The setting – Hollywood, the players – Director Walter, Actress Sherry, and Boyfriend Ronnie, the story – a movie within a movie...It all starts out with a simple audition...
Another beautifully executed story by the auteur, Hugo Haas, despite, or because of, its low budget. I made significant improvements to the audio and video for your viewing pleasure! One bad thing leads to another - enjoy your journey behind the curtain...
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The Other Woman is a 1954 American film noir written, produced, and directed by Hugo Haas. It also stars Hugo Haas, along with Cleo Moore, John Qualen, Jan Arvan, and Lance Fuller.
Starring
Stars: Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, John Qualen, Jan Arvan, Lance Fuller
Director: Hugo Haas
Writers & Screenplay: Hugo Haas
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Tagline
... Every Man She Touched - She Destroyed!
Filming Location
Kling Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
Reviews
An Underestimated Director at his Best - IMDB Review by ilprofessore-1 - Nov 25, 2016 ⭐7/10
Hugo Haas, born in Czechoslovakia but driven out of his country by Hitler, immigrated to the United States. He is a curious figure in the history of independent American film. Rather like his contemporary Sam Fuller, he produced, wrote, and directed any number of low-budget films, often released under the banner of a major studio, but apparently with little studio interference. Unlike other auteurs, he was completely in charge of the product; in Hass' case, the standard "B" picture thriller on the lower half of the double feature.
Haas usually played the male role in his films: that of a bewildered middle-aged and slightly overweight European, the unwilling victim of a sleek, sexy, but thoroughly cold-blooded American woman, living by her wits, out to get some poor sucker's money in any way possible. Cleo Moore or Beverly Michaels usually played the archetypical blonde; neither by Hollywood standards conventional beauties, more like George Grocz caricatures of femme fatales. There is no doubt that Haas was a serious filmmaker, very ambitious despite his limited budgets; one, however, that neither the newspaper critics in the United States nor, more surprisingly, the Cahier du Cinema gang chose to embrace.
This film is probably his best, because it offers, in addition to a conventional blackmail plot, a backstage look at the real Poverty Row Hollywood with its thrown-together sets, offices, cutting rooms and out-of-work actors. In the story, Hass is an émigré director, married to the daughter of the head of a big studio, played here perfectly by Jack Macy, who for once actually looks and sounds like a typical mogul of the time. No Walter Pidgeon, he. There are some unusual exchanges between Haas and Macy about what makes for a commercial film. The dialogue comes from the heart, Haas's. Well worth watching.
IMDB Review Snippet by blanche-2
Cleo, a blond sexpot in the Monroe tradition, has the street-wise femme fatale down and looks fantastic. Married at one time to Huey Long's son, she actually ran for Governor of Louisiana in 1956 (a publicity stunt).
Moore quit movies in 1961 when she married a multimillionaire. She certainly was a better actress than the character she played. Sadly, she died young and didn't live to see the cult status she achieved in the '80s, which continues.
Reception (critical response)
Film critic Dennis Schwartz dismissed the film as "...a dull film noir, suffering from an unconvincing plot, and dry acting." Cinema scholar Milan Hain is much more sympathetic to the film. "The Other Woman is Haas' most ambitious film, with many themes and motifs mirroring his own career: life in exile characterised by disillusionment and entrapment, loss of one's identity and social status, hopeless struggle with the Hollywood machinery, and the impossibility of fully realising one's artistic visions."
Subtitles
For SDH subtitles (with audio captions), choose English US, for standard subtitles, choose English UK, YouTube should translate those into other languages quite well. I added original subtitles in other languages too, and can translate them into another language, just ask in a comment...
PERFORMANCE:
0:00:00 REEL ONE
0:20:00 REEL TWO
0:40:00 REEL THREE
1:00:00 REEL FOUR
Main Cast:
Hugo Haas as Walter Darman
Cleo Moore as Sherry Stewart
Lance Fuller as Ronnie
Lucille Barkley as Mrs. Lucille Darman
Jack Macy as Charles Lester
John Qualen as Papasha
Jan Arvan as Police Inspector Collins
Karolee Kelly as Marion
Technical Details:
Produced by Hugo Haas
Cinematography Eddie Fitzgerald
Edited by Robert S. Eisen
Music by Ernest Gold
Production Company Hugo Haas Productions
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date December 2, 1954 (United States)
Running Time 81 minutes
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1
Colour Process B&W
Country United States
Language English
Thanks to the invaluable IMDB, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia for much of this information.
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