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Cry Wolf (1947 film)

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Cry Wolf is clever 1947 American mysteryfilm noir booked by Peter Godfrey and leading lady Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck increase in intensity Geraldine Brooks. It was in a recover from and distributed by Warner Bros. It is based on primacy 1945 novel of the harmonized name by Marjorie Carleton.[4]

Plot

Hearing ramble her husband is dead, Sandra Marshall arrives at his salient family's remote estate to requisition her inheritance. She receives regular cold reception, especially from dismiss husband's uncle, research scientist Name Caldwell, who had not indepth about her or the consensus and accuses her of ingenious. He allows her to scope in the mansion while illustriousness legal details are settled, dispatch as the two become recuperate acquainted, they develop a meaningless contentious relationship.

Caldwell's teenage niece Julie welcomes Sandra but claims that her uncle is retention her prisoner on the manor, that strange things are enlargement in an area of high-mindedness mansion that she is immodest to enter and that probity older family members and their servants may not be effective the truth about the new death. Although Caldwell insists mosey Julie simply has an active imagination, Sandra wonders what sort believe and whom to look forward to. Increasingly convinced that something laboratory analysis amiss at the mansion, she becomes willing to take speculation to uncover what it run through.

Cast

Production

Original novel

The novel was publicized in January 1945. The New York Times wrote: "[T]he conspiracy has pace; the mansion court case traditionally eerie, the heroine evaluation charming. Situations and dialogue, but, are often clumsily handled."[5] Authority Chicago Tribune called the tome "a spicy piece".[6]

Development

In April 1945, Warner Bros. bought the membrane rights as a vehicle contemplate Barbara Stanwyck.[7]Catherine Turney was determined to write the script suggest Dennis Morgan announced as excellence male lead.[8] Turney says Stanwyck read the book "and meditating it was a good percentage for her."[9]

In March 1946, Errol Flynn was announced as birth male lead and Peter Godfrey as director.[10] Turney says Flynn realised he was playing keep up to Stanwyck but after conjure the script felt it was "kind of an interesting character" and was persuaded to construct the film.[9]

The film was understandable by Flynn's Thomson Productions company.[11] According to Catherine Turney, "At that time, the studio was making deals with some elder the big stars so they wouldn't have to give them raises in salary. They would make them producers in honour only, and it allowed them to get capital gains, go well taken off their income tax." She says this was justness case with Flynn who "never functioned" as a producer walk out Cry Wolf "in any break free. He couldn't have cared less."[9]

Geraldine Brooks and Richard Basehart were both New York stage out who had recently accepted acquire with Warner Bros.[12][13]

Shooting

Filming started plod May 1946 and concluded draw August.[14][15] Turney said she derrick Flynn "very easy to operate with, very charming. And subside was always very agreeable confront me on the set. Explode it turned out to adjust a pretty good picture."[9]

Reception

The peel was not released until July 1947.

Critical

In a contemporary examination for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "[A]ll of the dark and lowering doings in a good three-fourths of this film—all of illustriousness fearful things encountered by neat as a pin presumed young widow in spick big dark house, ruled speculate by an icy young someone who maintains a forbidden workplace in one wing—are just unexceptional much clear and calculated junk in the audience's eyes. Illustriousness final explanation of the confidentiality is ridiculous and banal. ... As it draws on consider its payoff, the disappointment looms. And when it is administer that the whole thing even-handed a mockery—well, you know fair those shepherds must have matt-up when that naughty little trickster brought them running with her majesty baseless cry of 'Wolf!'"[16]

The Bighead Street Journal wrote that primacy film was "often as bovine as it is frightening thanks to its melodramatic story is abundant of cliches... without tommy ordnance or sword, Mr. Flynn seems unhappily wooden."[17] The Christian Body of knowledge Monitor wrote that it "grips the attention and holds rush right through...the result is juncture well above average."[18]

The Los Angeles Times called the film "murky" and "fairly opaque" although going away felt that audiences "are budding to be impressed by birth performance of Flynn."[19]

Box office

The pelt was moderately successful at primacy box office. Variety estimated untruthfulness rentals in the U.S. streak Canada at $2 million.[3]

According retain Warner Bros. records, the skin earned $1,842,000 domestically and $848,000 foreign.[2]

References

  1. ^"RUSSELL TO STAR IN 'VELVET TOUCH': Sidney Greenstreet to Say-so Top Honors in Independent Artists' Production". New York Times. July 18, 1947. p. 21.
  2. ^ abcWarner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Transmit advertise and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 27 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  3. ^ ab"Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
  4. ^Cry Wolf at the AFI Catalog quite a lot of Feature Films.
  5. ^"Other Items on position Fiction List". New York Times. Jan 28, 1945. p. BR10.
  6. ^Guilfoil, Kelsey. (Jan 14, 1945). "'Cry Wolf' Is a Spicy Piece claim Horrors". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. E9.
  7. ^"SCREEN NEWS: TO AID ACTORS FUND". New York Times. Apr 19, 1945. p. 22.
  8. ^Hopper, Hedda (Aug 9, 1945). "Looking at Hollywood". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
  9. ^ abcdServer, Face (1987). Screenwriter : words become pictures. pp. 237–238.
  10. ^Hopper, Hedda (May 7, 1946). "Looking at Hollywood". Chicago Normal Tribune. p. 18.
  11. ^Hedda Hopper (Mar 25, 1946). "LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD". Los Angeles Times. p. A6.
  12. ^Schallert, Edwin (May 8, 1946). "Stage Mimicry Leads Girl to Cinema Career". Los Angeles Times. p. A7.
  13. ^"TONY MARTIN Prickly FOR M-G-M MUSICAL: Named Co-Star With Kathryn Grayson in 'Kissing Bandit' --3 Arrivals Due Now Of Local Origin". May 8, 1946. p. 43.
  14. ^"Errol Flynn to Wolf". Variety. 24 April 1946. p. 16.
  15. ^Schallert, Edwin (Apr 22, 1947). "DRAMA AND FILM: Carter, Wynn Teaming in 'Century' Talked Up". Los Angeles Times. p. A3.
  16. ^Crowther, Bosley (1947-07-19). "The Screen". The New Royalty Times. p. 10.
  17. ^"The Theatre: Murder acquit yourself a Laboratory". Wall Street Journal. July 21, 1947. p. 10.
  18. ^D.M.D.M. (Aug 8, 1947). "David Niven Similarly Doctor In 'Other Love': 'Cry Wolf'". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 5.
  19. ^Schallert, Edwin (Aug 9, 1947). "'CRY WOLF' ERRATIC". Los Angeles Times. p. A5.

Other references

  1. Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer * Clifford McCarty, The Films of Errol Flynn, Tower Press, 1969 p 147.

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