{"id":44814,"date":"2019-09-16T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44814"},"modified":"2021-01-24T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:02:25","slug":"suddenly-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44814","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world. You can&#8217;t make believe they aren&#8217;t there.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Poster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA widowed mother (Nancy Gates) and her young son (Kim Charney) become trapped in their house along with Gates&#8217; father-in-law (James Gleason), the local sheriff (Sterling Hayden), and a television repairman (James O&#8217;Hara) when a crazed assassin (Frank Sinatra) and his henchmen (Paul Frees and Christopher Dark) invade their home during a presidential motorcade.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assassination<\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra Films<\/li>\n<li>Hostages<\/li>\n<li>Single Mothers<\/li>\n<li>Small Town America<\/li>\n<li>Sterling Hayden Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nFrank Sinatra&#8217;s first role after his Academy Award-winning performance in <em>From Here to Eternity<\/em> (1953) was this effectively chilling portrayal of a sociopathic veteran hired to kill the president. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/5808\/suddenly#articles-reviews?articleId=31589\">TCM&#8217;s article<\/a>, when Sinatra heard Lee Harvey Oswald watched this movie the day before shooting Kennedy, he requested that it &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35521\"><em>The Manchurian Candidate<\/em> (1962)<\/a>, also about an attempted presidential assassination &#8212; be taken out of circulation. Interestingly, <em>Suddenly<\/em> &#8212; the eponymous title refers to the sleepy little town where all this action &#8220;suddenly&#8221; takes place &#8212; is a pro-gun movie, starting with young Charney&#8217;s frustration that he isn&#8217;t allowed to have one, and culminating in a situation where having guns lying around the house is very much a life-saving choice for this group of unwitting hostages (then again, when are hostages ever <em>not<\/em> unwitting?). Overall, this tense story is told in a compact and highly effective style, showing a small American town disrupted by pure malevolence, but saved by collective ingenuity and bravery. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frank Sinatra as John Baron<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Sinatra.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Sinatra.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Sinatra.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Sinatra-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Sinatra-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nancy Gates as Ellen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Gates.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Gates.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Gates.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Gates-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Gates-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A tense screenplay, well-directed by Lewis Allen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Tense.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Tense.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Tense.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Tense-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Suddenly-Tense-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a fine and well-told thriller. Listed as a Sleeper in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047542\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/5808\/suddenly#articles-reviews?articleId=31589\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/suddenly\/review\/119371\/\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world. You can&#8217;t make believe they aren&#8217;t there.&#8221; Synopsis: A widowed mother (Nancy Gates) and her young son (Kim Charney) become trapped in their house along with Gates&#8217; father-in-law (James Gleason), the local sheriff (Sterling Hayden), and a television repairman (James O&#8217;Hara) when a crazed assassin (Frank Sinatra) and his henchmen (Paul Frees and Christopher Dark) invade their home during a presidential motorcade. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Assassination Frank Sinatra Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44814\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44814"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65608,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44814\/revisions\/65608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}