I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES
T. it.: “Tutto finì all’alba”; Scen: W. R. Burnett, dalla sua novella “High Sierra”; F.: Ted D. McCord; M.: Clarence Kolster; Scgf.: Edward Carrere; Cost.: Moss Mabry; Trucco: Gordon Bau; Mu.: David Buttolph; Su.: Charles Lang; Ass. R.: Chuck Hansen; Int.: Jack Palance (Roy Earle), Shelley Winters (Mary Gibson), Lori Nelson (Welma), Lee Marvin (Babe Kozuk), Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales (Chico), Lon Chaney Jr. (Big Mac), Earl Holliman (Red), Perry Lopez (Louis Mendoza), Richard Davalos (Lon Preisser), Howard St. John (Doc Banton), Olive Carey (Ma), Ralph Moody (Pa), James Millican (Jack Kranmer), Bill Kennedy (sceriffo), Dennis Hopper (Joe); Prod.: Warner Brothers; 35mm. L.: 2603 m. D.: 95’ a 24 f/s.
Film Notes
A Hollywood director who, while not well known, cannot be neglected, Heisler takes on a story already filmed by Walsh as High Sierra and again as Colorado Territory. Jack Palance takes the place of Humphrey Bogart and Joel MacCrea. His bony boxer’s face brings the stigma of those repeated deaths before a woman who never fails to waste him with her fiery gaze. A harsher, more comical, more melodramatic film than Walsh’s? One thing is certain: in those days, Heisler and Walsh were breathing the same air.
Erwan Higuinen, in “Cahiers du cinéma”, n. 573, 2002