The Spirit

Téléfilm
1987
1h 14m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

MA NOTE

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.

Director
- Michael Schultz
Writers
- Will Eisner
- Steven E. de Souza
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

5,4/10

320

MA NOTE

Director
- Michael Schultz
Writers
- Will Eisner
- Steven E. de Souza
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
In the comic book on which the film is based, Eubie is called Ebony White and he is usually depicted as a racial stereotype. The movie changed his name and characterization in an effort to make him more acceptable to audiences of the time.

Gaffes
When Ellen climbs the fire escape she is wearing flats. Inside the factory she's in heels.

Citations
Ellen Dolan: Do I look like the kind of girl who goes around undressing men?

Connexions
Featured in The Movies That Made Us: Die Hard (2019)

Commentaires des utilisateurs9

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Commentaire en vedette

Good, but not great.

I enjoyed this adaptation of The Spirit comics, and in many ways it caught the flavor and humor of the original stories. It had a nice cast of virtual unknowns, and hit all the marks for fun and adventure. Sam J. Jones did a creditable job, and Laura (McKinley) Robinson had P'Gell down cold, and was a gorgeous femme fatal. It had a low budget look, tho, for much of its length, and not enough of the wonderful camera angles The Spirit comic practically cried out for. That said, Will Eisner told me himself, at a ComicCon, that he would rather I never mentioned it again. He wanted a darker, more noir look to it, with a better cast. As for the re-make from 2008, which reeked, the less said the better - I'm sure Mr. Eisner would have plenty of negatives to talk about for that film; many, many more than for this one.