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招かれざる客【Blu-ray】 [ スペンサー・トレイシー ] 価格:1,500円 (2018/9/21 14:11時点) 感想(1件)

Plot
oanna Drayton's (Katharine Houghton) unannounced early return from a Hawaiian vacation causes a stir when she brings her new fiancé to her childhood upper-class home in San Francisco in 1967. He is John Prentice (Sidney Poitier): a widowed, black physician.[7][8] Joanna's parents−newspaper publisher Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and his wife, art gallery owner Christina Drayton (Katharine Hepburn)−are purported liberals who have instilled in her the idea of racial equality. Although they try to hide it, Joanna's parents and in particular her father are initially upset that she is planning to marry a black man. The Draytons' black maid, Tillie (Isabel Sanford), is even more horrified, suspecting that John is trying to "get above himself" by marrying a white woman.
Joanna is oblivious to the reactions of her parents. They are unsettled by her engagement with John, since they never thought that her choice would be a black man, and further unsettled by John's decision that if Joanna's parents do not accept the engagement that day, then he will end it.
Adding to the situation is that Joanna, at first intending to join John in a few weeks in Geneva for their planned marriage ceremony, has changed her mind to leave after dinner on his flight to New York City and then onward to Europe. She has also invited John's parents (Roy E. Glenn and Beah Richards) to dinner, so they can all become acquainted. Due to this invitation, what was intended to be a sit-down steak dinner for two turns into a meet-the-in-laws dinner party. Furthermore, John is forced to reveal that he had not yet told his parents of his intention to marry a white woman.
Matt's golf buddy Monsignor Mike Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), a Catholic priest, stops by after Matt earlier cancelled on playing golf. After learning of John, he shares Joanna's enthusiasm for the pending nuptials and tells her father as much. However, Matt says he cannot give the couple his blessing: he fears that Joanna will be hurt by the prejudice that John and she will surely encounter. Meanwhile, one of Christina's employees at her gallery, Hilary (Virginia Christine), who had briefly met John and Joanna earlier in the day, stops by the Draytons' home to express her disapproval over the relationship, and though Christina herself is still unsure of her own feelings about the matter, she is so offended at Hilary's racism that she fires her on the spot. Later, when dressing for dinner, Christina shares with Matt her support for Joanna, even if it should mean having to fight her husband.
Cocktails at the Drayton home resemble a game of musical chairs, as different sets of parental characters share their views about the situation, with the mothers generally expressing more faith in their children than the fathers. Universally, the parents had been expressed that more than a few hours are necessary for a proper decision, but John's mother brings up her idea of what the men are missing about the situation: passion. When the elder Prentice tells John that he is making a huge mistake, John says that his father thinks of himself as a black man, whereas John thinks of himself as a man. Mrs. Prentice tells Matt that her husband and he, in growing old, have forgotten what it is like to feel romantic passion. If they remembered, they would see that in their children as being more important than any racial problem.
After thinking about the situation, and his conversation with Mrs. Prentice in particular, Matt calls everyone together to make an announcement. He says that it does not matter what everyone else may think about John and Joanna getting married; all that matters is that they love each other. The film ends with the two families and Monsignor Ryan finally sitting down to dinner.

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Cast
Spencer Tracy as Matt Drayton　スペンサー・トレイシー
Sydney Poitier as Dr. John Wayde Prentice Jr.　シドニー・ポワチエ
Katharine Hepburn as Christina Drayton　キャサリン・ヘプバーン
Katharine Houghton as Joanna "Joey" Drayton　キャサリン・ホートン
Cecil Kellaway as Monsignor Mike Ryan　セシル・ケラウェイ
Beah Richards as Mary Prentice　ビア・リチャーズ
Roy E. Glenn as John Prentice Sr.　ロイ・グレン


Academy Awards
Won
Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn)
Best Original Screenplay

Nominated
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor (Spencer Tracy)
Best Supporting Actor (Cecil Kellaway)
Best Supporting Actress (Beah Richards)
Best Art Direction
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score


1967年公開のスタンリー・クレイマー監督作品「招かれざる客」。
スペンサー・トレイシー、キャサリン・ヘプバーン、シドニー・ポワチエが主演。
スペンサー・トレイシーはこの映画の撮影終了直後に亡くなり、本作が遺作となりました。
長年のパートナーだったヘプバーンはこの映画の完成版を彼を思い出して辛いとのことで見てないらしいです。

さて内容です。
黒人医師と白人女性の結婚を巡る家族の葛藤を書いた作品。
黒人差別を取り扱った作品です。
邦題にある招かれざる客というのはポワチエ演じる黒人医師のことでしょう。
差別を扱かった作品ながらコメディの側面もあります。
重いテーマを扱っているのにも関わらず、重苦しい雰囲気の映画とは異なります。
トレイシー演じるマット・ドレイトンの葛藤がよく表現されていました。
最後の演説は圧巻と言えるものでした。
この映画を最後に亡くなってしまったのが残念です。