Puhelu tuntemattomalta

Original title: Phone Call from a Stranger

19521952
SS
1h 45m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.7K

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Drama Film-Noir

While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled ... Read allWhile awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.7K

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Director
- Jean Negulesco
Writers
- Nunnally Johnson(screenplay)
- I.A.R. Wylie(story)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Photos8

Bette Davis in Puhelu tuntemattomalta (1952)

Gary Merrill in Puhelu tuntemattomalta (1952)

Michael Rennie and Beatrice Straight in Puhelu tuntemattomalta (1952)

Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, and Michael Rennie in Puhelu tuntemattomalta (1952)

Trivia
The film was the third and final on-screen pairing of real life husband and wife Gary Merrill and Bette Davis. The other two pictures are Kaikki Eevasta (1950) and Toisen miehen myrkyt (1951).

Goofs
Behind the opening credits, the taxi that's taking Trask to the airport passes two movie theaters at least three times, as if the rear projection of stock footage was on a continuous loop. The movies playing at these theaters are "Homestretch" and "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," (at the McVickers), both released five years before this film. The McVickers was a well known Chicago theatrical site, but the taxi arrives at the MIDLAND CITY, IOWA airport, and a flight FROM Chicago is among those listed on the arrival schedule.

Quotes
Marie Hoke: Dull, foolish, vulgar to some but not to me. To me he was a man like a rock. Nothing could shake him. Nothing could shake his love. It was from him that I learned what love really was. Not a frail little fancy to be smashed and broken by pride and vanity and self pity. That's for children. That's for high school kids. But a rock as strong as life itself indestructible and eternal.

Connections
References Miehen rikos (1947)

Soundtracks
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
(uncredited)
Music by Gaston Lyle
Lyrics by George Leybourne
Sung by the passengers on the airplane

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Review

Featured review

9/10

One Phone Call You'd Never Want to Receive ***1/2

Surviving a plane crash and then going on to meet the families of those who did not. What an intriguing idea! How morbid, to say the least; but yet this is a well-done film mostly because of a fine ensemble cast.

Shelley Winters is one of the passengers who did not make it. Following a difficult life and breakup, she is one of the passengers who interacted with the survivor.

What do you say to the families at a time like this? How does one feel? Why did they survive the crash and the others did not? We face serious questions of ethics and moral values in this film.

Surprisingly, Bette Davis took a supporting role in this film. She is quite effective as the bedridden wife of one of the victims. No matter how large or small the part, Miss Davis always could figure it out!

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