Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961) (TV)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

7.3/10   

Regisseur:

Silvio Narizzano

Drehbuchautoren:

John Mortimer (teleplay)
Stefan Zweig (novel)

Premierendatum:

13. April 1961 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romanze

Plot:

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks...

Plot Keywords:

Bad Guy | Male Female Relationship | Death | Encounter | Gambling

Auszeichnungen:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Nutzerkommentare:

Much Here To Enjoy

Besetzung

Ingrid Bergman	...	Clare Lester
Rip Torn	...	Paul
Helena de Crespo	...	Helen Lester
Jerry Orbach	...	Cristof
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Lili Darvas	...	Louise
John Williams	...	Stevens

Länge:

90 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-12

Querbezüge:

Remake von 24 horas en la vida de una mujer (1944)

Much Here To Enjoy

A 1961 black and white film made for television and poorly and unfairly received, this work is based upon a novella by Stefan Zweig, and provides an interesting story, told in spare and elegant fashion and, typically for the Austrian writer: in flashback, of a middle-aged woman who is persuaded by her family to travel through Europe as a means of overcoming longstanding grief at the death of her husband, to whom she was married for 17 years. While in Monte Carlo, the woman (Ingrid Bergman) meets with a family friend, played tastefully by John Williams, who escorts her to a casino where her path crosses that of a young gambler (Rip Torn), a depressive with the customary problem of wagerers, that of having lost everything, and she and the young man become entangled in a brief relationship that will mark the woman for the remainder of her life. The scenario, by novelist John Mortimer, is a faithful transcription of the original, with a challenging part for Bergman, and the only real weakness of the production is a tendency of Method-trained Torn to attack and hurry his lines; the score by John Kleinsinger is appropriately romantic and the ending, with the woman now old and recalling the events of the narrative, is strikingly subtle.