Thunder Birds runs just under eighty minutes and if one were to subtract the propaganda, both narrated and in lengthy monologues–not to mention the flashback to the stoic Brits–he or she would have a fifty-five minute love triangle set at an Army flight training base. The whole reason one leg of the triangle is British […]
Entries Tagged as 'Gene Tierney'
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
November 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment
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 […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Gene Tierney· George Sanders· Joseph L. Mankiewicz· Natalie Wood· Philip Dunne· R.A. Dick· Rex Harrison· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Razor’s Edge (1946, Edmund Goulding)
March 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment
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 […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Anne Baxter· Clifton Webb· Edmund Goulding· Gene Tierney· Herbert Marshall· Lamar Trotti· Tyrone Power· W. Somerset Maugham· ★★★★
