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Valerie (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Valerie' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Steel.VALERIE
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 24, Iss. 276, (Jan 1, 1957): 91. The film was apparently inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic 'Rashomon'.
Plot
Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictory flashback sequences are depicted.
Cast
Production
Filming for 'Valerie' started in December 1956.Paris Night-Club Singer Signed; Wengraff Acts Anita Ekberg's Father Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 4 Dec 1956: A11. It was the only film that Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg made during their marriage.
Reception
'Variety' called the film "a challenging experiment."[https://archive.org/details/variety207-1957-07/page/n267/mode/1up?q=%22anthony+steel%22 Review of film] at Variety
In a contemporary review in Baltimore's 'The Evening Sun', reviewer Hope Pantell wrote: "This opus opens with an assortment of bodies, then proceeds to show, sometimes in painfully long-winded fashion, how they got to be so stiff."
Writing in 'The Philadelphia Inquirer', reviewer Samuel L. Singer assessed the lead actors' performances: "Lovely Anita Ekberg, Swedish beauty, displays her charms and engages in a limited amount of histrionics. Sterling Hayden is grimly nonsmiling as her husband, and Anthony Steel, her real-life husband, is convincing as the minister."
Home media
'Valerie' was released on DVD by MGM Home Video on September 26, 2011 via MGM's MOD (manufacture-on-demand) program through Amazon.com.
See also
* List of American films of 1957
References
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