Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.
- Tex Sanders
- (as Ransom Sherman)
- Duke Carney
- (as Fred Steele)
- Fighter
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- Fighter
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- Kid Lucas
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- Bill - Piano Player
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- QuizBefore becoming an actor, Dane Clark had some experience as a professional boxer. Freddie Steele who portrays Mike's final opponent Duke Carney, was also a professional boxer before his retirement led to him becoming an actor.
- BlooperIn some shots of the boxing venue, especially shots from inside the ring, there is obvious use of painted backgrounds with stationary spectators to make the arena appear larger.
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Michael Gordon: [his thoughts as a voice over as the referee of the boxing match counts him out] What's the matter with that guy? He's counting me out. He's got it all wrong. I can take it. Wait a minute, look chum, I'm getting up. Gotta get up. Wait.
[the bell rings and Mike is taken to the stool in his corner]
Michael Gordon: [his internal thoughts as a voice over continue] Listen to them, they're after blood. What am I doing here, waiting for the kiss-off? I'm not the boy they want. I'm a long way from home. I gotta tell 'em that. I'm not your boy, you hear me? I belong on a beach. A nice, quiet beach. I wanna hear the water. That's it. That's it.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Suspense: Dead Ernest (1949)
- Colonne sonoreJust for Now
(uncredited)
Written by Dick Redmond
Performed by Bobbie Canvin
[Laurie (Alexis Smith) sings the song in her act at the Pelican Club; Laurie also sings the song at Sam's Cafe]
Clark was Warner Brothers back up for John Garfield and Garfield had left Warner Brothers at this point. Clark was obviously getting the scripts that Garfield had left or maybe had turned down.
In Whiplash Clark is a struggling artist who lives in southern California and a traveling Alexis Smith likes his work and they begin a hot and heavy affair. Then she abruptly walks out and Clark is all at sea. He goes east to find her and he does and finds she's married to a wheelchair bound Zachary Scott.
Scott was once a promising fighter and if he can't be champion he wants to manage one. When Clark knocks out a middleweight contender, Scott is willing to forget the affair with Smith if he'll fight for him. And Clark proves pretty adept in the ring.
Whiplash is the kind of film that would have been far better had the all pervasive Code not been in place. What we're beating around the bush not talking about is impotence. Scott is incapable and he's a nasty creature and Alexis just isn't getting any.
The ending is straight out of one of those Thirties type boxing films and I won't elaborate. Let's just say what happened no way should have happened.
The players are fine and special mention should go to Eve Arden for simply being Eve Arden and Jeffrey Lynn for playing Smith's alcoholic doctor brother who steps up to the plate at the climax. But Whiplash would have been a better film with a more realistic script and the Code not dictating a lot of pussyfooting around some frank issues.
- bkoganbing
- 7 giu 2011
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