Country: USA
Year: 1958
Duration: 60'
The brothers Hugh and Ben and their sister Lelia live in Manhattan. The older brother, Hugh, is dark skinned and lives from hand to mouth singing in a decaying night club. The other two are so light skinned that they could pass for white. Ben wants to become a trumpeter one day, but, in the meantime, limits himself to wandering around the city with two white youths, outcasts like himself. Lelia, however, has higher aspirations. She wants to acquire culture through frequenting intellectual circles. She meets Tony at a party at the Museum of Modern Art. He is a white youth that seems to understand her. When his potential racism comes to light, Hugh kicks him out of their house. Then Lelia meets a black youth and accepts his court. At the end Lelia goes back to her job, Hugh accepts a gig in Chicago, and Ben gives up his friends after getting into a fight.
Biography
film director
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes (New York, USA, 1929 - Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1989) began as an actor before directing the 1959 movie Shadows, which was so successful that he was called to direct Too Late Blues and then A Child Is Waiting. Between 1965 and 1968, he directed Faces; in the 1970s, he directed his most important movies – Husbands (1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (1972), A Woman Under the Influence (1975) – working with actors such as Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel and his wife Gena Rowlands. In 1980, he won a Golden Lion in Venice for his film Gloria, while Love Streams received a Golden Bear in Berlin in 1984. In 2007, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.
FILMOGRAFIA
Shadows (Ombre, 1959), Too Late Blues (Blues di mezzanotte, 1961), A Child Is Waiting (Gli esclusi, 1963), Faces (Volti, 1968), Husbands (Mariti, 1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (Minnie e Moskowitz, 1972), A Woman Under the Influence (Una moglie, 1975), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (L’assassinio di un allibratore cinese, 1976-1978), Opening Night (La sera della prima, 1977), Gloria (Una notte d’estate - Gloria, 1980), Love Streams (Love Streams - Scia d’amore, 1984), Big Trouble (Il grande imbroglio, 1985).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: John Cassavetes.
Aiutoregia: Al Giglio.
Director of photography: Erich Kollmar.
Editor: Len Appelson, Maurice McEndree.
Art director: Randy Liles, Bolo Reeh.
Music: Charlie Mingus.
Cast: Lelia Goldoni (Lelia), Hugh Hurd (Hugh), Ben Carruthers (Ben), Anthony Ray (Tony), Dennis Sallas (Dennis), Tom Allen (Tom), Rupert Crosse (Rupert), Davey Jones (David), David Pokitillow (David), Cliff Carnell (Cliff), Ron Maccone, Pir Marini, Victoria Vargas, J. Ackerman, Jacqueline Walcott, John Cassavetes.
Production company: Maurice McEndree, Nikos Papatakis per Gena Prod.
Director of Production: Wray Bevins.
Aiutoregia: Al Giglio.
Director of photography: Erich Kollmar.
Editor: Len Appelson, Maurice McEndree.
Art director: Randy Liles, Bolo Reeh.
Music: Charlie Mingus.
Cast: Lelia Goldoni (Lelia), Hugh Hurd (Hugh), Ben Carruthers (Ben), Anthony Ray (Tony), Dennis Sallas (Dennis), Tom Allen (Tom), Rupert Crosse (Rupert), Davey Jones (David), David Pokitillow (David), Cliff Carnell (Cliff), Ron Maccone, Pir Marini, Victoria Vargas, J. Ackerman, Jacqueline Walcott, John Cassavetes.
Production company: Maurice McEndree, Nikos Papatakis per Gena Prod.
Director of Production: Wray Bevins.
