Lonelyhearts (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Vincent J. Donehue

Writers:

Dore Schary (writer)
Howard Teichmann (play)

Release Date:

1958 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Film-Noir

Frase comercial:

"SOME WIVES CHEAT BECAUSE THEIR HUSBANDS DO...AND SOME BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST NO GOOD!" (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist...

Plot Keywords:

Columnist | Lonely Hearts | Newspaper Man | Based On Novel | Based On Play

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Stapleton's sizzling debut best thing in faint-hearted Lonelyhearts

Cast

Montgomery Clift	...	Adam White
Robert Ryan	...	William Shrike
Myrna Loy	...	Florence Shrike
Dolores Hart	...	Justy Sargeant
Maureen Stapleton	...	Fay Doyle
Jackie Coogan	...	Ned Gates
Mike Kellin	...	Frank Goldsmith
Onslow Stevens	...	Mr. Lassiter
Frank Maxwell	...	Pat Doyle
Frank Overton	...	Mr. Sargeant
John Gallaudet	...	Johnny, Bartender
Don Washbrook	...	Don Sargeant
Johnny Washburn	...	Johnny Sargeant (as John Washbrook)
J.B. Welch	...	Charlie
Mary Alan Hokanson	...	Edna

También conocida como:

Miss Lonelyheart
Corazones solitarios (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min | 103 min (TCM print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

Schary Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: In opening scene, Adam orders ginger ale "on the rocks"--which arrives with one minuscule cube that disappears and materializes from shot to shot.

Quotes:

Adam White, nee Lassiter: Well, uh...
Fay Doyle: Well, say something nice to me.
[he remains quiet]
Fay Doyle: Goodbye kiss, maybe?
[he remains still]
Fay Doyle: You're not a very appreciative fellow. Love 'em and leave 'em, is that it?
Adam White, nee Lassiter: Mrs. Doyle, I didn't call you...
Fay Doyle: All right, what did you call me up for? Who are you kidding? Listen, you wanted a sad story, you heard a sad story! You also wanted some action!
Adam White, nee Lassiter: You're right.
Fay Doyle: You're damn right I'm right!

Movie Connections:

Version of I'll Tell the World (1945)

Stapleton's sizzling debut best thing in faint-hearted Lonelyhearts

Dore Schary introduced modest films noirs into MGM's technicolor pantheon, and he wrote and produced this late (1957) entry. While Nathanael West's satire was exhilaratingly brutal, just about everything about this movie seems weary and faint-hearted. Montgomery Clift, fresh from the accident which just about scuttled his career, is the cub reporter shoved into the Miss Lonelyhearts column; he's so passive and tentative -- sometimes so hard to understand -- that it's not clear whether it's method acting or the aftermath of his car smashup. Robert Ryan, usually a stalwart of these mean S.O.B. roles, delivers the lines written for the cynical editor but you have the sense he was interested only in his paycheck. Myrna Loy is trashed as Ryan's long-suffering wife, emotionally abused because of some breach of marital fidelity in the distant past. (Why doesn't she just hurl her Cinzano in his face and stalk out?) But the film starts to smoulder when Maureen Stapleton arrives (she received an Academy Award nomination for this, her debut). As Edna Doyle, frustrated wife who starts an affair with Clift, she's unforgettable without ever lurching into one-dimensional parody. She's both sympathetic and repulsive, vindictive yet confused, victim and avenger. Too bad this movie was made at a time when they thought all Nathanael West's teeth had to be pulled for public consumption; the movie vanishes with a whimper. But West is hard to film; John Schlesinger's Day of the Locust, some 20 years later, didn't do a much better job.