Under Suspicion (1991)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Under suspicion |
| Original title | Under suspicion |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Simon Moore |
| script | Simon Moore |
| production | Brian Eastman |
| music | Christopher Gunning |
| camera | Vernon Layton |
| cut | Tariq Anwar |
| occupation | |
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Under Suspicion ( Under Suspicion ) is a British thriller from the year 1991 . Directed by Simon Moore , who also wrote the script.
action
The action takes place in Brighton in 1959 . Tony Aaron, who used to work as a police officer, works as a private investigator into divorce matters. He sometimes fakes fling for his customers because only these are legally recognized grounds for divorce in England. His wife Hazel helps him.
One day Hazel and Tony's client Carlo Stasio, a painter, are found dead in a hotel room. Tony's former partner Frank leads the investigation. He suspects Tony as well as the American lover of the painter Angeline. Angeline thinks Selina, the artist's widow, is the perpetrator. She starts an affair with Tony. When the murder weapon is found, the noose around Tony's neck tightened. Only at the very last second can he be saved by Frank, who found Stasio's cut thumb in Angeline's studio.
Angeline is sentenced to life imprisonment. Eventually the viewer learns that Tony planned the murders together with Stasio's wife Selina.
Reviews
Geoff Andrew wrote in the London magazine Time Out , the film would have in the 1950s with Richard Todd can be rotated. He couldn't address the modern audience. The critics praised the " sweeping " ( " snappily ") script and the " elegant " directed by debuting Simon Moore.
Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on February 28, 1992 that the film was " tight " and entertaining. Moore is an efficient director and screenwriter; the cast is " excellent ".
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "an exciting, cleverly constructed crime film that confidently transposed elements of Hollywood's" black series "into English society of the late 1950s and increased its gloomy mood to the end ".
Awards
Liam Neeson won an award from the French Cognac Festival du Film Policier in 1992 .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Brighton ( England ), Portmeirion ( Wales ), Miami and Portland ( Oregon ). It grossed approximately 221,000 US dollars in cinemas in the United States .
Web links
- Suspected in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Under suspicion at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by Geoff Andrew, accessed on September 18, 2007 ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vincent Canby's film review, accessed September 18, 2007
- ^ Under suspicion in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed September 18, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for Under Suspicion, accessed September 18, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for Under Suspicion, accessed September 18, 2007
