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Pesadelo

Título original: Nightmare
  • 1956
  • Approved
  • 1 h 29 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,4/10
1,4 mil
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Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, and Connie Russell in Pesadelo (1956)
Film NoirCrimeDramaMysteryRomanceThriller

Um músico de Nova Orleans tem um pesadelo em que mata um homem em uma casa estranha, mas ele suspeita que isso realmente aconteceu.Um músico de Nova Orleans tem um pesadelo em que mata um homem em uma casa estranha, mas ele suspeita que isso realmente aconteceu.Um músico de Nova Orleans tem um pesadelo em que mata um homem em uma casa estranha, mas ele suspeita que isso realmente aconteceu.

  • Direção
    • Maxwell Shane
  • Roteiristas
    • Cornell Woolrich
    • Maxwell Shane
  • Artistas
    • Edward G. Robinson
    • Kevin McCarthy
    • Connie Russell
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,4/10
    1,4 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Maxwell Shane
    • Roteiristas
      • Cornell Woolrich
      • Maxwell Shane
    • Artistas
      • Edward G. Robinson
      • Kevin McCarthy
      • Connie Russell
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    • 24Avaliações da crítica
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    Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson
    • Rene Bressard
    Kevin McCarthy
    Kevin McCarthy
    • Stan Grayson
    Connie Russell
    Connie Russell
    • Gina - Stan's Girl
    Virginia Christine
    Virginia Christine
    • Mrs. Sue Bressard
    Rhys Williams
    Rhys Williams
    • Deputy Torrence
    Gage Clarke
    Gage Clarke
    • Belknap…
    Marian Carr
    Marian Carr
    • Madge Novick
    Barry Atwater
    Barry Atwater
    • Capt. Warner
    Meade 'Lux' Lewis
    • Meade
    Billy May and His Orchestra
    • Billy May and His Orchestra
    Ralph Brooks
    • Oscar - the Bartender
    • (não creditado)
    Jack Chefe
    • Nightclub Waiter
    • (não creditado)
    Sol Gorss
    Sol Gorss
    • Bob Clune
    • (não creditado)
    John Mitchum
    John Mitchum
    • Onlooker at Stan's Suicide Attempt
    • (não creditado)
    Cosmo Sardo
    Cosmo Sardo
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Maxwell Shane
    • Roteiristas
      • Cornell Woolrich
      • Maxwell Shane
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    6sol-kay

    Man In The Dark

    ******SPOILERS****** Unbelievably heavy handed movie that telegraphs it's story to the audience so directly that you think it's a commercial for Western Union. Musician Stan Grayson, Kevin McCarthy, walks around most of the time in a zombie-like induced state and when he's conscious with his eyes bulging out of his head and looking like he's going into cardiac arrest at any moment that you want to run to the nearest phone and call 911 for help.

    Waking up one morning at his room at the Hotel New Orleans from a nightmare that he had about him being a hall of mirrors and getting into a fight where he kills someone in self-defense Stan then opens a door and falls into a dark and bottomless pit. Stan looks in the mirror and sees marks on his throat and blood on his arm as well as having both a key and a button from the man's suit that was in his dream.

    The movie tries to be both hip and cool when it comes to Stan's mental state and how it was manipulated by the killer Dr. Belknap/Harry Britten, Gage Clarke, in a pseudo/psychological manner that was very common in films about mental issues back in the 1940's and 50's but seeing it now it comes across as both silly and amateurish.

    The movie also tries to make a big deal about the killer being a doctor who is an expert in psychological studies just by judging from the books that he has in his private library, but at the same time make him physically violent. He runs over his wife with a car and shoots it out with the police in order to kill him off at the end of the movie.

    Edward G.Robinson, Det. Rene Bressard, is very good in the movie as Stan's brother in-law and New Orleans police detective. Rene at first suspects Stan of the murders but then, like a good detective should, when he sees where the evidence leads him realizes that there is more to the murders then what he at first thought.

    Kevin McCarthy seems to overact in the movie, or better yet was over-directed, by passing out about a half dozen times and coming across as being brain-dead even when he wasn't under hypnosis. The movie tells the audience that you can't do anything under hypnosis that you won't do when your conscious like murder at the same time we see Stan being told to drown himself in the swamp by Dr. Belknap and then willingly do it.

    Granted Stan tried to kill himself earlier in the film by jumping from the fifteen floor of the Hotel New Orleans but that was when he thought that he was a murderer. By the time he was told to drown himself he already knew that he didn't commit any murders so there was no conscious or subconscious reasons for him to do it. Stan was eventually saved from drowning by his brother in-law Rene.

    Virginia Christine, Sue Bressard, was very good as Stan's sister and Rene's pregnant wife who developed a hearty appetite because of the condition that she was in and Gage Clarke, Dr. Belknap/ Harry Britten, was effective as the highly educated murderer. Connie Russell, Gina, as Stan's love interest had really nothing to do in the movie but stand around and look pretty, she did sing two songs.

    The movie "Nightmare" can be forgiven for it's heavy handedness since it was the norm in movies about psychiatric issues back in those days, 1955, but at the same time can't be taken seriously by anyone watching it now in 2004.
    6bmacv

    Something lost in update, improvement on earlier movie

    In the late 1940s, director Maxwell Shane made a very low budget psychological thriller called Fear in the Dark -- about a man waking from a nightmare that he's murdered a stranger, only to find it to be true. In 1956, Shane decided to remake it as Nightmare, with a name cast (Kevin McCarthy -- Mary's brother, for the record -- as the luckless dreamer, Edward G. Robinson as his brother-in-law the homicide cop). It's a very close remake, not as pointlessly literal as Gus Van Sant's cloning of Psycho, but with little changed except a better and more integrated jazz score. In sum, Nightmare boasts better acting and better production values, all of which serve to point up the basic cheesiness of the plot. The earlier version, looking a lot like a nightmare itself, lends its own low-rent integrity to Cornell Woolrich's bizarre vision.
    dougdoepke

    Interesting, but Flawed

    If you can get past the improbable key to the mystery, the rest of the movie has some good, strong points. The first twenty minutes plunge us into McCarthy's nightmarish events that may or may not have actually happened. We don't know for sure and neither does he, but there are the scratches on his arm. Did he kill those people or not. The surreal effects are impressively done.

    McCarthy delivers a gripping performance, as good as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (also 1956), and much better than expected for a B-movie. In short, he makes us believe that his dilemma, however improbable, is real and not just a story construct. Without that intensity drawing us in, the movie would, I think, amount to little more than a mildly interesting walk-through.

    The New Orleans locations provide a clever anchor to the real world, and a good setting for the colorful jazz scenes. However, a 63-year old Robinson is at least 10 years too old for the brother-in-law part even though he manages the cop role well. And can we really believe the chance occurrence onto the scene-of-the-crime mansion in all that unfamiliar backcountry. Unfortunately, the script requires more than just an ordinary suspension of disbelief. Too bad the script couldn't work in more bayou scenes. Those coming at the end are really creepy and nightmarish in their own right. Too bad also that the excellent McCarthy made so few films, preferring, I gather, stage productions instead. All in all, an interesting if regrettably flawed little movie.
    7AlsExGal

    Cool little noir that deserves better than the public domain

    Kevin McCarthy stars as a musician who wakes up one morning to find tangible evidence of something he thought he'd done in a dream. Things really gets going when good old Edward G. Robinson appears as the musician's brother-in-law who also just happens to be a police detective. There's just something about Eddie G. that compels us to watch him, whatever he's in.

    McCarthy's character, Stan, thinks he may have committed a murder, and is tortured by the fact that he has no recollection of doing so, except in his "nightmare".He can't reconcile what he knows as reality with what he remembers from his dream and the evidence he found afterwards. (Intriguingly, a button and an odd-looking key.)

    Oh, there's also a few female characters, none of them of the fatale variety. One of them is just a pick-up in a seedy all-night bar (interesting and kind of fun scene, though), the other two are his sister and his "girlfriend". I put girlfriend in quotation marks because Stan doesn't seem to have much regard for the poor girl, who's a jazz singer and devoted to him. Poor Gina, Stan has not the least interest in confiding his troubles to her, or in fact talking to her at all, as far as I could tell. He's always telling her he'll get back to her later, when he's straightened some things out.

    Some noirs have a smart and sympathetic girlfriend or secretary (who of course later becomes the girlfriend) who helps the main character sort out his troubles, but Nightmare isn't one of those. It's all about Edward G. and his crime-solving abilities. But who's complaining when Edward G. solves or even commits a crime in any movie?

    The story is set and filmed on location in New Orleans, which is a major strength of the film. There's one scene where Stan goes on a desperate search through the nightclubs and all-night bars of the city, trying to find a musician who's heard the mysterious melody he heard in his nightmare. I love all the neon lights flashing on and off, proclaiming the alluring names of the nightclubs - scenes like this are what noir is made of.

    Another memorable scene is when Stan, the long-suffering Gina, and Edward G.Robinson and his wife (Stan's sister) go on a picnic and get caught in a rainstorm. They take refuge in a deserted house, where they light a fire and make themselves tea ! It just struck me as funny that they were making themselves so much at home in a complete stranger's house. Now, there is a reason for this, but that would be spoiler territory.
    6hitchcockthelegend

    Stan Grayson is in a Jazz Funk.

    Maxwell Shane remakes his own 1947 film Fear in the Night but with a better known cast and more money. Adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel, story has Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy) as a New Orleans clarinetist who dreams he has committed a murder in a heavily mirrored room. Upon waking he finds clues that suggest he actually may have killed a man and frantically turns to his police detective brother-in-law, Rene Bressard (Edward G. Robinson), for help. But it doesn't look good for Stan...

    Fear in the Night is a good film, and so is this, but if you have seen the earlier version then this feels very much perfunctory. The opening titles are superb, as melted candle wax plays host to the roll call shown in moody dissolves. We jump into Grayson's dream, again this is very well constructed on noirish terms, and from there on in it's a competently crafted visual film noir picture with good tension and splendid jazzy interludes.

    However, nothing else makes it stand out, it just sort of exists as an exercise in late noir cycle film making, a pic that doesn't want to even try to push boundaries. The cast are dependable in performances, but nothing to really grab the attention, though Shane does work near wonders to cloak the characters in various levels of paranoia or suspicious machinations. New Orleans locales are a bonus, with cinematographer Joseph Biroc excelling at sweaty close-ups and the utilisation of shadows as foreboding presence's.

    It all resolves itself in a haze of improbability, but as most film noir fans will tell you, that's actually OK. Yet this is still a film that's far from essential viewing for the like minded noir crowd. More so if you happened to have seen the 1947 version first. 6/10

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    • Curiosidades
      When Stan goes out walking the morning after his nightmare, he passes by a place with a sign that says "New Orleans' Most Famous Coffee Drinking Place." That would be the Morning Call Coffee Stand that was on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. Opened in 1870, it moved to Metairie in 1974.
    • Erros de gravação
      According to the elevator there are only 15 floors in the hotel, but the shot of the building from outside shows more than fifteen.
    • Citações

      [first lines]

      Stan Grayson: At first, all I could see was this face, this beautiful babe's face, floating toward me. And in my head, was this slow, crazy melody - like a tune from another world. And then a I saw the room - a queer mirrored room. And somehow, I was inside of it. There was danger there. I knew that.

    • Conexões
      Featured in Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      What's Your Sad Story
      Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman (as Dick Sherman)

      Performed by Connie Russell / Billy May Orchestra

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 11 de maio de 1956 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Nightmare
    • Locações de filme
      • Nova Orleans, Louisiana, EUA
    • Empresa de produção
      • Pine-Thomas Productions
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