Forever Amber (1947)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Otto Preminger

Escritores:

Kathleen Winsor (novel)
Jerome Cady (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 octubre 1947 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

1660, England. Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from a country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | King Charles II | 1660s | Duel | England

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Overwrought epic romance that lacks chemistry

Reparto

Linda Darnell	...	Amber St. Clair
Cornel Wilde	...	Bruce Carlton
Richard Greene	...	Lord Harry Almsbury
George Sanders	...	King Charles II
Glenn Langan	...	Capt. Rex Morgan
Richard Haydn	...	Earl of Radcliffe
Jessica Tandy	...	Nan Britton
Anne Revere	...	Mother Red Cap
John Russell	...	Black Jack Mallard
Jane Ball	...	Corinne Carlton
Robert Coote	...	Sir Thomas Dudley
Leo G. Carroll	...	Matt Goodgroome
Natalie Draper	...	Countess of Castlemaine
Margaret Wycherly	...	Mrs. Spong
Alma Kruger	...	Lady Redmond

También conocida como:

Ambiciosa (Spain) [es]
Por siempre Ambar (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

138 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #11495, Adult Audience)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

'Vincent Price' was originally set to play Lord Harry Almsbury in the Peggy Cummins version but was replaced by Richard Greene when the film was started over with Linda Darnell.

Citas:

King Charles II: [to his spaniels] Children, children, what distressing behavior.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Shag (1989)

Overwrought epic romance that lacks chemistry

Overlong, overwrought romantic epic that lacks chemistry between the leads. Linda Darnell is passable as Amber -- if not stunningly talented, then at least gifted with screen presence. But Cornell Wilde is as flat as a wet blanket, dousing the fire out of every scene where it might possibly have ignited. Most errors in movies of this type can be overlooked if the attraction between the two lovers is palpable. Sadly, there is no indication that Wilde's Carlton even likes Amber, let alone finds her alluring. Production code aside, there were plenty of movies of this period that portrayed believable epic love, and this isn't one of them.

The real highlight here is George Sanders as the licentious Charles II, a part he was born to play. I have no doubt that Vincent Price, considered for the role, could have done well (he gave the best performance of his career in another Preminger movie, "Laura"), but Sanders brings so much dripping wit and irony to everything he does that he makes every scene he's in come alive. He's not in it much, however.

The production itself is pretty good, some great costumes and sets. The swordfighting scene (with thankfully little dialogue) was excellent and far too short. The story itself is a little choppy. The first scene was a non-sequitur, promising a potentially interesting plot device that never came. And the ending was a complete disaster - abrupt, unresolved, unbalanced, and worst of all, unsatisfying. Overall, the movie leaves a sour taste in the mouth, as if the decadence that was portrayed somehow got hold of the people making it and caused them to focus more on the image than on the story.