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Wikipedia article
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| director = John Sturges
| screenplay = Niven Busch
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| producer = Niven Busch
| starring = Lew Ayres
Teresa Wright
Victor Jory
Jacqueline White
| cinematography = Edward Cronjager
| editing = George Amy
| music = Daniele Amfitheatrof
| studio = Niven Busch Productions
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| distributor = RKO Pictures
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| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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'The Capture' is a 1950 drama film directed by John Sturges, starring Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory and Jacqueline White.. Some film historians have categorized it as a noir.Selby 1984, film noir #60, p. 135.
The story, told in flashback deals with an ex-oil worker driven by guilt at causing the death of an innocent man to find out the truth about a robbery.
Plot
Lin Vanner is the manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a holdup. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he sets out to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.
Too late Lin learns that the man could not raise one arm because it was injured and this was the reason for his shouting rather than complying with the demand he raise his hands; he was not guilty of the robbery. Troubled by his action and abandoned by his fiance, Lin takes it on himself to tell the dead man's wife, Ellen, but is mistaken for an applicant for a helper to keep the dead man's farm going until his widow's son is old enough to take over.
Lin believes that this opportunity has been given to him to make amends for his mistake.
With Father Gomez at his side, the story that he is being pursued by the police for another killing is told in a flashback.
Cast
* Lew Ayres as Lin Vanner
* Teresa Wright as Ellen
* Victor Jory as Father Gomez
* Jacqueline White as Luana Ware
* Jimmy Hunt as Ellen's son
* Barry Kelley as Earl C. Mahoney, Finance Co. V.P.
* Duncan Renaldo as Carlos
* William Bakewell as Herb Tolin, Bolsa Grande Oil
Reception
Critical response
When the film was released, the staff at 'Variety' gave the film a generally favorable review, writing "The Capture is an offbeat drama, with psychological overtones, that plays off against the raw and rugged background of Mexican locales. Picture kicks off with a wallop ... Ayres and Teresa Wright are very capable in the lead characters, adding to the general realism given the story because of the locales used. One of the interesting touches to the film is the incidental native music hauntingly spotted with the appearance of a blind guitar player."[https://variety.com/1949/film/reviews/the-capture-1117789707/ 'Variety']. Staff film review, 1950. Accessed: July 18. 2013.See also
* List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
Notes
Bibliography
# American Film Institute. 'AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Volume 1'. 'The Capture', p. 378. University of California Press, 1971. .
# Howard Reid, John Howard. 'Movie Westerns:Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West'. 'The Capture', p. 45. Lulu.com, 2005. .
# Selby, Spencer. 'Dark City: The Film Noir'. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing, 1984. .
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