Réalisation:
William WylerPhotographie:
Tony GaudioMusique:
Max SteinerActeurs·trices:
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Cecil Kellaway, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
It's nighttime in Malaysia. A full moon is shining. The camera glides along, from left to right, along the exterior of a plantation, past sleeping workers. In the background there is a white house. Suddenly a shot breaks the silence. A bird takes flight. Startled, a dog twists around. A man stumbles onto the veranda, followed by a woman. She holds a gun and keeps firing till she has no more bullets and the body is still. She shuts herself in her room and sends for her husband and the authorities. Why has Leslie Crosbie shot Geoffrey Hammond? (texte officiel du distributeur)
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Critiques (1)
Surprisingly evocative spectacle that surpassed in the technical aspects. Bette Davis is perfect in every pose as Leslie, and her wild gaze in key moments proves that her peepers rightfully appeared in the song by Kim Carnes many years later. So why such a low rating? Because the producer's intervention undermined all efforts. I would rate the play a class above, and the movie should have ended the same way it did, about five minutes earlier. Then came an epilogue that is pointless, illogical, and diminishing of the initial composition; even though Wyler managed to shoot it in a thrilling way, at that moment all the emotions that were in me flew out the window.
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