CELULOIDE SECRETO, OUTROS VIESES! Este vagão do Expresso do Oriente, sob o comando do Prof Ms João Paulo de Oliveira, um insulso ser vivente em busca do conhecimento e do bem viver sem véus, tem como escopo versar sobre existencialismo, cultura e memória, alicerçado no viés da filósofa Hannah Arendt: "As ideias se estilhaçam frente à realidade". Como é aterrorizante ter ciência da dura realidade de viver sob a égide do "Mito das Cavernas"...
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ResponderExcluirFallen Angel (Anjo ou demónio (título em Portugal) ou Anjo ou demônio? (título no Brasil)) é um filme norte americano de 1945, do gênero suspense em estilo preto e branco, dirigido por Otto Preminger e com roteiro de Harry Kleiner, baseado em uma história de Marty Holland.
Destaque para a fotografia em preto & branco de Joseph LaShelle, que havia trabalhado com o mesmo diretor no clássico Laura, realizado no ano anterior.
O trapaceiro bem falante Eric Stanton é obrigado a pernoitar na pequena cidade de Walton, pois ficara sem dinheiro para completar a passagem de autocarro até São Francisco, que distava cerca de 200 quilômetros. Ele vai tomar um café na lanchonete do Pop que ainda não fechara pelo facto do proprietário estar conversando com a polícia, preocupado com o desaparecimento da garçonete Stella.
A garçonete chega à lanchonete para alívio de Pop e sua beleza imediatamente chama a atenção de Stanton. Mais tarde, após ajudar alguns vigaristas que enganavam as pessoas se passando por videntes e receber um pagamento, ele volta à lanchonete e tenta convencer Stella a ir embora com ele. Apesar de atraída, a problemática moça reluta pois não gosta dele em virtude de não ser possuidor de grande soma de dinheiro estar. Stanton então planeja um golpe a duas irmãs ricas da cidade, tentanto conseguir uma boa soma para fugir com Stella, que concorda em esperar alguns dias.
Mas quando Stella aparece morta e o plano de Stanton é descoberto pelas irmãs, as coisas começam a dar errado para ele e se complicam definitivamente quando se torna o principal suspeito do assassinato da garçonete.
O Inspector Pardal adora filmes de suspense e neste viu na garçonete a Lambisgoia e colaborou com a polícia para a descoberta do criminoso.
Abraço amigo
Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), a down-on-his-luck drifter, gets pulled off a bus at the small hamlet of Walton because he does not have the $2.25 extra fare to take him to San Francisco. He finds a greasy spoon called Pop's Eats, where Pop (Percy Kilbride) is worried about waitress Stella (Linda Darnell) because she has not shown up for work for days. Ex-New York cop Mark Judd (Charles Bickford) tells him not to worry. Sure enough, the sultry Stella returns soon after. Stanton (like the others) is attracted to her, but she is unimpressed by his smooth talk and poverty.
ResponderExcluirStella and Pop in Pop's Eats, while Stanton waits outside
Stanton cons his way into a reserved hotel room to sleep by pretending to know Professor Madley (John Carradine), a traveling fortune-teller. Stanton talks his way into a job with Madley. It turns out that no one is willing to buy tickets to the "spook act" because influential local spinster Clara Mills (Anne Revere) disapproves. Stanton gets to Clara through her inexperienced younger sister June (Alice Faye) and persuades them to attend the performance.
Madley puts on an entertaining séance to a large audience, ending the show by channeling Abraham Mills, the deceased father of Clara and June. Using information secretly dug up by his assistant Joe Ellis (an uncredited Olin Howland), Madley brings up the sisters' financial problems. The two leave the séance quite upset.
Meanwhile, Stanton gets to know Stella, watching her steal from the cash register and go out with men. Stanton falls in love with her. She, however, makes it clear that she wants a man who is willing to marry her and give her a home. He is so obsessed with her that he agrees to her terms.
To raise the money he needs to satisfy Stella, Eric romances and marries June, planning to divorce her as soon as he can. Clara, who has been burned by a man of Stanton's type, is unable to prevent their marriage. However, Stanton cannot stay away from Stella even on his wedding night. Instead of sleeping with his wife, he goes to see Stella. She has heard the news and has given up on him, but he explains his odd scheme. By the time he returns to his wife, she has fallen asleep, so he settles in for the night on the sofa.
The next day, Stella turns up dead. Judd is asked by the local police chief to investigate. He first tries to beat a confession out of Dave Atkins (Bruce Cabot), Stella's latest boyfriend, but Atkins has an airtight alibi. Stanton is also a strong suspect, having been seen quarreling with Stella shortly before her death. Judd tells him not to leave town.
Stanton flees to a seedy hotel room in San Francisco with June. He tells her all about his drifter's life of failed schemes. June tells Stanton that she loves him. The next day, June is taken into custody when she goes to the bank to withdraw her money.
Stanton returns to Pop's Eats, where Judd is waiting for him. Stanton proves Judd is the killer. Judd found out that Stella had agreed to marry someone else rather than wait for his wife to give him a divorce. Judd pulls out his gun, but Pop wrestles it away, and Judd is arrested. Outside, when June asks Stanton where they are going, he tells her, "Home."