The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Phil Goldstone

Escritores:

W. Maxwell Goodhue (story)
W. Maxwell Goodhue (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 diciembre 1933 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama

Frase comercial:

A MAJESTIC PICTURE which proudly leads the outstanding screen attractions of 1934 (original poster)

Plot:

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit...

Plot Keywords:

Tragic | Past | Murder | Politics | Court

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Avant-garde B-movie

Reparto

Zita Johann	...	Nora Moran
John Miljan	...	Paulino
Alan Dinehart	...	District Attorney John Grant
Paul Cavanagh	...	Governor Bill Crawford
Claire Du Brey	...	Mrs. Edith Crawford
Sarah Padden	...	Mrs. Watts
Henry B. Walthall	...	Father Ryan
Otis Harlan	...	Mr. Moran
Aggie Herring	...	Mrs. Moran
Cora Sue Collins	...	Nora Moran, as a Child
Joseph W. Girard	...	Captain of Detectives (as Joe Girard)
Ann Brody	...	Matron
Syd Saylor
Harvey Clark
Rolfe Sedan	...	Stage Manager

También conocida como:

The Woman in the Chair (USA) (working title)
Voice from the Grave (USA) (reissue title)

Duración:

65 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Compañía:

Majestic Pictures

Trivialidades:

The movie's poster was as #2 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Ask the Dust (2006)

Avant-garde B-movie

This film is a great surprise. Apart from being thematically unusual (murder, suicide, corruption, capital punishment, rape, etc) it is visually astonishing and years ahead of its time, anticipating lots of stuff from 40's film noir to art-house European cinema (Bergman's Wild Strawberries for instance).

The film uses the `narratage' technique first used the same year by Preston Sturges in `The Power and the Glory' (also a very interesting film, directed by William K. Howard and a clear precedent of `Citizen Kane') which consists of voice-over narration and flashbacks and flashforwards, but if takes it much further with a very complex structure that includes flashbacks within flashbacks, dreams, hallucinations, flashforwards and characters appearing in scenes where they were not originally present and commenting the action with the main character.

The film is also extraordinarily shot with quasi expressionistic photography, lots of tracking shots, montages and very imaginative use of stock footage. To make all this even more admirable the film was produced on a very low B budget and it runs only 65 minutes.