Réalisation:
Frank BorzageScénario:
Jo SwerlingPhotographie:
Joseph H. AugustMusique:
W. Franke HarlingActeurs·trices:
Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl, Dickie Moore, Charles Sullivan, Harold Miller (plus)Résumés(1)
This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of the time, stars Spencer Tracy as Bill, a rough-hewn laborer struggling to get by and sleeping in a Hooverville shack. Bill meets Trina (Loretta Young), a sad and desperate young woman with no prospects and nowhere to go; her plight touches his heart of stone, and he allows her to stay with him. Bill picks up work where and when he can, while Trina tries to turn their hovel into a home. Bill soon makes the acquaintance of Fay LaRue (Glenda Farrell), a brassy showgirl whose career is on the way up and wouldn't mind if Bill tagged along. But Bill learns that leaving Trina behind won't be as simple as he thought. Trina is pregnant with his child, so he ends up planning a dangerous robbery in hopes of raising enough money to provide a proper home for Trina and the baby. Dealing with tough material in an adult manner, A Man's Castle was considered quite daring in its day. A year after its release, Hollywood adopted the Production Code that prohibited the depiction of unwed cohabitation and premarital pregnancy (among many other things), which would have made this a very different film. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Spencer Tracy
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Edison, the Man (1940)
Jugement à Nuremberg (1961)
Furie (1936)
Loretta Young
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L'Amour en première page (1937)
Le Criminel (1946)
Honni soit qui mal y pense (1947)
Marjorie Rambeau
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
La Mousson (1939)
Les Conquérants de l'Or Noir - La ruée sanglante (1943)
Niagara (1953)
Glenda Farrell
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Je suis un évadé (1932)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Johnny, roi des gangsters (1941)
Walter Connolly
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Visages d'Orient (1937)
New York-Miami (1934)
Une fine mouche (1936)
Arthur Hohl
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The Yearling (1946)
L'Extravagante Mlle Dee (1948)
Dickie Moore
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Chant de Bernadette (1943)
L'Impossible Monsieur Bébé (1938)
La Griffe du passé (1947)
Charles Sullivan
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
La Vie est belle (1946)
Le Dictateur (1940)
Furie (1936)
Harold Miller
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Song of Love (1947)
Boulevard du crépuscule (1950)
Jugement à Nuremberg (1961)
Edmund Mortimer
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Edison, the Man (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
La Valse dans l'ombre (1940)
Helen Jerome Eddy
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
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En avant la musique (1940)
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Kendall McComas
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
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Hector V. Sarno
Italie
Meilleurs films :
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Le Signe de Zorro (1940)
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