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L'ora scarlatta

Titolo originale: The Scarlet Hour
  • 1956
  • Approved
  • 1h 35min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,9/10
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L'ora scarlatta (1956)
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.

  • Regia
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Alford Van Ronkel
    • Frank Tashlin
    • John Meredyth Lucas
  • Star
    • Carol Ohmart
    • Tom Tryon
    • Jody Lawrance
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,9/10
    901
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Alford Van Ronkel
      • Frank Tashlin
      • John Meredyth Lucas
    • Star
      • Carol Ohmart
      • Tom Tryon
      • Jody Lawrance
    • 34Recensioni degli utenti
    • 13Recensioni della critica
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    Carol Ohmart
    Carol Ohmart
    • Pauline 'Paulie' Nevins
    Tom Tryon
    Tom Tryon
    • E.V. 'Marsh' Marshall
    Jody Lawrance
    Jody Lawrance
    • Kathy Stevens
    James Gregory
    James Gregory
    • Ralph Nevins
    Elaine Stritch
    Elaine Stritch
    • Phyllis Rycker
    E.G. Marshall
    E.G. Marshall
    • Lt. Jennings
    Edward Binns
    Edward Binns
    • Sgt. Allen
    David Lewis
    David Lewis
    • Dr. Sam Lynbury
    Billy Gray
    • Tom Rycker
    Jacques Aubuchon
    Jacques Aubuchon
    • Fat Boy
    Scott Marlowe
    Scott Marlowe
    • Vince
    Johnstone White
    Johnstone White
    • Tom Raymond
    James Stone
    • Dean Franklin
    • (as James F. Stone)
    Maureen Hurley
    • Mrs. Lynbury
    James Todd
    • Inspector Paley
    Nat 'King' Cole
    Nat 'King' Cole
    • Nat 'King' Cole - Nightclub Vocalist (singing 'Never Let Me Go')
    Bill Anders
    • Ambulance Attendant
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    • Regia
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Alford Van Ronkel
      • Frank Tashlin
      • John Meredyth Lucas
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    9adrianovasconcelos

    No empty horse - this is one of Director Curtiz's best!

    Michael Curtiz had quite a few successes in his directorial career: Casablanca, Adventures of Robin Hood, Sea Wolf, Captain Blood, Mildred Pierce, Night and Day all are so well known that they obscure to some extent a true gem like THE SCARLET HOUR.

    David Niven famously quoted Curtiz's order on the set as the title to his first autobiographical book: "Bring on the empty horses!" By which he meant the riderless horses. There is nothing empty about THE SCARLET HOUR. It opens with infidelity by a married woman, causing the couple to hear someone's plans to steal $350,000 from a house in Baja California, and it ends suitably openly.

    I admire Curtiz's courage in going ahead with this project despite the unknown leads. In fact, the female lead, Carol Ohmart, debuts as Pauline in THE SCARLET HOUR. She is a dish, too (the camera lovingly films her curvaceous figure and long legs) and she certainly has no hangups about cheating on her rich hubby - accomplished performance from James Gregory - corrupting her standup lover, and seeking revenge on the secretary, Kathy, who catches lover Marsh's eye with her honesty and unambiguous love.

    Marsh, played convincingly by Tom Tryon - also debuting, though that is not mentioned in the credits - is a well-meaning fellow who wants to do the right thing but is blinded by his love for the gorgeous Pauline. To complicate matters, Pauline decides that $350,000 is exactly what they need to elope and have a good life elsewhere on the planet. Unbeknown to the lovebirds, hubby Gregory suspects something and gets himself in the line of fire, whereupon police duo E. G. Marshall and Edward Binns arrives on the scene with a bang, almost stealing the show with their sharp inquisitiveness.

    As Marsh puts it, Kathy is the sole clean character in this remarkably crisp and logical script, further buoyed by extremely competent cinematography from Lionel Lindon, and Curtiz's exacting and intelligent direction.

    I recommend THE SCARLET HOUR to anyone interested in film noir.
    7blanche-2

    Michael Curtiz noir from the '50s

    Tom Tryon stars with Carol Ohmart, Elaine Stritch, James Gregory, Jody Lawrence, Edward Lewis, and E. G. Marshall in "The Scarlet Hour," a 1956 film directed by Michael Curtiz.

    Tryon plays Marsh (E. V. Marshall even though E. G. Marshall is in the movie) a hunky employee of a real estate firm who is having an affair with the boss' wife Pauline (Ohmart). One night, while parking in a secluded spot, they overhear a man (Lewis) plotting the robbery of $320,000 worth of jewels from a nearby house.

    Pauline sees this as a way to leave her husband Ralph Nevins (Gregory) - she wants Marsh to do the robbery and steal the jewels from the criminals. Then they can go away together.

    Things don't go as planned. First, Marsh is totally against doing it. Then he decides he will. Meanwhile, Nevins is suspicious of both of them. Pauline has given herself an alibi as she is out with friends -- but Nevins, in a rented car, follows her from the club.

    Marsh gets the jewels but the robbers shoot at him as he escapes. Pauline, meanwhile, has tangled with her husband, who winds up dead from a gunshot wound, supposedly from the robbers' crossfire. In the fight with Nevins, Pauline drops a bracelet her husband had designed for her.

    It all becomes a tangled mess with suspicion for the murder falling on Marsh, Pauline, and even Nevins' secretary Kathy (Jody Lawrence). And Pauline, alone in her big house, becomes desperate.

    Good movie with beautiful singing by Nat King Cole performing "Never Let Me Go," and Broadway star Elaine Stritch early in her career as a friend of Pauline's.

    Three small points - Billy Gray is listed in the film, but I didn't see him; and I swear that the cops were talking about Pauline's bracelet at one point, although it was the crooks who picked it up - I could be wrong.

    The third thing only a few will notice. When Marsh walks into the boss' office, Kathy is transcribing from a reel to reel tape to her typewriter. Gregory, on tape, was speaking at a normal speed. You cannot transcribe what a person says as they talk without a foot pedal to stop and catch up, the ability to slow down the tape, or if the person is speaking slower than normal. I can attest to that having spent 40 years transcribing and typing well over 100 words a minute. It's a pet peeve of mine, as is recording someone and putting the recorder on the other side of the room or in your purse.

    Ohmart was "introduced" in this film. She was a sultry blonde with a beautiful figure and a sexy voice. She worked until she retired in the '70s.

    The handsome Tryon had a decent career in films but wound up a highly successful author. Jody Lawrence had a spotty career. Of interest, her stepmother took in a foster child, Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) and Lawrence and Monroe actually roomed together briefly.

    Well worth seeing, not up there with the great Curtiz films but certainly very good.
    7hitchcockthelegend

    The Kiss Off.

    The Scarlet Hour is directed by Micahel Curtiz and written by Rip Van Ronkel, Frank Tashlin and John Lucas. It stars Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, E.G. Marshall, Elaine Stritch, Jody Lawrance and James Gregory. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by Lionel Lindon.

    It has been a hard to locate film noir for may a year, which when you consider it's directed by such a titan of classic cinema comes as a surprise. The plot dynamics are very familiar to noir fans, and coming as it does late in the original film noir wave it does lack a bit of freshness, but there's little deviations in the shenanigans of the principals to at least give this its own identity.

    We essentially have an abused wife (Ohmart) having an affair with one of her husbands (Gregory) employees (Tryon). They plan to run away together but need money to do so. As it happens, during one of their love sessions in a parked car they over hear crooks planning a jewelry robbery and she convinces her man to hold up the thieves so as to take the jewels for themselves. In true noirville form this becomes a road to nowhere and danger lurks on every corner, with dodgy alibis, unrequited passions and a few twists and turns to keep the narrative perky.

    This is no shoddy production either, it comes out of Paramount and the presence of Curtiz shows you that the studio wasn't merely making a contract filler. Though the absence of chirascuro from Lindon is a shame, we do get some nifty sequences such as violence enacted that we only see via shadows. There's moments of humour as well, while there's also a musical surprise as Nat King Cole turns up to croon Never Let Me Go. Cast are fine, Ohmart has classic fatale looks and legs from heaven, but her character trajectory is a little muddled in the writing. Tryon plays the dupe competently, Lawrance sparkles in a secondary role, as does the scene stealing Stritch.

    I'd stop at calling this a hidden gem, as some other amateur reviewers have, though it does rather depend on how many other similar noirs you have seen previously. This doesn't come close to Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice or Thérèse Raquin, but that doesn't stop it being a good film, because it is and for sure it's well worth noir fans tracking it down. 7/10
    searchanddestroy-1

    A rare Michael Curtiz gem.

    I really don't understand why this Michael Curtiz film is so hard to find. And since so many years. A rather good film noir, in the Warner Bors tradition, except that this time it was produced by Paramount Pictures. And like some other late Curtiz's films, there are no really great stars in this movie. Actors as we could have seen in B pictures. But this is definitely not a B picture.

    The usual topic of the triangle: Wife, husband and lover. The gal wants to get rid of her husband with the help of her lover. Characterization, music score, sets by night, everything is very interesting in this authentic and - I repeat - rare gem. Don't miss Nat King Cole singing "Never Let Me Go". A charming movie which reminds me my childhood.

    But it is not a masterpiece although.
    8eric-baril

    forgotten noir jewel by Michael Curtiz

    "The Scarlet Hour" is an outstanding surprise for noir fans : directed by Michael Curtiz in 1956, it is so rarely seen. And it deserves to be rediscovered on DVD.

    Carol Ohmart uses Tom Tryon to get rid of her husband. And there are so many tricks and twists growing violently crescendo all through the movie, you get stuck on your seat. That crescendo is brilliantly enlightened by Lionel Lindon ("Quicksand"), each frame being in perfect adequacy with all the events and accidents.

    Frank Tashlin is another great talent of this forgotten jewel. He is a specialist of comedies, "The Girl Can't Help It" and Jerry Lewis movies. "The Scarlet Hour" is his only participation to film noir. The second screenwriter is John Meredith Lucas, the foster son of Michael Curtiz, who had written Dark City in 1950.

    "The Scarlet Hour" must be one day available on DVD.

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      In the scene that takes place in the record store, the album "White Christmas" is prominently displayed. The director Michael Curtiz previously directed Bianco Natale (1954).
    • Citazioni

      Ralph Nevins: Where have you been?

      Pauline 'Paulie' Nevins: I went to a movie.

      Ralph Nevins: Until two a.m.?

      Pauline 'Paulie' Nevins: I liked it. I saw it again.

    • Connessioni
      Referenced in La parola ai giurati (1957)
    • Colonne sonore
      Never Let Me Go
      by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

      Sung by Nat 'King' Cole

      (a Capitol Recording Artist)

      Arranged and Conducted by Nelson Riddle (uncredited)

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      • aprile 1956 (Stati Uniti)
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