| Valerie | |
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| Directed by | Gerd Oswald |
| Screenplay by |
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| Produced by | Hal R. Makelim |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | David Bretherton |
| Music by | Albert Glasser |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Hal R. Makelim Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Valerie is a 1957 AmericanWestern film directed byGerd Oswald and starringSterling Hayden,Anita Ekberg andAnthony Steel.[1][2] The film was apparently inspired byAkira Kurosawa's 1950 classicRashomon.[1]
Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictoryflashback sequences are depicted.[1]
Filming forValerie started in December 1956.[3] It was the only film that Anthony Steel and Anita Ekberg made together during their marriage.[4]
Variety called the film "a challenging experiment."[5]
In a contemporary review inBaltimore'sThe 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."[6]
Writing inThe 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."[7]
Valerie was released on DVD byMGM Home Video on September 26, 2011 via MGM's MOD (manufacture-on-demand) program throughAmazon.com.
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