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Director:
José Ferrer
Writers:
Ketti Frings (writer)
Joseph A. Kramm (play)
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Release Date:
21 June 1955 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually... more | add synopsis
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Actress June Allyson Dies at 88
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Actress June Allyson Dies at 88
 (From WENN. 10 July 2006)
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Cast

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José Ferrer ... Jim Downs

June Allyson ... Ann Downs

Joy Page ... Charlotte Moore
Kendall Clark ... Dr. R.S. Bellman
Isabel Bonner ... Dr. Barrow
Jay Barney ... Dr. Kramer
Somar Alberg ... Dr. Schlesinger

Edward Platt ... Harry Downs
Richard Benedict ... Gregory, Male Nurse
Herbie Faye ... Tager
Martin Benedict ... Jimmy
Will Kuluva ... John Ankortis
Martin Newman ... Carlos O'Brien
Billy Greene ... Schloss
Joe Comadore ... Major
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Universal International Pictures (UI) more

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Trivia:
The original Broadway production of "The Shrike" by Joseph A. Kramm opened on January 15, 1952 at the Cort Theater, ran for 161 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1952. more

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Personal reflections and memories, 16 October 2005
9/10
Author: admacd from United States

I saw the movie about 50 years ago. A friend of mine, who had seen the play on Broadway, told me that his mother and her bridge club had journeyed from New Jersey to NYC to see it in a matinée performance, and she told him, as I remember, "We girls found it one-sided." My friend was a full fledged alcoholic by the age of twenty. He found the movie too true to be good, if I may put it so.

I loved June Alyson ever since I had seen her in Singing in the Rain and the movie, the Shrike, has always stayed with me, in part because I found it puzzling the one time I saw it. I would really like to see it again; only the passage of time leads me to give it a "9" rather than a "10".

Many strong images from the film remain in my memory: the squalid 12 x 6 hotel room lit by a bare bulb hanging like fly paper from the ceiling in which the attempted suicide took place; the impassive face of the psychiatrist listening to the wife's (shrike's) analysis of her husband; her shock when the shrink asks her whether she has sought therapeutic help for herself; and some other moments, too.

It may be one of the great movies. It seems to have been lost to memory. How can I get to see it again?

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