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A colpo sicuro

Titolo originale: Shooting Straight
  • 1930
  • 1h 12min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,0/10
151
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Richard Dix in A colpo sicuro (1930)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaLarry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real prea... Leggi tuttoLarry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.Larry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.

  • Regia
    • George Archainbaud
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Barney A. Sarecky
    • Wallace Smith
    • J. Walter Ruben
  • Star
    • Richard Dix
    • Mary Lawlor
    • Matthew Betz
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,0/10
    151
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • George Archainbaud
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Barney A. Sarecky
      • Wallace Smith
      • J. Walter Ruben
    • Star
      • Richard Dix
      • Mary Lawlor
      • Matthew Betz
    • 7Recensioni degli utenti
    • 1Recensione della critica
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    Interpreti principali26

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    Richard Dix
    Richard Dix
    • Larry Sheldon aka Ted Walters
    Mary Lawlor
    Mary Lawlor
    • Doris Powell
    Matthew Betz
    Matthew Betz
    • Ace Martin aka Ed Winters
    James Neill
    James Neill
    • Reverend Powell
    George Cooper
    George Cooper
    • Chick
    William Janney
    William Janney
    • Tommy Powell
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    Robert Emmett O'Connor
    • Detective Hagen
    Mischa Auer
    Mischa Auer
    • Frenchie
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Casino Patron
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Dick Curtis
    Dick Curtis
    • Butch
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jack Deery
    • Casino Patron
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Andy Devine
    Andy Devine
    • Kibitzer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    James Eagles
    • Young Craps Player
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Kenneth Gibson
    • Gambler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jack Low
    • Gambler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    George Magrill
    George Magrill
    • Gambler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jim Mason
    Jim Mason
    • Spot Willis
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Charles McMurphy
    • Minor Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • George Archainbaud
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Barney A. Sarecky
      • Wallace Smith
      • J. Walter Ruben
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    Recensioni degli utenti7

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    6SnoopyStyle

    gangster film

    Gambler "Lucky" Larry Sheldon (Richard Dix) confronts a gangster over the murder of his friend. The gangster ends up dead and Larry has to go on the run accompanied by sidekick Chick. Chick steals the wallet of minister Ted Walters. Before Larry could return it, the train crashes and an unconscious Larry is assumed to be Ted Walters. He wakes up in the home of Reverend Powell and he falls for the daughter Doris.

    It's a fine gangster adjacent film, but I'm never completely rooting for Richard Dix. He looks more like a thug than a pretty leading man. The character would work better as an everyman trying to do good. Richard Dix is never completely away from his gangster looks.
    5bkoganbing

    New guise with past skills

    Richard Dix was one of those lucky players with a deep a resonant voice that easily made the transition to sound. Usually strong willed heroes occasionally he went over to the dark side. Here he kind of straddles the fence as a gambler on the run from the NYPD on a murder rap.

    In a small whistle stop town he's mistaken for a well known reformer type and taken in by the local preacher James Neill. In his new guise but past skills, Dix turns out to be just the man to rid the small town of a bad element. He also wins the heart of Neill's daughter Mary Lawlor when he saves her from a fate worse than death. Her brother William Janney has run up some really big gambling debts in Matthew Betz's clip joint and Betz is willing to let Lawlor redeem them in kind if you get my drift. Very Victorian, the cad.

    That Victorian type mindset that permeates this film plus a really bad and contrived cop out ending prevents Shooting Straight from being a great film. But it's reasonably entertaining.
    7AlsExGal

    A pretty good gangster film from RKO

    This one is still with us, and not in bad shape either. It was Richard Dix' third film for RKO, where he was a leading man from 1929 to 1943. This is also the film he did immediately preceding Cimarron. "Cimarron" was my first exposure to Dix, and probably the film for which he is most remembered since it won the Best Picture Oscar of 1930-1931 and won Dix an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. To me, that's a shame, because it is probably his hammiest performance, and the film has not aged well at all, although it does retain a certain early talkie charm. Imagine my surprise, several years later, to see some of his more seldom seen films and discover that Dix was a natural in the talkies and a natural before the camera with a great screen presence.

    This film sports another fine performance by Dix, this time as a gambler on the run from the law. Dix plays professional gambler Larry Sheldon whose close friend is gunned down by gangsters on a rainy night. Sheldon knows immediately who did it and doesn't care about the repercussions when he marches right up to the hideout of the gangster he knows that did it and strangles him to death. Now he's on the run from the police, so he takes a train to the middle of nowhere. On the train he meets a parson of sorts whose mission in life is to reform gangsters, and the two men have a short conversation. The train carrying them both derails, and Sheldon is mistaken for the man actually killed in the wreckage, the reformer Ted Walters, with whom he spoke just a short time before. He's nursed back to health by the daughter of a town reverend, Doris Powell (Mary Lawlor), and is invited by the reverend to stay in the town and help crusade against the bad elements there, most prominently a gambling joint that has been taking time and money away from the local men folk. So now Sheldon has a choice - does he move on, or does he stay? And if he stays, does he simply use his cover to take this rural gambling establishment away from the current gangster that owns it and pick up where he left off in the city, or does he actually turn over a new leaf and become a reformer? Complicating matters is that the reverend's son owes the gambling house $3500, that the gangster who runs the place is using the leverage of this debt to try to put the moves on his sister Doris, and that Sheldon is starting to develop a soft spot for Doris himself.

    Dix is great in this part as he plays a gangster with conscience here - quite different from the type Cagney and Robinson played over at Warner Brothers. He doesn't enjoy violence, it is simply an unpleasant byproduct of what he does enjoy - the thrill of gambling and the strategy involved in outsmarting an opponent while doing so.

    The only other performer here you'll likely recognize is Robert Emmett O'Connor, who is being typecast here as he was in so many early talking films as the Irish cop. Mary Lawlor had only two film roles, and this is one of them. The other one was in "Good News". At that point she disappeared from view altogether. She is pretty enough and gives a good enough performance as the pure country girl caught between loyalty to her brother and the repulsion she feels towards the gangster that wants her, she just didn't do anything with enough distinction to set her apart from hundreds of other early talkie actresses. One of my favorites in this film was the actor playing Ace Martin, the gambling house proprietor that has the hots for young Doris. He perfectly portrays slimy confidence with the ladies and false concern, and he isn't nearly as smart or attractive as he thinks. He is the perfect villain.

    Do note that in my description of the plot I deliberately got one key point wrong, but I had to do this, because the fact that the audience believes that this is the actual plot is what the surprise ending rests upon. Warner Brothers should own the rights to this one since it is an RKO film, so why it has never been televised on Turner Classic Movies I do not know.
    9inframan

    Great Richard Dix Film

    It borders on tragedy (for true film buffs, at any rate) that there aren't more Richard Dix films shown on TCM, and that the ones that are shown are mostly from the latter portion of his career (though there are a few gems there such as Death Ship). While not a Clark Gable or Spencer Tracy leading man, Dix had a special quality about him that gave many of his films an almost riveting simplicity and directness right out of the comkic strips of the day. The guy looked like the role model for Dick Tracy and Captain Easy. When his hair was slicked back against his scalp (Wildroot Cream Oil?) he looked positively two-dimensional: no-nonsense rugged and solid, nothing pretty pretty about him. When the bad guys worked him over, he had the mane of a wild man. With a hat on he was Dick Tracy's double.

    In this film he gets to display all the best traits of a 1930s lead: He's smart with is adversaries, generous with his friends, compassionate with gentle folk and tough as nails with his enemies.

    The plot is simple and generic as a biblical tale, moves along at a brisk pace, serves its purpose, which is to demonstate the workings of Good vs. Evil.

    One thing did stand out for me. In a key scene on a train when he is leaving behind some unpleasant business, he introduces himself to a stranger as "Mr. Farnsbarns". The name rang a bell; I could hear another familar voice from the past saying it. Watching the remainder of the film, I churned through my mental vault of old films but it wasn't until I looked up the name online that I came up with Ricardo Cortez in The Phantom of Crestwood in which he spends the first half of that movie introducing himself as Mr. Farnsbarns. Phantom turned out to be directed by the same man as Shooting Straight: J. Walter Ruben. Turns out he directed another Richard Dix movie in which Boris Karloff temporarily identified himself as Mr. Farnsbarns.

    Gotta love it.
    4AAdaSC

    Don't go back to Rockville...

    ...sang REM. Obviously, this inspired the film's setting. Gambling gangster Richard Dix (Lucky Larry) goes on the run and ends up in Rockville. Is there a link between Dix's character and real-life mobster Lucky Luciano and his gambling interests? Dunno. Whilst in Rockville, Dix falls for plain Mary Lawlor (Doris). I've seen her act in Good Times (1930) as well as this film. She was pretty rotten in that as well and guess what? ...............she never made any other films. What a surprise! So, Dix wants to stick around in Rockville and help the uninteresting Mary sort out a problem with her brother William Janney (Tommy) who is getting himself into gambling debts with local Rockville gangster Matthew Betz (Ace). And Betz wants payment from Mary in the bedroom if you get what I mean.

    Unfortunately, the film is a bit boring and the way it ends is a complete cop-out with the policeman revealing some extra details to the story. Richard Dix is a manly lead with a big build and this just doesn't work for me. I need to identify with a skinny good-loocking guy and that wasn't on offer in this film. And the leading woman was just a complete wall-flower so there was no interest there either.

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      A print of A colpo sicuro (1930) survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
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      At about 0:38:30, after Martin says he'll show Larry around, the boom mic shadow moves on the wall above them.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 20 luglio 1930 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
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      • RKO Radio Pictures
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