Captured
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Captured |
| Original title | Caught |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Ophüls |
| script | Arthur Laurents |
| production | Wolfgang Reinhardt |
| music | Friedrich Hollaender |
| camera | Lee Garmes |
| cut | Robert Parrish |
| occupation | |
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Trapped (Original title: Caught ) is in black and white twisted film noir of Max Ophuls from 1949. The screenplay was based on the novel Wild Calendar writer Libbie Block .
action
Influenced by fashion magazines and the empty chatter of her friend Maxine, the naive Leonora Eames has only one goal in life: to marry a man as rich as possible. To achieve this goal, she attended an expensive behavior school for young women and worked as a mannequin in a luxury boutique. She met the multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig through an invitation to a yacht party. Although Leonora refuses to go to bed with Ohlrig and he lets her know that he never intends to marry, they both go out a few times. When Ohlrig is annoyed shortly afterwards about a diagnosis by his psychoanalyst, he still proposes to Leonora out of defiance.
After the wedding, Leonora initially enjoys her luxury life on Long Island, but Ohlrig soon turns out to be a callous and inconsiderate egoist who treats Leonora like a serf. Leonora leaves him, moves into a shabby apartment in Manhattan and takes a job in the practice of the idealistic pediatrician Dr. Larry Quinada. They both fall in love, but when Leonora realizes that she is expecting a baby from Ohlrig, she returns to him in order to offer the child a financially secure future. But Ohlrig's indifference towards her has meanwhile turned into cruel hatred ...
background
The film, shot in 1948, opened in cinemas in the United States on February 17, 1949. It did not come to cinemas in Germany and was first shown on television on January 25, 1973.
The figure of the neurotic multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig is modeled on the notorious film mogul Howard Hughes . Hughes had fired Ophüls in 1946 shortly after the filming of the film Vendetta began, in which Robert Ryan should also participate. Vendetta was ultimately filmed with other actors and didn't hit US cinemas until 1950.
criticism
"A psychologically and formally inconsistent film without outstanding performance, but which offers decent entertainment and is of film historical interest because of its director."
"This elegant, extraordinary film is Ophüls' subtle attack on greed and the ridiculous, destructive ideals of the American Dream."
Web links
- Caught in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 , pp. 52-54.
- ↑ a b Trapped in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Michael L. Stephens: Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons , McFarland & Co, Jefferson (NC) 1995, pp. 77-79.
- ↑ “This elegant, extraordinary film is Ophüls' profound attack against greed and the ridiculous, destructive ideals behind the American Dream” Michael L. Stephens: Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons , McFarland & Co, Jefferson (NC) 1995, pp. 77-79.