The Locket

The Locket

Infobox Film | name =The Locket


caption =The Locket movie poster
director = John Brahm
producer = Bert Granet
writer =Sheridan Gibney
starring =Laraine Day
Brian Aherne
Robert Mitchum
Gene Raymond
music = Roy Webb
cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca
editing = J.R. Whittredge
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released = December 20, 1946 (U.S. release)
runtime = 85 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0038700

"The Locket" (1946) is a suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond. The film is based on a screenplay by Sheridan Gibney, adapted from "What Nancy Wanted" by Norma Barzman, wife of blacklisted writer Ben Barzman.

Plot

A story told in a number of flashbacks from different points of view, this psychological drama tells the story of a bride-to-be who, as a child, was falsely accused of theft. She grows up to become a kleptomaniac and eventually a murderess. Apparently, all her misdeeds are an attempt by the woman to get her revenge on the world that has falsely accused her of stealing as a child by ruining people's lives. When she becomes engaged to the son of the woman who'd accused her of thievery, the young woman collapses on the altar.

Reaction and Trivia

Film historians Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward praise the unusual melodrama in the RKO visual style. "It is distinctive in its flashbacks within flashbacks, with the story often being told by a third or fourth person removed. This device is handled effectively in preparation for the climactic flashback, which reveals the truth." ref|book1 Hume Cronyn originally bought the Barzman screenplay to produce and direct the film with his wife Jessica Tandy in the lead role, but later sold the rights to RKO, which then assigned Gibney to rewrite the screenplay. The original Barzman screenplay is in the Cronyn-Tandy papers at the Library of Congress.

External links

*imdb title|id=0038700|title=The Locket

Featured cast

References


#cite book | author= Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward| title=Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style | publisher =The Overlook Press | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-87951-479-5

Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • The Locket —    Voir Le Médaillon …   Dictionnaire mondial des Films

  • The Rover (play) — The Rover or The Banish d Cavaliers is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. It was a very popular Restoration comedy. Behn had famously worked as a spy for Charles II against the Dutch. However, Charles was slow to pay… …   Wikipedia

  • The Littlest Hobo — The First Season DVD cover Genre Family Children s Melodrama …   Wikipedia

  • The Bee and the Orange Tree — is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d Aulnoy.ynopsisAfter many childless years, a king and queen had a daughter, whom they named Aimée, but a ship she was on, wrecked. As fate would have it, she drifted ashore in her cradle. There, an ogre… …   Wikipedia

  • The Adventure of the Yellow Face — one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1894 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.O …   Wikipedia

  • Locket — A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item such as a curl of hair. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine s Day and occasions such as Christenings, weddings… …   Wikipedia

  • The Clue of the Broken Locket — infobox Book | name = The Clue of the Broken Locket title orig = translator = image caption = author = Carolyn Keene illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Nancy Drew Mystery Stories genre = Mystery novel …   Wikipedia

  • The Illusionist — Infobox Film name = The Illusionist caption = Nothing is what it seems. director = Neil Burger producer = Brian Koppelman David Levien Michael London Cathy Schulman Bob Yari writer = Steven Millhauser (Short story) Neil Burger (Screenplay)… …   Wikipedia

  • The City of the Dead (film) — Infobox Film name = City of the Dead image size = caption = director = John Llewellyn Moxey producer = Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky Donald Taylor writer = George Baxt Desmond Dickinson narrator = starring = Venetia Stevenson Christopher Lee… …   Wikipedia

  • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea — DVD releas …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”