Shockproof is a 1949

1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...

 movie starring Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...

 and Patricia Knight

Patricia Knight

Patricia Knight was an American actress who appeared in a few movies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was born as Marjorie Heintzen.-Personal life:...

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The director of Shockproof, Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

, said he took the assignment because the movie dealt with one of his favorite themes: the price of flouting taboos.

In Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...

's original script, the film ended with a violent rebellion by Marat against the system that kept him and Marsh apart. The studio had National Velvet

National Velvet (film)

National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....

 scriptwriter Helen Deutsch

Helen Deutsch

Helen Deutsch was an American screenwriter, journalist and songwriter.Deutsch was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College. She began her career by managing the Provincetown Players...

 step in to pen a soft-suds rewrite.

The movie had a disappointing box office in its original run. New York Times reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz indicated that Shockwaves revival run at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in January 2007 was the film's first run in New York City

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

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Plot

Wilde plays Griff Marat, a parole officer who falls in love with a parolee, Jenny Marsh (Knight). Marsh had gone to prison in order to protect a gambler with whom she was having an affair. Out of concern for her welfare, Marat hires Marsh as a caretaker for his blind mother (Esther Minciotti).

Cast

Actor	Role
Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...	Griff Marat
Patricia Knight Patricia Knight Patricia Knight was an American actress who appeared in a few movies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was born as Marjorie Heintzen.-Personal life:...	Jenny Marsh
John Baragrey John Baragrey John Baragrey was an American film, television, and stage actor who appeared in virtually every dramatic television series of the 1950s and early 60s...	Harry Wesson
Esther Minciotti	Mrs. Marat
Howard St. John Howard St. John Howard St. John was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television...	Sam Brooks
Russell Collins	Frederick Bauer
Charles Bates	Tommy Marat
Gilbert Barnett	Barry

External links

• Seitz, M.Z. (2007, January 24). A Maleficent Obsession? Could Be More Than Heaven Allows. The New York Times, p. B6