Based on Ernest Hemingway's short story, "My Old Man," the 1950 screen adaptation directed by Jean Negulesco, "Under My Skin," is a passably entertaining film unfortunately, the film's prime asset, star John Garfield, made only two more movies after this before his early death at age 39. Garfield is widowed expatriate Dan Butler, a jockey with shady dealings and an unhealthy relationship with a corrupt gambler played by Luther Adler.
Beautiful movie about horses and that magnificent, magnificent John Garfield I can't get enough of it.
Back during the era when there was a Production Code, folks who were wicked HAD to be punished and the leading men had to be nice guys. That's just the way it was.
FOX had nothing but the finest talent in the 1940's and 1950's. This is a prime example in taking a Hemingway short story and expanding it to an 85 minute movie while still being faithful to the source.
This is a much underrated and almost unknown and forgotten crown jewel among the Hemingway screenings, and it's an odd one out for Hemingway, as it's an unusual character prying into the depths of a heel fighting it out with destiny for his honour, which he has been losing all his life. We never get to know anything about his background, why he can't talk of America, let alone go back, and Micheline Presle, who appears to know all about him throughout from the beginning, treats him like poison.
A career which began in 1937 and which is still buoyant today in 2010! Micheline Presles was one of the greatest French actresses of all time whose longevity is rivaled only but that of Danielle Darrieux.
I saw this movie at the Route 66 film festival in Springfield Illinois where it won best Thriller. It was very creepy.
I saw this movie at the Springfield, IL film commission meeting. I was very intrigued by the movie and it had me on the edge of my seat.
This early work from Canadian director Milan Cheylov in conjunction with his wife Lori Lansens, the latter designated as screenwriter, is burdened with a small budget, a script having little bite to it, and direction that makes but superficial use of the cast, while not developing a narrative rhythm. Action opens with Jack Skye (Albert Schultz), who is better known as Colt, a soap opera star, on stage crooning, in a private performance, to adoring female members of his fan club at a small theatre in Ontario.
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