La Otra - (1946)
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Re: La Otra - (1946)
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the movie has been discovered and presented at our (old ) board by Cardenio many years ago; I saved his text
I had always thought that Dead Ringer (1964) was simply Bette David doing a reworking of her her evil/good twin turn from Stolen Life 20 years later as part of her Grand Guignol period. I didn't know that Warner Brothers owned the rights to the story in 1946 but passed on making it because of its similarity to A Stolen Life.
The story was made into a film in 1946 as La Otra (The Other One) in Mexico and in Spanish starring Dolores Del Rio. The plotting is very similar to the later film, making me think even less of the 1964 film since its filmmakers did a good deal of copying. It's interesting to compare the murder/stripping scenes. In L'Otra, the "good" twin (wearing glasses), having changed into just a nightgown, lures the "evil" one to her apartment and shoots her. Del Rio is a lot prettier than the 1964 Davis. She is shown in shadows taking off her nightgown so she is clearly nude. She then pulls off her dead sister's silk stockings, like in the Davis movie, only here, she puts them right on, immediately indulging in a luxury she had been deprived of. Then, and here the Davis film is more explicit in the stripping, although, as I said, Del Rio is prettier, with a number of shots of the dead sister's face, looking as if she is sleeping except for the bullet in her head, the good twin, still nude, then begins to u. But in L'Otra, she undresses her dead sister, and the action is filmed from behind the sister with the chair blocking the view. The scene then cuts to the good sister's detective boyfriend walking toward the place, and then cuts back to the good sister, fully dressed in her sister's clothes, and her sister in the nightgown. In a final touch, the good sister leaves and returns, remembering that she is still wearing her glasses. But, rather than put them on her sister, she folds them and places them on the dresser. The action starts 32 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Sk0Y6MbSU
the movie has been discovered and presented at our (old ) board by Cardenio many years ago; I saved his text
I had always thought that Dead Ringer (1964) was simply Bette David doing a reworking of her her evil/good twin turn from Stolen Life 20 years later as part of her Grand Guignol period. I didn't know that Warner Brothers owned the rights to the story in 1946 but passed on making it because of its similarity to A Stolen Life.
The story was made into a film in 1946 as La Otra (The Other One) in Mexico and in Spanish starring Dolores Del Rio. The plotting is very similar to the later film, making me think even less of the 1964 film since its filmmakers did a good deal of copying. It's interesting to compare the murder/stripping scenes. In L'Otra, the "good" twin (wearing glasses), having changed into just a nightgown, lures the "evil" one to her apartment and shoots her. Del Rio is a lot prettier than the 1964 Davis. She is shown in shadows taking off her nightgown so she is clearly nude. She then pulls off her dead sister's silk stockings, like in the Davis movie, only here, she puts them right on, immediately indulging in a luxury she had been deprived of. Then, and here the Davis film is more explicit in the stripping, although, as I said, Del Rio is prettier, with a number of shots of the dead sister's face, looking as if she is sleeping except for the bullet in her head, the good twin, still nude, then begins to u. But in L'Otra, she undresses her dead sister, and the action is filmed from behind the sister with the chair blocking the view. The scene then cuts to the good sister's detective boyfriend walking toward the place, and then cuts back to the good sister, fully dressed in her sister's clothes, and her sister in the nightgown. In a final touch, the good sister leaves and returns, remembering that she is still wearing her glasses. But, rather than put them on her sister, she folds them and places them on the dresser. The action starts 32 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Sk0Y6MbSU
