The Lady in Question (Charles Vidor, 1940) [RePoPo] DUAL

******************************************************************************* The Lady in Question (Charles Vidor, 1940) ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type..................: Movie Container file........: AVI Video Format..........: XviD Total Bitrate.........: 2289Kb/s Audio format..........: MP3 (CBR 128kb/s) Audio Languages.......: English 1.0, Spanish 1.0 Subtitles Ripped......: Spanish (Forced only) Subtitles in Subpack..: Portuguese Resolution............: 688x512 Aspect Ratio..........: 1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio.: 1.37:1 Color.................: B&W FPS...................: 25.000 Source................: Pal DVD Duration..............: 1:16:32 Genre.................: Comedy, Drama IMDb Rating...........: 6.5 Movie Information.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032686/ Filmaffinity..........: http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film421420.html Allmovie..............: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis: Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian family. Summoned for jury duty, Morestan at first believes that accused murderess Natalie Rougin (Rita Hayworth) is guilty, but eventually takes pity on the homeless girl and invites her to live with his family after her acquittal. Things get pretty dicey when Morestan's impressionable young son Pierre (Glenn Ford) falls in love with the enigmatic Natalie and begins committing petty crimes to finance their elopement-leading to a situation not unlike the one that got the girl arrested in the first place! In the original Gribouille, it was abundantly clear that both father and son had a yen for their pretty guest, but this menage a trois has been toned down in the Hollywood version, with Morestan remaining more or less faithful to his long-suffering wife Michelle (Irene Rich, Filmaffinity). CAST: Glenn Ford - Pierre Morestan Rita Hayworth - Natalie Rouguin Brian Aherne - Andre Morestan Irene Rich - Michele Morestan George Coulouris - Defense Attorney Lloyd Corrigan - Prosecuting Attorney Evelyn Keyes - Francoise Morestan Edward Norris - Robert LaCoste Curt Bois - Henri Lurette Frank Reicher - President of the Court Sumner Getchell - Fat Boy Nicholas Bela - Nicholas Farkas Louis Adlon - Court Clerk Ronald Alexander - Juror Leon Belasco - Barber Mary Bovard - Miss Morlet Dorothy Burgess - Antoinette James B. Carson - Wine Salesman William Castle - Juror George Davis - Customer Vernon Dent - Gendarme Fern Emmett - Nathalie Roguin Harrison Greene - Jury Foreman Carlton Elliott Griffin Earl Gunn - Angry Juror Eddie Laughton - Bit Theodore Lorch - Juror Hamilton MacFadden - Guard Alex Palasthy Ralph Peters - Pedestrian Frank Pharr - Juror Fred Rapport - Alternate Juror Jack Raymond - Expressman Jack Rice - Newly Married Juror William Stack - Mariner Julius Tannen - Judge Emma Tansey - Flower Woman CREW: Charles Vidor - Director B.B. Kahane - Producer Lewis Meltzer - Screenwriter Lucien Andriot - Cinematographer Lucien Moraweck - Composer (Music Score) Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score) Al Clark - Editor Lionel Banks - Production Designer Ray Howell - Costume Designer Robert Kalloch - Costume Designer William Knight - Makeup Charles C. Coleman, Jr. - First Assistant Director SOME REVIEWS: Based on the French film Gribouille, a juror gives the woman acquitted a job and a room while lying to his wife, and his son falls in love with her. Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) leaves his bicycle shop for jury duty. Brash Andre is an alternate juror. Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth) is charged with murder, and the victim got her an apartment. Andre replaces an ill juror. Natalie says the victim Gilbert struck her, was drunk, and tried to kill her; she struggled to get his gun. His father testifies that Gilbert took money from him for her. Andre asks a pertinent question. At home Francois Morestan (Evelyn Keyes) asks her father Andre if she can marry Robert LaCoste (Edward Norris). Another woman calling herself Natalie Roguin testifies Gilbert threatened to kill her but was not drunk. The jury cannot agree, and Andre argues she must be acquitted. When he explains, they agree. Andre tells her lawyer he will help her. Andre trades a tandem for two bikes, and his wife Michele Morestan (Irene Rich) complains. Natalie calls Andre, and he goes to meet her. Natalie says she can't get work. Andre offers her a job in his shop and a room; but he tells Michele she is a friend's daughter. Andre's son Pierre Morestan (Glenn Ford) sees it is Natalie. Francois says Pierre is in love. Pierre finds Natalie reading his astronomy book. Michele hears Natalie talking Hungarian. Andre tries to keep juror Lurette (Curt Bois) from seeing Natalie. Lurette tells Michele they made a mistake on the case, and Andre tells Lurette not to come back. Robert wants to teach Natalie how to dance. Andre is worried but reassures Natalie. Andre tells Michele that she spoke a dialect, not Hungarian. At dinner they discuss the murder case, and Natalie goes out, followed by Pierre, who tells her he knows who she is and advises her to leave. Natalie defends Andre, and Pierre shows her the moon and Venus. In church Lurette sees Andre with Natalie, who leaves. Pierre tells Natalie she will be his wife. Pierre tells Andre he is going to marry Natalie, but Andre says no. Robert tells Natalie that Lurette informed him who she is. Robert tries to kiss her, and jealous Pierre fights Robert until Andre stops them. Michele learns about Natalie, and Francois cries. Pierre takes money; but Natalie says good-bye and that she does not love him. Andre accuses Pierre of robbing him and breaks a cupid on Natalie's head. Michele keeps Andre from telling a policeman. Michele doesn't want Pierre to leave and says she'll go too. Andre tells Lurette he was right, and Lurette tells him to go to the court. Andre does and learns that evidence proved her innocent. Andre tells Lurette that Natalie will be his daughter-in-law. This comedy-drama shows the power a beautiful woman has to motivate men to do good and bad things. (Sanderson Beck) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a remake of the 1937 French film Gribouille ("Heart of Paris"). The stagy droll family drama/comedy is directed by Charles Vidor ("Gilda"/"Cover Girl"/"Ladies in Retirement"). It's the first teaming up of the charismatic Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth duo. Writer Lewis Meltzer bases it on the story by Marcel Achard. Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) is the good-natured, middle-aged bourgeois shopkeeper patriarch of a Parisian family. His stern wife Michele (Irene Rich) looks upon him with disdain that he's so gleeful about going on jury duty and not being in his bicycle shop. His naive daughter Francois (Evelyn Keyes) wants his permission to marry pretentious dance instructor Robert LaCoste (Edward Norris), while his son Pierre (Glenn Ford) would rather watch his dad on jury duty than mind the store. When a juror gets sick, alternate juror Andre replaces him on the trial of Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth). She's a young woman of questionable repute accused of murdering her lover who put her up in an apartment. The death, she says, resulted when he was drunk and struck her; in the struggle to knock away his gun, it accidently discharged. Most of the jury believes she's a liar and is guilty, but the overbearing Andre convinces them there's doubt and they acquit her. Andre feels sorry for her, and tells that to her lawyer (George Coulouris). He then offers her a job in the shop and a room, and disguises her identity by saying she's the daughter of an old friend. Pierre believes his father was fooled by Nancy, but falls in love with her anyway. This leads to many domestic complications that have to be straightened out, including Andre now feeling he made a mistake about Nancy's innocence. It serves as a showcase for Rita. But the film veers awkwardly from comedy to drama, and seems vacuous as it's more about the beauty of Rita causing men to make fools of themselves than anything else. (Dennis Schwartz) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Lady in Question marked the first pairing of Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It firmly established their onscreen relationship. In this movie, as well as in Gilda and Affair in Trinidad, Hayworth plays a woman with a mystery about her that drives Ford to distraction. As the movie opens, bicycle shop owner, Andre gets called to jury duty and eagerly races off to do his civic duty. His wife and, college aged, son and daughter find his enthusiasm for jury duty amusing. Andre finds himself sitting on a jury in which Hayworth is accused of killing a man, with whom she may or may not have been a mistress to. In a ridiculous way, Andre helps to get Hayworth acquitted. He then offers the poor, innocent girl a job at his bicycle shop to help her out. He lies to his family that she is the daughter of an old friend. Ford, however, knows who she really is, but it's too late for him to tell mom as he has, of course, fallen in love with her. Sure it is one of those love at first sight things, but hey, it is Rita Hayworth. Rita would go on to become the hottest sex symbol of the 1940's. It happened after she started appearing in musicals where she was all dolled up in glamorous clothes, dancing around showing some skin. In The Lady in Question, Hayworth wears very conservative, I am too demure to be guilty, clothes. She walks around acting very melancholy. She is a mere shadow of her future mass appeal as a movie star. Ford made a dozen unmemorable movies before serving as a Marine in World War II. This movie being one of them. His first film after coming back to Hollywood was opposite Hayworth in the classic Gilda. The first thing you notice about Ford, if you can actually tear yourself away from Hayworth, is just how much older he looks in Gilda than in The Lady in Question. Whereas Hayworth got sexier, Ford just got older. In their first movie, Ford is a baby faced rube. In Gilda, he is a mature man with some life experiences. Was it his acting, or did the war play it's part? Either way, The Lady in Question is more of a foot note in the pairing of Hayworth and Ford than it is an actual movie worth seeing. (Eric Nash) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check you have installed the right codecs, as listed in this .nfo file, before trying to play it. VLC will play this file without having to install any codec. If you don't like the codec(s), container, resolution, file size, languages or any technical aspect on this rip, keep it to yourself and go and do your own. 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