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Hello Out There (1949)

Drama | 31 minutes
3,00 2 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 31 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: James Whale

Stars: Marjorie Steele, Harry Morgan and Lee Patrick

IMDb score: 6,8 (54)

Releasedate: 1 January 1949

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Hello Out There plot

A gambler who has lost all his money ends up in jail in a small Texas town. There he meets Emily and falls in love. They make plans to go to San Francisco, but they may not get the chance.

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James Whale's final film was supposed to be part of an episodic portmanteau, but when the producer wasn't happy with this installment, the idea was scrapped, and the disappointed director left the movie business. Based on a short play by William Saroyan, this is practically a one-act play for two people: a gambler named Photo Finish desperately trying to make contact from his cell (hence the title) and a young girl impressed by his bravado and promising to free him. The art direction (also apparently by Whale) is almost expressionistic, with slanted bars, menacing shadows, and lonely points of light. Perhaps Whale and his lead actor, Harry Morgan, thought the protagonist's theatrical screams would complement the setting, but as a viewer, I quickly grew tired of it, and that Marjorie Steele's character would fall for the agitated prisoner seemed more like the instigation of the writer pulling his puppet's strings than a natural or understandable progression. Interesting because of the director's name and the experimental approach, but too theatrical to be truly successful – perhaps a "heavier" and/or more sober actor in the lead role could have sold the film, but Morgan is not the man to win me over, however much I appreciate his dedication.

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