Movie

Vertigo

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In het kort:

Movie:

Vertigo

Year:

1958

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer:

Paramount Pictures

Script:

Het uiteindelijke script werd geschreven door Samuel A. Taylor, gebaseerd op het boek ‘D’entre les morts’ van Pierre Boileau en Thomas Narcejac.

Music:

The soundtrack, composed by Bernard Herrman, consists of seven songs.

Actors:

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, a.o.

Costs:

Unknown to us.

Cinema visitors:

De film werd bij de première matig ontvangen door critici. In latere jaren werden de reacties op de film echter steeds positiever. How many visited the cinema for Vertigo is unknown to us.

Dracula

‘Dracula poster’ provided by Wikimedia Commons.

In het kort:

Movie:

Dracula

Year:

1931

Director:

Tod Browning (co producer as well)

Producer:

Universal Pictures

Script:

Screenplay written by Garrett Fort based on the novel ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker.

Music:

Owing to the costs, no score had ever been composed specifically for the film. Some of the scenes were accompanied by parts of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’, Wagner’s ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ and the dark opening of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished Symphony’ in B minor. In 1998, composer Philip Glass was commissioned to compose a musical score for the classic film. The film, with this new score, was released by Universal Studios in 1999 in the VHS format. Universal’s DVD releases allow the viewer to choose between the unscored soundtrack or the Glass score.

Actors:

Béla Lugosi as Count Dracula, Helen Chandler as Mina Seward, a.o.

Costs:

The picture was completed for a total cost of $341,191.20, which was under the original estimate of $355,050.

Cinema visitors:

Dracula was a commercial and critical success upon release, and led to several sequels and spin-offs. Within 48 hours of its opening at New York’s Roxy Theatre, it had sold 50,000 tickets, building a momentum that culminated in a $700,000 profit, the largest of Universal’s 1931 releases.

Casablanca

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In het kort:

Movie:

Casablanca

Year:

1942

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Producer:

Warner Bros.

Script:

By Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch, based on ‘Everybody Comes to Rick’s’, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.

Music:

Max Steiner wrote the scores. The film includes many songs, among which ‘As Time Goes By’, an earlier jazz song, is the most well known.

Actors:

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, a.o.

Costs:

It went $75,000 over budget for a total cost of $1,039,000 (equivalent to $13,253,000 in 2020), above average for the time.

Cinema visitors:

The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run. Exceeding expectations, ‘Casablanca’ went on to win the ‘Academy Award for Best Picture’, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’. Its reputation has gradually grown, to the point that its lead characters, memorable lines (“Play it again, Sam!”), and pervasive theme song have all become iconic. The film earned $3,398,000 domestically and $3,461,000 in foreign markets.^[