Film

The Lady Pays Off

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA · 1951 · 16 mm · Black and White · 80' · o.v. English

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Evelyn Warren, newly elected ’school-teacher of the year’ in the United States, goes to Reno, gets drunk, and loses $7,000 at the casino. The owner forces her to give lessons to his daughter Diana in exchange for not revealing what happened, and ends up falling in love with her. The first Sirk film covering American themes in a comic light.


Information

Director

Douglas Sirk

Screenplay

Albert J. Cohen, Frank Gill Jr.

Cast

Ann Codee, Gigi Perreau, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Virginia Field

Producer

Albert J. Cohen

Cinematography

William H. Daniels

Editing

Russell Schoengarth

Music

Frank Skinner

Production

Universal Pictures

International sales

Park Circus

Print

Alessio Maliandi

Cineteca D.W. Griffith