Blond decoy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blond decoy (D) The most dangerous woman in the world (A) |
| Original title | Decoy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Bernhard |
| script |
Nedrick Young (as Ned Young) |
| production | Jack Bernhard Bernard Brandt |
| music |
Edward J. Kay (Musical Director) |
| camera |
L. William O'Connell (as L. W. O'Connell) |
| cut |
Jason H. Bernie (as Jason Bernie) |
| occupation | |
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Blonder decoy (Alternative title The most dangerous woman in the world , original title Decoy is) in black and white twisted American film noir from the year 1946th
action
Dr. Craig hitchhikes back to downtown San Francisco from the outskirts , searches for Margot Shelby's hotel apartment and shoots her down before dying from a gunshot wound he had previously been inflicted on. Sergeant Portugal, who shaded the apartment, enters the room and learns the story of Margot, who is also dying:
After a robbery that resulted in death, Margot's lover Frank Olins is sentenced to death in the gas chamber . He wants to take the secret where he hid the 400,000 US dollars from the robbery with him to the grave, as he can no longer spend it with Margot. Together with the crook Jim Vincent, who is courting Margot, she devises a plan how she can save Frank from certain death and get him to reveal his hiding place: She wants the prison doctor Dr. Persuade Craig to treat Frank with an antidote that would cancel the effects of the gas immediately after he was executed. Margot seduces Craig, an idealistic but destitute doctor who works in a predominantly poor area of the city, and reveals her plan to him. With their share of Frank's booty, so their argument, you have the start-up capital for a common future. Craig gets involved in the project and helps to revive Frank's "corpse" stolen after the execution in his practice. After Frank reveals the place where the money from the robbery is buried, Vincent shoots him. Then he and Margot force Craig to drive her to the hiding place out of town. On the way, Margot runs over Vincent while changing a tire. Arriving at the destination, Craig Margot helps to recover the money box buried in the forest floor. Margot shoots him and drives back to town alone, believing Craig is dead.
Margot finishes her story. She asks Portugal to grant her one last wish and to kiss her. Portugal wants to comply with her request, but she laughs at him before succumbing to her injury. Portugal opens the cash box, which contains a single dollar bill and a letter from Frank accusing Margot of betraying him. The rest of the money, so his last words, he leaves "to the worms".
background
Director Jack Bernhard , who made his film debut here, and Bernard Brandt produced Blond Decoy for the low-cost film studio Monogram Pictures . Nedrick Young wrote the script based on an idea by Stanley Rubin . Jean Gillie , the wife of Jack Bernhard, made only one other film ( The Macomber Affair ) before her untimely death in 1949.
Blonder decoy launched on 14 September 1946 in the American cinema and in February 1952 in the cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany . The film was shown in Austria under the title The Most Dangerous Woman in the World .
Reviews
"Outstanding low-budget film noir [...] which doesn't quite live up to its reputation as a 'lost classic', but the opening and closing scenes are a blast, and British Gillie is an unforgettable femme fatale ."
“Films like [...] Blond Decoy [...] expose the underground world of true film noir [...] these extremely cheap visions of paranoid uncertainty were the more authentic portraits of the inherent sense of personal failure, betrayal and hopelessness that structure the best noir educates. "
"Hard and cynical film noir" [sic], played excellently in the leading role. "
Web links
- Blonder decoy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the original: “To you who double-crossed me. I leave this dollar for your trouble. The rest of the dough I leave to the worms. "
- ↑ a b Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , p. 87.
- ^ Geoff Mayer, Brian McDonnell: Encyclopedia of Film Noir. Greenwood Press, Westport 2007, pp. 164-165.
- ↑ a b Blond decoy in the lexicon of international films .
- ↑ Film booklet No. 4, April 2011, Metro Kino, Vienna, p. 14. PDF download ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Superior low-budget film noir [...] doesn't quite live up to its" lost classic "reputation, but the opening and closing scenes are knockouts, and the British Gillie makes an unforgettable femme fatale [...]" - Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide. Signet / New American Library, New York 2007, p. 335.
- ↑ "[...] films as [...] Decoy [...] uncover the subterranean world of true film noir [...] these ultra-cheap visions of paranoid uncertainty more authentically portrayed the inherent sense of personal failure, betrayal, and hopelessness that informs the structure of the best noirs. "- Murray Pomerance: Cinema and Modernity. Rutgers University Press, 2006, p. 39.
