La forteresse

La forteresse (1947)

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

Date of release
1947-04-22
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director
Fyodor Otsep

Casting

Interesting facts

Whispering City is a 1947 Canadian black-and-white film noir directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, and Helmut Dantine. It was filmed on location in Quebec City and Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada in both English and French.

Production

Faced with the dilemma that the French market in Quebec was too small to support a self-sustaining film industry all by itself, while the language barrier between Quebec and the anglophone market in the rest of North America made it virtually impossible for a Quebec-produced film to pursue wider distribution, producer Paul L'Anglais tried to resolve the difficulty by producing Whispering City and La Forteresse as English and French versions of th…

The film's $750,000 budget made it the most expensive film ever made in Canada as of that time, a title it retained until the early 1970s.

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