Studs Lonigan (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.9/10   

Director:

Irving Lerner

Escritores:

James T. Farrell (novel)
Philip Yordan (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

septiembre 1960 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago. |

Plot Keywords:

1920s | Beautiful Woman | Obsessive Love | Irish | Clothes Ripping

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Incredibly frustrating

Reparto

Christopher Knight	...	Studs Lonigan
Frank Gorshin	...	Kenny Killarney
Venetia Stevenson	...	Lucy Scanlon
Carolyn Craig	...	Catherine Banahan
Jack Nicholson	...	Weary Reilly
Robert Casper	...	Paulie Haggerty
Dick Foran	...	Patrick Lonigan
Katherine Squire	...	Mrs. Lonigan
Jay C. Flippen	...	Father Gilhooey
Helen Westcott	...	Miss Julia Miller
Kathy Johnson	...	Frances Lonigan
Jack Kruschen	...	Charlie the Greek
Suzi Carnell	...	Eileen
Madame Spivy	...	Mother Josephine (as Mme. Spivy)
Jim Drum	...	Jim Doyle

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating)

Compañía:

Longridge Productions

Trivialidades:

Warren Beatty was considered for the title role.

Incredibly frustrating

Uneasily straddling the ways of the old Hollywood and the coming openness of the late 60s and 1970s, Studs Lonigan is neither fish nor fowl and is simply hard to watch. The main attraction for contemporary audiences is the cast, but the most interesting aspect of the film is Haskell Wexler's cinematography. At times overly busy--his use of noirish angles gets annoying at times, and isn't aided by poor editing by Verna Fields--Wexler nonetheless leaves a great impression and hints at the great work to come in films like Bound For Glory. When he gets it right, the photography is simply stunning, channeling elements of the French New Wave and the outside-the-studio naturalism that was soon to be the norm. Unfortunately these moments only comprise about ten minutes of total screen time, the rest of the film consisting of a hackneyed tale of youth in revolt during the Roaring Twenties. Even Jack Nicholson and Frank Gorshin can't do much to render Philip Yordan' s screenplay particularly appetising.