Valerie (film)
1957 film by Gerd Oswald nice
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Valerie is a 1957 American Western film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Steel.[1][2] The film was apparently inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic Rashomon.[1]
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| Directed by | Gerd Oswald |
| Screenplay by |
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| Produced by | Hal R. Makelim |
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| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | David Bretherton |
| Music by | Albert Glasser |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Hal R. Makelim Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictory flashback sequences are depicted.[1]
Cast
- Sterling Hayden as John Garth
- Anita Ekberg as Valerie Horvat
- Anthony Steel as Reverend Steven Blake
- Peter Walker as Herb Garth
- Jerry Barclay as Jim Mingo
- Iphigenie Castiglioni as Mrs. Horvat
- John Wengraf as Mr. Louis Horvat
- Gage Clarke as Jonathan Griggs
- Tom McKee as Dave Carlin
- Sydney Smith as Judge Frisbee
- Bob Adler as Lundy
- Stanley Adams as Dr. Jackson
- Malcolm Atterbury as Sheriff
- Juney Ellis as Nurse Linsey
- John Dierkes as Bartender
- Norman Leavitt as Linsey
- Darryl Duran as Earl Davis
Production
Reception
Variety called the film "a challenging experiment."[5]
In a contemporary review in Baltimore's The Evening Sun, reviewer Hope Pantell wrote: "This opus opens with an assortment of bodies, then proceeds to show, sometimes in painfully long-winded fashion, how they got to be so stiff."[6]
Writing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, reviewer Samuel L. Singer assessed the lead actors' performances: "Lovely Anita Ekberg, Swedish beauty, displays her charms and engages in a limited amount of histrionics. Sterling Hayden is grimly nonsmiling as her husband, and Anthony Steel, her real-life husband, is convincing as the minister."[7]
Home media
Valerie was released on DVD by MGM Home Video on September 26, 2011 via MGM's MOD (manufacture-on-demand) program through Amazon.com.
