My name is Julia Ross
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| German title | My name is Julia Ross |
| Original title | My name is Julia Ross |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 65 minutes |
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| Director | Joseph H. Lewis |
| script | Muriel Roy Bolton |
| production | Wallace MacDonald |
| camera | Burnett Guffey |
| cut | Henry Batista |
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My name is Julia Ross (original title: My Name is Julia Ross ) is a in black and white twisted American film noir of Joseph H. Lewis from the year 1945. It was created based on the novel The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert.
action
The young American Julia Ross, who lives in a London guesthouse, is desperate for work. She receives an offer from a new recruitment agency to work as a secretary for Mrs. Hughes. The prerequisite for the application is that she has no living relatives or a relationship, as the position should be filled for at least one year and should not be terminated prematurely for personal reasons.
Julia receives the job and is kidnapped to a property on the coast that same evening. There they persuade her that she is not Julia Ross, but Marion Hughes, the newly wedded wife of Mrs. Hughes' son Ralph. Ralph, a mentally disturbed young man, stabbed the real Marion in a fit of anger. Mrs. Hughes and Ralph made the murdered disappear and now plan to kill Julia at an opportune time and fake suicide in order to be able to present a corpse and provide Ralph with an alibi.
After several unsuccessful attempts to break out and contact, Julia is able to send a letter to Dennis, a roommate from her London guesthouse. Dennis calls the police, who rescues Julia at the last second and shoots Ralph while trying to escape.
background
My name is Julia Ross started on November 8, 1945 in the USA. The film was shown in Germany not in cinemas, but was first broadcast on 28 January 1978 at the television.
My Name Is Julia Ross , directed for Columbia Pictures , was the first B-picture specialist Joseph H. Lewis to attract more attention. At the start of the film, it was classified as melodrama , among other things , but today it is largely, if not unanimously, assigned to the film noir canon.
criticism
“ Nina Foch is a new face and brings both good looks and talent with her […] Whitty delivers a credible performance, as does Macready as her mentally disturbed son. [...] Joseph H. Lewis staged at speed, which he succeeds throughout. "
“While director Joseph Lewis succeeds in creating an effectively ominous atmosphere, he shows himself less skillful in guiding the actors [...] Nina Foch relies primarily on a practiced expression of horror and irritation, and she only receives routine support from George MacReady [sic] and Dame May Whitty. "
"Moderate thriller with a very macabre punchline."
Aftermath
1987 Arthur Penn filmed Gilbert's novel again under the title Death in Winter .
literature
- Anthony Gilbert (= Lucy Beatrice Malleson): The Woman in Red. Smith and Durrell, New York 1943
Web links
- My name is Julia Ross in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ My name is Julia Ross in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b My name is Julia Ross in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ a b "[...] somehow that electrifying quality which distinguishes good melodrama is lacking in this transcription of the Anthony Gilbert novel [...] While Joseph Lewis, the director, succeeds in creating an effectively ominous atmosphere, he has not been as adept in handling the players, and that, we suspect, is why "My Name Is Julia Ross" misses the mark. As the frightened heroine, Nina Foch depends chiefly on studied expressions of shock and bewilderment, and she gets only routine support from George MacReady and Dame May Whitty. ”- Review in the New York Times of November 9, 1945, accessed February 9 2013.
- ↑ Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward lead in their film noir compendium, as does Bruce Crowther, but with the caveat that the film is only a "marginal" representative of noir. See Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Eds.): 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. 193 and Bruce Crowther: Film Noir. Reflections in a dark mirror. Virgin, London 1988, ISBN 0-86287-402-5 , p. 64.
- ^ "New face is Nina Foch, who has looks and talent [...] Whitty gives creditable performance, so does Macready as her psychiatric son. Others in support acquit themselves well. Joseph H. Lewis directed for pace, and he achieves it all the way. ”- Review ( page no longer available , 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. in Variety, 1945 (year only), accessed February 9, 2013.
