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Entries Tagged as 'Gene Tierney'

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

November 7th, 2006 No Comments

I’ve only seen The Ghost and Mrs. Muir once before, but I remembered the resolution, so I’m thinking it probably made the entire experience unenjoyable this time through. There are only a handful of similar films and usually it’s a gimmick ending, but with The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the storytelling falls apart. The film […]

The Razor’s Edge (1946, Edmund Goulding)

March 21st, 2006 No Comments

While home video did wonders for increasing film appreciation, I have to wonder if MGM’s embracing of the format for their old catalogue didn’t greatly hinder young people in the 1980s from learning about film. As a child, I had seen MGM, I had seen RKO, I had seen Warner Bros. But I never saw […]