Satire of the characterizations makes many of the film’s people virtually caricatures. Hecht’s direction and dialog give the acting a stylized artificiality that grows on the spectator as the picture progresses. The serious defect production wise is a general lack of polish that is at times disturbing. Reports are that it cost in the neighborhood of $160,000. Specter of the Rose was obviously a conscious attempt by Hecht to prove on how small a budget he could produce an acceptable picture. The staff wrote, "Ben Hecht, to say the least, has done the expected by coming up with the unusual. Able to destroy lone prey with ease, she spreads her presence throughout the battlefield to choose her target. When the film was released, Variety magazine gave the film a mixed review. Spectre haunts her enemies wherever they may be. Ben Hecht appeared and the script was adapted by the playwright and Broadway stage actor Robert Sloane. The screenplay was adapted for the radio series Inner Sanctum Mysteries on August 19, 1946. He comes to his senses at the last possible second, then sacrifices himself for her sake.Įxcerpts from the ballet Le Spectre de la Rose, which uses Carl Maria von Weber's piano piece Invitation to the Dance as orchestrated by Hector Berlioz, are featured in the film. Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Hearing the music, Sanine picks up a knife and places it at the throat of the sleeping Haidi, the woman he loves. Haidi attempts to keep Sanine by her side for several days, concerned over signs of a relapse in his behavior. La Sylph cautions her that she saw Sanine's rage in person before Nina's death. As they rehearse, they also fall in love. Sanine is to perform with Haidi, the company's new prodigy. But he is willing to attempt a comeback arranged by impresario Max "Poli" Polikoff, who tries to persuade ballet instructor Madame La Sylph that the time has come for Sanine, her former student, to return. He has been haunted by Le Spectre de la Rose, the music being played when she collapsed. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Plot Ī male ballet superstar is suspected of murdering his first wife (his former ballet partner) and now possibly threatening his new wife and ballet partner.Īndre Sanine has not performed since his wife's death on stage. James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. White and the lover of Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) operative James Bond, becoming the mother of his only child. She is also the daughter of the mysterious SPECTRE member Mr. Specter of the Rose is a 1946 film noir thriller film written and directed by Ben Hecht and starring Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Michael Chekhov, and Lionel Stander, with choreography by Tamara Geva, and music by George Antheil. Madeleine Swann is a fictional French psychiatrist originally affiliated to the Austrian Hoffler Klinik organization.
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