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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $7.99 You Save: $6.99 Features • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 05 October, 1953 DVD Release : 29 August, 2006 |
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Vicki (Fox Film Noir) description The portrait under the opening credits conjures up memories of Laura, although this 1953 Fox noir quickly reveals its real roots: it's a remake of the studio's marvelous 1941 thriller I Wake Up Screaming, a movie sometimes tagged as the first true film noir. Once it gets underway, Vicki demonstrates how short it falls of its predecessors. A famous model (Jean Peters) is murdered, leading a weirdly obsessive detective (Richard Boone) to hound her press agent (Elliott Reid) about the case. The dead woman also had a sister (Jeanne Crain), who is so dull she makes you regret which sibling got killed. The flashback-heavy story plods along in a virtually suspense-free zone, enlivened only by some extremely offbeat casting decisions. Elliott Reid (Jane Russell's suitor in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) has a lighter-than-air quality that makes him an odd but entertaining choice as romantic leading man, Max Showalter (billed here as Casey Adams) brings his frog-eyed energy as a society columnist, and future TV mogul Aaron Spelling pops up as a hotel desk clerk. As for Richard Boone, he needed some age and a few more wrinkles before he would become the delicious character actor he turned into later. And so we are left with a whodunit more sleep-inducing than intriguing. --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Enjoyable movie; good ending |
| Richard Boone (the cop chasing after Vicki's murderer), is interesting to watch. Younger folks especially will be surprised at how the police are portrayed "way back when", and what they could get away with. Aaron Spelling was great in the film; I had never seen him in an acting role before. The ending is a nice little surprise--at least for most people I think it will be. Well worth watching, especially if you haven't seen the original "I Wake Up Screaming". | |
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