Jaque al rey

Jaque al rey (1935)

Whipsaw

Película con la que la Metro Goldwyn Mayer intentó competir con las obras maestras del género negro producidas por la Warner Bros. Para ello contó con sus dos estrellas más populares: Spencer Tracy y Myrna Loy. Él es un agente de policía infiltrado en una banda de malhechores. Ella, la chica del jefe de la banda, ve la oportunidad de abandonar la mala vida cuando se enamora del policía.

Fecha de estreno
1935-12-18
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (16)
Duración
1 h 22 min
Géneros
Crimen, Drama
Director
Sam Wood

Reparto

Curiosidades

Whipsaw is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. Written by Howard Emmett Rogers, based on a story by James Edward Grant, the film is about a government agent working undercover traveling across the country with an unsuspecting woman, hoping she will lead him to her gang of jewel thieves. The film was produced by Harry Rapf for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was released on December 18, 1935, in the United States.

Production

Initially the film was intended for the duo William Powell and Myrna Loy. When Powell proved unavailable, Spencer Tracy was called in.

Originally, the title of this movie was Unexpected Bride.

Shooting dates were October 22 to November 20, 1935.

In one scene, Myrna Loy appears without makeup, her hair unkempt. MGM executive E.J. Mannix chastised cinematographer James Wong Howe for shooting her that way, as MGM had spent a bankroll glamorizing Loy. Finally the scene was cut.

It was noted that Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy had an affair during the shooting, in the greatest secrecy. It was the first film of the two actors together. In her autobiography, Loy stated that Tracy, who had fallen in love with her, had harassed her during the filming. Rumors are that they had been romantically linked to the end of the filming, to resume a year later in Libeled Lady. Loy and Tracy would hide their affair.

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