In this drama / film noir, Robert Ryan plays a very rich control freak, a character loosely based on Howard Hughes. The role was originally cast for James Mason in his american film debut, but he demanded to switch roles and play the nice guy for a change.
Anyway, this rich guy has a pinball machine in his living room, a Carnival (Bally, 1948), which has that rather new innovation…flippers! The cabinet and backbox seems to have been wallpapered… possibly to avoid paying licensing fees? It’s odd, because the manufacturer’s name does not appear there anyway. In any case, there was enough for me to identify the table from the playfield...
Ryan’s character seems to like to take his aggression out on the machine, so much so that he tilts in a major way...
And that’s my second post that ends with broken pinball glass :-(.
TILT.
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