Estupendo remake americano (aunque copiaba casi plano a plano la versión original) de una genial película francesa. Pepe Le Moko es un delincuente francés que huye del país después de un robo importante de joyas y se refugia en la casbah argelina. Siente nostalgia de París pero se encuentra prisionero de aquel laberinto de callejuelas, único lugar donde puede esconderse. Un policía francés está de visita pues se ha propuesto seriamente atraparle y al mismo tiempo conoce a una turista parisina que le recuerda a su ciudad añorada y le devuelve la esperanza. Pero los celos de una chica local, la traición y la amistad con un inspector de policía argelino amenazan con arruinar sus posibilidades de felicidad. Visualmente genial, sobre todo gracias a la Fotografía con esa iluminación tan cuidada además de la magnífica recreación del ambiente de la casbah argelina en Estudio. La escena de amor entre Charles Boyer y Hedy Lamarr es un clásico del cine.
Brilliant American remake (although copied almost shot by shot from the original version) of a great French film. Pepe Le Moko is a French criminal who leaves Paris after a big theft of jewelry and takes refuge in the Algerian casbah. From then on he suffers of Paris nostalgia for he feels a prisoner of the labyrinth of alleys, the most safe place for him to hide. A French policeman is visiting and he is seriously determined to catch him while Pepe meets some Parisian tourists including a woman he falls in love with. But the jealousy of a local girl, mixed with signs of betrayal from some partner and a strange friendship with an Algerian police inspector threatens to ruin his chances of happiness. Visually great, lightning seems the work of a genius, as well as great recreation indoors of the Algerian casbah. The love scene between Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr is a classic one.
'Algiers'
1938 EE.UU.
Dirigida por John Cromwell
Interpretada por Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr...
Brilliant American remake (although copied almost shot by shot from the original version) of a great French film. Pepe Le Moko is a French criminal who leaves Paris after a big theft of jewelry and takes refuge in the Algerian casbah. From then on he suffers of Paris nostalgia for he feels a prisoner of the labyrinth of alleys, the most safe place for him to hide. A French policeman is visiting and he is seriously determined to catch him while Pepe meets some Parisian tourists including a woman he falls in love with. But the jealousy of a local girl, mixed with signs of betrayal from some partner and a strange friendship with an Algerian police inspector threatens to ruin his chances of happiness. Visually great, lightning seems the work of a genius, as well as great recreation indoors of the Algerian casbah. The love scene between Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr is a classic one.
'Algiers'
1938 EE.UU.
Dirigida por John Cromwell
Interpretada por Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr...
