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phantomladyoverparis · 1 year

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Storia di una donna (1970), dir. Leonardo Bercovici

#Storia di una donna #leonardo bercovici #bibi andersson #70s #italian cinema

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gatutor · 1 year

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Bibi Andersson-Robert Stack "Historia de una mujer" (Storia di una donna) 1970, de Leonardo Bercovici.

#Bibi Andersson #Robert Stack #Leonardo Bercovici

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mariocki · 9 months

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Blood on My Hands, 1948)

"Listen to me. There's nobody else I wanna be with. Nobody else I wanna talk to. What's wrong with that?"

"I'll tell you what's wrong, you're wrong. You're a coward. There was one of him and one of you; he was a much older man, I suppose if you - if you hit a child, you'd say the same thing. What's the matter with you? Why can't you be decent? Why can't you be like everybody else? You're nothing but a cheap, vicious bully."

#kiss the blood off my hands #blood on my hands #film noir #american cinema #1948 #norman foster #leonardo bercovici #ben maddow #walter bernstein #joan fontaine #burt lancaster #robert newton #lewis l. russell #aminta dyne #grizelda hervey #jay novello #colin keith johnston #reginald sheffield #miklós rózsa #gerald butler #american depictions of London are always a tricky thing and this is no different; Hollywood sound stages draped in fog and cobbles #(and street organs of course) just don't convince in the same way that simply finding an anonymous bit of city might have. some creaky #artifice aside‚ this is a pretty competent little noir; Lancaster was still a newcomer but this was his first film as a producer too (he #really was an artist in film‚ right from the beginning). the script doesn't always serve Fontaine well‚ but the few good bits she gets she #absolutely seizes onto. it should be no surprise to anyone who's come across his work tho that Bob Newton steals this; he's a minor crook #whose presence is merely an awkward annoyance for most of the film‚ until this amazingly chilling transformation into something altogether #more seedy‚ more threatening and more dangerous in the final act. plotting doesn't offer much new or different and even by 1948 this feels #little overly familiar‚ but Foster does some great work with light and shadow‚ and it all has a very handsome‚ classical look #also: what a great title?? no film could live up to that kind of moniker alas. actually it got the film in some hot water with over zealous #censors‚ including here in the uk where it was released as the slightly less sordid Blood on my Hands

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captainfantasticalright · 7 months

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Random yet ineffable fun fact of the day:

A scene from the film, The Bishop’s Wife, inspired a cut scene from Good Omens.

The basic premise of The Bishop's Wife (1947) is about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.

The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert Nathan.

Link to the post.

I compiled both scenes in this video so you can see the comparison. I do recommend watching the entire film though!

And some more interesting trivia:

Originally Cary Grant played the bishop and David Niven the angel. When original director William A. Seiter left the film, Henry Koster replaced him and viewed what had been shot so far. He realized that the two were in the wrong roles. It took some convincing because Grant wanted the title role of the Bishop. He eventually accepted the change and his role as the angel was one of the most widely praised of his career.

Does that remind you of anything related to the casting roles in Good Omens? 🤓 History repeats itself.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #good omens fun facts #easter eggs #good omens deleted scene #good omens edit #deleted scene #the bishops wife #cary grant #michael sheen

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filmnoirfoundation · 2 years

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NOIR CITY 20 at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Day 9: Evening- SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (7:00) & KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (9:00). Films introduced by Eddie Muller.

Full festival and tickets: www.NoirCity.com

Saturday Evening • January 28

DOUBLE FEATURE

7:00 PM

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER

Bedridden heiress Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) hears through crossed telephone wires a murder being planned. She tries to alert the police, to no avail, and grows frantic as she gradually realizes she is the intended victim. Stanwyck gives an Oscar®-nominated performance in this engrossing and densely layered extension of the legendary 22-minute radio drama. Featuring Burt Lancaster in one of his earliest roles, mesmerizing direction by Anatole Litvak, and atmospheric camerawork by the great Sol Polito. Famous … yet still underrated.Originally released September 1, 1948. Paramount, 89 minutes. Screenplay by Lucille Fletcher, from her radio play. Produced by Hal Wallis and Anatole Litvak. Directed by Anatole Litvak.

9:00 PM

KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS

War profiteering, 1940s-style, is the backdrop of this London-set noir, in which a traumatized American GI (Burt Lancaster) goes on the run after killing a man in a pub. Joan Fontaine is his only hope for salvation, Robert Newton his nemesis. The first film produced by Lancaster's Norma Productions, which recreated twenty square blocks of London on the Universal backlot, brilliantly photographed by Russell Metty. Miklós Rózsa contributed the highly effective score.

Originally released October 29, 1948. Universal–International, 79 minutes. Screenplay by Leonardo Bercovici, Ben Maddow, and Walter Bernstein, Based on the novel by Gerald Butler. Produced by Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster. Directed by Norman Foster.

#sorry wrong number #barbara stanwyck #Burt Lancaster #kiss the blood off my hands #joan fontaine

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howardhawkshollywoodannex · 8 years

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Portrait of Jennie (1948) was written by Leonardo Bercovici, Paul Osborne and Peter Berneis with uncredited help from David O Selznick and Ben Hecht, based on a novella by Robert Nathan.

Leonardo had 19 screenwriting credits. Also notable was his original unfilmed screenplay that formed the basis of The Preacher's Wife (1996) with Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston.

Paul had 34 screenwriting credits, most notably for The Yearling and East of Eden.

Peter had 23 screenwriting credits, most notably for adapting Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, and for a 1957 remake of My Man Godfrey.

#portrait of jennie #joseph cotten #Jennifer jones

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junkielee · 7 years

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[Last Film I Saw] Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Title: Portrait of Jennie Year: 1948 Country: USA Language: English Genre: Romance, Fantasy Director: William Dieterle Writers: Leonardo Bercovici Paul Osborn Peter Berneis Robert Nathan Music: Dimitri Tiomkin Cinematography: Joseph H. August Cast: Joseph Cotten Jennifer Jones Ethel Barrymore Cecil Kellaway David Wayne Lillian Gish Henry Hull Florence Bates Albert Sharpe Anne Francis Nancy Reagan Nancy Olson Rating:…

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#1948 #6.7/10 #Anne Francis #Black & White #Cecil Kellaway #David Wayne #Ethel Barrymore #Florence Bates #Henry Hull #Jennifer Jones #Joseph Cotten #Lillian Gish #Nancy Olson #Nancy Reagan #USA Film #William Dieterle

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sesiondemadrugada · 9 years

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