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Crépuscule

Original title: Without Honor
  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 9m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
475
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Laraine Day and Franchot Tone in Crépuscule (1949)
Drama

Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.

  • Director
    • Irving Pichel
  • Writer
    • James Poe
  • Stars
    • Laraine Day
    • Dane Clark
    • Franchot Tone
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    475
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Irving Pichel
    • Writer
      • James Poe
    • Stars
      • Laraine Day
      • Dane Clark
      • Franchot Tone
    • 33User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Laraine Day
    Laraine Day
    • Jane Bandle
    Dane Clark
    Dane Clark
    • Bill Bandle
    Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone
    • Dennis Williams
    Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead
    • Katherine Williams
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    • Fred Bandle
    Frank Marlowe
    Frank Marlowe
    • 1st Television Installer
    Harry Lauter
    Harry Lauter
    • First Ambulance Attendant
    Peter Virgo
    • Mack - 2nd Ambulance Attendant
    Marjorie Stapp
    Marjorie Stapp
    • Neighbor's Wife
    • (as Margie Stapp)
    Lester Dorr
    Lester Dorr
    • Neighbor
    Joan Dupuis
    • 1st Girl Scout
    Harrison Hearne
    • 2nd Television Installer
    Patricia Ann Ewing
    • 2nd Girl Scout
    Corky
    • Stray Dog
    • (uncredited)
    Irving Pichel
    Irving Pichel
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Irving Pichel
    • Writer
      • James Poe
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    6blanche-2

    Wild

    Wild film.

    Laraine Day as Jane is cheating on her husband (Bruce Bennett) with Franchot Tone. However, he breaks up with her, and during a struggle, she kills him.

    While he is dead in another room, her brother-in-law (Dane Clark) shows up. He wanted her at one point, but she rejected him.

    So he has called a revenge meeting, inviting the dead man's wife and the dead man himself, not realizing it a bit late for that, planning to surprise his brother with the news that his wife is a cheat.

    Given that the man is dead, there are other surprises in store.

    Laraine Day, understandably, plays a totally wired and half-hysterical woman. She does a good job, but the film feels off balance and frantic. Dane Clark's character clearly has a screw loose.

    I would call this an odd film. And how much did they pay Franchot Tone to spend all that time on the floor?
    6jjnxn-1

    Great Big Giant Emotions!!!! but to what end?

    What an odd picture. An Overwrought Melodrama with a capital O and a capital M this breaks out of the starting gate hitting high C and continues at a fevered pitch right up to its conclusion.

    Unhappy Laraine stabs caddish Franchot by accident then rambles hysterically while the callously odious Dane Clark circles around making her life hell. The one beacon of restraint in the entire enterprise is Agnes Moorehead who shows up none too soon and steals the picture with a controlled and dignified performance while all around her her cast-mates are swallowing scenery whole.
    8prognerd

    Well-Made Film Noir That Breaks Conventions

    I usually refrain from commenting on films because there are so many other reviewers out there...but seeing how this just has one review and a very negative, I felt I should offer my opinion.

    I'll admit the first 20 or 30 minutes felt like a typical Hollywood pot-boiler. Cheating wife accidentally kills lover; will she get away with it; etc. After this set-up, the film becomes an onion - revealing new layers of characters' motivations and back-story.

    Laraine Day stands out superbly as the cheating wife...whole scenes develop around her without her speaking, yet we know what's going on in her mind.

    I have to agree with the other reviewer that I loved Steiner's score...but did feel it inappropriate at times. The performances on screen are very subtle and the music is anything but subtle.

    I particularly enjoyed the second half of the film as characters acted against stereotypes.

    The DVD I watched was from Geneon and featured an adequate transfer; not stellar, but much above average from the usual run-of-the-mill public domain stuff.
    silasmrner

    What Were They Thinking

    I saw this when I was 10, when movies were double features and the fare changed weekly. I only remembered it because I loved Day, not because of being an actress, but because she was Leo Durocher's wife and I was a Baseball nut. I saw it again recently on TCM. This movie defies a reason for being, except that the studios needed constant fodder and this film proves the point that it was often volume over content. We are still being crammed with movies that ask the same question, What Were They Thinking, but lack the old excuse.

    Day's acting, consisting primarily from 'reacting', is an embarrassment on the same footing as the unlikely dialogue given to the rest of the cast. Her opening scene with Clark makes for great comedy as she goes thru a 360 degree range of reactions to his 25 or so separate avenues of dialogue, mostly questions she never answers. And he's oblivious to the strangeness of her conduct. From there it only gets worse.

    It's hard to believe it's the same Day who shown so brilliantly in Mr. Lucky or a movie with such confusing plot turns, but unlike The Big Sleep, where you didn't notice or care.
    6bkoganbing

    Calling it a day can be dangerous

    Franchot Tone, him married to Agnes Moorehead and Laraine Day, her married to Bruce Bennett have been carrying on an affair, but Tone comes over to Day's house while Bennett's away and says time to end it. Bennett's a dull sort and Day doesn't want things to end. She gets positively hysterical and remains so the rest of the film with the events that follow. Quite a bit does follow.

    Manipulating all that is going on is Dane Clark who is Bennett's brother and it's positively Iago like the way he controls all around him. This might have been Dane Clark's best moment on the big screen as it is Laraine Day's.

    If this is ever remade and maybe it should be, it will be a great example about how the Code could nearly ruin a story. The censorship was such that so much was left out in the telling.

    Still a nice piece of melodrama.

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    • Trivia
      This film offers a rare glimpse at a contemporary 1949 television set, a bulky table model with a ten-inch rectangular screen, which commonly was required to be "set up" by qualified technicians who also needed to install an antenna on the roof before proper reception could be achieved. Commercial television broadcasts had begun in Los Angeles two years earlier in 1947 on KTLA (Channel 5).
    • Goofs
      Jane is said to have broken a heel In the fall that caused her to miss her escape by bus, but as she picks up a broken heel off the ground and carries it with her, the heels on the shoes on both her feet remain intact and attached.
    • Quotes

      Fred Bandle: [picking Jane up on the dusty road, oblivious to her foiled attempt at escape] Where were you? Out for a walk? You busted a heel, huh? Well you shouldn't wear heels on a street like this.

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    • Release date
      • April 11, 1950 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Je n'ai pas tué
    • Filming locations
      • San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Strand Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 9 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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