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22 September 1948 (USA)
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A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him. full summary | add synopsis
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Lupino is terrific
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(Complete credited cast) | Ida Lupino | ... | Lily Stevens |
 | Cornel Wilde | ... | Pete Morgan |
 | Celeste Holm | ... | Susie Smith |
 | Richard Widmark | ... | Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins |
| O.Z. Whitehead | ... | Arthur |
| Robert Karnes | ... | Mike |
| George Beranger | ... | Lefty |
| Ian MacDonald | ... | Police captain |
| Grandon Rhodes | ... | Judge |
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95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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In a 1969 interview, director Jean Negulesco recalled that when Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck gave him the assignment to direct Road House, Zanuck told him, "This is a bad script. Three directors have refused it. They don't know what they're doing, because basically it's quite good. Remember those pictures we used to make at Warner Bros., with Pat O'Brien and Jimmy Cagney, in which every time the action flagged we staged a fight and every time a man passed a girl she'd adjust her stocking or something, trying to be sexy? That's the kind of picture we have to have with 'Road House.'"
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Referenced in Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
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THE RIGHT KIND
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Lupino gives a premier league performance. Take her rendition of "One for My Baby, One More For The Road": it's an object lesson in how a conventionally beautiful voice is NOT required in order to triumph as a singer. Although she croaks the number rather than sings it, she acts it as if the character has felt every ounce of suffering in the lyric - and then some.