The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
The Lady Gambles (1949)
Full Bluray | ISO | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 24,4 Mbps | 98 min | 21,87 Gb
Audio: English and Deutsch - each track DTS-HD MA 2.0 @ ~2000 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Full Bluray | ISO | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 24,4 Mbps | 98 min | 21,87 Gb
Audio: English and Deutsch - each track DTS-HD MA 2.0 @ ~2000 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Michael Gordon
Writers: Roy Huggins (screenplay), Halsted Welles, (adaptation), Lewis Meltzer (story)
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally
Reporter David Boothe (Robert Preston) is in Las Vegas covering a story. His wife, Joan (Barbara Stanwyck), looking for a story of her own, snoops around their hotel's casino with a concealed camera. The casino owner, Horace Corrigan (Stephen McNally), catches her, but, seeing that she is not a hustler, decides to provide her with some free chips so she can sample the casino's various games. She accepts, only to find gambling so engrossing that it might consume and destroy her life.
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Ein Besuch in Las Vegas führt Fotografin Joan in menschliche Abgründe: Von der Spielsucht gepackt, setzt sie Geld, Stolz und ihre Ehe aufs Spiel und droht zu verlieren.Barbara Stanwyck liefert eine packende Leistung als Suchtkranke, vergleichbar mit Ray Milland als Alkoholiker in "Das verlorene Wochenende" (1945). In einer Minirolle: der junge Tony Curtis als Page.
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Despite some of the reviews here that characterize TLG as trite and dated, I only thought this film was a directorial surprise, way ahead of its time for 1949.
First you start with a flashback by Preston's character that isn't quite a flashback, because we are more interested in who this man is and what the circumstances of his plight are, than the past per se. Virtually all Hollywood flashbacks seem to involve some grand police confession or some need to explain the confessor (such as "D.O.A.")but the flashback here seems to add to the convolutedness of the characters, and the surrealism of the situation. Does Preston really understand his wife? If so when? The flashback reminds us that there is more to explain than the "what",but also the "why" which neither Preston nor the audience yet understand (gambling is a disease, but the matter of guilt and personal responsibility for misdeeds remain open).
More convolutedness in the photography. Carefully cropped chest-up body shots, with swirling camera movements amid authentic but claustrophobic interiors. Remember, only Max Ophuls was supposed to have done this sort of thing at the time! I remember "Leaving Las Vegas" attempted the same themes in slightly different ways (misery and anomie in a spectacular setting) but that was a miserable film.
Finally you have a not so sweet resolution to depict insanity, but in a much subtler way than "The Snake Pit" and other entries in the growing body of 'social consciousness' films. Stanwyck was a tough-soft actress, and the scenes where she rolls before a throng a gamblers rarely came tougher in her films. A work to just watch.
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The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
The Lady Gambles (1949) Spielfieber
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