Country: USA
Year: 1967
Duration: 108'
Rigid, troubled Sergeant Major Penderton (Marlon Brando) is married to beautiful, bad-tempered Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor), who despises him and has an affair with Lieutenant Colonel Langdon. The Sergeant Major’s forbidden desire is Private Williams who, in his turn, is obsessed with Penderton’s wife, spying on her when she is at home with tragic results. Lovers FF and Turin Film Festival rediscover one of the least known Brando films, in a kitsch, tragic melodrama, based on Carson McCullers’ novel and directed by movie master John Houston.
Festival
schedule
18
17.15
Cinema Massimo - Sala Soldati
Attending: Giulio Base, Torino Film Festival's Director.
Free entry
Biography
film director
John Huston
John Huston (1906 – 1987) is one of the acknowledged masters of classic Hollywood cinema. His most important and acclaimed films include The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, awarded for best direction both at the Oscars and at the Golden Globes), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1952), Moulin Rouge (1953), Moby Dick (1956), The Misfits (1961), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Fat City (1972), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987).
Cast
& Credits
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay Gladys Hill, Chapman Mortimer
Montaggio/Editing Russell Lloyd
Fotografia/Photography Aldo Tonti
Scenografia/Production Design Stephen B. Grimes
Suono/Sound John Cox, Basil Fenton-Smith
Musica/Music Toshiro Mayuzumi
Interpreti/Cast Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris
Produttore/Producer John Huston, Ray Stark
Produzione/Production John Huston, Ray Stark
Distribuzione/Distribution Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Montaggio/Editing Russell Lloyd
Fotografia/Photography Aldo Tonti
Scenografia/Production Design Stephen B. Grimes
Suono/Sound John Cox, Basil Fenton-Smith
Musica/Music Toshiro Mayuzumi
Interpreti/Cast Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris
Produttore/Producer John Huston, Ray Stark
Produzione/Production John Huston, Ray Stark
Distribuzione/Distribution Warner Bros.-Seven Arts