Country: USA
Year: 1955
Duration: 150'
In order to find the $1,000 he needs to rent a garage and set up a clandestine gambling den, the inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit proposes a bet to his friend and fellow gambler, Sky Masterson: invite the straitlaced Salvation Army sergeant Miss Sarah Brown to a dinner in Cuba. Sky accepts and wins the bet thanks to his promise to fill Sarah’s church with his friends, but at the same time he discovers he has fallen in love with her and that the woman, too, is in love with him. Mankiewicz’s one musical, brightly colored and modern, with Brando and Sinatra giving star performances (and Jean Simmons as Sarah) and the wonderful supporting cast from the Broadway show.
Biography
film director
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
(Wilkes-Barre, USA, 1909-New York, USA 1993) was an American director, screenwriter, and movie producer of Polish origin. He won Oscars for best director and best screenplay two consecutive times, with A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), which also won best film. He began working in Hollywood as a screenwriter (like his brother Hermann, who won an Oscar with Orson Welles for the script of Citizen Kane) and debuted as a director in 1946, proving to be an eclectic filmmaker (Gothic tales, Westerns, melodramas, blockbusters) who, with seamless directing and a highly sophisticated writing style, was able to capture the conflicts between the sexes and the complex dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dragonwyck (Il castello di Dragonwyck, 1946), Somewhere in the Night (Il bandito senza nome, 1946), The Late George Apley (Schiavo del passato, 1947), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Il fantasma e la signora Muir, 1947), Escape (Il fuggitivo, 1948), A Letter to Three Wives (Lettera a tre mogli, 1949), House of Strangers (Amaro destino, 1949), No Way Out (Uomo bianco, tu vivrai!, 1950), All About Eve (Eva contro Eva, 1950), People Will Talk (La gente mormora , 1951), 5 Fingers (Operazione Cicero, 1952), Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare, 1953), The Barefoot Contessa (La contessa scalza, 1954), Guys and Dolls (Bulli e pupe, 1955), The Quiet American (Un americano tranquillo, 1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (Improvvisamente l'estate scorsa, 1959), Cleopatra (id., 1963), Carol for Another Christmas (Canto per un altro Natale, tv, 1964), The Honey Pot (Masquerade, 1967), King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (King: una testimonianza filmata... da Montgomery a Memphis, coregia, Sidney Lumet, doc, 1970), There Was a Crooked Man... (Uomini e cobra, 1970), Sleuth (Gli insospettabili, 1972).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. STORY: from the short stories by Damon Runyon and the musical of the same title by Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling, Frank Loesser. SCREENPLAY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ben Hecht. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Harry Stradling Sr. EDITING: Daniel Mandell. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol. COSTUME DESIGN: Irene Sharaff. MUSIC: Frank Loesser, Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge. CAST: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, Johnny Silver, Sheldon Leonard, Danny Dayton, George E. Stone, Regis Toomey. PRODUCTION: Samuel Goldwyn per Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer e Samuel Goldwyn Productions.
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