Un détective est engagé pour trouver et protéger un témoin gouvernemental disparu recherché par des gangsters.Un détective est engagé pour trouver et protéger un témoin gouvernemental disparu recherché par des gangsters.Un détective est engagé pour trouver et protéger un témoin gouvernemental disparu recherché par des gangsters.
- Sal Sachese
- (scenes deleted)
- Smoke
- (as Scat Man Crothers)
- Bogardy
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Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAccording to "Uprising at MGM," a Time Magazine article of Dec. 27, 1971, director Paul Magwood and producer Michael Laughlin placed a black-bordered ad in the Hollywood Reporter apologizing for the movie, claiming that MGM studio chief James T. Aubrey had severely re-cut Chandler (1971) and added previously deleted scenes, in Aubrey's judgment, to simplify the plot. Aubrey also allegedly changed the film score from 1940s-type music to something more contemporary. The producer and director also claimed that Magwood was denied entry to the editing room while Aubrey revised the film.
- GaffesWhen Carmady shoots the man in the parking structure a loud report can be heard from inside the car; yet when Kincaid shows up, and Carmady hands him the gun it has a suppressor on the barrel of a revolver. Which anyone knows does not suppress the blast.
- Citations
Katherine Creighton: What are you really?
Chandler: I'm a relic.
Katherine Creighton: I can see that. What do you do?
Chandler: I guarded computers. I was a certified rent-a-cop. It was a scenic job. You clock in, clock out. I got tired. Thought I'd go up to San Quentin, and strap myself into an electric chair.
Katherine Creighton: Except at San Quentin, it's the gas chamber.
Chandler: Right.
Katherine Creighton: Nothing ever works out.
Chandler: [chuckles] Of course not.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993)
The main problem i have with this movie is that it's just too bland. The dialog isn't even clichéd, it's worse, something out of a townhouse conversation with your wife on a saturday afternoon.
The actors bumble around, probably aware of the turkey they had the luck to sign up for, the action peaces are alright but nothing you haven't seen anywhere else, and the twist, well, there is none.
Also, it's hard to understand what exactly the movie was aiming at, it's not a parody, nor some sort of intellectual analysis of the noirs or a political statement of the 70s America, it's definitely not an action flick either.
Perhaps that's the movie's big problem. Most other noirs are either send-off, parodies or deconstructions of their predecessors, while this one is a "NOIR" just filmed in the 70s. It makes the viewer judge the movie on it's own merits, and lacking any, it sinks, just like the Packard in The Big Sleep.
2/10 for two things, Gloria Grahame and the fact that probably someone was watching this and thought, hey, I could do better, and did.
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- 7 août 2022
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- Durée1 heure 25 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1