The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Escritores:

Robert Ardrey (screenplay) and
John Gay (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 enero 1962 (France)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Paris, city of lovers...the day the clocks stopped turning and the world stood still...

Plot:

Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever...

Plot Keywords:

Playboy | Resistance | General | WWII | Partisan

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A near-miss for Minnelli.

Reparto

Glenn Ford	...	Julio Desnoyers
Ingrid Thulin	...	Marguerite Laurier
Charles Boyer	...	Marcelo Desnoyers
Lee J. Cobb	...	Julio Madariaga
Paul Lukas	...	Karl von Hartrott
Yvette Mimieux	...	Chi Chi Desnoyers
Karlheinz Böhm	...	Heinrich von Hartrott (as Karl Boehm)
Paul Henreid	...	Etienne Laurier
Harriet E. MacGibbon	...	Dona Luisa Desnoyers (as Harriet MacGibbon)
Kathryn Givney	...	Elena von Hartrott
Marcel Hillaire	...	Armand Dibier
George Dolenz	...	Gen. von Kleig
Stephen Bekassy	...	Col. Kleinsdorf
Nestor Paiva	...	Miguel
Albert Rémy	...	François (as Albert Remy)

También conocida como:

Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

153 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Parts of André Previn's score were used on the original trailers for Doctor Zhivago (1965) the film itself being scored by Maurice Jarre.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Karl is proposing a toast in honor of the family reunited at last (1h 01'), we can see Julio successively in the mirror and in close-up. In the mirror he has a glass in his left hand, but in close-ups the glass is in his right hand. The left-right hand images alternates three times.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)

Banda de Sonido:

Mine For the Moment

A near-miss for Minnelli.

When I saw this during its first-run release, I was already an avid Minnelli fan but had been forewarned by the reviews that this was not one of his best. I recall enjoying it, nevertheless, and much of my pleasure was due to Minnelli's always inventive visual style, the expensive mounting in CinemaScope and Metrocolor, the interesting cast (not all of them well-chosen, especially the deadly-dull Glenn Ford, who was being assigned to what seemed like every other big budget M-G-M picture during that period), the astute use of Angela Lansbury to dub Ingrid Thulin's lines (though I'm sure that Miss Thulin's own voice, even if she had learned her lines phonetically, would have been preferable), and Andre Previn's very expressive score. (Mr. Previn came to disown a lot of his Hollywood work once he concentrated on conducting major classical orchestras, but I suspect he wouldn't have included this one among those he would prefer that we forget.) Tony Duquette's Four Horsemen figures are a striking addition to the lavish mounting of this production. It's not available on DVD (yet, anyway) and it's probably a safe bet that the VHS version is (ugh!) "formatted"...don't bother! You'll be missing the greater percentage of this film's achievement.