Watch The Desperate Hours Movie Online
Mardi, juillet 13th, 2010 |
Watch The Desperate Hours Movie Online.
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I have been a Bogart fan all my life. He was that rare Hollywood breed so seldom seen today - and actor AND a movie star. In this “microscopic” movie, Bogart and March lock wills - each bright that the other is perilous and desperate, each colorful that they both have more than their hold lives to lose. They retract the conflict to the edge, their hands, virtually at each other’s throats in nearly every scene and then bag a design to assist off to live another day or another hour. In the tranquil moments, March stares away from the camera several times, effectively showing the “wheels turning,” an action not lost on Bogart. When he catches him at it he says “click-ity, click-ity” and warns him not to try anything. Advice, you know he’ll never designate. This movie may not appeal to viewers who have grown up watching shoot-em-ups but movie fans and fans of genuine acting will gain plenty to enjoy their attention. A few of the bit players, especially the cops, are saddled with hokey 1950’s dialog but you’ll derive over it. The ending is all you could ask for. I suggest you give it a shot.
If I remember correctly “The Desperate Hours” was originally a stage play that was based on a accurate anecdote. A photo-magazine ran a spread on either the play or the film with pictures of the “accurate” house and the family sued for invasion of privacy; one of their lawyers was Richard Nixon. Humphrey Bogart gets top-billing in “The Desperate Hours” as gangster on the lam Glenn Griffin, but this is really Frederic March’s film. March plays businessman Dan Hilliard, who discovers his home has been invaded and his family taken hostage by Griffin’s miniature band of criminals, which includes his kid brother Hal (Dewey Martin) and the brutish Sam Kobish (Robert Middleton) . That morning Hilliard’s biggest concerns had been Chuck Wright (Gig Young), the boyfriend of his daughter Cindy (Mary Murphy), the refusal of young son Ralphie (Richard Eyer) to kiss his primitive man goodbye, and what wife Eleanor (Martha Scott) is going to create for dinner. Now he has to rep a plan to withhold his family alive in a world where the police are perfectly willing to gun down unarmed criminals so their ability to protect an innocent family is certainly suspect.
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This is a taunt drama, carried mostly by the desperation of March’s character, who fails every time he tries to reveal himself the hero. Bogart’s performance is essential because it is a return to the tough guy role that made him a star, only this time showing more restraint than we had seen two decades earlier. This 1955 film also stands as a testament to how considerable things have changed in Hollywood, because they would never allow for this neat of an ending to this dwelling, a point that would be sure even without the unpleasant remake of this film with Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins, which gives into the perceived need for sadistic violence.
Ultimately what makes this film work is that the climax exceeds our expectations given the set-up. You have to love how a man can slither into a house with an unloaded gun and keep the day. The final confrontation between Hilliard and Griffin is mighty because it speaks to not only the fact that you can damage somebody without killing them, but also that even when confronted with barbarians there is aloof virtue in being a civilized man. I quiet witness the ending of this film every time I stumble across it on television. In fact, I fair did.
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