"ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW" (1959) - PT. 1 OF 3
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959) (Director: Robert Wise) (Music: The Modern Jazz Quartet) - Pt. 1 of 3 - Three men in desperate financial straits plan a bank robbery. An added theme is racism, as one of the men is African-American, and another a Southern racist. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Sr., Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame, Kim Hamilton (Ruth Ingram), Lois Thorne (Eadie Ingram), Mel Stewart (elevator operator), Will Kuluva (Bacco), Richard Bright (Coco), Mae Barnes (Annie - nightclub singer), Robert Earl Jones (James' dad), and Cicily Tyson. (For more cast info: www.imdb.com/ti....
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I forgot about that opening with Robert Ryan - that set his character up so well. This is a great movie, but everything with Mr. Belafonte's name on it is outstanding.
Why doesn't this great movie have more views?
Thanks Jack - probably the volume level? LOL.
Point well taken.
Jack Grattan Top ten noirs, if this late period can still be called noir, of all time, and a great film either way, but I also believe this is pan n scan vs. the original wide screen. This film should be enjoyed in original framing.
J.T. Dockery Any movie with lines like "You're looking for a hole in the fence, just like everybody else" and "We could take it with a water pistol" is well above the noir threshold!
I'm with you. I'm only meaning to allude to the fact that some obsessives like to argue whether a movie like this is noir in the classic cycle, or more like one of the first neo noirs, along with other late fifties/early sixties movies like TOUCH OF EVIL. I could care less about such distinctions, myself. "The gun is in my head, that's where it is," is a line that's stuck to my ribs ever since I first saw it. Recently scored a copy of the Modern Jazz Quartet's soundtrack on vinyl.
In my opinion, this was Belafonte's best screen work by far. And this is but another of Ed Begley's numerous fine performances.
I think* out of all three Belafonte does the strongest performance, his character is embattled with major lifestyle challenges. For example, he pulls up in a sports car to go inside and meet Ed Bagley in his crowded apartment to basically in list and become a part of a doomed from the start* plan to rob an upstate bank that handles a lot of small bills to pay the workers that next morning. It's a difficult crime that the character' Ed Bagley plans and describes to the two of them. Both Harry Bellefonte* and Robert Ryan are in financial crisis and end up willing to take part in the fatalistic plan
THIS looks great! Just look at the line up! Cicely Tyson?! Wow!
Poor Robert Ryan! A pacifist, a fierce opponent of McCarthyism and a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, he kept getting cast as a soldier, an anti-Communist and a bigot. He was nominated for an Oscar playing a pathological anti-Semite in Crossfire. He talked about the disconnect between his personal beliefs and the roles Hollywood gave him.
Yes in real life, he was a quiet intellectual who felt a sort of guilt throughout his life. Going through his biography, I get the sense that he probably didn't think he deserved success.
Great film...!
And thank you for uploading it of course ( :
@@michaelpessin7233 Appreciate that Michael - you're very welcome.
Robert Ryan's so amazing -well every actor in this picture is
"Never had a wife" Tragic admission and so the dog Ulee was his only companion. He was betrayed by his own crew but he would not abandon his heist crew and threw them his keys as his last act of allegiance.
This is a dark move, with good acting and a fine plot.
WOW. THANKS!
"Skating in Central Park" music cue by John Lewis (a tune that became a minor jazz standard) starts about 35:08.
(Cont'd) Julie Robinson, Mrs. Belafonte, was a tremendous actress. She kept in the shadow of her famous husband. But those of us who watched her play a Native American woman in a movie whose name I've forgotten wish that she had devoted more time to acting, thus opening opportunities for her children by Belafonte. I remember Robinson playing the Native American woman with great authority and style consistent with the ethnicity of the character. I was deeply wounded to learn of her divorce from Belafonte, as they had gone through a helluva lot together, having been married at a time such a marital arrangement was unpopular. As a Caucasian, Robinson got a third dimensional view of life in black America, not only for having been married to Belafonte but also as a lead dancer for the wonder choreographer/anthropologist, Katherine Dunham.
***** Yeah. Robinson must still be an interesting person you'd like to see more of. Certainly strange that a break took place in a marriage that should've been sealed in blood due to what they must've shared together as a mixed couple during those days and sometimes even today. It broke my heart to read that they had divorced. So much shared history together. Martin Luther King, Jr., among a host of other historical events. The death of formal apartheid (informal still in place).
Julie Robinson starred in Buck and The Preacher as Sinise wife of a chief opposite Poitier and Belafonte, otherwise films she was in a dancer in Mambo opposite Shelley Winter, Silvano Mangano,and michael Rennie along with the Dunham Dance Troupe,Lustre for Life with Kirk Douglas for she had two scenes only watch for it and she dance before the now late Vic Damone in Kismet. Yes I was sadden to know that HARRY and Julie had split. But Ms. Robinson continues to be active in the world of arts and dance and civil rights and looks fantastic as ever. I wish her continued success as well as Mr. Belafonte.
Robert Ryan was such an incredible actor...
Ryan was brilliant because of the humanity he injected. You hate his character and yet you can also feel sorry for him because of his self loathing. Looking down on black people was the only thing he had in his low ceiling, shitty life.
So true. That's the essence of racism, looking down on the "other". If you saw "Mississippi Burning", Gene Hackman relates a story of his racist father, who said, words to the effect that 'if you're not better than a Black man, who are you better than.'
***** If I personally encountered Ryan's character on the street, there's no question that I would find him to be repugnant. However, if I observed his life as intimately as this film did then I would have some kind of sympathy for him.
***** I am not making excuses for him. All I am saying is, I understand his character. I like it when characters have three dimensions no matter how despicable they are.
Man, thanks a million.
@Finn McCool - Very welcome Finn.
As a noir and Robert Wise fan I can't believe I'm seeing this for the first time. Thank you. Can you spot Cicely Tyson, Diana Sands, Zohra Lampert, Wayne Rogers, and the fellow who looks like James Earl Jones is his father.
Blink and you'll miss Diana Sands. I only knew she was in it because I'd read it somewhere.
Great music!!!........by John Lewis, of MJQ fame...but also, for those of you into bebop jazz in general [and Miles Davis in particular]...Lewis is the real composer of the 'first' "Milestones"...sometimes a.k.a. "Old" Milestones...[not the 'modal' Milestones]...
Don't cha just "LOVE" our babies and children being referred to as Pick-A-Ninnies?
Leslie Best The word is 'picaninny'.
@@EJP286CRSKW Aren't you special.
@@EJP286CRSKW Wow... a racist prick AND a know-it-all. You really are special!
They don't make them like this anymore
This is the way it really was back in the good old days.
Great ole gansta 1959 flick! Harry Belefante!
I adore Mr. Ryan... Belafonte is awesome, too...I think I like him even better than Poitier whom I also love.
001Broadway Agreed, and let's not forget Ed Begley and Shelley Winters. A movie with either is worth watching -- this one has both of them!
What did Bocco say at 14:40? "He's a very entertaining boy..." but I couldn't make out the rest. It set Ed Begley off.
+arf153 I think he says "...a very entertaining boy....who knows his place", though it sounds like ".....to know his place". I can't really make it out either, but that's my closest guess.
To me it sounds like it could be "at Ken O's place, or Kanois place, the night club where he entertains.
Maybe you've got it there. I never even knew the name of the nightclub.
A very entertaining boy at connoys place,.....
Robert Earl Jones!! For a second there..!!!
Music intro is interesting...
APUESTAS CONTRA EL MAÑANA (1959)
Film noir realizado por Robert Wise sobre un guión de Abraham Polonsky y Nelson Giddins, adaptado de la novela “Odds Against Tomorrow” (1957), de William P McGivern.
Sinopsis: El dama se desarrolla en Milton una ciudad neoyorquina aparentemente tranquila, con secuelas típicas de la pos-guerra (depresión, discriminación y desocupación) ambientada lúgubremente (calles sucias y encharcadas, tiempo nuboso e invernal) que simboliza la falta de oportunidad para los que por sus prejuicios, limitaciones y debilidades están sumidos en el fango y la miseria.
Dave Burke (Begley) es un ex policía de unos 60 años, expulsado de la fuerza por corrupto y soberbio. De pocos recursos vive con su perro, en un hotel barato, acosado por las deudas de juego, urde un plan para pagarlas. Recluta a 2 hombres (con serias dificultades económicas, tentados a convertirse en marginales) para que lo ayuden.
Earl Slater (Ryan) es exconvicto y excombatiente, maduro, racista, desocupado, frustrado y violento. Atado a un matrimonio al borde del fracaso, sostenido con el dinero de su mujer porque todas las puertas se han cerrado.
Johnny Ingram (Bellafonte) es músico de jazz, joven seductor, separado con una hija que mantener, por lo que canta en un club nocturno. Amenazado de muerte por un tahúr al que le debe dinero, intenta salir de su situación desesperada, sumándose al equipo del viejo.
Crítica:
A) Los personajes masculinos, con sus dramas a cuestas, están bien estelarizados, llevan todo el peso de la acción y constituyen partes distintas (soledad, amargura y ludopatía) que encajan en el modelo del perdedor, el negativo del triunfador que logra cumplir el sueño americano.
B) Los personajes femeninos solo están para resaltar a los masculinos. Shelley Winters en un rol de esposa que lo ama a pesar de la desgastante rudeza del marido, soporta una amarga convivencia. Gloria Grahame, que en su breve aparición realiza un paréntesis fresco e inquietante.
C) Trama simple pero atrapante, con una acción sigilosa donde prima la descripción de los protagonistas por encima de la narración de las tensiones latentes, que estallan en el violento desenlace final. En el que hay que destacar la pregunta del sanitario, con un dejo de ironía: «Which is which?»
Gracias por subir esta magnífica película, imprescindible para los amantes del género. Saludos.
@Cesar Dipp - Muchas gracias.
@@heardofjohn6854 De nada. ¿Puedes subir mas de éstas? Saludos desde San Juan, la tierra del 🌞, Argentina.
This a good film with excellent actors and great direction. The script is weak and that prevents it from being up there with the asphalt jungle in my humble opinion.
At 25:25- you see Richard Bright in his film debut. He would make his mark as Al Pacino's right hand man _ Al Neri in The Godfather.
@Stuart Perry - Did you catch him in "Marathon Man"?
@@heardofjohn6854 No. I've only seen him in a couple of other films besides Godfather.