Dangerous Love (film)

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Movie
German title Dangerous love
Original title Rage in Heaven
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1941
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director WS Van Dyke
script Christopher Isherwood ,
Robert Thoeren
production Gottfried Reinhardt
music Bronislaw Kaper
camera Oliver T. Marsh
cut Harold F. Kress
occupation
synchronization

Dangerous love (Original title: Rage in Heaven ) is an American film drama from 1941. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke , Robert Montgomery and Ingrid Bergman star . A novel by James Hilton served as a literary model .

action

In a suburb of Paris , a patient escapes from a private clinic for the mentally ill. Shortly afterwards, the engineer Ward Andrews meets his old student friend Philip Monrell in a London hotel. Philip quickly invites Ward to accompany him to his country house and spend a few days there together. Once there, they meet young Stella Bergen, who recently started working as a secretary and carer for Philip's mother. Mrs. Monrell hopes that her son will finally take over responsibility and run the family's steel mills. She also wants Philip and Stella to marry. At first Stella feels more drawn to the self-confident Ward. Together they go on an excursion from which Stella brings back a runaway kitten that she immediately grows fond of. Philip pretends not to mind that Stella and Ward get along well, but he is happy when Ward has to leave for professional reasons. When the bedridden Mrs. Monrell travels to South Africa on the advice of her doctor , Philip is supposed to take over the management of the steel mills in her place. Stella encourages him that he is capable of what Philip confesses to her that he pretended to be Ward while in Paris, which made him more confident. Stella happily accepts his marriage proposal.

A few weeks after their marriage, Philip took up his management position in the steel mills. Out of jealousy, he takes Stella's beloved kitten, which in his absence might remind her too much of Ward, to his office. In order to impress Stella, he calls a board meeting and acts like a strong leader. His refusal to provide better accommodation for the steel mill workers leads the indignant chief engineer to hand in his resignation. In the evening, Philips chauffeur tells worried Stella that he has found her kitten with a broken neck near the steel mills. Stella's grief for the little animal enrages Philip. However, he later apologizes to her and asks her not to leave him. For her part, Stella asks him not to mention Ward's name again and is accordingly surprised when Philip invites his old friend over again and also makes him his chief engineer. In order not to irritate Philip, Stella is formal and cool to Ward. When Philip has to travel on business, she is reluctant to be persuaded by Ward to go out with him. When they meet in a hotel restaurant, however, she is happy to finally be around people again. Suddenly Philip joins their table and tells them that he has returned early from his business trip. When Philip secretly pays the bill for the two of them, it turns out that he hadn't gone away and stayed at the hotel instead.

When the workers in the steel mills go on strike and demand better accommodation, Philip wants to end the uprising by means of police violence. Ward advises against it and urges him to have better housing built for his workers. But only when the angry mob attacks Philip, he gives in and wants to comply with the demands. After a worker in the steelworks has a fatal accident, Philip von Ward is shown the location of the accident. There Philip prepares to plunge Ward down an abyss, but he gives up when Ward suddenly turns to him. The following evening, Philip and Ward had an argument. In the process, Ward confesses that he loves Stella. Then he leaves the Monrell estate. When Stella confronts her husband with the argument, she realizes that Philip suffers from severe paranoia and that her life is in danger. That same night she packs her things and sneaks out of the house. She goes to Ward at the hotel and tells him that Philip has gone mad. Philip calls the hotel shortly afterwards and offers Stella a divorce. However, he wants to speak to Ward about it first. To Stella's concern, Ward agrees and returns to Philip's house.

Shortly after Ward's arrival, Philip begins to argue loudly with him, which Philips butler Clark inevitably has to overhear. Philip finally ends their friendship with Ward and Ward soberly walks off through the garden. Philip then commits suicide by throwing himself into a knife wedged between the door and the door frame, making it look like Ward murdered him. Because he had previously brought Ward to touch the knife, he is sentenced to death as his alleged murderer. One day before Ward's execution, Stella, who has now realized how deeply she feels for Ward, is met by Dr. Rameau, a Parisian psychiatrist, visited. Traveling to the UK for a convention , Dr. Rameau Philip Monrell recognized in a photo in the newspaper. Philip had been his patient because of severe paranoia and had passed himself off as Ward Andrews at the time. Dr. Rameau is convinced that Philip, like his father once did, killed himself and that his plan to make it look like murder must have boastfully noted down somewhere. Together with Clark and Dr. Rameau searches Stella at the Monrell home. They learn from Philip's mother, who has returned, that her husband once committed suicide and that Philip kept diaries throughout his life. Shortly before his death, Philip had sent the last diary to Paris to be bound. Stella and Dr. Rameau leave immediately for Paris. There it turns out that Philip had actually recorded his plan in his diary and that it should be sent to Stella after Ward's execution. Stella immediately calls the prison director and quotes Philips' diary. Ward is then acquitted and goes on a boat trip with Stella. On the way, Stella throws Philips' diary into the sea.

background

Ingrid Bergman was loaned to MGM for her role by producer David O. Selznick , with whom she was under contract . The shooting took place from mid-December 1940 to early January 1941. Robert B. Sinclair initially took over the direction, but had to be replaced shortly before Christmas 1940 due to illness with director W. S. Van Dyke. On February 14, 1941, individual scenes were re-shot by Richard Thorpe . Cedric Gibbons appeared as the film architect , while Edwin B. Willis was employed as the set designer. MGM's chief designer Adrian designed the costumes .

Dangerous Love premiered in the United States on March 7, 1941. The film was released in German cinemas on February 21, 1950.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes dangerous love as "[p] sychoanalytical crime study with good actors". However, the film suffers "from a deficit of style, logic and dramaturgy of tension". Prisma described the film as "a grippingly staged psychological thriller that skilfully contrasts the idleness of a millionaire's son who is ill with mental health problems with the social reality of a realistically depicted working-class world". Ingrid Bergman convinces in what is only her third Hollywood film "with her enormous screen presence". In short, Cinema meant: “wasteland with limping logic.” For the film critic Leonard Maltin, it was a “disappointing adaptation of the James Hilton novel”.

German version

The German dubbing was created in 1950 by the MGM Synchronization Atelier Berlin.

role actor Voice actor
Philip Monrell Robert Montgomery Wolfgang Lukschy
Stella Bergen Ingrid Bergman Gisela Trowe
Ward Andrews George Sanders Paul Klinger
Dr. Rameau Oskar Homolka Kurt Vespermann
Clark Aubrey Mather Franz-Otto Kruger
Attorney General Frederick Worlock Paul Bildt
Bardsley Francis Compton Otto fee

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. Dangerous love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
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  5. ^ Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide . Plume, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-14-751682-4 , pp. 557 (English): “Disappointing adaptation of James Hilton novel”
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