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Crime Against Joe

  • 1956
  • Approved
  • 1h 10min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,8/10
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Julie London in Crime Against Joe (1956)
Crime Against Joe: You Think I Killed That Girl
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.

  • Regia
    • Lee Sholem
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Robert C. Dennis
    • Decla Dunning
  • Star
    • John Bromfield
    • Julie London
    • Henry Calvin
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,8/10
    424
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Lee Sholem
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Robert C. Dennis
      • Decla Dunning
    • Star
      • John Bromfield
      • Julie London
      • Henry Calvin
    • 18Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali16

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    John Bromfield
    John Bromfield
    • Joe Manning
    Julie London
    Julie London
    • Frances 'Slacks' Bennett
    Henry Calvin
    Henry Calvin
    • Red Waller
    Patricia Blair
    Patricia Blair
    • Christine 'Christy' Rowen
    • (as Patricia Blake)
    Joel Ashley
    • Philip Rowen
    Robert Keys
    • Detective Sgt. Hollander
    • (as Robert Keyes)
    Alika Louis
    • Irene Crescent
    John Pickard
    John Pickard
    • Harry Dorn - Bartender
    Frances Morris
    Frances Morris
    • Nora Manning
    Rhodes Reason
    Rhodes Reason
    • George Niles
    Mauritz Hugo
    Mauritz Hugo
    • Dr. Louis Tatreau - Psychiatrist
    Joyce Jameson
    Joyce Jameson
    • Gloria Wayne
    Morgan Jones
    Morgan Jones
    • Luther Woods
    James Parnell
    • Ralph Corey
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    • District Attorney Roy Kasden
    Boyd 'Red' Morgan
    • High School Guard
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      • Decla Dunning
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    6henriqueac-62783

    I would have had a good time...

    ... back in the middle of the last century. Maybe this one is not a timeless flick never to be forgotten. But hey, it is fun to watch it late night. It is charming to watch a noir movie. This comes from a time when there was no tv series... Or at least not like today... And I can see here what would become a teenage horror/slasher movie late, in the 80's. It is a fast paced thriller with two or three funny moments, not very complex, no remarkable characters... However, a good movie. What should I stop to watch tomorrow? Law and Order? I mean, I will, but eventually I will come back to the noir, crime cinema. Nice to get to know the history, the culture.
    4evanston_dad

    Program Filler

    John Bromfield, unknown to me, plays Joe, a drunken veteran who becomes the chief suspect in a series of murders plaguing his home town. The nominal back story implies that he was a once-promising golden boy gone a little bad; still, it seems implausible that everyone would so quickly be willing to turn against one of their own and assume him to be the guilty party on the flimsy evidence the police collect from the crime scene. That evidence consists almost entirely of a school ring, so everyone immediately assumes that the killer must be someone from Joe's graduating class -- apparently the idea of planting evidence never occurred to anyone. Indeed, this plot point becomes an unintentional joke, as suspect after suspect is asked "Where's your ring?" and if they're able to produce it, or merely say they still have it, everyone assumes they can't possibly be the murderer. That's some cracker jack detective work.

    "Crime Against Joe" has no discernible directing style and no apparent reason for existing other than as a program filler. The screenplay is just too weak, and there's not enough style in the filmmaking to compensate for the story's failings. Julie London is the film's best asset, though mostly because she's so pretty, not because her character, that of Joe's reluctant love interest, generates much interest.

    There's also a bizarre and somewhat inexplicable story line about a sleepwalking girl and her father's efforts to cover up his daughter's affliction, and how this cover up affects the case against Joe. Was sleepwalking something to be that ashamed of back in 1956?

    Grade: C
    3bkoganbing

    No preparation

    Crime Against Joe is a modest noir thriller with much to be modest about. Red herrings as murder suspects are fine, but in this case too many were created in the story leaving a lot of loose ends in what should have been a more coherent script.

    The title character is John Bromfield a returned Korean War veteran with a severe drinking problem. That's how we first meet him, living with mom Frances Morris and trying to become a painter. Another Toulouse L'Autrec, taller, less talented and as big a boozer.

    But one night when Bromfield has had a snootful and gets a ride home from buddy Henry Calvin a cab driver, there's a murder of a woman and he's the number one suspect. Back in high school he was a big man on campus, but he's a flop now.

    Here's where it goes completely haywire. From the town drunk he sobers up real fast and with the help of Julie London a rollerskating server and singer at a fast food place he puts the pieces together.

    I knew Henry Calvin was in the cast. But the man with the girth best known as the rabblerouser from Ship Of Fools, the Wazir in Kismet and most of all Sergeant Garcia in Zorro is absolutely unrecognizable. That deep bass voice is not employed at all.

    Granted this was a program filler, but little care was taken with the preparation of Crime Against Joe.
    6secondtake

    Awkward but really interesting anyway, an honest bit of B-movie-making

    Crime Against Joe (1956)

    The point of seeing a B movie like this isn't always to find a great masterpiece in the rough. There are the moments or originality, the bit performances, the style of photography or writing. But there is also the glimpse into a time period that sometimes seems more real exactly because it isn't all polished up and idealized.

    And this is a pretty interesting, not so bad movie. It's set and shot in Tucson in 1955 (there's a calendar on one wall), a very low point for Hollywood movies, and this is coming from the fringes of that (one of the producers was the "third writer" in "Casablanca). There is one star, of sorts, a white crooner (and looker) named Julie London, who is lovely and sincere and not half bad..

    John Bromfield is the centerpiece, and if he's a hair clunky, this makes him kind of more believable as a good-looking guy named Joe Manning on the outs. He's an ex-soldier who thinks he's an artist but knows not a very good one. He drinks too much. He wants a woman in his life, and the movie begins with him kissing his wise mother goodnight and he goes out on the town. "Well, I'm looking for a girl," he says to the singer from the bar (another torch singer, Alika Louis, who appears here in her only movie).

    One of the social revelations of the movie is attitudes toward drinking and driving. Joe gets hammered while sitting in his car, drives to a diner, and is visibly drunk as a couple of cops say hello to him (one even chuckles, as if it's kind of funny). More chilling encounters with the cops come later. A killer is bumbling around town, and it looks like it's either Joe (and we don't know it) or the cops are going to think it's Joe (and it's not). It's a pretty tense situation held back only by some occasional awkwardness.

    What makes it work, though, is the down to earth acting because it builds up the Hitchcockian mood of a wrong man under suspicion. Witnesses misinterpret things, evidence gets piled up based on presumptions. It's good stuff. And then Joe has to figure out the crime for himself, which he applies himself to with intelligence. (His acting gets better as he sobers up.)

    And by the end you see why the movie has its title. It's no masterpiece, but it has enough going on to keep a movie lover glue, I'm sure.
    dougdoepke

    Passable Quickie

    Entertaining minor programmer. The first part meanders some, so we're not sure where it's headed. The latter part, however, gels into a pretty good whodunit. Joe Manning (Bromfield), an army vet turned ne'er-do-well painter, is subsidized by his mother, and is going nowhere in life. No wonder he drinks a lot; at the same time, the early scenes show Joe in what seems permanent inebriation. Good thing, he's helped along by car-hop Slacks (London) and taxi driver Red (Calvin) or he'd be in the drunk tank. Seems however that two girls have been assaulted and one murdered, mysteriously. Because of his erratic behavior, the cops have him figured as the culprit. Thus, he better sober up and figure things out or he'll be sobering up courtesy the state lockup.

    Bromfield delivers a lively performance that holds interest. And a good thing since he's in about every scene. Also, this is London before she hit the big time as a sultry torch singer and star of A-features. Here she's really dressed down showing little of those later eye-catching attributes. Too bad. Too bad, too, that glamorous Patricia Blair is wasted in a role she could sleep walk through, which ironically she does! Anyhow, the film comes across as competently done, even though filmed in only five days (IMDB). The 70-minutes may not be anything special, but remains an entertaining slice of industry professionalism.

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      Shot in five days even though the original schedule called for seven.
    • Blooper
      Joe is shown arriving at and leaving Pango Pango club in broad daylight, but the scenes preceding and following this sequence, together forming his drinking binge, take place in the middle of the night. The scene after leaving Pango Pango is revealed to take place at 2am, and it is later said he arrived at Pango Pango at midnight!
    • Citazioni

      Joe Manning: Slacks, are you a nice girl, Slacks?

      'Slacks' Bennett: Well, either way I wouldn't want it known.

    • Colonne sonore
      Looking for a Man
      by Paul Dunlap

      Sung by Alika Louis (uncredited)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 21 marzo 1956 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Pago Pago Tiki Bar, 2201 N Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona, Stati Uniti(Pago Pago nightclub)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Bel-Air Productions
      • Sunrise Pictures (II)
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      • 1h 10min(70 min)
    • Colore
      • Black and White
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