UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15645429
Umfang:
1 DVD-Video (62 Min.) : s/w
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DVD-R
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4:3 (full frame)
Serie:
20th Century Fox cinema archives : [DVD-Video]
Inhalt:
Most B movies of the 1930s through '50s consist of undemanding program pictures, formula entertainment designed to do nothing more or less than fill out the bottom-half of a double bill. Occasionally, however, studios used B pictures as a testing ground for new talent, and rarer still these movies would sometimes rise far above their second-class status. Such is the case of Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939), a 62-minute wonder with a story and characters similar to Kings Row - there's even a life-changing leg amputation in the middle of it - though apparently these similarities are mere coincidence, as Harry Bellamann's novel wasn't published until 1940. The movie is a jumble of fascinating talent one wouldn't normally expect to find in the same picture. Top-billed is Jean Rogers, best remembered today as Dale Arden in the first two Flash Gordon serials, Flash Gordon (1936) and Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938). Suave, prolific actor Ricardo Cortez, who'd played Sam Spade and Perry Mason earlier in the decade, directed the film, one of seven he helmed during 1939-40 before returning to acting full-time. Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence was an early credit for screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday, Spartacus), later famously blacklisted as a member of the Hollywood Ten. And it marked the film debut of two future stars: Richard Conte and a fresh-faced 23-year-old named Glenn Ford. (Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk)
Anmerkung:
Ländercode: keine Angabe
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Orig.: USA, 1939
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Trumbo, Dalton
