Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his custody. The sadistic Widmark takes every opportunity to flaunt his control over Conte, but this only serves to deepen the relationship between Wilde and Lupino. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his custody. The sadistic Widmark takes every opportunity to flaunt his control over Conte, but this only serves to deepen the relationship between Wilde and Lupino. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Robert Karnes, Ian MacDonald, Clancy Cooper, Douglas Gerrard, Robert Foulk, Charles Flynn, Richard Widmark, Celeste Holm,... Very good. 2008 Run time: 95. DVD plays perfectly-original case in excellent condition-
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Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead. Fine in fine packaging. Language: English. Run time: 95 mins. Aspect ratio: 1.33: 1. Originally released: 1948. A fine copy in a fine case. 1 Disc.
The annual Noir City, D.C. Festival presented by the Film Noir Foundation returned to the big screen at the AFI Silver Theater after a year away due to the pandemic. I was eager to return to the Festival over the past weekend. I have become an admirer of film noir over the past several years, and I badly missed the Festival.
Today,... the Festival presented this 1948 film "Road House" which stars Ida Lupino, perennial bad guy Richard Widmark, and Cornel Wilde. The "Czar of Noir" and the Founder of the Film Noir Foundation, Eddie Muller, introduced the movie which was presented in a 35 mm print.
The story is set in a rural roadhouse, which includes a nightclub and a bowling alley, near the Canadian border. The proprietor, Jefty, (Widmark) has just hired a new singer from Chicago, Lily (Lupino). Both Widmark and his manager and boyhood friend Pete (Wilde) develop a strong passion for Lily. When she chooses Pete, the psychotic Jefty goes off the rails.He engineers a frame-up for a robbery followed by cascading violence, culminating in a shadowy scene in the woods two miles from Canada.
With the woman leading character, the film differs from most film noirs of the day. Ida Lupino is the highlight of this melodramatic story as she plays her role with style and passion. The best scenes occur with Lupino in the road house as she plays the piano and sings "One for my Baby (and One More for the Road)" and "Again" Neither the voice nor the piano were dubbed. They both are show-stopping numbers which succeed by virtue of Lupino's ability to present herself more than by the quality of her voice.
"Road House" is classic 1940s film noir. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to see the film in a beautiful theater at a Noir Festival, coming at what let us hope is the end of a pandemic, in the company of other lovers of film noir.
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