Tender Is the Night (1962)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.9/10   

Director:

Henry King

Escritores:

F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
Ivan Moffat (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 febrero 1962 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

In the tender moments of the night...SHOULD LOVE BE ALL THERE IS?

Plot Keywords:

Composer | Actress | Beautiful Woman | Forbidden Love | Wealth

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Oblique is the night

Reparto

Jennifer Jones	...	Nicole Diver
Jason Robards	...	Dr. Richard 'Dick' Diver (as Jason Robards Jr.)
Joan Fontaine	...	Baby Warren
Tom Ewell	...	Abe North
Cesare Danova	...	Tommy Barban
Jill St. John	...	Rosemary Hoyt
Paul Lukas	...	Doctor Dohmler
Bea Benaderet	...	Mrs. McKisco
Charles E. Fredericks	...	Mr. Albert Charles McKisco (as Charles Fredericks)
Sanford Meisner	...	Doctor Franz Gregorovious
Mac McWhorter	...	Colis Clay
Albert Carrier	...	Louis
Richard De Combray	...	Francisco Prado
Carole Mathews	...	Mrs. Hoyt
Alan Napier	...	Señor Pardo

También conocida como:

Suave es la noche (Spain) [es]

Duración:

142 min | 132 min (FMC Library Print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #20019)

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

The Divers are based on real-life couple Gerald and Sara Murphy, friends and patrons of the famous, including the author of this story, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Poet Archibald Macleish once said of the Murphys that "there was a shine to life wherever they were".

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Secret Admirer (1985)

Banda de Sonido:

Tender Is the Night

Oblique is the night

The great 20th century American novelists all created books that were difficult to transfer to the big screen successfully. Hollywood had better luck adapting the short stories of Faulkner and Hemingway to the motion picture medium than with their master works. Fitzgerald was no exception. None of his masterpieces was a total success when rewritten as screenplays, even when directed by such skilled artisans as Henry King. Only John Steinbeck's works were ready-made for media exchanges. But who would place him on the same creative sphere as Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald? "Tender is the Night" has its moments of greatness, in particular toward the end and who can fault the acting of such a stellar cast.

One distraction for this viewer was the failure of the director and cinematographer to capture on film the essence of The Jazz Age the way Fitzgerald did in his novel. This version of "Tender is the Night" has the 1960's written all over it from the clothes worn to a jet-set aura rather than the Lost Generation expatriate ambiance of the Fitzgerald masterpiece. Even the music is more 1930's swing than 1920's jazz. The only saving grace in the music department is the original score provided by virtuoso composer Bernard Herrmann.

All that remains of Fitzgerald is the bare bones story of the cosmopolitan Divers, focusing on Dr. Dick Diver, played with élan by Jason Robards Jr, a psychiatrist, married to Nicole (Jennifer Jones), who has suffered a mental breakdown. The good doctor becomes both a husband and an analyst to his mentally unbalanced spouse. On the French Riviera just before the stock market crash of 1929, Dr. Diver, near middle age, meets and falls for a rising starlet, Rosemary Hoyt (Jill St. John). As the plot thickens, Dr. Diver slides into a maelstrom of drunken escapades until he hits rock bottom. The story somewhat parallels Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda's own experiences, though Fitzgerald claimed it was based on friends Gerald and Sara Murphy's struggles.

By all means read the novel before watching this screen adaptation. I recommend the film only as a supplement to the book, perhaps Fitzgerald's best work.