Maybe the film should have been called The Lecher, the Floozie and the Rube, because Central Airport doesn’t have anything to do with the plot. I kept waiting for it to turn into a Grand Hotel at an airport, but it’s really a soaper about pilot Richard Barthelmess who romances air show parachuter Sally Eilers […]
Entries Tagged as 'William A. Wellman'
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, William A. Wellman)
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
The seventy-five minutes of The Ox-Bow Incident are some of the finest in cinema. The film is eventually a solemn examination of the human condition, quiet in its observations, with spare lines of dialogue of profound importance. But before this period in the film, which roughly lasts from twenty minutes in until the end, Ox-Bow […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Dana Andrews· Henry Fonda· Jane Darwell· Lamar Trotti· Walter Van Tilburg Clark· William A. Wellman· ★★★★
Beau Geste (1939, William A. Wellman)
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Beau Geste is a colonial adventure, European soldiers under siege in the Arabian desert. There’s some imagination to the telling, but not at all enough. The strangest thing about the film is the title–Gary Cooper plays Beau Geste, who in some ways is the least of the film’s characters. I think Cooper must get the […]
Tagged: Brian Donlevy· Gary Cooper· Paramount Pictures· Percival Christopher Wren· Robert Carson· Susan Hayward· William A. Wellman· ★
Westward the Women (1951, William A. Wellman)
May 8th, 2006 · No Comments
Robert Taylor leads over a hundred women from Missouri to California. It’s set in 1851, so California is the other side of world. I thought it was going to be cute from that description. Taylor’s films were often aware of being Robert Taylor films, but of those 100+ women, only one thinks Taylor’s good-looking, so […]
Tagged: Charles Schnee· Frank Capra· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Robert Taylor· William A. Wellman· ★★★
