Country: USA, UK, Canada
Year: 1978
Duration: 143'
To save his newborn son Kal-El from the imminent destruction of the planet Krypton, the elderly Jor-El (Brando) sends the baby to Earth, where Mr. and Mrs. Kent adopt the boy and call him Clark. The boy grows up in the town of Smallville, where he discovers he has extraordinary powers. After his real father finishes educating him in the Fortress of Solitude on the North Pole, Clark, who is now an adult (Reeve), moves to Metropolis, where he becomes a flying hero at the service of good, called Superman by one and all. One of the most controversial movies of the 1970s, and a long time in the making, Donner was in contrast with the production due to the movie’s overly-serious tone; at the time it was snubbed by the audiences, as well. But it launched Reeves’ career and had a great charismatic presence in the figure of Brando.
Biography
film director
Richard Donner
(New York, 1930 – Los Angeles, 2021), film and TV director and producer, began working in television in the early 1960s. Between the late ‘70s and the ‘90s, he directed some of the most famous Hollywood blockbusters of the time, such as the horror movie The Omen (1976), the comic book-based Superman (1978),the fantasy film Ladyhawke (1985), the adventure movie The Goonies (1985), the four films that compose the Lethal Weapon series (1987-1998), and the comedy Scrooged (1988); he also worked as a producer.
FILMOGRAFIA
X-15 (Il leggendario X-15, 1961), Salt and Pepper (Sale e pepe: Super-spie hippy, 1968), Twinky (id., 1970), The Omen (Il presagio (, 1976), Superman (id., 1978), Inside Moves (I ragazzi del Max’s bar, 1980), The Toy (Giocattolo a ore, 1982), Ladyhawke (id., 1985), The Goonies (I Goonies, 1985), Lethal Weapon (Arma letale, 1987), Scrooged (S.O.S. fantasmi, 1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (Arma letale 2 (, 1989), Radio Flyer (Il grande volo, 1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (Arma letale 3, 1992), Maverick (id., 1994), Assassins (id., 1995), Conspiracy Theory (Ipotesi di complotto, 1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (Arma letale 4, 1998), Timeline (Timeline - Ai confini del tempo, 2003), 16 Blocks (Solo 2 ore, 2006), Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Richard Donner. STORY: dal fumetto di Jerry Siegel e Joe Shuster, storia di Mario Puzo. SCREENPLAY: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Tom Mankiewicz. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Geoffrey Unsworth. EDITING: Stuart Baird, Mike Ellis. PRODUCTION DESIGN: John Barry, Leslie Dilley, Norman Reynolds, Peter Howitt. COSTUMES: Yvonne Blake. MUSIC: John Williams. CAST: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Jeff East, Trevor Howard, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York. PRODUCTION: Pierre Spengler per Dovemead Films, Film Export A.G., International Film Production; Warner Bros.
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