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Ginger Rogers | ... | Marsha Mitchell | |
Ronald Reagan | ... | Burt Rainey | |
Doris Day | ... | Lucy Rice | |
Steve Cochran | ... | Hank Rice | |
Hugh Sanders | ... | Charlie Barr | |
Lloyd Gough | ... | Cliff Rummel | |
Raymond Greenleaf | ... | Faulkner | |
Ned Glass | ... | George Athens | |
Paul E. Burns | ... | Frank Hauser, Baggage Man | |
Walter Baldwin | ... | Coroner Bledsoe | |
Lynn Whitney | ... | Cora Athens | |
Stuart Randall | ... | Walt Walters | |
Sean McClory | ... | Shore | |
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique: | |||
Lillian Albertson | ... | Mrs. Rainey (uncredited) | |
Richard Anderson | ... | Interne (uncredited) | |
Walter Bacon | ... | Jury Foreman (uncredited) | |
Janet Barrett | ... | Mrs. Adams (uncredited) | |
Fern Barry | ... | Wife (uncredited) | |
Paul Brinegar | ... | Cameraman #1 (uncredited) | |
Douglas Carter | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Chick Chandler | ... | (uncredited) | |
Leo Cleary | ... | Barnet (uncredited) | |
Charles J. Conrad | ... | Jordan (uncredited) | |
Ned Davenport | ... | Policeman #2 (uncredited) | |
Sayre Dearing | ... | Courtroom Extra (uncredited) | |
Don Dillaway | ... | 2nd Convert (uncredited) | |
King Donovan | ... | Ambulance driver (uncredited) | |
Mike Donovan | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
Joe Dougherty | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Ross Elliott | ... | Glen (uncredited) | |
Gene Evans | ... | Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited) | |
Norman Field | ... | 1st Convert (uncredited) | |
Pat Flaherty | ... | Walker, Klansman (uncredited) | |
Alex Gerry | ... | Basset (uncredited) | |
Dabbs Greer | ... | Courtroom Policeman (uncredited) | |
Carl Harbaugh | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
Harry Harvey | ... | Mr. Louden (uncredited) | |
Edward Hearn | ... | Mr. Rainey (uncredited) | |
Len Hendry | ... | Policeman #1 (uncredited) | |
Mary Alan Hokanson | ... | Secretary (uncredited) | |
Lloyd Jenkins | ... | Tommy, Interne (uncredited) | |
Fred Kelsey | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
Mike Lally | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
David Le Grand | ... | Customer (uncredited) | |
George Lloyd | ... | Townsman (uncredited) | |
Frank Marlowe | ... | Al (bus driver) (uncredited) | |
Charles Marsh | ... | Fowler (uncredited) | |
Frank McCarroll | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Michael McHale | ... | 3rd Convert (uncredited) | |
David McMahon | ... | Hollis, Taxi Driver (uncredited) | |
Howard M. Mitchell | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Jack Mower | ... | Bowling Alley Extra (uncredited) | |
Robert A. O'Neil | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Edward Peil Sr. | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Charles Phillips | ... | Bus driver (uncredited) | |
Grandon Rhodes | ... | Pike (uncredited) | |
Lee Roberts | ... | Driver (uncredited) | |
Dewey Robinson | ... | Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited) | |
Edmon Ryan | ... | Hooded Narrator of Trailer (uncredited) | |
Joe Smith | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Robert R. Stephenson | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
Charles Sullivan | ... | Mill Worker (uncredited) | |
Dale Van Sickel | ... | Walter Adams (uncredited) | |
Tommy Walker | ... | Bob (uncredited) | |
Anthony Warde | ... | Jukebox collector (uncredited) | |
Duke Watson | ... | Ernie (uncredited) | |
Charles Watts | ... | Wally, Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited) | |
Tom Wells | ... | Cameraman #2 (uncredited) | |
Bill Welsh | ... | Hardy (uncredited) | |
Robert Williams | ... | Sheriff Art Jaeger (uncredited) |
Réalisé par | |||
Stuart Heisler | |||
Scénaristes(in alphabetical order) | ||
Richard Brooks | writer | |
Daniel Fuchs | writer |
Produit par | |||
Jerry Wald | .... | producer | |
Musique originale | |||
Daniele Amfitheatrof | |||
Max Steiner | (uncredited) | ||
Image | |||
Carl E. Guthrie | (as Carl Guthrie) | ||
Montage | |||
Clarence Kolster | |||
Direction artistique | |||
Leo K. Kuter | |||
Décorateur de plateau | |||
G.W. Berntsen | |||
Création des costumes | |||
Milo Anderson | |||
Maquillage | |||
Perc Westmore | .... | makeup artist | |
Ray Forman | .... | hair stylist (uncredited) | |
Frank Westmore | .... | makeup artist (uncredited) | |
Assistant réalisateur | |||
Chuck Hansen | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Technicien du son | |||
Leslie G. Hewitt | .... | sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
Herschel Brown | .... | grip (uncredited) | |
Lou Jennings | .... | camera operator (uncredited) | |
Vic Johnson | .... | gaffer (uncredited) | |
Eugene Ritchie | .... | still photographer (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
Maurice De Packh | .... | orchestrator (as Maurice de Packh) | |
Ray Heindorf | .... | musical director | |
Divers | |||
Howard Hohler | .... | script supervisor (uncredited) | |
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Warner Brothers got back to its muckraking roots in this somber drama about an "outsider" who witnesses a Klan murder in a small town and is persuaded to keep quiet about it because her sister's scummy husband is involved in it. One of the aspects of this film that I appreciated was that the Klansmen aren't pawned off as buffoonish, mouth-breathing cretins as they often are in films like this (although Steve Cochran as Doris Day's white-trash husband comes close), which tends to trivialize them and make them seem a bit less dangerous than they really are. The film shows the people who run the Klan to be fairly prominent local citizens--which is, unfortunately, often the case in real life with organizations like the Klan--which actually makes them far more dangerous than if they were just a semi-literate bunch of backwoods hillbillies. Doris Day gives a bravura performance in her first dramatic role; she tends to just skirt the edge of "going over the top" on a few occasions, but director Stuart Heisler skillfully brings her, and the rest of the picture, under control, and it does have the gritty, noir-ish look reminiscent of the great Warners films of the '30s and '40s. Ginger Rogers is very good as Day's visiting sister who realizes the type of dilemma her sibling is caught in, and Ronald Reagan turns in one of his best performances as the local District Attorney who knows that Rogers saw the murder and needs her to testify in order to bring down the local Klan organization, which he is determined to do.
At a time when the government was far more interested in ferreting out "Communists"--who it was convinced were the driving forces behind the burgeoning civil rights movement--than it was in eliminating far more dangerous menaces like the Klan, it took guts for Warners to come out with a film like this. The movie actually was condemned as "Communist propaganda" by various right-wing groups, a charge Warners was used to by this time, and the studio courageously stood behind the film.
Day, Rogers, Reagan, even Steve Cochran are at the top of their form here. A previous poster has called this a "forgotten gem", and he hit the nail right on the head. This is a first-rate film that isn't as well known as it should be, and is most definitely worth a look.