The Rat Race (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Escritores:

Garson Kanin (play)
Garson Kanin (screenplay)
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 julio 1960 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Tender romantic comedy about an aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame & fortune...

Plot Keywords:

Roommate | New York City | Love | Apartment Building | Dancehall Girl

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A hard luck story with soft edges...

Reparto

Tony Curtis	...	Pete Hammond Jr.
Debbie Reynolds	...	Peggy Brown
Jack Oakie	...	Mac, Owner of Macs Bar
Kay Medford	...	Mrs. 'Soda' Gallo, Landlady
Don Rickles	...	Nellie
Marjorie Bennett	...	Mrs. Edie Kerry
Hal K. Dawson	...	Bo Kerry
Norman Fell	...	Telephone Repairman
Lisa Drake	...	Toni
Joe Bushkin	...	Frankie J, Bandleader
Sam Butera	...	Carl 'Tip', Member of The Red Peppers
Gerry Mulligan	...	Gerry
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Stanley Adams	...	Cab Driver (uncredited)
Elmer Bernstein	...	Member of The Red Peppers (uncredited)
Wally Cassell	...	Hotel clerk (uncredited)
Mahlon Clark	...	Musician (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum	...	Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)
Jacques Gallo	...	French Sailor (uncredited)
Art Gilmore	...	Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stanley Greene	...	New York bus terminal baggage handler (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes	...	Hotel Lobby Extra (uncredited)
Richard Keene	...	Eddie (uncredited)
Bob Kenaston	...	Trumpet Player, Member of Red Peppers (uncredited)
Donald Lamont	...	Norm (uncredited)
David Landfield	...	Tod (uncredited)
Johnny Lee	...	Janitor (uncredited)
Louis Lettieri	...	Boy (uncredited)
Jack McClure	...	Mickey (uncredited)
Frank Mitchell	...	Good Humor Man (uncredited)
Joe Ploski	...	Street Vendor (uncredited)
Mark Russell	...	Sailor (uncredited)
Joseph Sullivan	...	Marcus Karp (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey	...	Dance Hall Extra (uncredited)
Dick Winslow	...	Tip, Member of The Red Peppers (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Robert Mulligan

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
John Michael Hayes		uncredited
Garson Kanin		play
Garson Kanin		screenplay

Producida por
William Perlberg	....	producer
George Seaton	....	producer

Música original por
Elmer Bernstein

Fotografía por
Robert Burks

Montaje por
Alma Macrorie

Dirección artística
Tambi Larsen
Hal Pereira

Decorados
Sam Comer
Frank R. McKelvy

Diseño de vestuario por
Edith Head

Departamento de maquillaje
Nellie Manley	....	hair styles supervisor
Wally Westmore	....	makeup supervisor

Ayudante de dirección
Richard Caffey	....	assistant director
Angelo Laiacona	....	first assistant director: New York (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Hugo Grenzbach	....	sound recordist
Winston H. Leverett	....	sound recordist

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Farciot Edouart	....	process photographer

Departamento de Edición
Richard Mueller	....	color consultant

Departamento de Música
Richard Rodgers	....	composer: song "Manhattan"
George Shearing	....	composer: song "Lullaby of Birdland"

Otros miembros del equipo
Theodore Taylor	....	assistant to producers

Compañías Productores

• Perlsea Company

Distribuidores

• Paramount Pictures (1960) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1966) (USA) (TV) (original airing)

También conocida como:

Perdidos en la gran ciudad (Spain) [es]

Duración:

105 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Perlsea Company

Trivialidades:

Saxophone solos for Tony Curtis were actually played by musicians Gerry Mulligan and Dave Pell.

Conexiones de Película:

References Les Girls (1957)

Banda de Sonido:

(Theme From) The Rat Race

A hard luck story with soft edges...

Exceptionally thin drama, written by Garson Kanin from his own play, about a horn player from Milwaukee arriving in New York City by bus, taking over the boarding room usually held by a down-on-her-luck taxi-dancer; they meet and, seeing there are two beds in the place, he proposes they share the room and help each other out. Tony Curtis is the naive musician, and he's convincing fumbling about nervously with his horn cases, but the moment where he realizes his roommate is really a cute little number never quite arrives. Curtis and co-star Debbie Reynolds do a little bickering, a little soul-sharing, and the next we know he's writing her love letters. Reynolds has a good girl's version of 'tough' down pretty good, but when boss Don Rickles calls her a "Goldilocks" he's not far off; this is one dime-a-dance girl who would never sacrifice virtue for rent money. Kanin's script spends a lot of screen time on extraneous circumstances, particularly when Rickles makes Debbie strip in his office (nothing comes of this, not even a tart exit line). Curtis gets an audition which turns out to be a fake, yet the sequence seems designed only to plug a little music into the scenario, and it's a nowhere moment which doesn't pay off. Throughout, Elmer Bernstein's music seems heavy-handed, as does the writing for the supporting characters. Curtis and Reynolds are seen as a couple of struggling nice kids--not above stepping into the gutter, but not without total remorse. It's all a facade but, for an 'unglossy' glossy star-vehicle, it has its pleasures. **1/2 from ****