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Caught Overview:

Caught (1949) was a Drama - Film Noir Film directed by Max Ophüls and produced by Wolfgang Reinhardt.

SYNOPSIS

Ophuls directed this film noir about a young woman who marries a millionaire and finds wealth and security can't compensate for his abusiveness. Desperate to escape him when he's unwilling to divorce, she plots his murder.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Caught BlogHub Articles:

Walther Huston is caught in Frank Capra’s “American Madness”

By Stephen Reginald on Jun 16, 2024 From Classic Movie Man

Walther Huston is caught in Frank Capra’s “American Madness” American Madness (1932) is a pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Walter Huston. Other members of the cast include Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson, and Constance Cummings. Tom Dickson (Huston) is ... Read full article

James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan are "Caught"

By Stephen Reginald on Jul 18, 2022 From Classic Movie Man

James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan are "Caught" Caught (1949) is an American film noir directed by Max Ophuls and starring James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan. The screenplay was by Arthur Laurents from the novel Wild Calendar by Libbie Block.Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes... Read full article

Tension (1949): Richard Basehart Caught Between The Good and The Bad Girl

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 30, 2019 From 4 Star Films

Barry Sullivan has an absolute field day as a homicide cop, Lt. Collier Bonnabel, with very calculated methods of getting to the root of every crime. Whether it comes by pushing, cajoling, romancing, tricking, flattering — he’ll do whatever is necessary. What matters to him is to keep st... Read full article

book: Caught (2010) by Harlan Coben

By John Grant on Nov 11, 2019 From Noirish

We were away at a science fiction convention this past weekend, so everything’s a bit sleepy and tentative around Noirish Towers today. This will be just a quick note . . . TV investigative journalist Wendy Tynes ensnares social worker Dan Mercer in a sting operation, the latest triumph of her... Read full article

Caught in a Ham (2019, Miguel Jiron)

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 27, 2019 From The Stop Button

I think I went into Caught in a Ham with unduly high hopes (I’ve been a Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham since 1983) and apparently I’m enough of a purist to be a little upset Spider-Ham loses out on half his four minute cartoon so it can tie into Into the Spider-Verse. There’s also th... Read full article

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Caught Quotes:

Leonora Eames: Posture and social useage
Smith Ohlrig: Social what?
Leonora Eames: Useage. You know, conversation, etiquette, how to pour tea
[Leonora mines this action with her hand]
Leonora Eames: , how to listen to music
[Leonora then places two fingers from her hand to her right ear]
Leonora Eames: , how to... please watch the road.
Leonora Eames: Look at me! Look at what you bought!
Smith Ohlrig: I was born rich. My father left me 4 million dollars. But I didn't drink it away, I didn't gamble it away, I didn't marry it away. I knew what to do with it. I've got exactly 22 and a half times that much now, and I'll have 50 times that much before I die. That's what everyone wants, isn't it? Well, I've got it. And I made it myself. Every one of my corporations - every single one - has a different staff, a different lawyer, a different accountant. Not one of them knows anything about each other. I run it all. Each one has his place, and he stays there. And why not? They're well paid. And that's what you've got to learn, Leonora. You're better paid than any of them. And you've got YOUR place: this house. And that's where you'll stay.
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Caught Facts
Both John Berry and Robert Aldrich directed additional scenes, uncredited.
The 1992 restoration of the film, done at UCLA Film and Television Archives, was financed by Martin Scorsese, who would direct a biopic of Howard Hughes - upon whose life the film is based - The Aviator a decade later.
The character Smith Ohlrig is based on Howard Hughes,
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