La mort n'était pas au rendez-vous

Titre original : Conflict

1945
Approved
1h 26m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

4,9 k

MA NOTE

Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, and Alexis Smith in La mort n'était pas au rendez-vous (1945)

An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister.

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Film Noir Drama Mystery Thriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAn engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

4,9 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Det. Lt. Egan
(as Pat O'Moore)

Ann Shoemaker

Nora Grant

Edwin Stanley

Phillips
(as Ed Stanley)

Bruce Bilson

Lodge Bellboy
(uncredited)

Oliver Blake

Pawnbroker #1
(uncredited)

Harlan Briggs

Pawnbroker #2
(uncredited)

George M. Carleton

Harris
(uncredited)

Doria Caron

Nurse
(uncredited)

Wallis Clark

Prof. Berens
(uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

Roberts - Highway Patrolman
(uncredited)

James Flavin

Det. Lt. Workman
(uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Lodge Guest
(uncredited)

Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

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Anecdotes
Humphrey Bogart initially refused the film until studio head Jack L. Warner threatened him with suspension. Production was delayed nearly six weeks until Bogart relented.

Gaffes
Both the pawn ticket and the pawnbroker give the date of receipt of the locket as 7/9. But the log book shows the date as 8/22.

Citations
Kathryn Mason: Really, Dick, you might put your things away, just look at that bed. If I've told you once, I've told you...
Richard Mason: Thousand times.
Kathryn Mason: And you insist on doing it.
Richard Mason: Listen Kathryn, I don't insist on anything. I don't know what's come over you lately. You find fault in everything I do and everything I say. What's the matter with you?
Kathryn Mason: Don't stand there and play the innocent with me. You know perfectly well what the matter is.
Richard Mason: What're you talking about?
Kathryn Mason: Your ridiculous infatuation with Evelyn. Oh you thought I didn't know, didn't you? You must think I'm blind. The way you look at her and hang on her every word is positively nauseating.

Générique farfelu
The opening credits are washed in and washed away by the rain that's falling on the window.

Connexions
Edited into Les contes de la crypte: You, Murderer (1995)

Bandes originales
How Sweet You Are
(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Played after Richard leaves the phone booth, talks to the operator and Dr. Hamilton, and out on the terrace

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Commentaire en vedette

8/10

Interesting psychological mystery

Conflict stars Humphrey Bogart as architect Richard Mason, not in love with his wife (Rose Hobart) and infatuated with her sister Alexis (Evelyn Turner) Events soon take a sinister turn, when Richard hatches a plot to murder his wife on a remote mountain road. Just when he thinks he has committed the perfect crime, things start to happen which plant seeds of doubt in his mind.

Sydney Greenstreet gives a fine performance as a psychologist friend of the Masons who offers useful insights into the criminal mind and gives you food for thought as he voices his opinion on the human psyche.

With good performances all round, this is an atmospheric mystery which will keep you guessing to the end.