| 词条 | Red Sky at Morning (1944 film) |
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| name = Red Sky at Morning | image = Red_Sky_at_Morning.jpg | image_size = | caption = Cast of the film | director = Hartney Arthur | producer = | writer = Hartney Arthur | based on = a play by Dymphna Cusack | narrator = | starring = Peter Finch John Alden | music = | cinematography = Rupert Kathner Bob Gould | editing = Alex Ezard Ross Wood | studio = Austral-American Productions | distributor = Carlyle Pictures (UK) Ray Rushmer (1948 Australia) | released = 1944 | runtime = 4,500 feet 48 min. (UK version) 55 min. (1948 Australian version) | country = Australia | language = English }} Red Sky at Morning is a 1944 Australian melodrama set during the 19th century. It features an early screen performance by Peter Finch, who plays a convict who falls in love with the wife of a sea captain. SynopsisIn 1812 Australia, Alicia Farley flees from her sadistic husband, Captain Farley. During a storm, she takes refuge in an inn in Parramatta and forms a relationship with Irish rebel Michael. Captain Farley tracks her down but she manages to escape with Michael and they both leave the country. Cast
Original play{{Infobox play| name = Red Sky at Morning | image = | image_size = | caption = | writer = Dymphna Cusack | characters = | setting = Sydney | premiere = 1935 | place = Sydney Player's Club | orig_lang = English | subject = | genre = melodrama }} The script was adapted from a play by Dymphna Cusack which had been first performed at Sydney Player's Club in September 1935 and adapted for radio in 1938.[1] It was later revived in 1939.[2][3] The play was one of the few Australian plays to be published during World War II.[4] It was often produced on radio and in amateur theatres during the subsequent years. Noted critic Leslie Rees wrote of the play that: An undertone of passionate resentment against injustice and coercion is heard, but there is also a mannered wit and an acute realisation of character, a clear-cut picture of the times. It is a play of style. Against these considerable merits must be men tioned a sparseness of action, especially the failure to satisfy expectations in the second act. However, the texture of the speech in this play is so fine, the quality of compassion so moving, that such a fault does not, to my mind at any rate, become paramount. To play a curtain-raiser in the same programme would help conceal the deficiency.[5] ProductionThe film was mostly shot at Rupert Kathner's small studio in North Sydney during mid 1943, with some exteriors in Windsor and Mulgoa.[6][7] ReleaseIn 1944 the film was rejected for registration under the quality clause of the New South Wales Film Quota Act and it only received sporadic distribution.[8] UK ReleaseIn 1948 a 48-minute version of the film was screened in England by the distributor Carlyle Pictures, and received bad reviews. Kinematograph Weekly called the movie: Heavy and vague in plot, badly acted, crudely dialogued and staged with touching economy, it fails utterly to justify its lengthy journey from 'Down Under.' And that's putting it mildly... Peter Finch, Jean McAllister, and John Alden... all exaggerate. The supporting players are, if possible, even worse... The time of the play is 1812, and the locale is Australian, but little else is clear. Incredibly old-fashioned and in articulate, it gets many unintentional laughs and might easily be mistaken for burlesque and parody.[9] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it: A thoroughly boring film which has absolutely nothing to justify its production. The story is weak, the settings are extremely monotonous, being almost entirely restricted to the interior of a house, and all the sound effects come from "off stage". In fact, this might well have been a photographed play, amateurishly produced. The cast are stiff and do little to bring to life the characters they play. Any semblance of good dialogue there might have been is lost by the extremely poor recording, and the quality of the photography is appalling.[10] Re-releaseIn 1948 Gordon Wharton of Austral-American arranged for Ray Rushmer to distribute the film. Rushmer arranged for several changes to be made by Sydney filmmaker James Pearson, including a new opening and ending. The film was retitled Escape at Dawn and ran for 55 minutes. It was re-released in England under that title, emphasising the presence of Peter Finch in the cast.[6] Preservation statusRed Sky at Morning is now considered a lost film.[11]See also
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17539414 |title=SOCIAL and PERSONAL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=21 November 1938 |accessdate=24 March 2012 |page=18 Supplement: Women's Supplement |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17568441 |title=AUSTRALIAN DRAMA. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=6 May 1939 |accessdate=24 March 2012 |page=19 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^Details of original production at AusStage 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17813535 |title=AUSTRALIAN PLAYS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=3 October 1942 |accessdate=24 March 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46410179 |title=THE DRAMA IN AUSTRALIA. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=22 July 1939 |accessdate=24 March 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^1 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 197 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26027251 |title=Australian Films In The Making. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=28 October 1944 |accessdate=25 March 2012 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55885156 |title=YOUR QUERIES. |newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=24 May 1947 |accessdate=24 March 2012 |page=3 Supplement: SUNDAY MAGAZINE |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^"THE STARRY WAY." The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 17 July 1948: 2, accessed 17 December 2011 10. ^Red Sky at MorningMonthly Film Bulletin15.169 (Jan 1, 1948): 80. 11. ^Australia's 'Lost' Films at National Film and Sound Archive External links
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