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Gangsters in agguato

Titolo originale: Suddenly
  • 1954
  • T
  • 1h 17min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,8/10
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Frank Sinatra and Nancy Gates in Gangsters in agguato (1954)
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Nella città di Improvvisamente, tre gangster intrappolano la famiglia Benson nella loro casa con l'intenzione di uccidere il presidente degli Stati Uniti.Nella città di Improvvisamente, tre gangster intrappolano la famiglia Benson nella loro casa con l'intenzione di uccidere il presidente degli Stati Uniti.Nella città di Improvvisamente, tre gangster intrappolano la famiglia Benson nella loro casa con l'intenzione di uccidere il presidente degli Stati Uniti.

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    • Lewis Allen
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    • Richard Sale
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    • Frank Sinatra
    • Sterling Hayden
    • James Gleason
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,8/10
    7812
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
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      • Lewis Allen
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Richard Sale
    • Star
      • Frank Sinatra
      • Sterling Hayden
      • James Gleason
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    Suddenly [1954]
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    Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    • John Baron
    Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden
    • Sheriff Tod Shaw
    James Gleason
    James Gleason
    • Pop Benson
    Nancy Gates
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    • Ellen Benson
    Kim Charney
    • Peter Benson III - 'Pidge'
    Willis Bouchey
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    • Dan Carney
    Paul Frees
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    • Benny Conklin
    Christopher Dark
    Christopher Dark
    • Bart Wheeler
    James O'Hara
    James O'Hara
    • Jud Hobson
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    7zeebrite-321-220768

    Chock full o' Implausability, but...

    ...Sinatra is great as hired assassin John Baron who's half million dollar job is to off the POTUS when his train stops in Suddenly, California.

    If you've ever read Black Mask or any of the old crime pulps, Suddenly has that kind of vibe. Tough, highly stylized talk and attitude takes center stage in spite of any lick of logical behavior or plot coherence. I'm serious here, kids, the story is a mess. So, the decent 7 rating is for one reason only: Blue Eyes is that good.

    A must see for Sinatra fans and a definite gripper for those who can really, really, really suspend disbelief.
    9kevin_robbins

    This is an underrated classic picture worth your time

    Suddenly (1954) is a movie I recently rewatched off Amazon Prime. The storyline tells the tale of a small town that is about to host a big event that everyone who knows has to keep hush-hush...the president is about to make a quick stop and speech on his train ride to Los Angeles. Little does the town know a group of gangsters plan to assassinate him at that very stop. When the local towns people run into the gangsters, they may be the only hope to save the president. This movie is directed by Lewis Allen (The Uninvited) and stars Frank Sinatra (Guys and Dolls), James Gleason (The Bishop's Wife), Nancy Gates (World without End) and Sterling Hayden (The Godfather). The storyline for this is very well told and does a great job of depicting the background of the key characters and gangsters while also introducing subplots through the copious dialogue and solid character interactions. The chemistry between the cast was excellent and while Sinatra was great as the villain, the little boy steals the show in several scenes. The sheriff and mother are also well executed and the unpredictability of each character is felt in every scene. Overall this is an underrated classic picture worth your time. I'd score this a 9/10.
    8Space_Mafune

    Entertaining Thriller

    When the President decides to pass through the small town of Suddenly on route to a fishing trip, the town's police and chief officials rise to meet the challenge of assuring his protection as there have been rumors of an assassination attempt.

    The hired guns meanwhile make plans of their own. They cleverly trick their way into the home of the best house in town from which to try and carry out their assassination plot - the house of Pop Benson, respected citizen with an house upon an hill that overlooks the President's planned arrival destination. Now only an handful of hostages stand between the President and doom...can they in some way warn him in time?

    Frank Sinatra steals the show here as the ruthless criminal mastermind behind the want-to-be assassins - a man named John Baron. He is downright brutal and nasty in the role--an utterly detestable villain who does remind us the it was the army that created him and made him into a killer or maybe deep down, it's just that he was always a killer at heart. An outstanding multi-dimensional performance from Sinatra.

    Sterling Hayden meanwhile plays the idealistic police sheriff Tod Shaw, who believes in America and the American way and supports unquestioningly the system and will do whatever it takes to preserve the America he believes is right and just. He too served in the military to protect rights and freedoms and now carries on the good fight as Suddenly's sheriff. An interesting contrast of two extremes with the pacifist minded Ellen Benson (played here by Nancy Gates), her becoming a widow after her husband got killed in the war, finally forced to take a stand at the film's climax.

    Daring for its time, this film deals with surprisingly intense subject matter for the early 1950s. Quite good.
    7bkoganbing

    Old Blue Eyes Elevates a B film

    I'm at a loss to explain why Frank Sinatra chose this particular project in the wake of all the acclaim he got for From Here to Eternity. Without his presence in the film, Suddenly with its length of 75 minutes on my VHS version would be a B film, even with Sterling Hayden starring in it as the sheriff. My guess is that Sinatra wanted to expand and test himself as an actor, something he did less and less of in the following decade.

    The President of the United States is coming to the small town of Suddenly where he will leave the train he's traveling on and proceed by motorcade to a vacation in the Sierras. The Secret Service has come to town to do their usual thing in protecting the Chief Executive.

    But three contract killers headed by Frank Sinatra are in town to kill the president. We're never told exactly who is paying for this contract, but the inference is that it is our Cold War enemies. Through a combination of circumstances the sheriff is wounded and the head of Secret Service detail, Willis Bouchey, is killed. And the killers are holed up in Nancy Gates's house with her, her father-in-law James Gleason, and child Kim Charney and the wounded Hayden.

    Most of the film is taken up with the wait for the train to arrive where a lot of souls are bared open, including Sinatra's. It's the one and only time that Francis Albert ever essayed the role of an out and out villain. He does it well, but I suspect he didn't want to push it with his public too much, so he never did anyone as evil as this again.

    Of course history tells us that the president named Eisenhower at the time never was an assassin's target so we know Sinatra's efforts will fail. However it's rather ingenious as to how it does fail.

    I think more than fans of old Blue Eyes will like Suddenly.
    dtucker86

    Sinatra's best film

    Frank Sinatra was certainly one of the greatest singers of our time. He was also a fine actor as well, he won an Academy Award for From Here To Eternity. This was the first film he was in after he won his Oscar and he proves it was not a fluke. He is absolutely chilling as a crazed cold blooded assassin who is out to kill the President. The only other actor who did a better job in this type of role is John Malkovich in In The Line Of Fire. This is a little known classic that really showcases Sinatra's acting talents. I think that this film and The Manchurian Candidate are the best films he ever made.

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      Montgomery Clift turned down the lead role.
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      With the rifle locked in place, the chance of the President being exactly in line of fire is slim to none.
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      John Baron: I'm not actor, bustin' my leg on a stage so I can yell 'down with the tyrants'. If Booth wasn't such a ham he might've made it.

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      Edited into Your Afternoon Movie: Suddenly (2022)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 12 febbraio 1955 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Saugus Train Depot, Saugus, California, Stati Uniti
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Libra Productions Inc.
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    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 1.400.000 USD
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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      • 1.75 : 1

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