Status
Released
original language
English
Budget
$ 0
Revenue
$ 0
Anthony John
Brita
Bill Friend
Pat Kroll
Victor Donlan
Max Lasker
Al Cooley
Pete Bonner
Stellini
Dr. Stauffer
Stage Manager
Asst. Stage Manager
Gladys
Rex
Wigmaker
Wigmaker
Dr. Mervin
Oscar Bernard
Waitress
Girl in Wig Shop
Girl in Wig Shop
Girl in Wig Shop
Actor in "Othello"
Actress in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actress in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello"
Actor in "Othello" and "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Actor in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Detective (uncredited)
Second Actor (uncredited)
Joe (Landlady's Husband) (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Dowager at Party (uncredited)
Photographer (uncredited)
Barry (uncredited)
Lucy (uncredited)
Second Bartender (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Reporter (uncredited)
Audience Member (uncredited)
Stagehand (uncredited)
Police Stenographer (uncredited)
Ellen (uncredited)
Audience Member (uncredited)
Bootmaker (uncredited)
Landlady (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Minor Role (uncredited)
Theater Patron (uncredited)
Minor Role (uncredited)
Cassio (voice) (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Boyer (uncredited)
Written by Geronimo1967 on 2022-07-07
Ronald Coleman always did like playing either two parts, or one with a dual-personality - and he does the latter very well indeed here. If you've a basic knowledge of Shakespeare's "Othello" the that helps a bit as he portrays an actor "Tony" who, after many year playing the title role with ex-wife "Brita" (Signe Hasso) - who is also his wife "Desdemona" in the play - is really beginning to become delusional about which existence is real... His distress isn't helped by meeting Shelley Winters "Pat" in a bar, they hook up but it isn't what he really wants. That is happiness with "Trina". When he asks her to re-marry him, she declines sending him into spiral of depression that has tragic consequences as he again descends in to his character - only it is "Pat" who suffers. There is an intensity about Colman here - his eyes, menacing; his almost schizophrenic character genuinely quite scary at times, and his Shakespearian on-stage effort decent - if not exactly Olivier - when required. All of this, coupled with strong contributions from Hasso and his friend "Bill" (Edmond O'Brien), who ends up perilously close to getting of the blame for the worst of his Colman's excesses, make for a compelling, expertly shot, story of split-personality gone, quite literally, mad! George Cukor keeps this tense and focussed, and Miklós Ròsza again provides a score that aides wonderfully with the atmosphere of the piece.