Road House 1948 PG
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When
8.00pm, Fri 9 Nov 2018 (95 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
‘Seen today, Road House inhabits disparate ages in American cinema. Lyle Wheeler’s art direction is a case in point. The road house itself has the generic look of the classical Hollywood set, archetypally American and occupying a dateless contemporaneity, a perennial ‘now’… Whilst his actors – Fonda, Bennett, Duryea – hailed from a pre-war naturalistic school which encouraged social realism and produced by Ida Lupino, the post-war period sees screen acting take a graphic turn… By this light, Road House becomes pivotal; Gothic, wayward, yet reaching out towards natural, ‘normal’ life. Paradoxical inasmuch as its extreme elements simultaneously signal its antiquity and its modernity.’ – Senses of Cinema
Production Credits
- Director: Jean Negulesco
- Script: Edward Chodorov, Margaret Gruen, Oscar Saul
- Producer: Edward Chodorov
- Cinematographer: Joseph Lashelle
- Cast: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark
- Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
- Print Source / Rights: Park Circus
- Screening Format: 35mm
- Year: 1948
- Runtime: 95 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Black & White