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Il segno del capricorno

Titolo originale: The Sign of the Ram
  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 24min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,2/10
903
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Susan Peters in Il segno del capricorno (1948)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home.A jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home.A jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home.

  • Regia
    • John Sturges
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Charles Bennett
    • Margaret Ferguson
  • Star
    • Susan Peters
    • Alexander Knox
    • Phyllis Thaxter
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,2/10
    903
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • John Sturges
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Charles Bennett
      • Margaret Ferguson
    • Star
      • Susan Peters
      • Alexander Knox
      • Phyllis Thaxter
    • 32Recensioni degli utenti
    • 9Recensioni della critica
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    Susan Peters
    Susan Peters
    • Leah St. Aubyn
    Alexander Knox
    Alexander Knox
    • Mallory St. Aubyn
    Phyllis Thaxter
    Phyllis Thaxter
    • Sherida Binyon
    Peggy Ann Garner
    Peggy Ann Garner
    • Christine St. Aubyn
    Ron Randell
    Ron Randell
    • Dr. Simon Crowdy
    May Whitty
    May Whitty
    • Clara Brastock
    • (as Dame May Whitty)
    Allene Roberts
    Allene Roberts
    • Jane St. Aubyn
    Ross Ford
    Ross Ford
    • Logan St. Aubyn
    Diana Douglas
    Diana Douglas
    • Catherine Woolton
    Jack Deery
    • Engagement Party Attendee
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Gerald Hamer
    Gerald Hamer
    • Vicar Woolton
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Doris Lloyd
    Doris Lloyd
    • Mrs. Woolton
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Paul Power
    Paul Power
    • Engagement Party Attendee
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Gerald Rogers
    • Station Master
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Paul Scardon
    Paul Scardon
    • Perowen
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Margaret Tracy
    • Emily
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Eric Wilton
    • Engagement Party Attendee
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • John Sturges
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Charles Bennett
      • Margaret Ferguson
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    6planktonrules

    A great idea that kind of fizzled at the end...

    Susan Peters stars as a mentally imbalanced matriarch of a rich English family. As part of the back story, you learn that the man of the house, Mallory (Alexander Knox), remarried a very young woman, Leah (Peters). Shortly after the marriage, Leah is severely injured in an accident and she is paralyzed. On the outside, she is a very happy and well-adjusted woman despite her being stuck in a wheelchair. However, very slowly during the course of the film you start to see that there is a hidden malevolence--a malevolence that is manipulative and just plain nasty. But, because she does all this cleverly, it takes folks a long time to realize what a horrid person she has become. See it yourself to see how wicked she becomes as well as what comes of all this.

    This is an interesting film because in real life, Peters really was wheelchair-bound. A short time before making "The Sign of the Ram", she was accidentally shot and could no longer walk. This Columbia picture is the first and last film she made following her tragic accident. Even more tragic is what happened to Peters' life in the subsequent years.

    As for the film itself, it's got a great setup and the first 85% of it captured my attention very well. It was a great idea and was a bit reminiscent of "Leave Her to Heaven"--another film about a VERY twisted wife who manipulates and kills to get what she wants. Unfortunately, the resolution to the film seemed to come much too prematurely and although good, the ending COULD have been much better. Good but a bit lacking.
    8bmacv

    A riveting performance, immobile save for the slithery hands

    From the wheelchair to which the actress was confined as the result of a hunting accident three years earlier, Susan Peters builds a controlled, subtle, expert performance that's the centerpiece of John Sturges' The Sign of the Ram. As the paralyzed young stepmother of three children living in a great Gothic pile on the Cornish coast, she conceals her frustrations under a mask of serenity (she writes mawkish poems for a London newspaper under the name Faith Hope) only to unleash them in sly, vindictive manipulation.

    The wheelchair may render her immobile, but her hands, restless and expressive, are ever on the move: posturing with cigarettes and lighter, picking out waltzes on the keyboard, plying her pen, knitting and purling. They seem to have a life of their own – a slithery, reptilian life, fueled by the cold instincts of the brainstem alone.

    The cast around her pulls its weight, too, in particular husband Alexander Knox, best remembered as the president in Darryl Zanuck's overblown biopic Wilson; Phyllis Thaxter as a hired secretary/companion; and Peggy Ann Garner, as an adolescent girl whose warped loyalty to Peters almost has irreversible consequences. Sturges maintains the pace, a brooding andante, while Burnett Guffey coaxes the most out of the labyrinthine house and crashing Irish Sea.

    But it's Peter's movie, and her last (she died four years later). When her machinations come to light, with the fog rolling in, Sturges devises a superb final scene – a cinematic `schlussgesang,' as they called those overwrought soprano passages that rang down the curtain in German opera. She deserved nothing less.
    7hitchcockthelegend

    The Tremerrion Tribulations.

    The Sign of the Ram is directed by John Sturges and adapted to screenplay from Margaret Ferguson's novel. It stars Susan Peters, Alexandev Knox, Phyllis Thaxter, Peggy Ann Garner, Ron Randell, Dame May Witty and Allene Roberts. Music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by Burnett Guffey.

    Wheelchair bound Leah St. Aubyn (Peters) manipulates everybody around her...

    "It's the sign of the ram. People born under this sign are endowed with a strong will power and obstinacy of purpose"

    The setting is a cliff top mansion, a lighthouse is nearby, its purpose is to steer ships out of the fog and away from harms way. This is the fictitious Cornish place known as Tremerrion, and our play unfolds in the mansion known as Bastions. It's film that has proved to be a bit illusive to pin down, for whatever reasons, and that is a shame because there are plenty things for fans of such devilish dramas to be excited about. The backstory of the leading lady is itself tragic, for Susan Peters would be paralysed from the waist down after a freak hunting accident, this would see her appear in her last film. She gave up on life, tortured by pain and the loss of her ability to walk, she would starve to death and pass away four years later. Thankfully, and it's not sympathetic praise here, she's excellent and leaves film fans a fitting farewell to the movie world.

    "Haven't you sensed it? The undertone, like a warning drumbeat"

    Stripped down it's the story of a woman who manipulates everyone close to her, cunningly so, her reasons deliberately shaded in grey, and the question constantly gnaws away as to just how come her family and confidants can't see it?. Sooner or later something is going to give, and it's the waiting that gives the pic an edginess that's most appealing. This woman has no shame, we are told by her loyal spouse that she's not bitter about her accident, but she so is, but wears it well. She's not only spell bindingly pretty, but she's pretty spell bindingly devious too. The fog rolls in, the waves crash against the coast to marry up with the psychological discord being set loose in Bastions. Salter's music swirls and bites, while genius cinematographer Guffey turns in some class frames (one scene involving criss cross shadows is film noir nirvana).

    "They will stop at nothing to accomplice their purpose - and sometimes meet a violent death"

    Pulsing with jealousies, betrayals, suspicions and a whole host of devious machinations, this be a crafty old devil, a pic deconstructing the human condition with malicious glee. 7/10
    dougdoepke

    Gothic Sleeper

    Intense psychological drama of the type so popular at the time. Scheming Leah (Susan Peters) is wheel-chair bound in a houseful of young women; so of course we're all initially sympathetic, but then events begin to unfold. The movie is generally under-rated by the professionals, perhaps because the material sizes up as a "woman's picture". Nonetheless, it's a broodingly atmospheric production, well-acted and superbly directed. Since events take place in and around a single sea-side mansion, keeping the audience engaged becomes a challenge. Thus direction, acting and set design take on more than usual importance. I'm rather surprised that the normally budget-minded and outdoorsy Columbia studio responds as well as it does. Note how beautifully composed each frame is-- director Sturges' very real artistic eye is already in evidence, well before his celebrated conquest of wide-screen Cinemascope. Even the process shots (always a tricky challenge) of a roiling surf are expertly done, adding greatly to the sinister mood. (In passing-- there's a 10 second shot two-thirds of the way through of Phyllis Thaxter standing at a window, exulting in Logan's departure. A brief scene like this could have easily been done in spartan fashion. But notice how artistically this passing shot is both mounted and composed. It's touches like this that add up to a memorable production.) If I'm going on about the technical side, it's because this obscure little film more than most exemplifies studio craftsmanship at its 40's best.

    The plot itself provides the tragically star-crossed Peters with her final film role, and she's excellent in a carefully modulated performance that could have easily gone over the top. Notice how expressively she uses her hands and fingers to suggest repressed inner feelings as she navigates through a house full of surging hormones. (I wonder how much of the real person crippled by a hunting accident is in that performance.) On the other hand, Alexander Knox as her husband strikes me as a shade too old and too stolid, but maybe he's supposed to be. The young couple, Logan and Catherine (Diana Douglas) are appropriately callow, while Douglas brings off her big scene with Peters in convincing fashion, a difficult challenge. Too bad that fine actress Phyllis Thaxter is given little more to do than stand around and look helpful as the "other woman". For those whose imagination tends to take over, it's perhaps not a stretch to think of the film as Leah's final few moments before going over the edge. Considering the movie's claustrophobic setting, a strictly "mental" dimension seems not far-fetched. However that may be, the film is a real sleeper, unfortunately under-rated, and well worth a look see, especially on a foggy night.
    7bkoganbing

    Those kids whom she gave her legs for

    The big screen career of Susan Peters came to a farewell with this film The Sign Of The Ram. It was her only big screen appearance after the tragic hunting accident that left her a paraplegic. The only other performance like it was that of Christopher Reeve when he did a TV remake of Rear Window after his accident that left him a quadriplegic.

    Certainly both Peters and Reeve brought a dimension to their roles that wouldn't be possible any other way. Peters plays the paralyzed wife of Alexander Knox, his second wife to be sure. Some years back she saved the lives of her two stepchildren while they were swimming, but at the cost of her own mobility as her back was smashed against rocks.

    The kids have grown up and are played by Ross Ford and Peggy Ann Garner. Both are contemplating matrimony and Peters with her manipulation tries to sabotage things.

    In one of his earliest directing assignments, John Sturges kept Peters tightly in check and the result was a beautifully controlled and mannered performance. There's so much beneath the surface of a woman who has gotten kudos for the way she's handled her accident. But we only see what Sturges and Peters let us see.

    The title role refers to Susan Peters astrological sign of Aries and people who are born under that sign are said to be in tight control of their emotions and possessed of an unconquerable will and stubborn fixation about any goal they want, good or evil. Peters is determined that no one will ever have real happiness as she feels she cannot, but especially those kids whom she gave her legs for.

    All around the cast delivers well and Sturges did capture the gloomy mood on the Cornish sea shore where the story is set. But Peters is absolutely unforgettable in The Sign Of The Ram.

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      Susan Peters was on a hunting trip on January 1, 1945 when her rifle accidentally discharged and she was shot. This resulted in her being paralyzed from the waist down. This was the only film she made after the accident.
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    • Citazioni

      Clara Brastock: Do you really think i'd stay when i'm not wanted?

      Mallory St. Aubyn: I think you might.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      "The return to the screen of Miss SUSAN PETERS"
    • Colonne sonore
      I'll Never Say I Love You (to Anyone but You)
      Performed by Susan Peters

      Written by Allan Roberts and Lester Lee

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    • Data di uscita
      • 3 marzo 1948 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Latino
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      • The Sign of the Ram
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Lizard Point, Cornwall, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(rocky coastline shots)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Signet Productions
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