Sergeant Madden (1939)
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
演员阵容
- Wallace Beery — Sgt. Shaun Madden
- Alan Curtis — Dennis Madden
- Tom Brown — Albert Boylan Jr.
- Fay Holden — Mary Madden
- Laraine Day — Eileen Daly
- 马克·劳伦斯 — Piggy
- 玛丽昂·马丁 — Charlotte LePage
- David Gorcey — Punchy LePage
- Ben Welden — Stemmy
- Donald Haines — Milton
- Etta McDaniel — Dove
- John Kelly — Nero
趣闻
Sergeant Madden is a 1939 film noir forerunner directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Wallace Beery. The supporting cast in this dark police crime drama, noted for its imaginative and evocative cinematography, includes Tom Brown, Laraine Day, Alan Curtis, and Marc Lawrence.
Production
Sternberg would fulfill his movie contract for Metro with a crime drama, Sergeant Madden, with character actor Wallace Beery, a box-office favorite, in the lead role of New York City Patrolman Shawn Madden. The film was already in production when Sternberg arrived on the set.
The Sergeant Madden screenplay, based on a story by William A. Ullman entitled “A Gun in His Hand” was an “over-plotted potboiler paying sentimental tribute to ‘the cop on the beat’...”
Wallace Beery, a “Metro institution”, provided a reliable source of revenue for the corporation, despite his “tiresome screen performance.” When Sternberg attempted to elicit a more disciplined approach from Beery, the studio hierarchy instructed the director to cease his overly “demanding rehearsals.” Despite the Metro's interference “Beery’s performance in Sergeant Madden is one of the least maudlin in his gallery of indistinguishable character…
The film was released on March 24, 1939, and “did quite well.”
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