The Unsuspected.
(Sin sombra de sospecha)
(Usa, 1947) [B/N, 103 m.]
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Michael Curtiz.
Argumento: Charlotte Armstrong (novela).
Guión: Ranald MacDougall, Bess Meredyth.
Fotografía: Elwood Bredell.
Música: Franz Waxman.
Producción: Michael Curtiz, Charles Hoffman.
Productora: Michael Curtiz Productions, para Warner Bros. Pictures.
Sinopsis: Un criminólogo, que es también una estrella de la radio, se ve involucrado en un caso semejante a los que trata en su programa radiofónico. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un thriller de Michael Curtiz que muchos pasan por alto, entre otras cosas porque la carrera de este director tiene tantas obras maestras que sus títulos menores tienden a perderse tras el oropel de Casablanca, Alma en suplicio y muchas más. En este caso, Claude Rains es un famoso locutor de programas de misterio que se encuentra con eso mismo, un misterio sin resolver, en su propia casa: una muerta que vuelve de la tumba (como en Laura), un marido al que su mujer no reconoce, una lagarta que parece que se quiere quedar con todo… Vamos, lo habitual (TCM).
El director de Casablanca, entre los más de cien títulos que dirigió para el estudio de los hermanos Warner, construye aquí un film inquietante, gótico en su utilización de una mansión tan lujosa como siniestra, en la que un criminólogo, que es también una estrella de radio, se ve involucrado en uno de los mismos casos que transmite a su audiencia. Notable composición de Claude Rains, en uno de sus mejores trabajos (Diversica).
Poor Joan Caulfield, whom Warner Bros. had borrowed from Paramount, is all at sea playing the mystery woman in The Unsuspected, a pale imitation of Laura (1944). A cast of suspicious characters is once again admiring a portrait of a beautiful dead woman only to have the subject of the painting create havoc by returning very much alive. Like Gene Tierney before her, Caulfield cannot possibly live up to the intriguing buildup, but, unlike Tierney, she doesn't have Clifton Webb to make things interesting and is saddled with Claude Rains in one of his hammiest moods. And while Laura at least survived with some dignity from her ordeal, Joan's Matilda is soundly battered by such scene-stealers as Audrey Totter and, especially,Constance Bennett, who, in describing the venal Miss Totter remarks: "They should take her out more often and beat her like a rug." It is of course a professionally produced, directed, and performed melodrama that the brothers Warner present, but Charlotte Armstrong's original story, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1945, does not exactly bear close scrutiny. Although receiving introduction billing, leading man Michael North had actually appeared in films for at least seven years under the moniker of Ted North (AMG Review).
Michael Curtiz plays a sly game in The Unsuspected – a marvelous mystery that manages to preserve the venerable trappings of the English weekend-at-the-country-house murder (with some of the gimmickry that implies) while setting it amid a nest of Manhattan smart-mouths. He shows us who the murderer is in the first few minutes of the movie (and echoes his revelation several times) but does it so glancingly that it fails to register. And even if it did, The Unsuspected proves such a banquet of writing, acting and visual detail – such as the neon sign on a hotel in Peekskill flashing only its four last letters to a room inside – that it wouldn't be spoiled at all.
Looming shadows stalk through the baronial upstate manse of Victor Grandison (the ineffable Claude Rains), host of a wildly popular true-crime radio show. Next thing, his loyal secretary is hanging from a chandelier (an apparent suicide, but we know better). This ghastly occurrence doesn't faze the house's other occupants – his gold-digging niece (Audrey Totter) and her boozehound husband (Hurd Hatfield), possibly because Totter was on the phone with the victim as she uttered her last scream but never bothered to report it. Or it could be that everybody's still in shock over the loss of another niece (Joan Caulfield), who has perished in a ship's fire while crossing the Atlantic.
Into their lives strides a Mysterious Stranger (Ted North), claiming to be Caulfield's widower. He's received variously: Rains treats him with cordial suspicion, Hatfield with glum distaste (he had a thing for Caulfield, too) while Totter throws herself at him, `vibrating.' And then who should turn up, safe and reasonably sound, but Caulfield herself. The plot is admittedly a little complicated (made more so by the resemblance between North and Hatfield, with their bland, unhappy faces, and between Totter and Constance Bennett, who could pass as her older sister (playing the Eve Arden role of the wise-cracking spinster helpmate). But it's nothing that a few more homicides can't clear up....
With Casablanca and Mildred Pierce behind him, Curtiz was at the height of his powers for The Unsuspected, and Warners plainly gave him full rein for this lavish production. He's matched every step of the way by the wondrous Woody Bredell, who supplies richly detailed, always evocative cinematography (it's a smashing-looking movie). Nor does the script falter: Every line gleams with witty malice. Though Caulfield unfathomably gets top billing, she pales next to Rains and Totter in top form, with Bennett a close runner-up. The movie boasts just about everything.
Why, then, isn't it better known? Usually labeled film noir, it's really more of a high-style ‘40s sophisticated mystery, as was Otto Preminger's Laura (and, like Laura, it hinges on a beautiful young woman, presumed dead, who unexpectedly re-emerges). But while Laura receives reverent homage as an evergreen classic (`They don't make ‘em like that anymore'), The Unsuspected remains relatively unknown except to fans of the noir cycle
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Filmografía Michael Curtiz (Director)
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