Tales of Manhattan(Movie, 1942)

Name: Tales of Manhattan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1942
Duration: T01:58:00
Rating: 3.2

1h 58min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Molnár, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart, worked on the six stories in this film. Based on the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González's novel, Historia de un frac ("Story of a Tailcoat"), which he was not credited for, the stories follow a black formal tailcoat cursed by a cutter as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories. ()

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About Tales of Manhattan

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 08/05/1942

Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson, W. C. Fields, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Cesar Romero, Gail Patrick, Roland Young, Elsa Lanchester, Victor Francen, George Sanders, James Gleason, Harry Davenport, J. Carrol Naish, Mae Marsh, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Eddie Anderson, Gino Corrado, Helene Whitney, James Rennie, Margaret Dumont, Marion Martin, Phil Silvers, Robert Greig, Will Wright, Sig Arno, Clarence Muse, Marcel Dalio, Frank Darien, Bess Flowers, Don Brodie, Harold Miller, Colin Kenny, Harry Hayden, Jack Chefe, Cyril Ring, Morris Ankrum, Charles Williams, Bert Moorhouse, Esther Howard, Edgar Norton, Ellinor Vanderveer, Frank Orth, Christian Rub, Don Douglas, George H. Reed

Director: Julien Duvivier

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Buster Keaton, Ferenc Molnár, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lamar Trotti, William Morrow, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, László Görög, Samuel Hoffenstein

Film Editor: Robert Bischoff

Director of Photography: Joseph Walker

Composer: Sol Kaplan

Production Designer: Richard Day

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Manhattan Ballade"

"Seis destinos"

"Six destins"

Keywords: reunion, tail coat, murder, scarecrow, anthology, lawyer

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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