Conflict (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | conflict |
| Original title | Conflict |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curtis Bernhardt |
| script |
Arthur T. Horman , Dwight Taylor |
| production |
William Jacobs for Warner Brothers |
| music | Frederick Hollander |
| camera | Merritt B. Gerstad |
| cut | David Weisbart |
| occupation | |
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Conflict (Original title: Conflict , Alternative title: Crime Scene Springfield ) is an American black and white - thriller and film noir from the year 1945th
The film produced by Warner Bros. was based on a template by Alfred Neumann and Robert Siodmak . Directed by Curtis Bernhardt , producer was William Jacobs , co-producer Jack L. Warner . Humphrey Bogart , Alexis Smith and Sydney Greenstreet played the leading roles .
action
Richard, a wealthy architect, and Kathryn Mason appear to be a happily married couple. In truth, however, Richard secretly loves Kathryn's younger sister Evelyn, who also lives with the couple. On their fifth wedding anniversary, just before they are about to go to a party with friends, his wife confronts him and advises him not to reveal himself to her sister, as she would laugh at him. In addition, she will never agree to a divorce, he can assume that he will "never get rid of her". On the drive back from the party, Richard learns that Kathryn has made sure that Evelyn has to move back to her mother's home soon. Richard is thereby distracted from the traffic and has an accident.
After the accident, Richard pretends to have to use the wheelchair and to be an invalid. His family and the family doctor fall for the trick. He then plans coolly calculating to murder his wife while driving to a mountain health resort where he is to be treated. Richard stays home at the last moment, supposedly to complete a project, and Kathryn drives alone. He watches her on the lonely mountain road and lets the car with his wife fall into an abyss. Then he returns home and sits back in his wheelchair, which serves as an alibi. His employees also saw him at home in his wheelchair.
After Kathryn is reported missing, more and more mysterious events occur that lead Richard to believe that his wife is still alive. He begins to distrust his own judgment. Excited, he appears at Dr. Hamilton, the psychiatrist and friend of the family, to discuss things with him that were inexplicable to him. The psychiatrist says that he could not help him, only he could help himself now. Richard then returns to the scene. He struggles down the slope, where he lights the battered car with a flashlight. His wife isn't in the car. Suddenly the voice of Dr. Hamilton, who followed him with the police. Dr. Hamilton explains that he immediately suspected Richard of the crime, since Mason mentioned during his interrogation by police officers that his wife was wearing a rose on her buttonhole. This rose was given to Kathryn by Hamilton after she said goodbye to her husband, so he had no way of knowing that she was wearing it. Dr. Hamilton subsequently works with the police to set Richard's traps.
Meanwhile, while Richard is so concerned, Evelyn had found love in the young university professor Holsworth. "Did Evelyn know about it", Richard only wants to know that when he is led away. When Dr. Hamilton denies that, he is relieved and says: "Well, it's over" and lets himself be led away.
Reviews
Film historians Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward noted that the film was notable for the way the song "Tango of Love" is used as a leitmotif to suggest the repeated, apparent reappearance of Kathryn; where the string arrangements should stand for the scent of perfume. Cinema wrote that the conflict was "not a big one , but a sophisticated, exciting Bogart thriller" that was "sneaky and well acted".
“Atmospherically dense story of tension with powerful imagery. In the intense portrayal of Humphrey Bogart, the motive for the crime and the exposure appear more than a tragic conflict, an almost apologetic point of view that takes on the killer. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward: Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style . Ed .: The Overlook Press. 1992, ISBN 0-87951-479-5 .
- ^ Conflict at Cinema.de
- ↑ conflict. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 18, 2017 .
Web links
- Conflict in theInternet Movie Database(English)