L'alibi di Satana

Titolo originale: The Unsuspected
Regia: Michael Curtiz |
Anno: 1947
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Mistero Thriller
Tag: based on novel or book | radio presenter | radio | birthday party | film noir | murder | radio broadcast |
Cast: Joan Caulfield | Claude Rains | Audrey Totter | Constance Bennett | Hurd Hatfield | Ted North | Fred Clark | Harry Lewis | Jack Lambert | Ray Walker | Nana Bryant | Walter Baldwin | Charles Horvath | Bob Alden | Jean Andren | Mary Bayless | Brooks Benedict | Edward Biby | Lulu Mae Bohrman | Kenneth Britton | Jack Cheatham | Eleanor Counts | Hal Craig | Martha Crawford | Bunty Cutler | George Eldredge | Bess Flowers | Charles Fogel | Ross Ford | Art Gilmore | Douglas Kennedy | Joleen King | Faith Kruger | Wendie Lee | David Leonard | Carl M. Leviness | Jack Lomas | Rory Mallinson | Harriet Matthews | George Meader | Charles Meakin | Ray Montgomery | Jack Mower | William H. O'Brien | Eddie Parks | Allan Ray | Larry Steers | Cecil Stewart | Lucille Vance | Richard Walsh | Florence Wix | Barbara Wooddell | Sam Harris | Charles Ferguson | Kenneth Gibson |

Un criminologo commette un omicidio e riesce a crearsi un alibi perfetto. Continuerà ad uccidere sempre creandosi nuovi alibi, finché sarà scoperto e racconterà lui stesso i suoi delitti alla radio durante la sua ultima lezione radiofonica di criminologia.

Approfondimenti

The radio that is shown in a few scenes is a Hallicrafters Model SX-42 and "represents a peak of pos [...] D
Wendie Lee's debut. D
There is an apparent in-joke when Hurd Hatfield compares Joan Caulfield's Mathilda character to her [...] D
The plane Matilda returns on is a 1946 Pan Am Lockheed L-049 "Constellation", registration NC88856, [...] D
The locomotive shown roaring out of the tunnel near the beginning of the film is a Southern Pacific [...] D
This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in Cincinnati OH Thursday 2 August 1956 on WKRC [...] D
Film debut of Fred Clark. D
In an article in the 10 October 1946 edition of the New York Times, Humphrey Bogart was to have star [...] D
Audrey Totter was borrowed from MGM for this picture. D
The novel upon which this film is based was first published in serial form in The Saturday Evening P [...] D
Joan Caulfield was borrowed from Paramount and Audrey Totter was borrowed from MGM for this film. D
The radio station call letters, WMCB, were created by inserting Michael Curtiz's initials into those [...] D
According to TCM's Eddie Muller, Michael Curtiz had wanted to cast Orson Welles in the role of Victo [...] D
At the Police lab, two bullets are compared under a duel microscope for rifling marks, and a closeup [...] D
The final career roles and screen appearances for Joan Caulfield and Audrey Totter both occurred in [...] D
Franz Waxman is the credited composer of the very effective score, en route to winning two consecuti [...] D
Final film of Eleanor Counts. D
Grandison's character was based on the flamboyant radio star Alexander Woollcott. D
This was Michael North's final role. After this film, he became an agent. Among his clients were Red [...] D
In a 15 November 1946 article in the New York Times, Eve Arden was slated for a role in this film - [...] D
First production in a 14 picture deal between director Michael Curtiz's new production company and W [...] D

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The murderer does not destroy the clue that proves that he committed the murder, even though he has [...] D
At the beginning of the film, Althea (Audrey Totter) is shown removing the pay phone receiver from h [...] D
When Steve Edwards shows up for the first time at the front door of Grandison's home, the cameraman [...] D
At about 7 minutes in, 3 envelopes addressed to Grandison are shown on his desk. On the third, the n [...] D
A character arrives at the party, and the door is opened by the manservant; the door closes, and the [...] D
Grandison tells Steve and Matilda that Oliver has run away after firing the gunshot they have just h [...] D
As in so many run-away, car-without-brakes scenes of the 1930's & 1940's every driver "forgets" that [...] D
At the party, when Althea holds the match out to light Steven's cigarette she is away from him and f [...] D
Donovan gives Howard's birthday as April 12, 1913, but his driver's license has 1-12-1922. D
During Oliver Keane's accident scene, he is seen driving a gray car at first, but when he skids off [...] D
When Grandison pours the glasses of champagne, one of which is poisoned, bubbles do not appear in ei [...] D
Grandison leaves the "suicide" not and spilled pill bottle on the coffee table - and the bottom of t [...] D
*Spoilers* Steven Howard figures out that Victor played a recording of his radio broadcast that allo [...] D
To compare the grooves in the bullets made by a gun, the point of the bullet is stuck in the clay, n [...] D
The radio station studio microphone shows periods after each of the initials, WMCB. Actual radio sta [...] D
*Spoilers* When Mr. Press puts the trunk containing Steven Howard into the back of his pickup truck, [...] D
The position of the hotel's sign outside the window changes between shots. From the outside, the let [...] D

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