Street of No Return (1989)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Writers:

Jacques Bral (writer)
Samuel Fuller (writer)
(más)

Release Date:

6 julio 1989 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Riot | Boat | Cop Killing | Female Frontal Nudity

Comentarios de los usuarios:

strange, intense yet otherworldly swan song for Samuel Fuller

Cast

Keith Carradine	...	Michael
Valentina Vargas	...	Celia
Bill Duke	...	Lieutenant Borel
Andréa Ferréol	...	Rhoda
Bernard Fresson	...	Morin
Marc de Jonge	...	Eddie
Rebecca Potok	...	Bertha
Jacques Martial	...	Gerard
Sérgio Godinho	...	Pernoy
António Rosário	...	Meathead
Dominique Hulin	...	Dablin
Gordon Heath	...	Black Bum
Joe Abdo	...	White Bum
Trevor A. Stephens	...	Lambert (as Trevor Stephens)
Filipe Ferrer	...	Gauvreau
Jeremy Boultbee	...	Doctor
Guilherme Filipe	...	Patrol Officer
Pedro Rosa Nunes	...	Patrol Officer (as Pedro Nunes)
Christa Lang	...	Nurse
Samantha Fuller	...	Young Fan
Joaquim Miranda	...	Police Officer
Norton de Matos	...	Police Officer
Samuel Fuller	...	Police Commissioner

Dirigida por
Samuel Fuller

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
Jacques Bral		writer
Samuel Fuller		writer
David Goodis		novel

Producida por
Jacques Bral	....	producer
António da Cunha Telles	....	executive producer
Patrick Delauneux	....	executive producer
Jacques-Eric Strauss	....	executive producer

Música original por
Karl-Heinz Schäfer

Fotografía por
Pierre-William Glenn

Montaje por
Jacques Bral
Jean Dubreuil
Anna Ruiz

Diseño de producción por
Geoffroy Larcher

Dirección artística
Geoffroy Larcher

Diseño de vestuario por
Olga Pelletier

Dirección de producción
Jean Louis Nieuwbourg	....	assistant project manager

Ayudante de dirección
Jason Kliot	....	second assistant director
Jean-Luc Olivier	....	first assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Vincent Arnardi	....	adr engineer
William Flageollet	....	sound
Vasco Pimentel	....	sound
François Tourtet	....	sound editor
Francisco Veloso	....	assistant sound

Especialistas
Jean-Louis Airola	....	stunts

Editorial Department
Pascale Chrétien	....	assistant editor
Nadine Fareri	....	assistant editor
Samuel Fuller	....	supervising editor

Otros miembros del equipo
Jorge Ferreira da Costa	....	production assistant
François Guérif	....	advisor
Marie-Christine Malbert	....	unit publicist
Jean Louis Nieuwbourg	....	production assistant

Thanks
Christa Lang	....	special thanks (as Christa Fuller)

Production Companies

• Animatógrafo
• France 3 Cinéma
• Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC) (in association with)
• Investimage 2 (in association with)
• Slav 2 (in association with)
• Soficas Investimages (in association with)
• Thunder Films International

Distributors

• Bac Films (1989) (France) (theatrical)
• Jacques Brel (1991) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Fantoma (2002) (USA) (DVD)

También conocida como:

Rua Sem Regresso (Portugal)
Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return (USA)
Sans espoir de retour (France)

Duración:

France:93 min

País:

France | Portugal

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Fujicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Lisbon, Portugal

Company:

Animatógrafo

strange, intense yet otherworldly swan song for Samuel Fuller

Director Samuel Fuller's films SHOCK CORRIDOR and THE NAKED KISS are among my all-time favorites. His attempts to achieve a kind of gutter-level truth through expressionistic exaggeration make his films completely unique. This film takes the classic noir novel STREET OF NO RETURN by Davis Goodis and turns it into a strange cinematic vision that is intense and brutal, yet otherworldly and cerebral. First of all, the film exists in no particular time--like RUMBLEFISH, it blurs elements from different eras so that it exists in some kind of alternate reality. Also, while the film supposedly deals with American issues, it looks so foreign (it was shot in Lisbon, Portugal, a city that has a unique look, but not a familiar look, as Paris or London or Rome or Berlin would have) that the whole thing seems to play out on an allegorical level. Even the music by Keith Carradine is odd--Carradine (known for his 70s hit "I'm Easy") is rooted in a kind of 70s folk-pop in the James Taylor vein, but his music is given an 80s Euro dance feel, and he looks like glam-era Kim Fowley (in the earlier times in the story) or trashed-out hippie-punk Kim Fowley (in the later times in the story). And while the film deals head on with racial issues, the Black actors in the smaller roles look nothing like African-Americans, which again takes the film away from any realism. Bill Duke is excellent as the harried police inspector, Keith Carradine is impressive as the protagonist (quite different from the book, but not attempting to be like the book, but like the screenplay), and once one gets into the "feel" of the film, it carries the viewer along for a wild ride. This is a memorable last film for the great Samuel Fuller. It has all of his good qualities and visually it's pure Fuller. The strange look and European feel to the film remind us that the man could not get a film deal in his own country and, like Orson Welles, was forced to put together overseas projects wherever he could. The Fantoma DVD presentation of the film is superb as are the extras (commentary by Carradine, documentary about the making of the film, etc.). The women in the film--Valentina Vargas as the woman who Carradine desires, and Andrea Ferreol as the woman who has nurtured him and who loves him but who he sees as a maternal figure (the line about "you've always been like a mother to me" is painful to hear!)-- are both incredibly sexy in a raw, animal-like way that we don't often see in films nowadays. If you've ever enjoyed a Samuel Fuller film, you should seek out this DVD. If you want to try something different, buy or rent this rather than going to see some empty Hollywood product at the multi-plex.