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Il sorriso della Gioconda

Titolo originale: A Woman's Vengeance
  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 36min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,8/10
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Il sorriso della Gioconda (1948)
Film NoirDramaMystery

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

  • Regia
    • Zoltan Korda
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Aldous Huxley
  • Star
    • Charles Boyer
    • Ann Blyth
    • Jessica Tandy
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,8/10
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    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Zoltan Korda
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Aldous Huxley
    • Star
      • Charles Boyer
      • Ann Blyth
      • Jessica Tandy
    • 27Recensioni degli utenti
    • 12Recensioni della critica
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    Charles Boyer
    Charles Boyer
    • Henry Maurier
    Ann Blyth
    Ann Blyth
    • Doris Mead
    Jessica Tandy
    Jessica Tandy
    • Janet Spence
    Cedric Hardwicke
    Cedric Hardwicke
    • Dr. James Libbard
    Mildred Natwick
    Mildred Natwick
    • Nurse Caroline Braddock
    Cecil Humphreys
    Cecil Humphreys
    • General Spence
    Hugh French
    Hugh French
    • Robert Lester
    Rachel Kempson
    Rachel Kempson
    • Emily Maurier
    Valerie Cardew
    • Clara
    Carl Harbord
    • Leslie Blake
    John Williams
    John Williams
    • Prosecuting Counsel
    Leyland Hodgson
    Leyland Hodgson
    • First Warder
    Ola Lorraine
    Ola Lorraine
    • Maisey
    Harry Cording
    Harry Cording
    • Chauffeur McNabb
    Patrick Aherne
    • Warder
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Mari Aldon
    Mari Aldon
    • Girl
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Wilson Benge
    Wilson Benge
    • Clerk
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Lydia Bilbrook
    Lydia Bilbrook
    • Mrs. Fellows
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Zoltan Korda
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Aldous Huxley
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    9planktonrules

    What really happened??!! Henry's a louse...but is he this big a louse??!!

    "A Woman's Vengeance" is unusual in that it was written by Aldous Huxley, they author of the brilliant "Brave New World" and the son of the famous evolutionist, Thomas Henry Huxley. I had no idea he wrote this sort of story...a murder mystery.

    When the story begins, Henry (Charles Boyer) and his wife, Emily, are having a fight. It seems that Emily is a very histrionic and demanding woman...the sort that would be nearly impossible to love. On the other hand, Henry isn't exactly an angel...he's got a VERY young girlfriend (Ann Blythe) on the side. He also has a family friend, Janet (Jessica Tandy), who loves him.

    One day after yet another fight brought on by Emily, Henry goes out to spend the day with his mistress. During this time period, Emily dies of a heart attack...thus freeing Henry to marry his girlfriend. But once he does, Janet and, especially, the family's maid (Mildred Natwick) begin to wonder if Emily died a natural death. Soon, there is an exhumation and it's determined that Emily was poisoned!! Did Henry do it? After all, he clearly had the most to gain and any man married to Emily would be likely to at least consider poisoning her! Or is there some other answer?

    The story is greatly helped by its cast. It's easy to make a good film with the likes of Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Mildred Natwick, John Williams and Cederic Hardwicke in a movie...and it's obvious Universal Pictures put a lot of money into the production.

    It's also helped that the story is so clever and offers some interesting twists. I also appreciate that the characters are quite flawed...much like many real people. Overall, well worth seeing and wonderfully well acted.
    8wisewebwoman

    One of Jessica Tandy's best!

    This movie provides some interesting character studies by Aldous Huxley. Charles Boyer portrays Henry, a not very likeable husband to an invalid wife,Emily (Rachel Kempson). He has a very young mistress on the side, Doris, played by Ann Blythe. On the sidelines stands Janet, played by Jessica Tandy, whom Henry flirts with as a matter of course, but she takes it all very seriously and is in love with him. When Emily is murdered, Henry is arrested and sentenced to death by hanging. The second half of the movie deals with the secrets underlying Emily's death. Very well done with one flaw. Ann Blythe seems to start out in the movie as a selfish, manipulative young mistress and her transformation to a caring wife seems a bit of a stretch. Mildred Natwick is superb as a nosy nurse as is Cedric Hardwicke as a doctor who just about effortlessly steals every scene he is in. A true pro. 8 out of 10.
    7Lejink

    Not Such A Bad Boyer

    The obvious movie title here rather negates the initial whodunit mystery of who really killed, if indeed she was killed, the troubled invalid wife, Rachel Kempson, of philandering country gentleman, Charles Boyer. It could have been suicide, maybe it was the wife's devoted but jealous, approaching middle-age friend Jessica Tandy or even the waspish nurse Mildred Gatwick but soon enough the fickle finger of blame points squarely at Boyer, who we learn, has motives for murder coming out of his ears. Firstly, he plainly doesn't love his wife, secondly, he's cutting about with his adoring teenage lover, soon-enough his wife, Ann Blyth and thirdly he's just taken out a large death policy on his wife's life.

    And die she does, of poisoning, which naturally brings Boyer a world of trouble as he is charged with and goes on trial for his wife's murder. We learn that Tandy carries a bigger torch than Lady Liberty for Boyer and see him reject her advances which certainly lines her up as a woman of vengeance from where I'm sitting. The accused has only one real ally, although considering the help he offers Boyer, we should all have the family doctor, Cedric Hardwicke on our side.

    Anyway, I'll leave the plot hanging there lest I give too much away. Unsurprisingly, given the film was adapted from a play of the celebrated novelist Aldous Huxley who also contributed to the screenplay, there are screeds of heavy dialogue with little in the way of backgound music to influence the viewer's perceptions one way or the other. Some of this dialogue is quite weighty and intense but it just as often flounders into unnatural bombast

    Director Zoltan Korda steps politely over and around some of the stickier plot-points and unlikely and sometimes fast-changing characterisations. Boyer is good as the love-him-or-hate-him central character, Tandy is even better as the spurned sinister spinster while Hardwicke is solid as the doc who literally clocks what's going on.

    Although it's all highly unlikely, I was nonetheless carried along by the sometimes improbable events depicted. Characters exchange a lot of often expository dialogue as the narrative grinds ever further forward and I liked the surprising and unconventional ending with the viewer left to the job of tying up the loose ends by themselves.

    An unusual but far from uninteresting and uninvolving feature.
    8NewEnglandPat

    Hell hath no fury like Jessica Tandy

    This film noir gem spins the tale of romance, unrequited love and revenge that conspire to frustrate a spinster in her pursuit of a man. The romance involves the man's dalliances with an attractive girl and the unrequited love is the bitter fruit of the spinster's quest to capture the man for herself. The revenge plays out its part in due course as the triangle emerges with malevolent undercurrents taking shape. The cast is excellent, especially Jessica Tandy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, with Charles Boyer caught in the middle by the eager, determined females. Ann Blyth marries her suave suitor and sets in motion the cold fury of the spurned woman who can only watch as her dreams of happiness are dashed. The black and white camera work has a brooding quality and gives the film a classic film noir look.
    8ulicknormanowen

    There's thunder about.

    An excellent psychological thriller , based on Aldous Huxley's novella (adapted by himself,but the Mona Lisa title was better than that of the film) , with a stellar cast .

    Although "Rebecca " was written after Huxley's work , there are shades of Du Maurier's tale : "I feel she's still here" ;in the movie, (like in real life),Boyer is French : il s'appelle Maurier ici ! The scene of the thunder over the house is a great moment to rival the best of Gothic horror movies ;and it' not gratuitous for it comes back in the extraordinary final Boyer/Tandy confrontation which makes your hair stand on end ;the way both are filmed (she seems to be an exterminating angel watching him in Hell) is stunning. In my book ,Tandy steals the show from Blyth .

    This "beyond the grave" vengeance will remind you of Stahl's "leave her to heaven " (1946); it's a must for Gothic melodramas buffs.

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      Henry Maurier quotes from Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty' (published 1807): "Stern daughter of the Voice of God"
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      Although Emily's gravestone and numerous newspaper articles establish the time of the story as 1931 all the women's hair styles, clothing, and overall demeanor are strictly 1947.
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      General Spence: Wouldn't have minded being a dog myself. Comfortable kennels, free meals, unlimited access to the females of the species, and when you're old, they shoot you. No wheelchairs, no torture, no blasted nurses - one bang and it's over.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 14 maggio 1948 (Messico)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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