Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Réalisateur:

Preston Sturges

Scénariste:

Preston Sturges (screenplay)

Release Date:

10 décembre 1948 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie

Accroche:

Will somebody "get her" tonite?

Plot:

Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines...

Plot Keywords:

Conductor | Symphony | Detective | Jealousy | Infidelity

Avis des utilisateurs:

One of Sturges's most divisive pieces should have been a masterpiece.

Ensemble

Rex Harrison	...	Sir Alfred De Carter
Linda Darnell	...	Daphne De Carter
Rudy Vallee	...	August Henshler
Barbara Lawrence	...	Barbara Henshler
Kurt Kreuger	...	Anthony Windborn
Lionel Stander	...	Hugo Standoff
Edgar Kennedy	...	Detective Sweeney
Al Bridge	...	House Detective (as Alan Bridge)
Julius Tannen	...	O'Brien
Torben Meyer	...	Dr. Schultz
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Pati Behrs	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
George Beranger	...	Maitre D' (uncredited)
Evelyn Beresford	...	Madame Pompadour (uncredited)
Georgia Caine	...	Dowager (uncredited)
Harry Carter	...	Reporter (uncredited)
Bill Cartledge	...	Page Boy (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford	...	Saleslady (uncredited)
Douglas Gerrard	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Robert Greig	...	Jules, the Valet (uncredited)
Sam Harris	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Isabel Jewell	...	First Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Laurette Luez	...	Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald	...	Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Marion Marshall	...	Maisie, Second Telephone Operator (uncredited)
George Matthews	...	Musician (uncredited)
George Melford	...	Man in Audience (uncredited)
Frank Mills	...	Stage Hand (uncredited)
Frank Moran	...	Fire Chief (uncredited)
Dave Morris	...	Musician (uncredited)
Franz Roehn	...	Musician (uncredited)
Tamara Schee	...	Madame La Lotte (uncredited)
Charles Tannen	...	Airport Information Man (uncredited)
Max Wagner	...	Stage Manager (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Preston Sturges

Scénaristes
Preston Sturges		(screenplay)

Produit par
Preston Sturges	....	producer

Image
Victor Milner		(director of photography)

Montage
Robert Fritch

Direction artistique
Lyle R. Wheeler		(as Lyle Wheeler)
Joseph C. Wright

Décorateur de plateau
Paul S. Fox
Thomas Little

Création des costumes
Bonnie Cashin

Maquillage
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist
Franz Prehoda	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Henry Vilardo	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Marie Walter	....	hair stylist (uncredited)
Gladys Witten	....	hair stylist (uncredited)

Directeur de production
Charles Hall	....	production manager (uncredited)

Assistant réalisateur
Gaston Glass	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Technicien du son
Roger Heman Sr.	....	sound (as Roger Heman)
Arthur von Kirbach	....	sound (as Arthur L. Kirbach)

Effets spéciaux
Fred Sersen	....	special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Eddie Ledgerwood	....	grip (uncredited)
F. Bud Mautino	....	camera operator (uncredited)
Ray Nolan	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Charles Le Maire	....	wardrobe director (as Charles LeMaire)
Sam Benson	....	wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)

Music Department
Alfred Newman	....	musical director
Gioacchino Rossini	....	composer: additional music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	....	composer: additional music (as Peter Ilyitch Tchaikowsky)
Richard Wagner	....	composer: additional music
Cyril J. Mockridge	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Edward B. Powell	....	orchestrator: Cyril J. Mockridge (uncredited)

Divers
Stephen Brooks	....	production assistant
Robin Sanders Clark	....	conducting instructor: Rex Harrison
Stanley Scheuer	....	script supervisor (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1948) (USA) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Symphony Story (USA) (working title)
Unfinished Symphony (USA) (working title)
Infidèlement vôtre (France) [fr]

Durée:

105 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Classification:

Finland:S | USA:Approved (certificate #12960)

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Anecdotes:

The orchestral conductor Sir Alfred de Carter, is based loosely on the real life British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham was the son of pharmacist Sir Joseph Beecham, the inventor of the laxative Beecham's Pills. Accordingly Harrison's character, Sir Alfred de Carter, is said to be named after Carter's Little Liver Pills, the American equivalent.

Goofs:

Continuity: In one shot the phone receiver gets knocked off the hook, but moments later the phone rings and the receiver is in place on the phone.

Guillemet:

Alfred: Well, August, what happy updraft wafts you hither?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

One of Sturges's most divisive pieces should have been a masterpiece.

Well well, I certainly found this to be a very mixed bag, I simply adore Preston Sturges, the satirical wit in many of his classic standards is still thrilling new fans as each year passes by. This one was one I had to hunt down to add to my collection purely because of its director, and what trusted review sources I looked at led me to expect an undervalued masterpiece. Sadly the film only hints at greatness and I wasn't in the least bit surprised to find that the film had been cut by 20 minutes such was the uneven feel I got from it.

The film centres on a comic slant of misconception, mistrust, and one mans zany decent into jealous madness. Believing his beautiful wife is having an affair, top conductor Sir Alfred De Carter {an ebullient Rex Harrison} dreams three scenarios that will give him peace, all very different, and all played out to the accompaniment of classical music, Rossini's-Semiramide, Wagner's-Tannhauser, and Tchaikovsky's-Francesca de Rimini. These sequences lift the film out of the stupor that besets the piece for most of the first half, and this sets us up nicely for the finale as we see which route Carter has chosen and of course the mirthful results that ensues.

Back on release the film didn't catch on, and we can only wonder what the film would have been like with the added scenes still in place, I like to think that Sturges really had crafted the masterpiece that some top line critics today believe the film actually is. The film was also blighted by a sad scandal as Rex Harrison's girlfriend Carole Landis committed suicide and naturally the films distributor {Fox} felt the films subject matter was just too close to the bone to support wholesale, and the subsequent lack of support practically killed the film on release to the point that Sturges never made another American film again . It's an entertaining film, the music working with the mindset of the protagonist works a treat, and the comedy stands up well to tickle the ribs, but it will always be a case of so near, yet so far, but that of course is my own humble opinion.

7/10