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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe untimely murder of a New York glamour girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally-driven detective at the helm.The untimely murder of a New York glamour girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally-driven detective at the helm.The untimely murder of a New York glamour girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally-driven detective at the helm.
Max Showalter
- Larry Evans
- (as Casey Adams)
Alexander D'Arcy
- Robin Ray
- (as Alex D'Arcy)
Robert Adler
- Policeman
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Ramsay Ames
- Café Photographer
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Parley Baer
- 2nd Detective
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Benjie Bancroft
- Theatre Patron
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Brandon Beach
- Minor Role
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Chet Brandenburg
- Milkman
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Ethel Bryant
- Minor Role
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Harry Carter
- Detective
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Martin Cichy
- Theatre Patron
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Russ Conway
- Detective
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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Lo sapevi?
- QuizIs a nearly scene-for-scene remake of the film Situazione pericolosa (1941) with Victor Mature and Betty Grable.
- Citazioni
Steve Christopher: Slug me with those, Cornell, and I'll square you off if it takes me the rest of my life.
Lt. Ed Cornell: You're not gonna have a very long life, Stevie. You're like a rat in a box, without any holes. But they're gonna make a hole for you...six by three, filled with quicklime.
- ConnessioniFeatures Vertigine (1944)
Recensione in evidenza
A fairly close remake of the 1942 proto-noir "I Wake Up Screaming," "Vicki" was filmed and released 11 years later. During the picture's opening credits, however, with its elegant music and close-up portrait painting of a beautiful murder victim, "Vicki" may instead bring to mind another Fox noir, 1944's "Laura"; I'd swear that the typeface of the titles of the two films is even the same! "Vicki" features a cast of "lesser names" than did "IWUS," but follows the same basic plot path. Here, Jean Peters plays the title role, originally portrayed by Carole Landis, of Vicki Lynn, a pretty NYC model who is murdered while on the verge of her big Hollywood break. Jeanne Crain fills in for Betty Grable, playing her sister (a huge upgrade in terms of looks and acting ability, I feel), and Elliott Reid (I know...who?) takes over for Victor Mature, as the publicity man who gets Vicki's career started. Richard Boone here plays Ed Cornell, the maniac cop on the case (a debatable improvement on Laird Cregar's hulking presence), while future TV mogul Aaron Spelling (!) plays a wacky hotel clerk, taking the part once essayed by the great Elisha Cook, Jr. So yes, lesser names, perhaps, but the presence of Jeanne Crain, one of the greatest of screen beauties, always helps carry a picture...for this viewer, anyway. "Vicki" is a fairly compact film with little flab. It is well played by all and features a moody score by Leigh Harline. Director Harry Horner, a man better known in Hollywood for his contributions as an art director and production designer, acquits himself quite well here, lavishing great attention on his use of light and shadow. Watching the film, I was also reminded, by Carl Betz' presence as a sympathetic cop, of another Fox noir that I had recently seen, "Dangerous Crossing" (a superior film to this one), which also stars Betz and Crain. In all, "Vicki" is a lesser noir, but still great fun. Oh...at the film's tail end, one of the characters is revealed as being a nutjob for having constructed a shrine to Vicki in his living room; perhaps I should consider scrapping the Jeanne Crain shrine that I was going to build in mine....
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- Paese di origine
- Siti ufficiali
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Vicki
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California, Stati Uniti(an opening sequence shows Circus Gardens, which opened in Ocean Park in 1953)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Budget
- 560.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 25 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Hanno ucciso Vicki (1953) officially released in India in English?
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