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Fuoco alle spalle (1950)

Backfire

Un uomo è impegnato a ritrovare un amico accusato di omicidio. Seguendo i suoi ultimi spostamenti giunge ad una bisca, dove apprende da una ragazza che il ricercato ha involontariamente provocato il padrone del locale. È questi che tiene nascosto il rivale e tenta di uccidere anche l’amico, ma…

Data di uscita
1950-01-26
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (33)
Durata
1 h 31 min
Generi
Mistero, Crime, Thriller
Regista
Vincent Sherman

Cast

Curiosità

Backfire is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Vincent Sherman starring Virginia Mayo and Gordon MacRae, with Edmond O'Brien, Dane Clark, and Viveca Lindfors in support.

Production notes

Around 1946 or 1947, Warner Bros. Pictures had purchased the rights to a Larry Marcus story titled Into the Night. The studio tried to interest Vincent Sherman to direct the film adaptation, but he felt that the story was "confused and pointless" and refused. By the spring of 1948, Sherman wanted to work on a simple picture and asked studio head Jack L. Warner if he could adapt John Patrick's play The Hasty Heart into a film.

Sherman met with producer Anthony Veiller, who admitted that the story needed work. Veiller hired aspiring writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, although they considered themselves comedy writers. As Goff and Roberts continued to craft a screenplay. Sherman voiced his reservations to the studio, but Warner promised a favor in exchange for directing the film,

The shooting title of the film was changed from Into the Night to Somewhere in the City.

Warner intended for the film to be a B movie for his contract actors. However, he had six actors who were "sitting around doing nothing but picking up their checks", so he assigned them to the film. Into the Night was Edmond O'Brien's first film for the studio. Lindfors refused at first to participate, upset with what she felt was its excessive violence.

Sherman found Mayo to be nice and an extremely competent actress, but without much personal depth.

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