From the first third of Design for Living, it’s impossible to think it might not be absolutely fantastic throughout. Eventually it does hit a dry period and it’s impossible to think it’s going to pull out of it. Then it does and it’s impossible to think… well, you get the idea. I don’t know why […]
Entries Tagged as 'Gary Cooper'
Design for Living (1933, Ernst Lubitsch)
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Tagged: Ben Hecht· Ernst Lubitsch· Fredric March· Gary Cooper· Jane Darwell· Noel Coward· Paramount Pictures· ★★★★
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· ★
One Sunday Afternoon (1933, Stephen Roberts)
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
One Sunday Afternoon suffers from some of the standard play-to-film problems. The scenes go on too long, especially in the first half, which only contains three real scenes. The opening, which is a lengthy, seemingly direct adaptation from the play, features Gary Cooper and Roscoe Karns talking to each other as way of establishing the […]
Tagged: Fay Wray· Gary Cooper· Grover Jones· James Hagan· Jane Darwell· Paramount Pictures· Stephen Roberts· William Slavens McNutt· ★★½
