Julie

1956

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 2408 2.4K

noir film noir psychotic

Plot summary

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

Director

Andrew L. Stone Photo
Andrew L. Stone

Top cast

Carleton Young Photo
Carleton Young as Airport Control Tower Official
Pamela Duncan Photo
Pamela Duncan as Peggy Davis
Jack Kelly Photo
Jack Kelly as Jack - Co-Pilot
Doris Day Photo
Doris Day as Julie Benton
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894.37 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.62 GB
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MISSMARCH

Provides realism as well as suspense.

The writer-director (and producer of many other films, although not this one) Andrew L. Stone was only nominated once for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and he was very proud of this one. I worked for Stone in the mid-1970's, and he looked back at "JULIE" as a piece of his finest work.The maniacal husband-as-stalker was a new kind of character for films in 1956. The honest discussion of how law enforcement often failed 'women in jeopardy' brought up issues which only became widely discussed in the 1970's.Doris Day plays the role of a terrorized wife trying to escape from the husband who is trying to kill her, and this is such a well-done treatment of the subject that even jaded audiences today respond to it.The climactic scene in which Doris Day lands the passenger plane with help from the control tower is riveting, because it is based on fact. Andrew L. Stone was an exhaustive researcher, and you can be sure every detail of that scene was checked and re-checked. It would have happened in real life just as you see it on the screen.Stone kept a collection of 'true crime' magazines dating from the 1930's in his office library, and he had dozens of plot ideas for thrillers like this one. However, he had always been his own boss and not a 'studio man'. Hollywood didn't give him big budgets, and he never had the opportunity to continue his career as Hitchcock did. Mentally sharp through his 80's, Stone spent the last decade of his life trying to put deals together to make movies that never got off the ground. Our loss.
Reviewed by MartinHafer 9 / 10

A tense film...and a nice departure for Day.

While Doris Day will be forever remembered for her sweet films and comedies, she occasionally made dark films like "Midnight Lace" and "Julie". As for "Midnight Lace", I wasn't very impressed with the movie...but "Julie" is a terrific and tense thriller...and one of Day's best.The story begins in the Monterey, California area. Julie (Day) is a widow who recently married Lyle (Louis Jourdan). However, the honeymoon period in this marriage is short and soon Lyle begins bullying and physically abusing Julie. He also lets it slip that Julie's first husband did not kill himself as everyone believed but HE murdered him. Now Julie is rightfully scared to death of the man, but she's no dummy and soon she escapes and seeks the help of the local police...who are completely useless and unsympathetic. After no help whatsoever, with the help of a friend (Barry Sullivan) she makes her way to San Francisco. There, the police are more sympathetic but are also unable to do much as Julie has no evidence that her husband is a maniac...but they don't just drop the case. They keep an eye on her....and Lyle is determined one way or another to kill her. What happens next is truly amazing but I'll say no more as I don't want to ruin the suspense.The story is very good from start to finish. Some might hate that some of the police don't seem to care about Julie...though for that time period, this is sadly realistic. An amazing film and one that really haunts you. Terrific and tense from start to finish.
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