Since a small group of settlers English snuff settle to grow on the banks of the James River, North America was the world as the Promised Land, and anyone could buy a ferry ticket towards the second chance. The cinema was not immune to that dream and an immigrant as Chaplin was the first show, conveniently sweetened, of course: The immigrant (migrant Charlot, 1917). Just three years later, Mitchell Leisen, a native of Michigan, USA passport therefore moved to Hollywood between sets and costumes and learned the craft of directing the side of the great Cecil B. DeMille. Once she learned that the camera should not move arbitrarily, that the hearing should not lose focus, the thread of the story, sat on the stool and gave an extensive production, with titles that do not forgotten by today are smaller, as is the case Hold back the dawn (the Dawn, 1941). dawn Hold back you is a long flashback in which we witness the story of the script that tries to sell the philandering George Iscovescu (Charles Boyer), of Romanian origin and persecuted by police in California, an old known film director Mr. Saxon (Leisen himself). In it we learn that Iscovescu, wanting to flee from an obscure incident, went to a bustling Mexican border town with the intention to enter the USA, but found the bureaucracy and time seemed to have stopped there, the hotel months in Hope, where she watched her chance, was a conviction, and that the quickest and easiest way to transfer the office was to marry an American, as told Anita Dixon (Paulette Goddard ), the playboy who shared the thrills and dangers in the past and chance did come back in a local tavern. Galán leftover poetic and nice words, found in the teacher Iscovescu Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland), the perfect seized, the woman willing to love and surrender. Once spotted the dam, and met the target, marriage, everything was a matter of time. But as often happens whenever there two women and a man, things were not as he would have wanted. And that is when Cupid looks, tense his bow and fires an arrow, targeted to make more armored chest.
With a brisk pace but not mad, Leisen put three of the biggest names in the scene of his time moving-here is to remind the side frames and the lives that intersect at the hotel, emphasis on Walter Abel, who plays Hammock, the inspector in charge of border that gives the impression of being very comfortable in his position as protector and invited by surprise and creates a romantic comedy-the honeymoon by Mexico- a bit sour, a terrible confession to the yeast Anita Emmy-and fairly blatant "disregard of the first victim Iscovescu favors, the wedding night with girlfriend off and inadequate. And if the staff is fantastic, especially Olivia de Havilland when adjusting the lens and decides that, despite the deception, educated at the generosity and always leave a tip, the fact remains that in large part due to the perfection of script. And is that next to the signature of the author of the story, Ketti Frings, who later would become a Pulitzer-winning playwright, was the good work of Charles Brackett and, above all, a certain Billy Wilder, which explains the brilliance of the dialogues, as preceding the time the woman looks flushed the wrong hand in search of the engagement ring or retarding a kiss because of three olives, the fruit of a future that is passionately devoted spouses.
Although over the years would be imposed on reality comedy, down to the frustrations caused by rats Northern (1983), Gregory Nava, facial cream Green card (Marriage of convenience 1990), Peter Weir, intake or drug capsules Maria Full of Grace (Maria Full of Grace, 2004), Joshua Marston, Mitchell Leisen a smile in public Hold back the dawn , one of those 700 films which funded the Paramount between 1929 and 1949 and do not forget, dealing with an issue as thorny as was immigration. A reality that was eventually degenerating to reach the current levels of lawlessness in Tijuana or Ciudad Juarez, places where they converge justification and reach a national craze that opens all doors.
Hold back the dawn (the Dawn, 1941)
In the book 1001 movies you must see before you die (Editorial Grijalbo) no details titles M. Leisen.
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