L'Amant sans visage

Original title: Nora Prentiss

1947
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1h 51m

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7.1/10

2.2K

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Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in L'Amant sans visage (1947)

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Film Noir Drama

A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Sheilah Graham reported that Ann Sheridan had an infection in one ear during production, and during the final shots of the film, could only be photographed from one side.

Goofs
When the surgeons are washing up for an operation, before gloves, the elder surgeon touches the door before going inside the surgery room, which would break sterility.

Quotes
Dr. Richard Talbot: [finishing her bandage] There, it doesn't look bad.
Nora Prentiss: The bandage or the leg?
Dr. Richard Talbot: Young lady, I...
Nora Prentiss: Can't you decide, doctor?
Dr. Richard Talbot: Well, I made the bandage. I didn't make the leg.
[Nora laughs]

Connections
Edited into The Green Fog (2017)

Soundtracks
Would You Like a Souvenir?
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Jack Scholl and Eddie Cherkose
Performed by Ann Sheridan
[Nora sings the song during her act]

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Featured review

The One and Only . . .

. . . Ann Sheridan, that is. And they didn't call her the "Oomph Girl" for nothing.

She's worldly (mostly underworld) straight- forward, knows the score, and completely direct. What's more, you believe and trust her . . . nothing underhanded here.

At one point she, as Nora Prentis says, "I may not have been handled with care, but I'm not shop-worn." That about sums her up.

There's no other quite like Sheridan, and she can make a wisecrack in a flash, partly for levity and partly to hold off wolves. Furthermore, it works pretty much all the time.

In "Nora Prentis" Sheridan's perfectly cast as a nightclub singer who walks into an affair with a married man. Kent Smith is fine as her suitor. Vincent Sherman's the competent director, and James Wong Howe's the fine photographer.

We're treated to Ann's beautiful contralto voice (in a lovely ballad, "Who Cares What People Say") and to the rest of Warner Bros. stock company, including Robert Alda.

"Nora Prentis' " characters work because they're endowed with both strong and weak qualities. No one's clearly victim or villain here, just quite ordinary people who get trapped in tragic circumstances.