Ghost é um músico ideológico que prefere tocar blues no parque para os pássaros do que se comprometer. No entanto, quando conhece e se apaixona pela bela cantora Jess Polanski, ela se interp... Ler tudoGhost é um músico ideológico que prefere tocar blues no parque para os pássaros do que se comprometer. No entanto, quando conhece e se apaixona pela bela cantora Jess Polanski, ela se interpõe entre ele e os membros de sua banda.Ghost é um músico ideológico que prefere tocar blues no parque para os pássaros do que se comprometer. No entanto, quando conhece e se apaixona pela bela cantora Jess Polanski, ela se interpõe entre ele e os membros de sua banda.
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Artistas
- Tommy Sheehan
- (as Vincent Edwards)
- Skipper Camez
- (as J. Alan Hopkins)
- Pete
- (as Richard O. Chambers)
- Billie Grey
- (não creditado)
- Umpire
- (não creditado)
- Party Guest
- (não creditado)
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- Roteiristas
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Avaliações em destaque
It's about jazz musicians and in particular Bobby Darin's pianist and Stella Steven's singer and their on-again, off-again romance. They are both terrific, particularly Stevens, (I think it's one of the great overlooked performances by an actress in the movies), and there is an equally brilliant performance by Everett Chambers as Darin's Machiavellian agent. Indeed the entire supporting cast are outstanding confirming, even at this early stage, that Cassavetes was a great director of actors. The superb black and white photography is by Lionel Lindon and naturally there is some great jazz on the soundtrack.
Stella Stevens gives a wistful sad performance ,diametrically opposite to later parts such as those of "girls girls girls" (!)or 'the silencers".Her singing -or that of the singer who dubs her?- looks like a moaning which stunningly blends with the boys' music.
"Too late blues" keeps a rather loose plot,but "a child is waiting "would take its "conventional " side and tighten it up:as a result ,Cassavetes would disown "a child..." and go back to less accessible works such as his debut.
The Second Film from the Adverse to the Studio System Auteur was Made from within and as such He Never Thought Much of it.
It was done at a Strange Time in Pop Culture. Race Relations and Integration were Percolating and Hollywood was mostly Late to the Struggle usually Steering way Away from anything Provocative or Controversial.
Cassavetes seems to be in Their Face Right-Off with an opening Scene that Literally Fills the Wide Screen with the Black Faces of Children Contrasted to the White Jazz Group.
The Script also makes more than one Reference to Interracial Relationships, Dope, and Prostitution. Bobby Darin is Fine as a Songwriter/Piano Player who Leads the Combo, but it Never in the Right Direction. Stella Stevens is also Superb in a Teary Role as an Insecure Singer with a Killer Body.
The Movie's Narrative is Not very Tight and Motivations are at times Lacking but the Film has an Offbeat, Gritty Style among its Perfect Hair and Shiny Suits with Skinny Ties. It was Not a Hit and the Director Scurried from Hollywood and Nobody Cared. He wasn't meant to be there anyway.
Overall, Worth a Watch to See what John Cassavetes did within the System and to See Bobby Darin's Acting and Stella Stevens' Range. The Story is Real and Rough and a Movie that was Removed from just about anything On Screen in 1961.
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- CuriosidadesCassavetes hated this film. He had this to say after its release: "I didn't know anything about directing at a major studio, so Too Late Blues never had a chance. I should have made the film my own way - in New York instead of California, and not on an impossibly tight schedule, working with people who don't like me, didn't trust me and didn't care about the film. Too Late Blues was shot in exactly 6 weeks....but I couldn't because I had to follow the shooting schedule. So the film you saw is incomplete and a wreck."
- Citações
John 'Ghost' Wakefield: Whoever told you that's what you had to do in order to reach somebody?
Jess Polanski: Are you kidding? Just where do I stand without my body, huh? Tell me that!
- ConexõesFeatured in TCM Guest Programmer: Michael Feinstein (2015)
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- Too Late Blues
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- Orçamento
- US$ 375.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 1.608
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 43 min(103 min)
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- 1.85 : 1