Boomerang (1947 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Boomerang!


imdb_id = 0039208
director = Elia Kazan
writer = Richard Murphy
Anthony Abbot
starring = Dana Andrews,
Jane Wyatt,
Lee J. Cobb
producer = Louis De Rochemont
music = David Buttolph
cinematography = Norbert Brodine
distributor = Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
released = March 5, 1947 (U.S. release)
runtime = 88 min.
language = English
"For the 1992 film, click Boomerang."

"Boomerang!" is a 1947 film based on a true story about the early career of Attorney General Homer Cummings. The film was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a story (written by Fulton Oursler) in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut. This semidocumentary also contains voice-overs by Reed Hadley.

ynopsis

A minister is shot dead on a Connecticut public street at night. After weeks of public pressure to capture the killer, a man (Kennedy) is eventually arrested and falsely accused of murdering the minister. The District Attorney, duty-bound to prosecute the accused killer, instead defends him and eventually proves his innocence.

Cast

*Dana Andrews as State's Atty. Henry L. Harvey
*Jane Wyatt as Madge Harvey
*Lee J. Cobb as Chief Harold F. (Robbie) Robinson
*Cara Williams as Irene Nelson (Waitress at Coney Island Cafe)
*Arthur Kennedy as John Waldron (murder suspect)
*Sam Levene as Dave Woods (reporter, 'Morning Record')
*Taylor Holmes as T.M. Wade (Waldron supporter)
*Robert Keith as Mac McCreery
*Ed Begley as Paul Harris
*Karl Malden as Det. Lt. White

DVD release

This film was scheduled for release on DVD in June 2006 as part of the Fox Film Noir series. Just prior to release, the DVD was recalled without explanation, though some copies did trickle out on the market. A DVD release has since taken place,i.e, September 2nd 2008. There was speculation of a copyright issue for the delayed release, as the original DVD itself has no flaws or defects.

Filming locations

Almost all of the film was shot in Stamford, Connecticut, except for the courtroom scene shot in White Plains, New York.Russell, Don, "'Roles' in movies are nothing new for city: Kazan used Stamford in the '40s", editorial page column in "The Advocate", Stamford edition, page A10, April 25, 2007]

Stamford locations:
* The South End of Stamford, particularly at Saint Luke's Chapel.
* Old Town Hall, particularly the Police Department offices and the stairway leading up from them to the courtroom.
* The Altschul home on Den Road in Stamford (for a meeting of leading citizens).
* For a scene in which a pastor was killed, the movie used the front and sidewalk of the Plaza Theatre, which stood on Greyrock Place (a driveway leading into the Stamford Town Center Mall is at that location now).
* The former offices of "The Advocate" of Stamford, the local daily newspaper, on Atlantic Street. Some members of the "Advocate" editorial staff members were used in a scene about the news breaking that the priest killer had been caught.

References

External links

*imdb title|0039208