The Disappearance

1977
R
1h 31min

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La esposa del asesino a sueldo Jay Mallory, Celandine, desaparece de su apartamento. Contratado por una organización internacional para un asesinato en Inglaterra, sospecha que están implica... Leer todoLa esposa del asesino a sueldo Jay Mallory, Celandine, desaparece de su apartamento. Contratado por una organización internacional para un asesinato en Inglaterra, sospecha que están implicados en su desaparición.La esposa del asesino a sueldo Jay Mallory, Celandine, desaparece de su apartamento. Contratado por una organización internacional para un asesinato en Inglaterra, sospecha que están implicados en su desaparición.

Dirección
- Stuart Cooper
Guionistas
- Paul Mayersberg
- Derek Marlowe
Elenco

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Dirección
- Stuart Cooper
Guionistas
- Paul Mayersberg
- Derek Marlowe
Elenco

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8/10

Superior support cast, sexy Sutherland & Francine, splendid visuals

Director Stuart Cooper, about whom I know nothing, gets his cinematography and editing teams to produce a sweeping visual job of Canadian snow-laden landscapes, Montreal buildings and river, lush English forests, and luscious Francine Racette, Sutherland's real life wife, that keeps you watching in earnest. Very good support cast includes John Hurt, David Hemmings, Peter Bowles, the ever beautiful and classy Virginia McKenna and, of course, Sutherland's fellow Canadian-born actor, Christopher Plummer.

Sutherland's tall, slender figure, is emphasized throughout in stylish photography and lit background shots, and his chemistry with gorgeous Racette is palpable, adding believability to his situation as the husband missing his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Has she left him out of boredom? Has she found another love interest - after all, she leaves then hubby Hemmings at the party for sex with Sutherland? Or are there darker forces involved and she has been abducted? Or worse?

Flashbacks explain it. For a tad patient viewer it can make for rewarding cinema and storytelling, even if why Sutherland became a hitman in the first place is not disclosed (I did get the impression, though, that he needed Francine in his life to keep the right mental attitude to killing, as signs of burnout and wanting to leave the profession begin to emerge).

Such questionable moral and professional values aside, THE DISAPPEARANCE deserves attentive watching. 8/10.

Trivia
Donald Sutherland had played supporting parts (mostly small) in Britain for nearly ten years before his roles in "The Dirty Dozen" and "Joanna" brought him to Hollywood's attention. When he began receiving American offers, he had a problem, which was that he simply didn't have the money to fly out to California and support himself and his family until deals were finalized. He turned to fellow-Canadian Christopher Plummer, with whom he had worked in both "Hamlet" for television and "Oedipus The King" for the cinema. Despite the fact that they knew each other only slightly at that time, Plummer advanced him $5000, and Sutherland's Hollywood career began.

Versiones alternativas
There are three different versions of The Disappearance (1977).
Version 1: The original director's cut which runs at 101 minutes and is healthily non-linear, influenced by the temporal experiments of earlier films such as Hiroshima mi amor (1959), Venecia rojo shocking (1973) and A quemarropa (1967).
Version 2: An unauthorized, shortened, re-edited version by Fima Noveck that runs at 81 minutes and attempts to put the narrative into a more coherent order by reducing the complexity of the narrative by coding the instances of non-linearity as flashbacks; and reducing their frequency and length.
Version 3: A third version that runs at 91 minutes but maintains the jumbled time frame and comes across as a leaner and more abstract version of the original.