钥匙 (1958)
The Key
他的生命短暂如一根火柴。
此片为1958年拍摄于英国，全片采用黑白胶片进行拍摄，使影片带有一份特殊的感伤。 二战期间，德国潜艇大规模的对盟军的运输车进行攻击，目的是使美国的资源无法运输到英国从而使应该陷入内需匮乏。本片的主人公是一位被盟军征用的而来运输车船长，他的任务就是将在公海上被德军潜艇击毁的船长拖回，并救助当中的船员，虽然简单但是这却是十分危险的工作。 主人公的宿舍便是他的前任同事，宿舍里还住着他的妻子。 （题外话：在战争的时候很多战士的妻子、女友在失去自己的丈夫、恋人后多会有些堕落的和成为性尤物，这点在二战的欧洲地区很突出，但是一直没有被历史所正是。） 故事情节虽然老套的让2人相恋，虽然片尾2人分开了，但是片尾的情结告诉我们他们最终是会在一起的。~
演员阵容
- 威廉·霍尔顿 — Capt. David Ross
- 索菲亚·罗兰 — Stella
- 特瑞沃·霍华德 — Capt. Chris Ford
- 伯纳德·李 — Cmdr. Wadlow
- 奥斯卡·霍莫尔卡 — Van Dam
- Kieron Moore — Kane
- Noel Purcell — Hotel Clerk
- 布莱恩·福布斯 — Weaver
- Beatrix Lehmann — Housekeeper
- Rupert Davies — Baker
- Russell Waters — Sparks
- Sidney Vivian — Grogan
趣闻
The Key is a 1958 British-American war film set in 1941 during the Battle of the Atlantic. It was based on the 1951 novel Stella by Jan de Hartog and was directed by Carol Reed. William Holden, Sophia Loren and Trevor Howard starred in the production.
Production
Two endings for The Key were filmed. According to "Notes" at the Turner Classic Movies entry for the film and attributed to the New York Times, one was filmed in which David gets aboard the train for a "happy" ending. In the other, purportedly filmed to satisfy the American Motion Picture Production Code by showing that David and Stella pay for their sexual relationship, he just misses catching it, but insists he will search for and find her.
However a published history of British films subjected to PCA scrutiny before their American release presents a slightly different version. After an initial rejection of the story outline in 1952 by the PCA, Carl Foreman resurrected the Stella project in 1957 and was offered two acceptable story lines: one in which Stella has an unconventional but asexual relationship with the captains, the other "a clearcut story of sin and retribution" in which…
A biography of director Carol Reed by Peter William Evans supports the latter contention. It asserts that the original ending released in Europe had David missing the train, and that Reed intended to convey that his vow to find Stella has no more substance than "the steam in which both they and the moving train are shrouded." Evans adds that the happy ending of David catching the train was made for U.S.
De Hartog's novel, originally entitled Stella, concerned Dutch tugboat captains who fled to England with their craft in 1940 (as represented by the character Captain Van Dam and based on historical fact) and a British woman named Stella.
Filming of The Key was done aboard H.M.S. Restive (W39), an Assurance class Admiralty tug of the Royal Navy from the same era.
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