Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Directed by
- Julien Duvivier
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, melodrama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 38 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A cursed formal tailcoat passes from one person to another in New York. Each new owner experiences a different twist of fate tied to the coat.
episodicbittersweetwryobservantsentimentalunhurriedrueful
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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