10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Retrospective - US Indipendents Of The Sixties
THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS
Country: USA
Year: 1972
Duration: 103'
David improvises monologues at a small radio station in Philadelphia. His brother Jason, instead, tosses and turns his way through sordid affairs inside the black mafia. The two meet for the first time after a long time in a brief stay in Atlantic City, where Jason aims to persuade his brother to take part in some real estate speculation in Hawaii. Jason's companion Sally is there with them. She has not resigned herself to getting old. Her daughter Jessica has shown herself to be available to her stepfather's attention and this gets Jessica jealous. Already instable enough, the groups equilibrium goes up in air when the real estate deal falls through. Sally reaches the height of jealousy and despair, has a violent argument with Jason, and finally shoots and kills him. David returns to Philadelphia, where every night his grandfather projects a home movie of him and his brother when they were still young building a sand castle on the beach.
Biography
film director
Bob Rafelson
Bob Rafelson (New York, NY, Usa, 1933).
FILMOGRAFIA
Head (Sogni perduti - Head, 1968), Five Easy Pieces (Cinque pezzi facili, 1970), The King of Marvin Gardens (Il re dei giardini di Marvin, 1972), Stay Hungry (Un autentico campione, 1976), The Postman Always Rings Twice (Il postino suona sempre due volte, 1981), Black Widow (La vedova nera, 1987), Mountains of the Moon (Le montagne della luna, 1990), Man Trouble (La gatta e la volpe, 1992), Blood & Wine (id., 1996), Poodle Springs (Marlowe - Omicidio a Poodle Springs, tv, 1998), No Good Deed (Inganni svelati - No Good Deed, 2002).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Bob Rafelson.
Screenplay: Jacob Brackman, da un soggetto di Jacob Brackman e Bob Rafelson.
Fotografia (Eastmancolor): Laszlo Kovacs.
Editor: John F. Link II.
Art director: Toby Carr Rafelson.
Cast: Jack Nicholson (David Staebler), Bruce Dern (Jason Staebler), ElIen Burstyn (Sally), Junia Anne Robinson (Jessica), Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers (Lewis), Charlie Lavine (il nonno), Arnold Williams, John Ryan, Sully Boyar, Joshua Mostel, William Pabst, Imogene Bliss.
Production company: Bob Rafelson per BBS Prod.
Screenplay: Jacob Brackman, da un soggetto di Jacob Brackman e Bob Rafelson.
Fotografia (Eastmancolor): Laszlo Kovacs.
Editor: John F. Link II.
Art director: Toby Carr Rafelson.
Cast: Jack Nicholson (David Staebler), Bruce Dern (Jason Staebler), ElIen Burstyn (Sally), Junia Anne Robinson (Jessica), Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers (Lewis), Charlie Lavine (il nonno), Arnold Williams, John Ryan, Sully Boyar, Joshua Mostel, William Pabst, Imogene Bliss.
Production company: Bob Rafelson per BBS Prod.
