I Accuse!
I Accuse! | |
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Directed by | José Ferrer |
Screenplay by | Gore Vidal |
Based on | Captain Dreyfus; The Story of a Mass Hysteria 1955 book by Nicholas Halasz |
Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
Starring | José Ferrer Anton Walbrook |
Cinematography | Freddie Young |
Edited by | Frank Clarke |
Music by | William Alwyn |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.8 million[1] |
Box office | $665,000[1] |
I Accuse! is a British 1958
Plot
In 1894
Cast
- Captain Alfred Dreyfus
- Anton Walbrook as Major Esterhazy
- Viveca Lindfors as Lucie Dreyfus
- Leo Genn as Major Piquart
- Emlyn Williams as Émile Zola
- David Farrar as Mathieu Dreyfus
- Donald Wolfit as General Mercier
- Herbert Lom as Major DuPaty de Clam
- Harry Andrews as Major Henry
- Felix Aylmer as Edgar Demange
- George Coulouris as Colonel Sandherr
- Peter Illing as Georges Clemenceau
- Michael Hordern as Prosecutor
- Laurence Naismith as Judge
- Ernest Clark as Prosecutor
- Eric Pohlmann as Bertillon
- John Phillips as Prosecutor, Esterhazy trial
- Malcolm Keen as President of France
- Charles Gray as Captain Brossard
Production
The film was based on a book Captain Dreyfus: Story of Mass Hysteria which was published in 1955.
The film was known as Captain Dreyfus before being retitled I Accuse.[4]
The location work was done in Belgium, as the French army refused to allow filming in France.[5] Filming finished by June 1957.[6]
Box office
I Accuse! was a box office flop. It earned $190,000 in the US and Canada and $475,000 elsewhere, leading to a loss of $1,415,000.[1]
Reception
Variety called the film "strong, if plodding, entertainment." The publication said Ferrer's performance is "a wily, impeccable one, but it comes from the intellect rather than the heart and rarely causes pity."[7]
The
New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote that the film's "studious and generally valid re-enactment of the highlights of the case offers rewards," but said the film lacked excitement and drama and that "Mr. Ferrer's Dreyfus is a sad sack, a silent and colorless man who takes his unjust conviction with but one outburst of protest and then endures his Devil's Island torment lying down. He is a chilly hero who stirs mere intellectual sympathy."[9]
References
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ ALBERT GUERARD (31 July 1955). "The Magnificent Storm". New York Times. p. BR3.
- ^ A. H. WEILER (9 October 1955). "BY WAY OF REPORT: Prospect for Zinnemann -- Local Film Matters". New York Times. p. X5.
- ^ "2 Script Writers Win Credit Fight". New York Times. 6 March 1957. p. 34.
- ^ Buchwald, Art (10 June 1957). "L'AFFAIRE DREYFUS". Los Angeles Times. p. B5.
- ^ Louella Parsons (14 June 1957). "Alan Ladd Goes Back To Detecting". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. p. A21.
- ^ Variety Staff (1 January 1958). "I Accuse". Variety. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ Martin, Mildred. "Jose Ferrer Stars in 'I Accuse'." Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 March 1958.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
External links
- I Accuse! at IMDb
- José Ferrer at IMDb
- I Accuse! at AllMovie
- I Accuse! at the TCM Movie Database
- I Accuse! at the American Film Institute Catalog