Cornel Wilde in "Shockproof" (1949) - Sam Fuller's first screenplay
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- Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde), is a parole officer who falls in love with a parolee, Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight). Marsh had gone to prison in order to protect Harry Wesson (John Baragrey) a gambler with whom she was having an affair.
Warned to steer clear of Harry permanently, Jenny disobeys, still feeling loyal to him. A raid on Harry's bookie joint while Jenny is there costs her the job Griff has found for her. Out of concern for her welfare, Griff hires Jenny as a caretaker for his blind mother (Esther Minciotti).
Griff has political ambitions that Harry would like to ruin, so, knowing it is against regulations for the parolee and parole officer to be involved, Harry encourages Jenny to accept Griff's romantic advances. Jenny knows the regulations too, but realizes she loves Griff and they get married; she makes one more trip to speak to Harry, to tell him that she truly loves Griff. During their conversation, Harry threatens to reveal letters she had written him, in which she expressed her love. Jenny points Harry's own gun at him and, after a brief struggle, he ends up shot and seriously wounded. Griff and Jenny attempt to flee to Mexico. This fails but, willing to do anything to keep his wife from going back to jail, Griff takes a job in an oil refinery. Their photographs regularly appear in newspapers, but the last straw for Jenny is when a paper which includes their pictures is delivered to every neighbor in their refinery community. The couple decide to go back and turn themselves in. When the police take them to Harry in the hospital, he clears Jenny's name by swearing that the shooting was an accident.
A 1949 American film-noir crime film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by S. Sylvan Simon and Helen Deutsch, written by Helen Deutsch & Samuel Fuller, cinematography by Charles Lawton Jr., starring Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti, Russell Collins, Charles Bates, Arthur Space, and Gilbert Barnett. Screen debut appearance of Howard St. John.
Wilde and Knight were husband and wife during filming. They divorced in 1951.
First screenplay sold by Samuel Fuller after his service in World War 2. He was with the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division (The Big Red One) that saw action in Africa, Sicily and on D-Day in Normandy. He was awarded the Silver Star, the military's third-highest decoration for valor in combat.
In Samuel Fuller's original script, the film ended with a violent rebellion by Marat against the system that kept him and Marsh apart. The studio had "National Velvet" (1944) screenwriter Helen Deutsch step in to pen a soft-suds rewrite. Neither Fuller nor Director Douglas Sirk were pleased and voiced Their disapproval loudly.
A number of Fuller's screenplays, including "The Naked Kiss" (1964), "The Baron of Arizona" (1950), "House of Bamboo" (1955), "Forty Guns" (1957), "The Big Red One" (1980) and this film, featured a lead character called Griff. Griff was the name of a soldier Fuller served with in the U.S. Army and who was killed overseas during World War 2.
The British serial killer, John Straffen, committed a murder on the way to see this film at the cinema in 1951.
This film features the iconic Bradbury Building at 304 S. Broadway as the location of Griff Marat's office. Out of his office window can be seen the old Hall of Records Building at 220 N. Broadway (demolished 1973), which is about 0.4 miles away.
The reaction of the two youngsters to meeting a real live 'bleached' blonde was fairly typical. Peroxide blonde hair had usually been relegated to film stars and celebrities, the stuff of pin up girls and movie magazines...or of fast (bad) girls. And it was a difficult, often risky process to do. The mid century would bring new style innovation in hairstyles, as well, with hair coloring becoming easier and less costly to obtain. A popular ad line from Clairol at the time even asked, is it true blondes have more fun.
The WW2 years imposed austerity in all things to most Americans, including fashion, as fabric goods were needed for the war effort. But the post war era brought back big things, including Dior's sumptuous New Look of full skirted ladies' garments, launched in 1947. Costume Designer Jean Louis used that trend to his advantage in the clothes he designed for this film.
A New York Times writer, Matt Zoller Seitz, discussed the significance of "Shockproof" in 2007 when the film received its first theatrical showing in New York City: "...while Shockproof will inspire more groans than gasps, it's essential viewing for fans of Mr. Fuller and Mr. Sirk ... The lurid setup and obsessive-loner-versus-the-system mechanics are pure Samuel Fuller. Mr. Sirk's personality is expressed in the film's affection for its screwed-up characters, in the poetic deployment of mirrors, windows and stairways, and in the low-angled wide shots of Griff's house, a space that seems both nurturing and oppressive."
An interesting noir for Sam Fuller completists.
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I really enjoyed this. Classic movies are the best. No cussing, no nudity- great storylines- I am glad I watched this one.
They don't make films like this anymore. I am impressed and lucky to be able to enjoy it. Thank you so much!
Another very enjoyable film. Well worth watching. Thanks.
Good Film
Thanks for the pristine copy !
Well, I didn’t see that one coming!!! Enjoyed this movie!
Really appreciate the presentation of the film. Thanks
It's a good movie from when movies were to entertain people. Great write up and information about the film. Thank you for sharing it.
Ezcellent movie. Never seen Patricia Knight before Not bad ! Very attractive !
An entertaining film,thank you,for showing it.
Thanks for the work you do to share these movies.
Thanks for posting
Esther Minciotti was great in Marty and great in this film too.
Gr8 story/plot/acting. Happy ending ❤👍 Recommended watch 👏
This was an excellent movie!!!
Anything by Sam Fuller is worth a watch
Great start to the month, Don.
I loved this film the fiirst time I saw it several years ago. The info you provide is of such high quality I feel as if I am in film school. Thanks.
Very enjoyable movie. Thank You!
Well worth it... 😊❤
excellent film, great site
Excellent movie.
Fascinating!
Thanks Don P. Never sure about Wilde, certainly think he is the only not perfect thing in 'Leave her to Heaven' , just something about his acting doesn't quite click for me. Look forward to being proven wrong in this one.
Cornel Wilde was married to Patricia Knight when they made this movie together; they later divorced. then cornel put his new wife in his subsequent movies also. unusual...
Great movie 👍
Thanks, Fuller is great. Seen, "White Dog"?
Very good movie.
Great ending for a dam good movie. Hollywierd propaganda didn't ruin it. I am used to their tricks of putting propaganda in a good flick.
So good!
Great ending!
That Harry does a great Alan Ladd impersonation.
Good movie with an unrealistic ending- they'd both end up in jail. TY.
A good movie 👍
I was waiting for the maked torso shot. There is usually one in every Cornel Wilde movie.
Well this is sure pretty good. But it is 6:00 p.m. and I've got things I need to do
Great save in the ending. There should be a message of hope when possible. People need hope and the only sure hope is found in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
With a parolee like her, want to be a parole officer too! 😑
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Its fiction, reality is Meths and Heroin addicts.
Good movie ❤
wonder how many of those restrictions were real.........may not marry!!!!
Well, it was a pretty good movie, until the plotline shifted.
Seamed stockings wow.
This is not this guy's first rodeo; bet he has a lengthy record; cost the city and state lots of resources; they just turn them loose no. Charges no fines; blame the police for harassment.🧑🏭👨🏭
Thanks for the upload. Never expected the curves. HalleluYh
This film would NEVER be done today. ... Today, much more Cynicism, Nihilism, and too many mines in the mine field.
And that's what's wrong with today. No deeper theme.
Of all the dresses she wore in the movie, I like the plaid one (that she was wearing at the end of the movie) the best..
Patricia Knight and Cornel Wilde were husband and wife in real life at the time this film was made
Wilde is one beautiful man.
Not a great movie but OK. Esther Minciotti as Mrs. Marat, played a fairly convincing person with a visual sensory impairment.. Thanks DPB.
YES A BIT TOO LONG MANY REPEAT SCENES SPECIALLY THE BLIND MOTHER
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We can be good 😊
Buen thriller de los 50
Un très bon film de l époque dommage qu'il n'y en a plus à notre époque car ce n'est plus que grossièretés et violences anne
5.45 I guess Australia was a lot behind the rest of the world.
I was spanked all through the sixties. Teachers parents bullies all had a go.
I got a great caning in front of the class. 1965.
@@ThePiratemachine The hardest part was not crying and making it worse.
Why was that?
@@ThePiratemachineI am sorry to hear that as I don't think any student ought to be "punished" especially in front of his fellow students.I don't think physical punishment is appropriate for anyone.
Male Parole officer takes attractive female parolee home? Starts dating her?? Asks her to marry him??? He would be fired and prosecuted for that today. Creepy if you think about it. He has the power to send her back to prison. And then at the end when they are caught the police don’t even prosecute him? He disappears for two months and doesn’t show up at his job on the run with an escaped criminal and he doesn’t even get any jail time? Very stupid movie.
Use your imagination. It's fiction. Entertainment. Good movie IMO.
@@ThePiratemachineterrible movie
Any movie that Cornell wild produce he’s definitely going to get the girl he can be some kingpin and some organized crime with the girl is hostage still he gonna come out on top smelling sweet, but he was fine.
למה אין תרגום לעברית??? עברתי ערוץ.
Back when it was easier to go on the lam.
Pleasant enough, but not great. Marat's family is too too good. The film changes character mid way, becoming a chase movie. Things are resolved too neatly. Granted, they may have been simpler times, but in real life the couple would have done jail time. Still worth a look. C+
Sam Fuller badly needed the dough! such a corny movie!
In your opinion.