The Great Lie (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Escritores:

Polan Banks (novel)
Lenore J. Coffee (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 abril 1941 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Sometimes there's a terrible penalty for telling the truth.

Plot:

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

Plot Keywords:

Pregnant | Baby | Marriage | Washington D.C. | Orchestral Music Score

Premios:

Won Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Supreme soap opera of lies and deceit

Reparto

Bette Davis	...	Maggie Patterson Van Allen
George Brent	...	Peter 'Pete' Van Allen
Mary Astor	...	Sandra Kovak
Lucile Watson	...	Aunt Ada Greenfield
Hattie McDaniel	...	Violet
Grant Mitchell	...	Joshua 'Josh' Mason
Jerome Cowan	...	Jock H. Thompson
Charles Trowbridge	...	Sen. Ted Greenfield
Thurston Hall	...	Oscar Worthington 'Worthy' James
Russell Hicks	...	Col. Harriston
Virginia Brissac	...	Sadie
J. Farrell MacDonald	...	Dr. Ferguson (as J. Farrell Macdonald)
Addison Richards	...	Mr. Talbot
Sam McDaniel	...	Jefferson Washington
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Olin Howland	...	Ed, Arizona Ranch Hand (scenes deleted)

También conocida como:

Far Horizon (USA) (working title)
La gran mentira (Spain) [es]

Duración:

108 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Mojave Desert, Victorville, California, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

Bette Davis and 'Mary Astor (I)' thought the original script was not very good. They ended up doing massive rewrites on the script themselves.

Errores:

Continuidad: Maggie's hair changes length from one shot to another, sometimes reaching her shoulders, sometimes tightly framing her face.

Citas:

Sandra Kovac: "If I didn't think you meant so well, I'd feel like slapping your face"

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart (1997) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

The Man On The Flying Trapeze

Supreme soap opera of lies and deceit

Bette Davis and Mary Astor take place in one of filmdoms greatest bitch-fests, The sappy sweet Davis and obnoxious concert pianist Astor both love the same man(George Brent). He goes back and forth between them. Slick and soapy, the performances are great and Astor walked away with an Oscar. Great classical score, too.