una pallottola per roy
1941, raoul walsh
humphrey bogart, al suo primo ruolo da protagonista, paga l’operazione al piede a velma, fugge con marie e per salvarla si fa inseguire dalla polizia sulla sierra nevada. b/n inquietante e senza speranza.
il terzo uomo
1949, carol reed
graham greene scrive la sceneggiatura e l’anno dopo l’uscita del film la pubblica.
Harry Lime: Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
orson welles, joseph cotten, alida valli, trevor howard: un cast carismatico! l’inseguimento nelle fogne, la ruota di vienna, le inquadrature che deformano i personaggi in b/n costruiscono un film cupo, cattivo, inquietante.
arsenico e vecchi merletti
1944, frank capra
Mortimer Brewster: Look, Aunt Martha, men don’t just get into window seats and die!
Abby Brewster: Of course not, dear. He died first.
Mortimer Brewster: But how?
Abby Brewster: The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it. Now, I don’t know why you’re making such a big deal over this Mortimer. Don’t you worry about a thing!
le tenere ziette di mortimer sono ingenuamente e politicamente scorrette.
