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Desespero d'Alma

Título original: L'intrigo
  • 1964
  • Approved
  • 1 h 37 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
5,2/10
200
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George Sanders, Rossano Brazzi, Shirley Jones, Giorgia Moll, and Micheline Presle in Desespero d'Alma (1964)
DramaMistérioRomanceSuspense

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaShirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad (Italy, specifically), assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. She becomes romantically involved with Sanders' curre... Ler tudoShirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad (Italy, specifically), assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. She becomes romantically involved with Sanders' current employer, the always charming Brazzi, unaware that he has a dark family secret.Shirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad (Italy, specifically), assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. She becomes romantically involved with Sanders' current employer, the always charming Brazzi, unaware that he has a dark family secret.

  • Direção
    • George Marshall
    • Vittorio Sala
  • Roteiristas
    • Massimo D'Avak
    • David P. Harmon
    • Doris Hume Kilburn
  • Artistas
    • Shirley Jones
    • Rossano Brazzi
    • George Sanders
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    5,2/10
    200
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • George Marshall
      • Vittorio Sala
    • Roteiristas
      • Massimo D'Avak
      • David P. Harmon
      • Doris Hume Kilburn
    • Artistas
      • Shirley Jones
      • Rossano Brazzi
      • George Sanders
    • 12Avaliações de usuários
    • 4Avaliações da crítica
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    Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones
    • Karen Williams
    Rossano Brazzi
    Rossano Brazzi
    • Count Paolo Barbarelli
    George Sanders
    George Sanders
    • Raymond Fontaine
    Giorgia Moll
    Giorgia Moll
    • Cora Barbarelli
    • (as Georgia Moll)
    Micheline Presle
    Micheline Presle
    • Monique Bouvier
    Emma Baron
    Emma Baron
    • Gregoria
    Mathilda Calnan
    • Mrs. Thompson
    • (as Matilda Calman)
    Mimo Billi
    • Marshal
    Fanfulla
    Fanfulla
    • Florist
    • (as Luigi Visconti)
    Antonio Piretti
    Charles Fawcett
    • Martin
    • Direção
      • George Marshall
      • Vittorio Sala
    • Roteiristas
      • Massimo D'Avak
      • David P. Harmon
      • Doris Hume Kilburn
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    3dash-24

    Shirley Jones deserved better

    Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting this bizarrely loopy international production as "Dark Purpose." It is full of secret passages, loonies in the attic, marital deceptions, fits of hysteria and mysterious deaths -- plus some slavering dogs. The TCM print is gorgeous-looking, but, alas, the soundtrack is horrendous, rendering a good half of the film unintelligible. Wonderful locales and interiors, but abysmally ham-fisted direction by George Marshall and Vittorio Sala. Doris Hume Kilburn wrote the novel that has lifted elements of women in domestic peril from most of the genre from "Jane Eyre" through "Midnight Lace." A very nice performance by Shirley Jones is sadly undone by an over-the-top George Sanders, a poorly scripted Giorgia Moll and a lazy Rossano Brazzi.
    7ulicknormanowen

    Did she jump or was she pushed?

    George Sanders ' and Micheline Presles's parts are almost pointless,the former introducing his assistant (Shirley Jones ) and the latter is used as a deus ex machina who reveals the truth in fine.

    A bizarre story of amnesia in a baroque mansion where a count (Brazzi) lives with his daughter(Georgia Moll); who since her accident , is mentally -ill and mistakes her father for her husband ; when the aristocrat falls for the young assistant, the story turns Freudian ,as the girl got jealous and is not prepared to share her would be husband .

    Brazzi is ideally cast as the Italian noble ( like in "the barefoot comtessa" ) with a darker side to him (present in "legend of the lost" ); not a giallo ,but an entertaining little thriller .
    6melvelvit-1

    It may be "Hitchcock Lite" but a giallo? Not quite...

    Art expert Ray Fontaine (George Sanders) and his assistant Karen Williams (Shirley Jones) travel to the Amalfi villa of Count Paolo Barbarelli (Rossano Brazzi) to appraise his collection and the unworldly Karen soon begins to fall for the suave Count's Continental charm. Unfortunately for their budding romance, Paolo's got a jealous mistress who doesn't want to be discarded and a crazy daughter who insists she's his wife. Obviously someone's lying about something but for what dark purpose?

    Troy Haworth's new book on the Italian giallo, SO DEADLY SO PERVERSE, contains an entry for this film but Adrian Luther Smith's "giallo bible", BLOOD & BLACK LACE: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO Italian SEX AND HORROR MOVIES, doesn't so is it or isn't it? Well, like Mario Bava's THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, it's got an American abroad free-falling into a vortex of mystery, intrigue, and murder but that alone shouldn't be its only qualification. If it were, then why isn't Doris Day's MIDNIGHT LACE or Jean Seberg's MOMENT TO MOMENT considered gialli as well since they also use European locations as a scenic backdrop for a "Hitchcock Lite" mystery from an American director using actors just past the cusp of their Hollywood stardom. As entertainment, DARK PURPOSE is the weakest of the three and capitalizes on Rossano Brazzi's SUMMERTIME romancing of tourist Katharine Hepburn but with completely different results this time out.

    Despite an Oscar, Shirley Jones isn't much of an actress but handles her "lady in peril" role as well as can be expected and George Sanders has little to do besides wander around the villa dispensing caustic comments. Sophisticated Micheline Presle is also on hand but doesn't have a whole heck of a lot of screen time, either. 6/10 ...and giallo geeks beware.
    7Bezenby

    Watch out for those holiday romances

    This is one of those Gialli that doesn't have a masked killer slaughtering the cast, but still has plenty of the other elements still intact. It's similar to later films like The Designated Victim and Umberto Lenzi's Oasis of Fear as we're introduced to a limited amount of characters, and are left to figure stuff out as we know for sure something sinister is going on.

    Even though this is a mid-sixties Italian film the setting is not an old castle in Scotland or wherever, but an old mansion on the Amalfi Coast! An English archivist and his young assistant arrive at the mansion of Count Paolo Barbarelli to archive his stuff (I guess). Next you know Paolo is giving Karen the assistant the glad eye and making his guard dog eat her shoes so he can buy her a new pair.

    Karen wonders who the young lady wandering around the mansion is and Paolo explains that this is just his mentally ill daughter Cora, whom the archivist starts calling 'Lady MacBeth' (he's quite funny this guy). Next up Paolo dumps his more mature mistress and starts putting the moves on Karen. If she thinks that being a stepmother to a girl on meds is going to be tough, she's underestimating the circumstances.

    I won't go much further with the plot but the whole film starts out like a romantic comedy, starts developing a bit of mystery, and by the last third is wearing it's giallo influence on it's sleeve, what with the pictures that hold clues and the twists and possibly even murder maybe. It's one of those films that gets better as it goes on, so if you stick around a bit it might pay off for you.

    Or not. How am I supposed to know? Jesus.
    max von meyerling

    You've seen all this before done better in well preserved form.

    Just a few words about the print shown on TCM. It begins with a credits over action sequence where three of the leading actors are being driven around the Amalfi coast, with a bowler hatted George Sanders half out of the Fiat 1500 (1600?) sports car. The print was obviously several generations away from the camera negative. It sported a Columbia logo but according to this site it was distributed by Universal. The opening credit sequence is squeezed as if it had been filmed with an anamorphic lens and copied using a normal spherical lens, a typical strategy in panned and scanned wide screen prints copied for showing on TV and for the commercial videos of recent memory. Columbia may have bought the distribution rights either for TV or video or both.

    After the credits the opening frame is of the sign identifying the Salerno train station with half of the "S" and none of the "O" in the frame. The train arrives and George Sanders and Shirley Jones get off and have a deliberately unintelligible conversation drowned out by background noise. This may be because Italian films are shot silent with the dialog recorded later and this meant that the complicated and expensive mixing of such a scene could be more cheaply "faked". Then they are met by a woman and taken to the Fiat sports car and the opening theme music begins and then abruptly ends in a jump cut of the Fiat pulling up to the front door of a Villa. Obviously the opening has been rearranged as the arrival at the train station was supposed to be a pre-credit sequence and probably was in the theatrical feature but the mimed conversation was judged to be too off-putting as a opening and things were just rearranged. I.E. The picture starts with the arrival in Salerno and proceeds to a picturesque road trip along the Amalfi coast complete with credits and theme music (60s faux Parisan vocalese) and then the story begins.

    There is no widescreen process, anamorphic or not, listed in the credits so the big question is - was the film re-edited for the after-market, or for American theatrical distribution or maybe it was cheaper to print the original film in 1:33 from a 'scope camera original? What ever, the current print isn't even panned and scanned but just seemingly run through the printer at full speed. The film is in Technacolor which suggests the possibility of their house process Techniscope. This was a recently introduced widescreen process which uses spherical lenses to record two wide frames inside a usual 35mm frame but is printed anamorphic by being blown up 2X. This would explain the fuzzy focus and crude depth of field of the TCM print.

    This is a petty terrible film, call it at its best -"derivative". Another snoor fest of the innocent American girl falling for a dubious but charming and handsome Italian nobleman, complete with secret door and hidden room containing "the truth". The star attraction, except for maybe a nearly extinct cult following for the laconic and sardonic George Sanders, is non-existent. There is nothing remarkable about this film either aesthetically, cinematically, or historically. This makes DARK PURPOSE a very bad candidate for restoration. I fear the copy shown on TCM is about all anyone will see of L'INTRIGO or DARK PURPOSE so if you must see it or copy it then take advantage the next time its on TCM. It truly is an orphan film.

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    • Curiosidades
      Italian censorship visa # 42276 delivered on 12-2-1964.
    • Conexões
      Referenced in Vente a ligar al Oeste (1972)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      Ravello
      Music by Paul Baron

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 3 de abril de 1964 (Itália)
    • Países de origem
      • Itália
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idiomas
      • Inglês
      • Italiano
    • Também conhecido como
      • Dark Purpose
    • Locações de filme
      • G.S.C.-Rome, Roma, Lazio, Itália(Studio)
    • Empresas de produção
      • Galatea Film
      • Societé Cinématographique Lyre
      • B.B.H. Productions
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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 37 min(97 min)
    • Proporção
      • 1.85 : 1

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