Director:
Alexander MackendrickCámara:
James Wong HoweMúsica:
Elmer BernsteinReparto:
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene, Joe Frisco, Barbara Nichols, Emile Meyer, Lawrence Dobkin, John Fiedler (más)Sinopsis(1)
Burt Lancaster, encarna a un poderoso, famoso y ambicioso columnista que domina toda una ciudad a través de la información que habitualmente consumen sus más de 60 millones de lectores. Pero como todo el mundo tiene un punto débil: su hermana pequeña. Todo cambiará cuando ésta se enamora apasionadamente de un guitarrista de jazz y los instintos más básicos del periodista salgan a relucir. (Filmin)
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"The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river..." The tabloid manager only lets foreign tongues moisten his heels as long as they’re useful. And the ambitious worker in the field? He’ll soon find out who’s in the bag with the cat. Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis are both phenomenal. While Curtis rides the same "positive" wave as in The Boston Strangler and often speaks only from behind the shoulder of his mentor in a sycophantic position, Lancaster plays an amoral puppet master who, despite ruthlessly burning everyone around him, evokes sympathy in the final scene with his fingers on the door. After all, both characters deserve contempt with a touch of disdain. It’s a maelstrom of cynicism that might not sweep everyone away, but it timelessly depicts the danger of these currents.
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A cruel film with cruel characters. It's as if there isn't a single character who is truly kind. And if there is one, they will be crushed by the company of the others. Burt Lancaster in the role of J.J. Hunsecker is unbeatable and literally gives you chills, and he actually speaks quite calmly most of the time. But it’s what he says that gives me chills. A very chilling film that references the great era of film noir classics.
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