nel paese, ma ben presto la sua mentalità viene messa alla prova quando fa amicizia con un as... Leggi tuttoNella Cina del dopoguerra, un pilota sottoposto a corte marziale trasporta merci di contrabbando nel paese, ma ben presto la sua mentalità viene messa alla prova quando fa amicizia con un assistente sociale che disapprova le sue azioni.Nella Cina del dopoguerra, un pilota sottoposto a corte marziale trasporta merci di contrabbando nel paese, ma ben presto la sua mentalità viene messa alla prova quando fa amicizia con un assistente sociale che disapprova le sue azioni.

  • Regia
    • Edwin L. Marin
  • Sceneggiatura
    • George F. Slavin
    • Barry Trivers
  • Star
    • George Raft
    • June Havoc
    • Helena Carter
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,8/10
    273
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George F. Slavin
      • Barry Trivers
    • Star
      • George Raft
      • June Havoc
      • Helena Carter
    • 12Recensioni degli utenti
    • 1Recensione della critica
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    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Brad Dunham
    June Havoc
    June Havoc
    • Mme. Tamara Baranoff
    Helena Carter
    Helena Carter
    • Linda Parker alias Linda Arnold
    Tom Tully
    Tom Tully
    • Marc Andrews
    Marvin Miller
    Marvin Miller
    • Ramon Perez
    Dan Seymour
    Dan Seymour
    • Karidian
    Jay C. Flippen
    Jay C. Flippen
    • Mike the Bartender
    • (as J.C. Flippen)
    Philip Ahn
    Philip Ahn
    • Louie Chin
    • (as Phillip Ahn)
    Charles Lane
    Charles Lane
    • Hotel Desk Clerk
    Marc Krah
    Marc Krah
    • Nicco
    Nancy Hsueh
    Nancy Hsueh
    • Mia - Orphan Girl
    Nan Wynn
    Nan Wynn
    • Dinner Club Singer ['Intrigue']
    Peter Chong
    • Editor
    Michael Ansara
    Michael Ansara
    • Ramon's Radio Man
    Philson Ahn
    • Chinese Official
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Reginald Billado
    • Air Force Pilot at Bar
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Kenneth Chuck
    • Chinese Boy
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Gordon B. Clarke
    Gordon B. Clarke
    • Hotel Cigar Stand Clerk
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George F. Slavin
      • Barry Trivers
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    6bmacv

    Intrigue is just what this earnest romantic adventure is short on

    Into a web of Asian intrigue flies, from a `secret airstrip in French Indochina today,' pilot George Raft; at the center of the web waits spider-woman June Havoc. Raft is the sole survivor of four wartime buddies discharged by court-martial; now he runs contraband. But the risks are high and he wants more money; his superior (Marvin Miller) balks so Raft goes over his head to the boss (Havoc). She runs her criminal empire garbed in elaborate ladies'-longs and makes him her partner - and maybe something more.

    But another side of him pulls him toward Helena Carter, come from the States to vindicate her dead brother, one of his disgraced buddies. And into the mix, too, comes another old friend (Tom Tully), a roving newspaper man investigating the black market that keeps the city's populace near starvation but that's also Raft's bread and butter. The sloe-eyed orphans which Carter helps to feed start to gnaw away at Raft's sense of his `right to live first cabin.'

    A romantic adventure along the lines of Singapore, Saigon and Calcutta, Intrigue could use a good deal more of it. The movie starts strongly and promises twists and turns as intricate as the back alleys of Shanghai. But then it hits a sentimental, sermonizing slump about how the black market devalues the Chinese dollar, thus keeping rice and `canned goods' from the mouths of enfeebled children, and it never quite climbs out again.

    Because not much else is going on, it becomes hard to ignore the clichés that keep piling up: Jay C. Flippen as a salt-of-the-earth bartender, Philip Ahn as the trusty native sidekick, Miller and Dan Seymour as Hollywood heavies who fall short of any real menace. Havoc's glamorous presence can't compensate for the thin writing in one of her too few movie roles (she was far more fun with Alan Ladd in Chicago Deadline). His bomber jacket and white aviator's scarf can't quite disguise Raft's thickened midriff or the fact that he's on the shady side of 50 (he commands attention only when he's nattily tailored). The movie should have been slimmed down and barbered up, too; it might just have made the jump from forgettable to passable.
    6bkoganbing

    The better angels of his nature

    Post war Kuomintang China was not a great place as Intrigue shows us. The black market was operating in full force. What is not shown and what Hollywood in 1947 would not show is how slowly but surely Mao Tse-Tung's Chinese Communists were gaining the upper hand. What is not shown is that villainess June Havoc surely could not have operated the way she did without the connivance of Chiang Kai-Shek's government.

    Intrigue casts George Raft in this independent film released through United Artists as a cashiered pilot who falls in with June Havoc and her black market enterprise. Appealing to the better angels of his nature is Helena Carter who is the sister of a dead pilot friend of Raft's also cashiered. Carter works for a relief organization so she sees the very human side of suffering, especially from the youngest victims.

    What Havoc is dealing with is food and medicine. She's the main reason for watching Intrigue. I saw this film decades ago and it's her portrayal that sticks in your mind.

    Raft is his usual tight lipped self. Intrigue for some reason has become lost over the years. If it ever gets broadcast it's worth a look especially for June Havoc.
    7donwc1996

    A forgotten George Raft film

    Not a bad film about the post war black-marketing racket.Raft looks good-maybe a little overweight-but 2 women find him interesting. June Havoc is dressed to the nines in all her scenes, she looks as if she's going to a nightclub, but we only see her in her office.
    7kalbimassey

    Shanghaied in Shanghai

    Peppered by gunfire, daring pilot, George Raft evades the bullets to undertake his twilight flight. Having made a miraculous landing in swirling mist, it comes to light that the brave, brazen flyer is deeply involved in black market activities.

    Not best pleased at being in the cockpit of a crate full of bullet holes, the bold, brash Raft demands a meeting with the boss, the MR BIG of the organization, who turns out to be MISS BIG, June Havoc. With his foot firmly in the door, passions start to ignite and a tacky, showy affair begins, leaving those close to Havoc seriously underwhelmed.

    Raft's unseemly dismissal from the armed forces rears its ugly head when the sister of one of his deceased crew (Helena Carter) befriends him, forewarning her with, "I'm a bottle with a label....says poison." Another blast from Raft's past is old buddy, Tom Tully, now a journalist, fervently striving to expose black market corruption and its devastating impact on ordinary people, ravaged by off the scale inflation, meagre diets and the very real threat of starvation.

    Take away the unusual setting and you have a formulaic, identikit noir: The cynical loner, complicit with a corrupt lifestyle, the femme fatale, the dutiful girl, the bully boy syndicate and even the title song trundled out during a night club scene. A generous Len Goodman se-ven, for a steadily maintained tempo, decent entertainment value and a couple of surprises. It's an enjoyable movie. Raft clearly enjoyed breaking a chair over Marvin Miller's head, though whether the experience was appreciated in equal measure by Miller...or the chair is open to question.
    7ROCKY-19

    Shining light on an ugly business

    Though not the greatest film by a long shot, the earnestness in bringing to the foreground the nasty underbelly of the black market in post-war Asia is a major redeeming value of "Intrigue." That innocent people starved while criminals prospered is a fact, and still occurs, unfortunately.

    The story is told through the plot line of an American ex-military pilot in Shanghai. Brad Dunham (George Raft) along with three other flyers during World War II were court martialed and kicked out, accused of black market activity. The unjust shame has taken its toll, and Brad's three friends have died, including one by suicide. Brad himself now hangs out in Shanghai and has adapted to his infamy by turning to trade of which he was accused - smuggling. Meanwhile, his journalist pal Marc Andrews (Tom Tully) and the sister (Helena Carter) of one of the dead pilots are seeking to find the truth.

    Andrews' bigger story, of course, is the depth of damage done by the black market in China. Little does he know that Brad has joined forces with the dishy boss (June Havoc) of the main smuggling ring. Meanwhile Brad becomes exposed to that dark side by visiting children at an orphanage and seeing the homeless, starving people in the streets. Brad's better side does not have to fight very hard to gain the upper hand, but the challenge is to make right out his wrongs.

    The direction is rarely inspired. Though there are a few nice bits of dialogue, the writing has an unfortunate trend toward the precious. Raft's relationship with either woman is not all that interesting. (There seems more reality in his male relationships and his interaction with the children.) It would have been a big improvement had the music in general been more honest to the setting. And yes, there is some stereotype in the Chinese-ness, but it is not the insulting subservience we see so much of in the Hollywood of the day. Plus we are briefly blessed by the presence of Peter Chong as a courageous editor.

    Tully has the most passionate role as the voice of justice and social responsibility, and he's very good. It's a rather idealized picture of a journalist, but that's what people really want to see, not some boozing sellout. Raft, too, when free from the film noir elements, is earnest in the real theme of the picture. It's those film noir elements that seem to stiffen him and make the action implausible.

    Still, the main subject of the film gives it human importance.

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      "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 10, 1948 with George Raft and June Havoc reprising their film roles.
    • Citazioni

      Mme. Tamara Baranoff: You are most insolent, Mr. Andrews.

      Marc Andrews: The truth often is.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in The Doldrum: Intrigue (1954)
    • Colonne sonore
      Intrigue
      Written by Harry Akst and Samuel Lerner

      Sung by Nan Wynn

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    • Data di uscita
      • 15 ottobre 1947 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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      • Inglese
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      • Star Films Inc.
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