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A trio of exceptional performances by Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves. In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, Ford is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by Borgnine’s bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When he becomes the object of the attentions of the owner’s bored wife (Valerie French) and is entrusted with a ...
This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man’s particular brand of honor. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.
The Badlanders: Directed by Delmer Daves. With Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly. Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.
Director Delmer Daves puts in this trick to allow Bogart’s mug to be the ‘post-plastic surgery’ look of a wanted, on the lam criminal. Utterly nutty, but in devising this unique workaround, Daves uses subjective camerawork (aka ‘first person shooter perspective’) to greater success than any of his predecessors.
Delmer Daves est un scénariste, réalisateur, acteur et producteur américain, né le 24 juillet 1904 à San Francisco et mort le 17 août 1977 à La Jolla ().. Après avoir été figurant à la fin des années 1920, Delmer Daves devint scénariste et dialoguiste à Hollywood, travaillant notamment avec Frank Borzage, Ray Enright et Leo McCarey, pour lequel il signa les deux versions de Elle et lui (celle de 1939 et celle de 1957).
Mar 20, 2019 · Sandwiched between The Big Sleep and Key Largo, Delmer Daves’ innovative and suspenseful mystery-thriller caused barely a ripple at the box office upon its initial release. Maybe the gritty, post-war themes of isolation and paranoia hit too close to home, or the use of a subjective camera alienated audiences.
A diferencia de Vidor cuya versión de "Bird of Paradise" (1932) privilegia una mirada occidental, Delmer Daves, quizá un poco más en la línea de Murnau y su "Tabu" (1932), se dirige a algo más estructural en su versión de "Bird of Paradise": Pureza antecede a belleza, así como tradición a emoción.
