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When the Chicago singer Lily Stevens (Ida Lupino) arrives at the Jefty Road House hired by the owner Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins (Richard Widmark), the manager Pete Morgan (Cornel Wilde) gives a cold reception to her. Jefty asks Pete, who is his best friend, to drive Lily to the local hotel. However Pete drives her to the train station instead and asks Lily to go back to Chicago. She refuses to go and her performance is successful in her debut. Soon Pete changes his opinion towards Lily and the accountant and cashier Susie Smith (Celeste Holm) informs that the public has increased not only in the roadhouse, but also in the bowling alley. Jefty feels attraction for Lily, but when he travels, Lily and Pete fall in love with each other. When Jefty returns, he brings a marriage license and proposes Lily; however she dumps him and Pete and she decide to travel to Chicago and leave the town. However Jefty frames Pete and reports a hake theft to the police. Pete is arrested and found guilty by the jury. However Jefty proposes to the judge that Pete continues to work for him instead of going to the prison. What is the intention of Jefty? "Road House" is an engaging film–noir with a storyline of unrequited love and obsession. Ida Lupino has an impressive performance, singing with a wonderful husky voice. The first performance of the famous song "Again" is the soundtrack of "Road Movie" sang by Ida Lupino. This film is also the third appearance of the outstanding Richard Widmark and his insane smile on the cinema. Cornel Wilde and Celeste Holm complete the dream cast of this unknown gem. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Taverna do Caminho" ("The Tavern on the Way")

***SPOILERS***It's when sultry Chicago night club singer Lily Stevens, Ida Lupino, showed at at the Jefty Robbins, Eichard Widmark, roadhouse on the US/Canadian border sparks started flying in all directions. Not only between Jefty Robbins and his friend, who manages the roadhouse, Pete Morgan, Cornel Wild, but also the customers there as well. In one scene as Lily was doing her act a drunken and uncouth Mister Bacigalupi tried to manhandle her with Pete rushing to her rescue. It was the very over-matched Pete, whom Bacigalupi outweighed by at least 50 pounds, who was about to finish him off that a squad of police came to arrest and apprehend the helpless drunk. That was just one of many violent incidents that Lily, just by her presence, cause in the film with many more to follow.What really got things rolling was when Jefty was out hunting moose and deer that his friend & partner Pete began a hot and heavy romantic affair with Lily behind Jefty's, who considered her to be his personal property,back. With Pete who was soon to marry Lily trying to square himself with Jefty who unknown to Pete had, in order to surprise Lily, already taken out a marriage licenses to marry her that the at first normal and joke cracking Jefty turned completely psycho! So psycho that he not only went so far as to frame his good friend Pete in stealing the roadhouse weekly receipts, $2,600.00, but blackmail his cashier and behind the scene squeeze Susie Smith, Celeste Holm, for participating in the robbery. In what was to be the trial of the century, in that part of the woods, Pete got the book thrown at him for robbery, the charges against Susie were eventually dropped, by Judge Grandon Rhodes. With him handing down a stiff 2 to year jail sentence on the totally shocked down to his socks Pete who didn't quite what hit him! That in him seeing just how far his "good friend" Pete would go to frame him. ***SPOILERS*** Just when you, as well as Pete Lily & Susie, thought things couldn't get any worse they in fact did. With a now feeling invincible Jefty making a deal with Judge Rhodes to release Pete on parole just to show what a nice guy he really is and then keeping him as well as his lover Lily under this thumb which in fact, as were all soon to see, is even worse then spending the next 2 to 10 years behind bars! It's here when Jefty overplayed his hand and in the end got exactly all that was coming to him. And it was non other then the woman that he loved and wanted to keep all to himself, like the trophies of antlers he had in his roadhouse, Lily Stevens that finally and reluctantly put an end to his total insanity! P.S There's also the added treat of seeing and hearing Ida Lupion, Lily Stevens, belting out two great songs in the movie "Quater to Three" and what came to be its theme song "Again".

Road House (1948)Road House is in some ways a straight up romance with noir stylizing. The setting is great, out in some isolated and spectacular club/bar of a type once known as a roadhouse (often out of town to avoid local laws about drinking and cavorting). The core is that the troubled and cocky Jefty, played by the inimitable Richard Widmark, wants the troubled Lily, played by a tough Ida Lupino. Widmark as the roadhouse owner is pure Widmark, so that even when he's charming he's scary, and when he's not so charming he becomes demonic. This repels Lupino, who though hard edged is decent deep down, and she falls for the nice guy, played by Cornel Wilde, who is a sweetheart with an inability to stand up for himself. This gets him, and everyone else, into trouble. The steady, downward drone of this movie from a just barely tense introduction as Lily comes to town to be the new entertainment to a love conflict and a frame up is subtle and effective. Don't look for fireworks--it's all smoke until the very end. A full hour passes before you reach the movie's one major plot twist (the bizarre parole conditions announced in the courtroom), and then the gun has finally been cocked. Now all that we wonder about is how it will go off. And Lupino. There is no one in Hollywood quite like her, one of the best women for making bitter arrogance smart and snappy. Her husky-voiced singing is far more provocative than awful, and perfect for this roadhouse in some unlikely mountain town fifteen miles from Canada. Not only is Lupino brilliant with her lines, she has brilliant lines to deliver, almost as though she invented them, they fit so well. The fourth main character, the "second woman" played by Celeste Holm (the beguiling voice-over in Letter to Three Wives), seems to have a smaller role, but she's ultimately the sensible and good gal, not as sexed up and headturning as Lupino's Lily, but steady and practical and a key to everyone's salvation in the end. The camera-work starts out as pretty straight 1940s greatness (aided by an astonishing series of period sets), with Joseph LaShelle as cinematographer building up the drama through the last half hour to some searing, dramatic face shots. The final scenes in the woods presage the similar foggy ending to Gun Crazy, which has more of a cult following (and which has visual innovations this one doesn't), and these scenes are worth the ride by themselves. Director Jean Negulesco has only a few features of note to his credit, but Road House, along with How to Marry a Millionaire and Johnny Belinda, makes a great case for his ability.It's easy to fault the film for some small things (Pete seems inexplicably powerless to fight the frameup) and even for larger ones (the romance that holds it together isn't all that convincing), but the moods and sets and lines are all great stuff. The plot has some gratuitous moments (including an exhibitionist Lupino) but taken another way they emphasize her difference from the others, her insouciance and her confidence. It's curious, and maybe defining, that the natural match between the troubled characters, the Widmark and Lupino leads, is rejected, but then Lily's shift to Pete ought to catch fire.In a way, the film's theme, of a man being overwhelmed by his wanting and expecting a woman, is defined best in Lily's matter of fact line, "Doesn't it enter a man's head that a girl can do without him?" Not usually.

Richard Widmark gives a superior performance in this film as an unstable owner of a road house that's located in a small community close to the Canadian border. He inherited the business from his father. His lifelong friend, played by Cornel Wilde, works for him managing the business. The two are equals until Ida Lupino shows up as an out of town singer and pianist who's hired by Widmark to provide entertainment. Her presence is what causes the extreme strain that breaks Widmark's and Wilde's friendship for good. The settings are unique, with a taut finale out in the woods, and as well a courtroom scene. Widmark gets best actor honors (in my opinion). He slips so easily into his character's unpredictability, and goes from cool and cunning to sadistic, which is even more than he did in Kiss Of Death, where the character was entirely crazy and sadistic. Lupino, who apparently had zero vocal range, is great as the sultry singer from Chicago with a troubled past. For such an idyllic setting as the Road House is in, miles of forests and lots of lakes, the film noir characters provide a great contrast. Directed by Jean Negulesco and shot by Joseph LaShelle, the film looks and moves quite crisply. While the finale is really well done, it's not as if the viewer suffers through lapses before that point, as the tension between Wilde and Widmark, and Wilde's romance with Lupino are well enough placed to keep the punches coming.