The Rough and the Smooth / Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
The Rough and the Smooth / Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
DVDRip | MKV | 640 x 568 | AVC @ 1858 Kbps | 95 min | 1.37 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama | UK
DVDRip | MKV | 640 x 568 | AVC @ 1858 Kbps | 95 min | 1.37 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama | UK
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
IMDB 6.2/10 from 52 users
Director: Robert Siodmak
Writer: Audrey Erskine-Lindop (screenplay), Dudley Leslie (screenplay), Robin Maugham (novel)
Actors: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 95 min
'As young archaeologist Mike Thompson prepares to marry Margaret Goreham, the daughter of a wealthy and influential publisher, he puts his future happiness in jeopardy as he starts a passionate affair with nymphomaniac Ila Hansen. When Mike gets more than he bargained for with the mysterious Ila he tries to find a way to be truly happy.'
- Renown Pictures
'Robert Siodmak had left behind a successful career Hollywood in 1952, just as McCarthyism began to rear its head. He subsequently made several films in Germany and France but this was his only British feature. He was complemented by a fine technical line-up, including Otto Heller on camera and set designs by Ken Adam.
Adam was fast becoming Britain's most innovative art director and he made full use of the opportunities this film presented: Reg Barker's flat is a melange of modern design and street market tat, while Lord Drewell's office is clearly a dry run of the famous control room in Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (d. Stanley Kubrick, UK/US, 1963). Julie Harris's costumes complement the sets and emphasise the difference between the two women in Mike's life: Margaret in party frocks and Ila in dark sweaters and tight pencil skirts.
The film is dark and claustrophobic, the small amount of exterior shooting mostly done at night. Mike feels trapped by his situation: his parents live in the flat above him and he's tied to his fiancée by his obligation to her uncle. Ila seems to offer an escape but her sexual overtness plunges him into jealousy and frustration.
The film's powerful psychological angle is rather downplayed: we learn that Ila was prostituted by her family at a young age and the first man who raped her is the only man she can feel love for. The source novel was written by Robin Maugham (nephew of Somerset) who also wrote the novel The Servant, filmed by Joseph Losey in 1963.
While the film's star, Nadja Tiller, was unknown in Britain, she had starred in many German films and was Miss Austria in 1949. Ila's foreignness is key and Margaret's slightly prim glamour is no match for her continental seductiveness. But the promise of sex masks something more dangerous and giving her body so freely signals Ila's emotional deadness. Mike learns his lesson the hard way but, in the process, his own emotions are awakened and he takes control of his life and his relationship.'
The Rough and the Smooth / Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
The Rough and the Smooth / Portrait of a Sinner (1959)
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