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Il terrore corre sull'autostrada

Titolo originale: Drive a Crooked Road
  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 23min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,9/10
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Mickey Rooney, Kevin McCarthy, Dianne Foster, and Jack Kelly in Il terrore corre sull'autostrada (1954)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.

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    • Richard Quine
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Blake Edwards
    • Richard Quine
    • James Benson Nablo
  • Star
    • Mickey Rooney
    • Dianne Foster
    • Kevin McCarthy
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,9/10
    2212
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Richard Quine
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Blake Edwards
      • Richard Quine
      • James Benson Nablo
    • Star
      • Mickey Rooney
      • Dianne Foster
      • Kevin McCarthy
    • 36Recensioni degli utenti
    • 20Recensioni della critica
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    Drive a Crooked Road

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    Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney
    • Eddie Shannon
    Dianne Foster
    Dianne Foster
    • Barbara Mathews
    Kevin McCarthy
    Kevin McCarthy
    • Steve Norris
    Jack Kelly
    Jack Kelly
    • Harold Baker
    Harry Landers
    Harry Landers
    • Ralph
    Jerry Paris
    Jerry Paris
    • Phil
    Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni
    • Carl
    Dick Crockett
    Dick Crockett
    • Don
    Irene Bolton
    • Pretty Girl
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    John Close
    John Close
    • Police Officer
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    Richard H. Cutting
    Richard H. Cutting
    • Bit Role
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    John Damler
    John Damler
    • Police Officer
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    Linda Danson
    • Pretty Girl
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    Diana Dawson
    • Pretty Girl
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jean Engstrom
    Jean Engstrom
    • Bit Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Mike Mahoney
    • Police Officer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Peggy Maley
    Peggy Maley
    • Marge
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Patrick Miller
    • Teller
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Richard Quine
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Blake Edwards
      • Richard Quine
      • James Benson Nablo
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    7lee_eisenberg

    Mickey's other side

    I should say that "Drive a Crooked Road" probably won't hold your attention quite as much as most movies that I've seen. What's mostly eye-opening about it is just seeing Mickey Rooney in a gritty role in a film noir. He plays Eddie Shannon, a mechanic with little aim in life. The high points in his daily routine are when his co-workers ogle women walking by the shop. But when he gets mixed up with the wrong woman, he suddenly finds himself involved in a bank robbery with apparently no way out.

    While some people might assert that Mickey Rooney was miscast here, I beg to differ. In this role, he shows that he can be something totally different from the "family-oriented" roles with which he's usually been associated (though I best remember him from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Night at the Museum"). This movie is approximately as gritty as the average film noir, and while it's not any kind of masterpiece, still worth seeing. As it's apparently not widely available on video or DVD, Portland's video/DVD store Movie Madness has a copy.

    Also starring Kevin McCarthy (of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") and Jerry Paris (the neighbor on "The Dick Van Dyke Show").
    dougdoepke

    Little Guys Also Dream

    As other reviewers point out, America's favorite little guy was at a career crossroads at this point (1953). All in all, this downbeat low-budget caper film was a gutsy choice for MGM's former golden boy. Not only is Rooney's Eddie Shannon a rather pathetically repressed and vulnerable nobody, but the script stays entirely within that character, allowing Rooney none of his usual assertive (and often annoying) antics. The result is perhaps the biggest departure of his career, and also perhaps the most moving.

    The film itself is a good one, benefiting from unfamiliar Southern Cal locations, excellent acting from a number of up-&-comers, Jack Kelly , Kevin McCarthy, et al., and a plausible script. As a caper film, it's inferior to the best ones of that decade (The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, etc.), but as an account of one man's sad and lonely plight (never a Hollywood biggie), it holds its own with the best of them, thanks to Rooney.
    7mollytinkers

    Rooney holds his own; but the script falters

    If you've seen Quicksand and Killer McCoy, you know that Mr. Rooney was, at the core, a serious actor and entertainer. He tries hard to make his character believable in this film, but the script ultimately lets him down. He manages to deliver a great performance anyway!

    A shoutout to the director for not using music during certain important sequences. An even bigger shoutout to composer George Duning, ultimately a five-time Oscar nominee, for an engaging score nonetheless.

    Worth one watch.
    8HEFILM

    Nearly perfect with a couple of big problems

    Richard Quine probably has his best "non comedy" film with this one, but maybe has to take the rap also for what's weak about this film. The opening car race and the key bank "race" are pretty blandly done as is any other action set piece in the movie. The opening scene is really poor, like something you'd see in a film made in the Early silent days. Badly matched rear projection, the camera angle is so wrong in the rear projection that is doesn't match the action of Rooney driving at all. The process work isn't bad, the footage shot is. The rest of the race material is also poor. And for a film about the ability to race, the fact that the racing is bad can't be overlooked. After this crappy beginning the excellent performances and dialog drive the film along perfectly. Most of the cast is perfect and the personal violence between characters is very strong. Rooney is very understated here--in many of his other adult work he'd tend to over act, not here though at all. It's an award worthy performance.

    Just too bad that the action is treated like sloppy second unit work--some say (un)credited to Blake Edwards himself--but with Edwards interest in fast cars etc., hard to believe he'd shoot this stuff so badly. The ending, which also involves some action is perfunctorily done and the resolution too quick. Too bad because otherwise this would be a nearly perfect movie. Still if you get over, the opening especially, this is a must see.
    6AlsExGal

    Mickey Rooney in an understated performance

    In his youth, and in particular his heyday over at MGM, Mickey Rooney would practically do cartwheels through his roles - he was that high energy. However, he was capable of something more than playing the energetic optimistic young man of pre-war America, and this film and 1950's Quicksand are probably the best examples of what that something was.

    Here he plays auto mechanic Eddie Shannon that also does some race car driving. A mob of thieves take note of his talent behind the wheel at the race track and the gang leader's girl (Dianne Foster as Barbara) flirts with Eddie and gets him to believe that she loves him. Then the thieves lower the boom on him - they proposition him to drive their getaway car during a bank robbery in return for 15000 dollars. The reason that Eddie is so needed is that the road between the bank and the main highway past the point where any road blocks would be requires fast driving over what amounts to unpaved desert terrain. Eddie's an honest guy, willing to wait and work for the things he wants, but Barbara is holding out the need for this quick money as a condition of their relationship continuing, so he gives in and agrees to the robbery plan. To him, Barbara is his treasure, not any amount of money that he could land. Little does he know she's fool's gold.

    Rooney is convincing as the little guy who takes it on the chin from a verbally abusive coworker at the garage who - like all bullies - doesn't seem to realize that high school is at least ten years behind him. Without saying much you can tell Rooney's character Eddie is a guy that has come to have low expectations of life, not so much abused as he is ignored and invisible to the opposite sex, and is surprised when a beautiful girl takes notice of him. Things are getting out of hand for Barbara too, as she feels deep remorse for using Eddie. Kudos also go to Kevin McCarthy and Jack Kelly as the two thieves. McCarthy's character has a very thin veneer of charm painted over what appears to be a soul of pure evil. When he kisses a rather apathetic Barbara and doesn't like her lack of enthusiasm, he warns her to never kiss him like that again in a way that will give you goosebumps. Jack Kelly's character is more of an all out wild man. You can just tell that he considers violence the most amusing pastime on earth.

    I'd recommend this one for Rooney's performance, but I'd downgrade this one just a little bit on lost opportunities for what could have been some fine action shots during the bank robbery scene and the getaway thereafter.

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      According to Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley, the Malibu beach house was also in Tensione (1949) and Mondo equivoco (1950); it is not the house from Il romanzo di Mildred (1945) or Un bacio e una pistola (1955) which are two different houses down the road in Malibu.
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      (at around 10 mins) Eddie pulls up at Barbara's apartment and parks behind a gray Ford. When Barbara drives off a few minutes later, Eddie's MG is missing, but the Ford is still there.
    • Citazioni

      Marge: Could I peel this onion? I can't stand to see a grown man cry.

      Steve Norris: Take it with you, beautiful; drop it into a large martini.

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      by Fred Karger and Robert Wells

      played instrumentally as source music

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    • Data di uscita
      • 5 febbraio 1955 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Siti ufficiali
      • Streaming on "Founding Film" YouTube Channel (Spanish subtitles)
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    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 1769 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Barbara Mathews apartment)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Columbia Pictures
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      • 1h 23min(83 min)
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      • Black and White

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