Il diavolo alle 4

Titolo originale: The Devil at 4 O'Clock

1961
Approved
2h 6min

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6,4/10

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Disaster Adventure Drama Thriller

Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.

Regia
- Mervyn LeRoy
Sceneggiatura
- Liam O'Brien
- Max Catto
Star

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

6,4/10

2722

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

Regia
- Mervyn LeRoy
Sceneggiatura
- Liam O'Brien
- Max Catto
Star

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Premi
- 1 candidatura in totale

Jacques
(as Jean Pierre Aumont)

Grégoire Aslan

Marcel
(as Gregoire Aslan)

Alexander Scourby

The Governor

BarBara Luna

Camille
(as Barbara Luna)

Cathy Lewis

Matron

Bernie Hamilton

Charlie

Martin Brandt

Doctor Wexler

Louis Merrill

Aristide Giraud
(as Lou Merrill)

Marcel Dalio

Gaston

Thomas H. Middleton

Paul, Co-pilot

Ann Duggan

Clarisse

Louis Mercier

Corporal

Michèle Montau

Margot
(as Michele Montau)

Eugene Borden

Citizen
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Earl D'Eon

Radio Operator
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Regia
- Mervyn LeRoy
Sceneggiatura
- Liam O'Brien
- Max Catto
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The volcano in this film was built from scratch on farmland outside Fallbrook, California. Each shot required packing with hundreds of pounds of explosives and a carefully-orchestrated "eruption" to be filmed by the cameraman seated on the front skids of a helicopter. One eruption went off a little early and nearly took out the chopper, burning off the cameraman's eyebrows and some of his hair. Because the eruptions looked so good, this ersatz volcano provided stock footage for other films, commercials, etc., for decades.

Blooper
After the island explodes, the sea is perfectly calm. A huge eruption like that would have produced a huge tsunami.

Citazioni
Charlie: I was a pretty good thief in my time.
Father Matthew Doonan: I believe that.
Charlie: It's too late. Can't you get out now?
Father Matthew Doonan: It's never too late to change.
Charlie: My mother, that's what she used to say, "It's never too late."
Father Matthew Doonan: She was right.
Charlie: She kept after me - kept tellin' me - there was another thief once dyin' on the cross right next to Christ.
Father Matthew Doonan: The Good Thief.
Charlie: That's what she called him.
Father Matthew Doonan: He didn't chicken out. He just got smart and at the very last moment, he stole Heaven.
Charlie: That's pretty good stealin', huh?

Connessioni
Edited from Quando i mondi si scontrano (1951)

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9/10

A fine film despite flaws.

I've always thought this would be a good film to show problem kids in a group home: the film presents great values of friendship, loyalty, love and self-sacrifice (among a group of convicts) and the possibility of "redemption" through these values. The story is melodramatic (bordering on operatic!) but, if you accept the old-fashioned style of movie-making, it really works. As with all classic films, this is one you can watch over and over for the aesthetics as well as for the story. The acting is fine. The ONLY thing in the film that doesn't hold up, in my opinion, is the scene through the jungle with Frank Sinatra carrying the blind girl on his back: it looks a bit comical to a modern viewer.