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The Memory Of Eva Ryker Is an Unusual Natalie Wood vehicle
I just watched this movie a couple of weeks ago, and I just remembered to do this review of the movie on IMDb.I saw "The Memory Of Eva Ryker" when it first aired on television way back in 1980 or 1981.The main reason that I watched the movie back then, and lately, is because I really like Natalie Wood as an actress.Natalie Wood from the time she played the little girl in the movie "The Miracle On 34th Street" with Maureen O'Hara and John Payne,up to her last film "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken was a wonderful actress in my opinion.She had the something special that made her shine no matter what part she played."The Memory of Eva Ryker" has a huge cast with excellent actors like Ralph Bellamy and the scenery wasn't bad either.This is not what I would call one of Natalie Wood's best movies,but it is fine if only for getting to see Natalie do her magic as an actress.I Have This Movie.
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Irwin Allen TV Movie Starring Natalie Wood & The Music Composer
Irwin Allen's The Memory Of Eva Ryker is a change from the 1970s disaster movies this man was dishing out left, right and centre. But the sea loving Irwin Allen just had to have a Poseidon-looking ship in this film.
Three things make this film worth watching (1) Natalie Wood, (2) Bradford Dillman as a memorable bad guy, (3) An old-fashioned score by Richard LaSalle.
But the movie has problems. This may have been a fun show 23 years ago, but now, seeing a 1980 movie pretending to be a 1940s Hollywood melodrama, there is now too much of the 1980s in it. And that scene in "The Australian Outback", it seems Irwin Allen knew nothing about Australia as every Aussie detail of this scene is very WRONG! We don't talk like the cop in that scene. And one line from this cop "I don't read" is almost insulting to me as an Aussie.
See this movie for the above mentioned three things.
Three things make this film worth watching (1) Natalie Wood, (2) Bradford Dillman as a memorable bad guy, (3) An old-fashioned score by Richard LaSalle.
But the movie has problems. This may have been a fun show 23 years ago, but now, seeing a 1980 movie pretending to be a 1940s Hollywood melodrama, there is now too much of the 1980s in it. And that scene in "The Australian Outback", it seems Irwin Allen knew nothing about Australia as every Aussie detail of this scene is very WRONG! We don't talk like the cop in that scene. And one line from this cop "I don't read" is almost insulting to me as an Aussie.
See this movie for the above mentioned three things.
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THE MEMORY OF EVA RYKER
US, 1980, 144 minutes, Colour.
Natalie Wood, Jean- Pierre Aumont, Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dilman, Robert Foxworth, Peter Graves, Mel Ferrer, Morgan Fairchild, Roddy Mc Dowell.
Directed by Walter Grauman.
The Memory of Eva Ryker is an entertaining, if long, telemovie. It has the elements of thriller and soap opera - psychological background, flashbacks to the '30s from the affluent '70s. It has a star cast and was one of Natalie
Wood's last films. The film improves as it goes on. It is quite complex at first but then the strands are unwound and the plot moves towards more straightforward resolution.
1. The impact and enjoyment of the combination of thriller techniques, soap opera characters and situations, psychological investigation and therapy, pictures of wealthy society in the present and in the past, murder mystery?
2. The impact of the film as a telemovie: length, introduction of characters, complexity of plot, audience involvement? Lavish production values? Star cast? Musical score?
3. The structure of the film: the picturing of the initial murders and the involvement of Norman? Norman as hero? The encounter with Ryker and Eva? The elaboration of memories - detective and psychological investigation? The pieces and the puzzle? The long flashbacks? Explanations? Resolutions? A satisfactory story?
4. At what level did the film work? Atmosphere of authenticity and reality? Contrived and artificial story? The understanding of the problems? The exploration of values?
5. Norman as hero: his role as a writer, his experience of the killings and his revulsion at the violence? His living in Paris, connections with the Surete? His involvement with Ryker? The dangers for his life ? especially the helicopter crash? Travelling ? even to Australia? The growing friendship with Eva? His motivation? His elaboration of the picture, his writer's insight? The importance of the flashbacks? The dangers in Australia and the encounter with MacFarlane? Halifax and the retrieving of the camera? The crash and his injuries? Ryker's anger? The encounter with Eva and the traumatic chase along the beach? Eva's hypnosis? His burgling Ryker's files? The final exploration and the capture of the criminals? A romantic hero?
6. Natalie Wood as heroine - her dual role? Eva and her wealth, relationship with her father, love, trauma? Involvement in the mystery? Her memory blocks and fears? Her friendship with Norman? The hypnosis? The trauma of the chase along the beach and her blocking reality off? The memories of her mother? The glimpses of the voyage? Natalie Wood playing her own mother? The memories of Eddington? The growing reality of Jason and his menace? Her experience in the ship, her mother's death, the ship going down, her being rescued? Her facing the reality of the incident? Psychological freedom? The doll and the irony of the jewels in the doll? Her sadness at her father's death and her bitterness at his having used her as a child? Her setting the trap for Jason and his wife?
7. Ryker and the sketch of the hard, ambitious businessman, his relationship with his wife, using his daughter for jewel-smuggling, his hiring Norman, his continued interventions, his death? The sketch of his assistants and their tough measures?
8. Jason and his wife as villains? The mystery of their identity and their changing identity and their changing identities? Their deaths and the irony of the unravelling of the mystery? Their presence on the ship, their seduction of Eva's mother and her companion, the murders? The escape from the ship? Jason's prejudice towards negroes and the irony of his assuming their names? The staging of the deaths? The ending and the greed and cruelty?
Natalie Wood, Jean- Pierre Aumont, Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dilman, Robert Foxworth, Peter Graves, Mel Ferrer, Morgan Fairchild, Roddy Mc Dowell.
Directed by Walter Grauman.
The Memory of Eva Ryker is an entertaining, if long, telemovie. It has the elements of thriller and soap opera - psychological background, flashbacks to the '30s from the affluent '70s. It has a star cast and was one of Natalie
Wood's last films. The film improves as it goes on. It is quite complex at first but then the strands are unwound and the plot moves towards more straightforward resolution.
1. The impact and enjoyment of the combination of thriller techniques, soap opera characters and situations, psychological investigation and therapy, pictures of wealthy society in the present and in the past, murder mystery?
2. The impact of the film as a telemovie: length, introduction of characters, complexity of plot, audience involvement? Lavish production values? Star cast? Musical score?
3. The structure of the film: the picturing of the initial murders and the involvement of Norman? Norman as hero? The encounter with Ryker and Eva? The elaboration of memories - detective and psychological investigation? The pieces and the puzzle? The long flashbacks? Explanations? Resolutions? A satisfactory story?
4. At what level did the film work? Atmosphere of authenticity and reality? Contrived and artificial story? The understanding of the problems? The exploration of values?
5. Norman as hero: his role as a writer, his experience of the killings and his revulsion at the violence? His living in Paris, connections with the Surete? His involvement with Ryker? The dangers for his life ? especially the helicopter crash? Travelling ? even to Australia? The growing friendship with Eva? His motivation? His elaboration of the picture, his writer's insight? The importance of the flashbacks? The dangers in Australia and the encounter with MacFarlane? Halifax and the retrieving of the camera? The crash and his injuries? Ryker's anger? The encounter with Eva and the traumatic chase along the beach? Eva's hypnosis? His burgling Ryker's files? The final exploration and the capture of the criminals? A romantic hero?
6. Natalie Wood as heroine - her dual role? Eva and her wealth, relationship with her father, love, trauma? Involvement in the mystery? Her memory blocks and fears? Her friendship with Norman? The hypnosis? The trauma of the chase along the beach and her blocking reality off? The memories of her mother? The glimpses of the voyage? Natalie Wood playing her own mother? The memories of Eddington? The growing reality of Jason and his menace? Her experience in the ship, her mother's death, the ship going down, her being rescued? Her facing the reality of the incident? Psychological freedom? The doll and the irony of the jewels in the doll? Her sadness at her father's death and her bitterness at his having used her as a child? Her setting the trap for Jason and his wife?
7. Ryker and the sketch of the hard, ambitious businessman, his relationship with his wife, using his daughter for jewel-smuggling, his hiring Norman, his continued interventions, his death? The sketch of his assistants and their tough measures?
8. Jason and his wife as villains? The mystery of their identity and their changing identity and their changing identities? Their deaths and the irony of the unravelling of the mystery? Their presence on the ship, their seduction of Eva's mother and her companion, the murders? The escape from the ship? Jason's prejudice towards negroes and the irony of his assuming their names? The staging of the deaths? The ending and the greed and cruelty?
9. MacFarlane? and his presence in Australia, his presence on the ship, rescuing Eva? His role with the police on landing? His death?
10. The sketch on Eva's mother and her companion - the soap opera background of the '30s voyage, the seduction, the murders, the sinking of the ship?
11. The salvage from the ship, the screening of the home movies, the finding of the doll? The number of deaths associated with the investigation and the salvage?
12. The policeman from the Surete, his investigation - the sub-plot on Norman and the recommendation of wines?
13. The sequences in the doctor's surgery, hypnosis, the treatment of Eva and the discovery of the truth?
14. The techniques of flashback for the resolution - visualising Eva's gaining of memory? The final confrontation with the criminals and their arrest?
15. Techniques for sustaining audience interest? Complex plot, melodramatic situations, sympathetic characters - and all coming right at the end?
10. The sketch on Eva's mother and her companion - the soap opera background of the '30s voyage, the seduction, the murders, the sinking of the ship?
11. The salvage from the ship, the screening of the home movies, the finding of the doll? The number of deaths associated with the investigation and the salvage?
12. The policeman from the Surete, his investigation - the sub-plot on Norman and the recommendation of wines?
13. The sequences in the doctor's surgery, hypnosis, the treatment of Eva and the discovery of the truth?
14. The techniques of flashback for the resolution - visualising Eva's gaining of memory? The final confrontation with the criminals and their arrest?
15. Techniques for sustaining audience interest? Complex plot, melodramatic situations, sympathetic characters - and all coming right at the end?
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV adaptation of Stanwood's book moved the action up some 27 years, motivating its plotline with the torpedoing of an Athenia-type luxury liner in 1939. The film flashes forward to 1961: millionaire Ralph Bellamy, who lost his wife when the ship went down, hires writer Robert Foxworth (a discredited ex-cop) to investigate the sinking. Bellamy's grown daughter Natalie Wood, who'd survived the ordeal, seems to hold the secret, but she's been in a near-lunatic state for over twenty years. When several other survivors of the sinking are murdered, it becomes all the more crucial to unlock Wood's pent-up memories. In the tradition of Brian De Palma's Obsession (75), Natalie Wood not only plays the title role of Eva Ryker, but also Eva's ill-fated mother. The Memory of Eva Ryker was produced by "master of disaster" Irwin Allen.
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