Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

6.4/10   

Regisseur:

Vincente Minnelli

Drehbuchautoren:

Irwin Shaw (novel)
Charles Schnee (writer)

Premierendatum:

21. Dezember 1962 (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Director | Film Industry | Stylized | Ambition | Washed Up Star

Nutzerkommentare:

The Ups and Downs of Film making

Besetzung

Kirk Douglas	...	Jack Andrus
Edward G. Robinson	...	Maurice Kruger
Cyd Charisse	...	Carlotta
George Hamilton	...	Davie Drew
Daliah Lavi	...	Veronica
Claire Trevor	...	Clara Kruger
James Gregory	...	Brad Byrd
Rosanna Schiaffino	...	Barzelli
Joanna Roos	...	Janet Bark
George Macready	...	Lew Jordan
Mino Doro	...	Tucino
Stefan Schnabel	...	Zeno
Vito Scotti	...	Assistant Director
Tom Palmer	...	Dr. Cold Eyes
Erich von Stroheim Jr.	...	Ravinksi (as Erich Von Stroheim Jr.)
Leslie Uggams	...	Chanteuse
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Gabriella D'Olive
Edit Angold	...	German Tourist (uncredited)
Albert Carrier	...	Mario (uncredited)
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Bar Girl (uncredited)
Edward Colmans	...	Tucino's Henchman (uncredited)
Franco Corsaro	...	Tucino's Henchman (uncredited)
Joan Courtenay	...	Signora Tucino (uncredited)
Joe Dante	...	Ad Lib in Lounge (uncredited)
Cilly Feindt	...	Lady Godiva (uncredited)
Bess Flowers	...	Guest at Anniversary Banquet (uncredited)
James Garde	...	Sound Engineer (uncredited)
Charles Horvath	...	Bouncer (uncredited)
John Indrisano	...	Bouncer (uncredited)
Janet Lake	...	Noel O'Neill (uncredited)
Margie Liszt	...	Liz (uncredited)
Ann Molinari	...	Bar Girl (uncredited)
Alberto Morin	...	Cameraman (uncredited)
Don Orlando	...	Soundman (uncredited)
Steve Peck	...	Carlotta's suitor in party (uncredited)
Red Perkins	...	George Jarrett (uncredited)
Dick Powell	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benito Prezia	...	Ad Lib in Lounge (uncredited)
Beulah Quo	...	Chinese Woman (uncredited)
Tony Randall	...	Ad Lib in Lounge (uncredited)
Barry Sullivan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lana Turner	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eugene Walter	...	(uncredited)

Regie
Vincente Minnelli

Buch
Irwin Shaw		(novel)
Charles Schnee		(writer)

Produktion
John Houseman	....	producer
Ethel Winant	....	associate producer

Originalmusik
David Raksin

Kamera
Milton R. Krasner		(director of photography) (as Milton Krasner)

Schnitt
Adrienne Fazan
Robert James Kern		(as Robert J. Kern Jr.)

Bauten/Dekorationsbau (art directors)
George W. Davis
Urie McCleary

Bühnenbildner/Ausstatter (set decorators)
F. Keogh Gleason		(as Keogh Gleason)
Henry Grace

Kostüme
Walter Plunkett		(uncredited)

Maske/Frisuren
Sydney Guilaroff	....	hair stylist
William Tuttle	....	makeup artist

Regieassistenten
Erich von Stroheim Jr.	....	assistant director
Robert H. Justman	....	additional assistant director (uncredited)

Ton Stab
Franklin Milton	....	recording supervisor

Visual Effects
Robert R. Hoag	....	special visual effects

Kostüm und Garderobe (Stab)
Pierre Balmain	....	wardrobe: Miss Charisse

Schnitt (Stab)
Charles K. Hagedon	....	color consultant

Produktionsfirmen

• John Houseman Productions
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Verleihfirmen

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1962) (USA) (theatrical)
• CBS Television (1973) (USA) (TV) (network premiere)

Alternativ:

2 Weeks in Another Town (USA) (poster title)
Zwei Wochen in einer anderen Stadt (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

107 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Metrocolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16

Firma:

John Houseman Productions

Dies und das:

Chosen as one of the Ten Best Films of 1963 by Jean-Luc Godard.

Dialogzitate:

Maurice Kruger: When you're dying, everybody is nice to you. It's nauseating!

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in Kirk Douglas: Video Scrapbook (1994) (V)

The Ups and Downs of Film making

Trying to repeat their success in The Bad and the Beautiful with the same studio MGM, director Vincent Minnelli and actor Kirk Douglas give another go at the fabulous world of film making. This time though MGM sprung for color and a location shooting in Rome, the other town the title is referring to.

If Tyrone Power were alive he might have sued MGM because I believe Kirk Douglas's character of Jack Andrus is based on him and the relationship he had with producer Darryl Zanuck and second wife Linda Christian. In her days Linda was quite the party animal, as much as Cyd Charisse portrays here.

The Zanuck character is a director named Maurice Krueger played by Edward G. Robinson. Changing him from a producer to a director probably saved a whole lot of legal fees.

Very simply the plot is that washed up film actor Douglas who is in a high priced alcoholic asylum as the film opens receives an offer from his former director Robinson to come to Rome to help him with a film that threatens to run behind schedule. Douglas comes to Rome and becomes quite indispensible to Robinson, especially after Robinson suffers a heart attack and Douglas has to finish the film.

His hedonistic ex-wife Charisse is also in Rome among many other temptations. It all works out for Douglas, but not quite in the way he would have thought.

Best performance in the film in my opinion is that of Claire Trevor who is Robinson's shrewish wife, based very much on Darryl Zanuck's wife Virginia.

According to the Films of Kirk Douglas, both Minnelli and Douglas were disappointed in how the film turned out. It certainly doesn't measure up to The Bad and the Beautiful. Douglas blamed it on a botched editing job. That maybe so, but my own opinion is that the Code was still in place in 1962 and maybe had this been done ten years later, certain things could have been made far more explicit to the audiences.

Two Weeks in Another Town is still quite a curiosity, catch it if you can.