Storm Warning

Storm Warning

2DCS15
Director:Stuart Heisler
Cast:Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran
Premiere:27. November 2021
Length:93 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Stuart Heisler  •  Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders

In 1951, Hollywood musical and romantic comedy star, actress, dancer and singer Ginger Rogers and her eleven years younger colleague Doris Day appeared as sisters in the socially committed Warner Bros. Storm Warning, a brainchild of producer Jerry Wald, who wanted to make a film with a deeper socio-political message in the style of Dmytryk's Crossfire. He thus set the story of the pair of women in a small town in the American South, pla-gued by xenophobia and pervasive fear, where the Ku-Klux-Klan rules with a heavy hand. A local prosecutor with the face of future US President Ronald Reagan fiercely fights back against a fanatical mob of old-timers like a lone cowboy. The thick atmosphere of hatred, manipulation and rape culture escalates into a frustrating climax that seems to take us back to the Middle Ages.

Length: 93 min

Year: 1951
Local premiere date: 27. November 2021
World premiere date: 10. February 1951

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Director: Stuart Heisler  •  Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders

In 1951, Hollywood musical and romantic comedy star, actress, dancer and singer Ginger Rogers and her eleven years younger colleague Doris Day appeared as sisters in the socially committed Warner Bros. Storm Warning, a brainchild of producer Jerry Wald, who wanted to make a film with a deeper socio-political message in the style of Dmytryk's Crossfire. He thus set the story of the pair of women in a small town in the American South, pla-gued by xenophobia and pervasive fear, where the Ku-Klux-Klan rules with a heavy hand. A local prosecutor with the face of future US President Ronald Reagan fiercely fights back against a fanatical mob of old-timers like a lone cowboy. The thick atmosphere of hatred, manipulation and rape culture escalates into a frustrating climax that seems to take us back to the Middle Ages.

Year: 1951
Local premiere date: 27. November 2021
World premiere date: 10. February 1951

Country of origin:

  • United states of America