Delmer Daves’ film, with the beautiful and perfect couple Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue, tells the nightlife of two boys in 50’s respectable America
Il melodrama still commands the cinema and the big festivals court him, Locarno with Douglas Sirk, Venice opens with the “Henry King” of Stella Dallas restored by MoMa. Is worth to review also a vintage piece that looks prehistoric but that in ’59, the year of “Suddenly last summer”conquered the teenagers thanks also to the hypnotic song of the single that broke into the juke box before the film.
“Scandal in the sun” is the flour of the master of melò Delmer Daves, photographed in organic nature style by the great Harry Stradling Sr., with a couple in technicolor-toothpaste-tennis, the beautiful and perfect Sandra Deelipstick ringlets and perm, and the vitamin Troy Donahuethat year together also in the “Mirror of life”. It tells of one scandalous holiday-night escapade of two boys in bourgeois and respectable America in the 50s, with a fake consolatory final: “Love and serenity are the weapons of angels».
The film lives emotionally on lights, colors, nature and very lyrical eroticism. Also because the real scandal they are their respective parents, former shark-mouthed lifeguard Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire who loved each other at the time. The night away from home unleashes storm: immediately to the gynecologist, as in Germi’s films, while all the Freudian complexes and the soundtrack of the great begins to heat up Max Steiner who always uses his violins for those he loves.
Today obsolete but therefore curious today in generational comparisonthe film by Daves, author of excellent western come “That train to Yuma”has all the dramatic stakes in the right place and obeys the parameters from codice Haysbelonging to an era in which fathers gave minks to their daughters and remains an example for many soap opera that will follow. But then a small scandal, enlarged by marketing e box officethere was really thanks to the usual bacchettoni that they pretended upset.
Scandal in the sun, by Delmer Daves
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August 18, 2022 (change August 18, 2022 | 21:56)
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