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A ballet principal (Ivan Kirov) looks at his ballerina wife (Viola Essen) and thinks of murder. Rent Specter of the Rose on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Cynical serio-comic ballet ...
- Ben Hecht
- Drama
Feb 15, 2020 · Specter of the Rose is a 1946 film noir thriller film written and directed by Ben Hecht and starring Dame Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Michael Chekhov and Lionel Stander, with choreography by Tamara Geva, and music by George Antheil.It contains a notable performance by Michael Chekhova, nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov, in one of his few film roles.
- 90 min
Aug 5, 2019 · It opens with the untruthful smarmy t heatrical producer Max “Poli” Polikoff (Michael Chekhov) visiting the world-weary ballet instructor Madame La Sylph (Judith Anderson) in her dinghy studio to discuss his plan to stage a new showing of The Specter of the Rose in the spring starring Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov), the former Paul Dixon from Indiana, the brilliant lead dancer of her ballet ...
Released July 5th, 1946, 'Specter of the Rose' stars Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 30 min, and received a user score of 44 (out ...
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Lencho of the Apes ★★★★. Pitch-perfect high-camp satire of ballet culture disguised as a suspense thriller/murder mystery film noir. Loopy and esoteric as all get-out, but often laugh-out-loud funny, and filled to bursting with quotable lines of archly plummy dialogue. This movie should be much more well-known than it is; while it's ...
Sep 10, 2012 · A ballet melodrama with a score by George Antheil, this is one of eight pictures directed by the legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's most grizzled cynics. The storyline centres on ...
