Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Writers:

Oscar Saul (screen play) &
James Gunn (screen play) ...
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Release Date:

29 July 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller

Plot:

Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.

Plot Keywords:

Seduction | Trinidad | Caribbean | Woman Slaps Man | Place Name In Title

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Rita Hayworth	...	Chris Emery
Glenn Ford	...	Steve Emery
Alexander Scourby	...	Max Fabian
Valerie Bettis	...	Veronica Huebling
Torin Thatcher	...	Inspector Smythe
Howard Wendell	...	Anderson
Karel Stepanek	...	Walters
George Voskovec	...	Doctor Franz Huebling
Steven Geray	...	Wittol
Walter Kohler	...	Peter Bronec
Juanita Moore	...	Dominique
Gregg Martell	...	Olaf, Fabian's Chauffeur
Mort Mills	...	Martin, Wittol's Henchman
Ralph Moody	...	Coroner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fred Baker	...	Baker - Airport Clerk (uncredited)
Don Blackman	...	The Bobby (uncredited)
Robert Boon	...	Pilot (uncredited)
Ivan Browning	...	Fisherman (uncredited)
James Conaty	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Ross Elliott	...	Corpse of Neal Emery (uncredited)
Calvin Emery	...	Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Joel Fluellen	...	Fisherman Jeffrey Mabetes (uncredited)
Roy Glenn	...	Fisherman (uncredited)
Jo Ann Greer	...	Chris Emery (singing voice) (uncredited)
Don Kohler	...	Jimmy Peters - Reporter (uncredited)
Charles MacNiles	...	Calypso Singer (uncredited)
Harold Miller	...	Cafe Table Extra (uncredited)
Kathleen O'Malley	...	Stewardess (uncredited)
Leonidas Ossetynski	...	Refugee (uncredited)
John Parlow	...	Butler (uncredited)
Franz Roehn	...	Refugee (uncredited)
John Sherman	...	Englishman (uncredited)
Bert Stevens	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Albert Szabo	...	Butler (uncredited)

Directed by
Vincent Sherman

Writing credits
Oscar Saul		(screen play) &
James Gunn		(screen play)
Virginia Van Upp		(story) &
Berne Giler		(story) (as Bernie Giler)

Produced by
Vincent Sherman	....	producer
Rita Hayworth	....	producer (uncredited)
Virginia Van Upp	....	associate producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
George Duning		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Joseph Walker		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Viola Lawrence

Art Direction by
Walter Holscher

Set Decoration by
William Kiernan

Costume Design by
Jean Louis		(gowns)

Makeup Department
Clay Campbell	....	makeup artist
Helen Hunt	....	hair stylist
Robert J. Schiffer	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sam Nelson	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Lodge Cunningham	....	sound engineer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Joan Joseff	....	costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department
George Duning	....	musical director
Morris Stoloff	....	musical director
Saul Chaplin	....	vocal arranger (uncredited)
Arthur Morton	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Other crew
Valerie Bettis	....	choreographer: Rita Hayworth's numbers
Jackson Leighter	....	executive consultant: Beckworth Corp.

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• The Beckworth Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1952) (USA) (theatrical)
• LK-TEL Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (Greece) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | Australia:PG

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The production of "Affair in Trinidad" is credited to the Beckworth Corporation, named for Rita Hayworth and her daughter Rebecca Welles, but Beckworth wasn't an actual production company. It was a tax dodge set up by Hayworth and Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn to allow her fee for the film to be considered a capital gain rather than a salary, and therefore taxed at a lower rate.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Steve returns to his brother's house with Chris after the inquest, the black wreath that had previously been on the front door is missing as they get out of the car but reappears as they approach the door.

Quotes:

Max Fabian:At the risk of dislocating your personality, try to remain calm.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady (2000) (V)

Soundtrack:

I've Been Kissed Before

Glenn Ford and Rita hayworth go down the "NOTORIOUS" path

This highly entertaining movie was the return of Rita Hayworth to the screen after a brief flirtation with married life and screen retirement. For her comeback, to establish back with the graces of the movie buying public, she is teamed with Glenn Ford who starred with her in her biggest and most popular hit Gilda. This was no guarantee for box office magic because an even bigger budgeted movie "Carmen" starring the aforementioned tanked in 1948. But that was a unoperatic take on the famous opera story Carmen with a woefully miscast Glenn Ford in a Tyrone Power like role. Avoid that movie. But going back here to the mystery and intrigue of Gilda, this movie was a box office hit unlike the earlier comment mistakenly claimed and was one of the 23 biggest hits of its year. ( I don't know the exact rank). And Glenn Ford was wooed away from Columbia by MGM with a bigger paycheck and Hayworth stayed on at Columbia through the late fifties. The plot a mismash of Notorious and the earlier Gilda as Hayworth plays the temptress who is really an innocent who all men cannot resist. Her husband is murdered and his brother shows up to find things more fishy than they really are. One thing about Hayworth, she could hoof for sure and sell sex through dance and the two musical numbers are a delight. Forlorn shadows, dark passages, whispers in the dark follow as Vincent Sherman, a true craftsman, if not an auteur (I do not believe an auteur is superior to a craftsman. An auteur just has a regular theme in the movies he/she directs.) brings sharp direction and well-earned suspense to this fine movie. Catch it whenever it airs or better, just rent it.