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Ice revue owner promotes peanut vendor to manager. Vendor gets too close to owner's wife. Owner suspects vendor wants wife and business. Complications ensue amidst professional and personal ... Read allIce revue owner promotes peanut vendor to manager. Vendor gets too close to owner's wife. Owner suspects vendor wants wife and business. Complications ensue amidst professional and personal entanglements.Ice revue owner promotes peanut vendor to manager. Vendor gets too close to owner's wife. Owner suspects vendor wants wife and business. Complications ensue amidst professional and personal entanglements.
Miguelito Valdés
- Ice Show Singer
- (as Miguelito Valdes)
Bobby Ramos and His Rumba Band
- Rhumba Band
- (as Bobby Ramos and His Band)
Ernie Adams
- Stage Door Watchman
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Delicatessen Man
- (uncredited)
Dawn Bender
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
Edwin Brian
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Harisse Brin
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Joe Cappo
- Poker Player
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Joe's Pal at Sandwich Counter
- (uncredited)
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Monogram threw some money at this one and produced a nifty noir starring Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker, and Eugene Palette called "Suspense," a 1946 film directed by Frank Tuttle.
Figure skater Belita plays Roberta, whose skating show is produced by her husband Frank (Dekker). Frank hires down and out Joe Morgan (Sullivan) to sell peanuts, and Joe starts working his way up to more important things, such as falling for Roberta. Frank catches on and, while he and Roberta are relaxing at their lodge, Joe drops in with papers to sign. Frank has him stay the night. The next day, Frank takes a hunting gun and intends to kill Joe, but the gun report starts an avalanche, and Frank is presumed dead. Presumed...but is he? Joe keeps Roberta's shows going after a fashion, all the while rejecting an old girlfriend (Granville) who has the hots for him. She doesn't like his attitude, and wants to know why he left New York in such a rush.
A few minutes shaved off of this film might have helped the pace, which is stopped cold every once in a while by a big skating number, several of which (particularly the first) are really wonderful. Belita of course never had the popularity of Sonia Henie - at the age of 12, she placed 16th at the 1936 Olympics, one of Henie's gold medal years. Belita didn't stay an amateur long and eventually entered films as poverty row's answer to Sonia. Strangely, Belita, with her background in Russian ballet, comes off as more modern and frankly a more exciting skater than Henie. Her lines are gorgeous and she enters her spins faster.
There are some interesting shots in this film, particularly the technique of the overhead light swinging back and forth, taking Sullivan and Belita in and out of the light as they are talking.
Highly entertaining with a good performances by the always solid Sullivan and the imposing Dekker. This was Eugene Palette's final film, as he retired after this. It's a fitting ending - he does a great job as Frank's and then Joe's assistant. It's really a good cast, very un-Monogram like, as were the production values.
Great entertainment. If you like film noir and figure skating, this is the film for you.
Figure skater Belita plays Roberta, whose skating show is produced by her husband Frank (Dekker). Frank hires down and out Joe Morgan (Sullivan) to sell peanuts, and Joe starts working his way up to more important things, such as falling for Roberta. Frank catches on and, while he and Roberta are relaxing at their lodge, Joe drops in with papers to sign. Frank has him stay the night. The next day, Frank takes a hunting gun and intends to kill Joe, but the gun report starts an avalanche, and Frank is presumed dead. Presumed...but is he? Joe keeps Roberta's shows going after a fashion, all the while rejecting an old girlfriend (Granville) who has the hots for him. She doesn't like his attitude, and wants to know why he left New York in such a rush.
A few minutes shaved off of this film might have helped the pace, which is stopped cold every once in a while by a big skating number, several of which (particularly the first) are really wonderful. Belita of course never had the popularity of Sonia Henie - at the age of 12, she placed 16th at the 1936 Olympics, one of Henie's gold medal years. Belita didn't stay an amateur long and eventually entered films as poverty row's answer to Sonia. Strangely, Belita, with her background in Russian ballet, comes off as more modern and frankly a more exciting skater than Henie. Her lines are gorgeous and she enters her spins faster.
There are some interesting shots in this film, particularly the technique of the overhead light swinging back and forth, taking Sullivan and Belita in and out of the light as they are talking.
Highly entertaining with a good performances by the always solid Sullivan and the imposing Dekker. This was Eugene Palette's final film, as he retired after this. It's a fitting ending - he does a great job as Frank's and then Joe's assistant. It's really a good cast, very un-Monogram like, as were the production values.
Great entertainment. If you like film noir and figure skating, this is the film for you.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe exterior of the venue where Belita's character skates her ice ballet halfway through this film is actually one of LA's most enduring art deco structures, the Pan Pacific auditorium. Built in 1935, it hosted auto shows and sales conventions for several decades, and also served as the exterior for the title nightclub in the disco musical Xanadu (1980), before burning to the ground in May, 1989.
- GoofsAt the zoo, the position of the lions changes at the different camera angles.
- Quotes
Harry Wheeler: He shoulda' stuck to his peanuts.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
- SoundtracksWith You in My Arms
Music by Daniele Amfitheatrof (as Dan Alexander)
Lyrics by 'By' Dunham (as By Dunham)
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- Choque de pasiones
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- Budget
- $870,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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