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L'homme de main

Titre original : Johnny Allegro
  • 1949
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 21min
NOTE IMDb
6,4/10
915
MA NOTE
Nina Foch and George Raft in L'homme de main (1949)
Film NoirCrimeDramaThriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTreasury Department officials recruit a florist to lead them to a wanted criminal, but once he gets too close, he finds that he's the hunted.Treasury Department officials recruit a florist to lead them to a wanted criminal, but once he gets too close, he finds that he's the hunted.Treasury Department officials recruit a florist to lead them to a wanted criminal, but once he gets too close, he finds that he's the hunted.

  • Réalisation
    • Ted Tetzlaff
  • Scénario
    • Karen DeWolf
    • Guy Endore
    • James Edward Grant
  • Casting principal
    • George Raft
    • Nina Foch
    • George Macready
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,4/10
    915
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Ted Tetzlaff
    • Scénario
      • Karen DeWolf
      • Guy Endore
      • James Edward Grant
    • Casting principal
      • George Raft
      • Nina Foch
      • George Macready
    • 23avis d'utilisateurs
    • 18avis des critiques
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    Rôles principaux34

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    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Johnny Allegro
    Nina Foch
    Nina Foch
    • Glenda Chapman
    George Macready
    George Macready
    • Morgan Vallin
    Will Geer
    Will Geer
    • Schultzy
    Gloria Henry
    Gloria Henry
    • Addie
    Ivan Triesault
    Ivan Triesault
    • Pelham Vetch
    Harry Antrim
    Harry Antrim
    • Pudgy
    William 'Bill' Phillips
    William 'Bill' Phillips
    • Roy
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Sam
    • (non crédité)
    Mary Bear
    • Nurse Baldwin
    • (non crédité)
    Paul E. Burns
    Paul E. Burns
    • Gray
    • (non crédité)
    Matilda Caldwell
    • Servant
    • (non crédité)
    Dick Cherney
    • Police Officer
    • (non crédité)
    Frank Dae
    Frank Dae
    • Dr. Jaynes
    • (non crédité)
    Sayre Dearing
    Sayre Dearing
    • Man in Basement
    • (non crédité)
    Joe Evans
    • Waiter
    • (non crédité)
    Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum
    • Man in Basement
    • (non crédité)
    Charles Fogel
    • Hotel Guest
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Ted Tetzlaff
    • Scénario
      • Karen DeWolf
      • Guy Endore
      • James Edward Grant
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    Avis des utilisateurs23

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    5LCShackley

    A curious mix of standard plot devices

    A decade before TV brought us Johnny Staccato, Columbia Pictures presented Johnny Allegro, a florist with a concession in a fancy hotel who gets wrapped up in a police manhunt.

    We start with what appears to be a typical Hitchcock setup: an innocent man gets drawn into peril thanks to a leggy blonde. But is Allegro truly as innocent as he appears? Not in the eyes of "Schultzy" the cop (played convincingly by Will Geer, almost unrecognizable to those of us who only remember him as "Grandpa Walton").

    So now we have a new plot developing: a crook infiltrating another crook's operation in order to clear his name with the police. He ends up in a swanky manor on a secluded Florida island, trying to track down some counterfeit money that could ruin the US economy.

    And finally, we end up with a finale that steals a page or two from "The Most Dangerous Game," as Raft is hunted across the island by a foe with a bow.

    In my opinion, Raft was too old for this role, and not terribly convincing as an action figure. The plot seems like a jigsaw puzzle made from three different boxes that don't quite match, and there's nothing outstanding about the visual aspect of the picture. It's got some good moments (mostly thanks to Geer and Foch) but overall it's not satisfying. More like Johnny Andante, not quite up to speed.
    searchanddestroy-1

    Raft vs McReady

    This is one more more or less MOST DANGEROUS GAME rip-off, where the main interest is for me the face off between George Raft and George Mcready, the two most notorious villains of those days; I am not sure they played together before or after. Maybe I am wrong.... This is one good film from director Tetzlaff, a good noir adventure movie, but unfortunately too predictable for my taste. Forget it if you wish to really enjoy this movie, focus on the directing and this splendid cast: Mcready - Raft. It is not a wide known feature, such a shame, because it is worth watching, no matter my own taste concerning the ending for instance. Excellent little gem.
    6bkoganbing

    Too much to handle

    Johnny Allegro has George Raft in the title role as an ex-con trying to go straight. Under an alias he's living life as a hotel florist, but manages to get himself involved with the beautiful Nina Foch and get himself framed for a cop killing.

    Foch is slightly married to the epicene George MacReady whom the Feds want to nab real bad. It's not just his elaborate counterfeiting operation that they want to shut down. MacReady is being financed by the Soviet Union and he's got quite a setup in distributing counterfeit and raking off a big bundle from his Soviet handler Ivan Triesault. MacReady and Foch live in fine style on an unknown Caribbean island that the Feds would like to know the ___location of to bust MacReady and his operation. In the end MacReady proves too much for his Soviet bosses.

    Not so with Raft and his contact Will Geer who plays a Treasury agent. Geer in many spots steals the film from the leads with a nice laconic performance, not unlike his Wyatt Earp in Winchester 73.

    Johnny Allegro is typical of the action/noir type films that Raft was doing at this point in his career. Soon he'd be working for Poverty Row Lippert films and Johnny Allegro from Columbia's B picture unit looked like Citizen Kane next to their stuff.

    Fans of George Raft will be pleased. Especially with that ending borrowed from The Most Dangerous Game.
    6AlsExGal

    Make it a 6.5!

    Of the countless tough guy melodramas that featured George Raft in the late '40s and early '50s, this slick Columbia production ranks a notch or two above most. Raft plays a gangster escaped from prison who is recruited by the Treasury Department to help them land a gang of counterfeiters.

    It's not so much the plot that demands attention here as it is Columbia's effort to superficially remind its audience of one of its biggest hits of a few years before, Gilda. This is to the extent of casting George Macready as the cultured head of the counterfeiters. (You know he's cultured because he listens to classical music). He also prefers the use of a bow and arrow (a man's weapon) over that of a gun. Ballin in Gilda is now called Vallin.

    His wife, whom Allegro desires, of course, is played by a sophisticated Nina Foch. Her character's name? Glenda. Not quite Gilda, but close enough. And then, of course, there are the leading men in the two films, both named Johnny.

    With that bow and arrow fetish of Macready the audiences knows, too, that it probably won't be long before another variation of The Most Dangerous Game gets played out. Macready is fun to watch, even if there is a feeling of having seen much of this same act before. Raft is Raft. Did ever a block of wood dress better? And Nina Foch, well, she'll never replace the memory of Hayworth's vamp.
    6Wilbur-10

    Ex-gangster ends up being hunted on a remote Caribbean island - great B-Movie.

    Good crime/gangster film which, as Leonard Maltin notes, has similar elements to 'The Most Dangerous Game' throughout much of its second half.

    George Raft plays the title character, a reformed hoodlum, who now runs a florist shop (!!) in a hotel. He encounters a mysterious blonde, of the femme fatale variety, and winds up involved in a counterfeiting operation. Most of the action then takes place on an island off Florida where the womens husband is a tall, blonde master-criminal who enjoys hunting with a bow and arrow.

    Everything here is above average and the film comes together in all areas very well. The interplay between Allegro and the evil, sophisticated Morgan Vallin, is similar to many a James Bond film with mutual distrust and respect between the two antagonists.

    With good performances all round, a brisk plot and the inventiveness of the storyline, 'Johnny Allegro' is well worth watching for B-movie fans. The director was better known as a cinematographer, and his obvious skills are shown to good effect.

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    • Anecdotes
      George Macready's character's name in Gilda (1946) is Ballin Mundson who used a walking stick with a bayonet inside. In this movie, his character's name is Morgan Vallin who hunted with a bow and arrow.
    • Gaffes
      The mountainous island where Vallin lives is supposedly located on the Florida coast, but there are no such hilly islands anywhere in or near the state of Florida. In fact, the highest elevation anywhere in south Florida is 50 feet above sea level.
    • Citations

      Morgan Vallin: Hello, Glenda.

      Glenda Chapman: Morgan.

      Morgan Vallin: Welcome home.

      [For the first time, he sees there's another man in the room]

      Glenda Chapman: Morgan, this is...

      Morgan Vallin: How chummy! You brought a friend with you. How hospitable.

      Glenda Chapman: I was just going to explain that.

      Morgan Vallin: Why trouble to explain? It's so touchingly natural.

      Glenda Chapman: This is Johnny Allegro.

      Morgan Vallin: You actually know his name! I'm Morgan Vallin. Always glad to meet any of Glenda's friends, though she doesn't usually bring them with her.

      Glenda Chapman: I had to bring him here, Morgan. He killed a detective for me so I could get here.

      Morgan Vallin: How adventurous! How romantic!

      Glenda Chapman: Morgan, don't be foolish.

      Morgan Vallin: Forgive me, Johnny whatever your name is. I want to thank you for any assistance you may have given my little wife.

      Johnny Allegro: Wife?

      Morgan Vallin: She forgot to tell you, of course. She usually does. Or were you afraid he might not have come here with you?

      Glenda Chapman: I told you why I brought him here. He had no other getaway. This is Johnny Rock. They want him for escaping a stretch at Sing Sing.

      Morgan Vallin: And what have you told him?

      Glenda Chapman: Nothing. He doesn't even know where he is.

      Morgan Vallin: And how did that minute mind of yours conclude that anyone could be of service to me with his pictures in all the papers, with a number across the front of them?

      Johnny Allegro: They took those a long time ago. I've changed a lot since then.

      Morgan Vallin: But your type never changes. Just looking at you makes one think of alley fighting, tommy guns.

      Johnny Allegro: Is that bad?

      Morgan Vallin: It's not for me. You see all this?

      [He gestures around the room at the paintings, sculptures, and mounted animal heads]

      Johnny Allegro: Nice museum.

      Morgan Vallin: You would call it that. But it's my library, my concert hall, my trophy room. Here I have the best the world has to offer, and I don't intend to let anything jeopardize it. I can permit only people around me of whose methods I am sure.

    • Bandes originales
      Symphony no. 3 in E-flat: Finale
      (uncredited)

      Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

      Played on Morgan Vallin's phonograph

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    • Date de sortie
      • 9 mai 1950 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Johnny Allegro
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, Californie, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Columbia Pictures
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      1 heure 21 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
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