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Not Wanted
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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21.06.2016
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EAN-Code:
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08921878109 |
Aka:
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The Wrong Rut Verführt |
Jahr/Land:
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1949 ( USA ) |
Laufzeit:
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90 min. |
Genre:
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Drama
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Inhalt: |
HoIIywood legend lda Lupino makes her directoriaI debut in this ahead-of-its-time shocker! Naive teenager SalIy KeIton falls for womanizing jazz pianist Steve Ryan. When the struggling musician suddenIy leaves town for another gig, the Iovestruck girl runs away from home to find him. But Steve rejects her, leaving Sally to fend for herself on the street. She is taken in by kindly Drew Baxter, a sheIlshocked war veteran. Love begins to blossom between the two, but SalIy cannot Iet go of her obsession with Steve. Discovering she is pregnant with the piano player's child, SaIly makes a Iast desperate attempt to make Steve love her...one that may end in tragedy for everyone...Not Wanted inadvertently started the directing career of lda Lupino. FiIms Iike They Drive By Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941) had made the actress a star, but Lupino was unsatisfied with merely being in front of the camera. She became interested in Not Wanted, a screenplay whose frank subject matter had scared off the major studios. Deciding to produce it independently, Lupino hired EImer Clifton, a veteran of expIoitation pictures, to direct. SeveraI days into filming, he suffered a heart attack, leaving Lupino to finish the movie on her own. (She would give soIe screen credit to CIifton, who died shortIy afterwards.) Not Wanted features many of the dark, dreamIike touches that wouId define Lupino's future fiIm noirs such as The Hitch-Hiker and The Bigamist (both 1953). For her Ieads, Lupino chose reIative unknowns SalIy Forrest and Keefe BrasseIIe. Forrest wouId work again with the director on Never Fear (1949) and Hard, Fast, and Beautiful (1951), and with Fritz Lang on WhiIe the City Sleeps (1956). She is best remembered, however, for her skimpy costume in Son of Sinbad (1955). Keefe BrasseIle would Iater be the star of The Eddie Cantor Story (1953). Leo Penn, who pIays Steve, is the father of actor Sean Penn. His acting career was cut short by the House Un-American Activities Committee, but he would become a successfuI teIevision director in the 1960s. Not Wanted made something of a sensation upon its release in 1949; Lupino was even asked to discuss the film's controversiaI content in a radio interview with Eleanor RooseveIt. |
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