If only it weren’t for Bill Travers… his performance drags the film into the realm of absurdity. It isn’t just his inability to act, it’s also his utter lack of charisma. It’s unbelievable anyone could like Travers the movie star (I’m thinking there must be or have been Victor Mature fans and George Raft fans, […]
Entries Tagged as 'George Sanders'
The Seventh Sin (1957, Ronald Neame)
October 16th, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Saint Takes Over (1940, Jack Hively)
September 23rd, 2007 No Comments
Speedily paced. The Saint Takes Over is somehow fast, running sixty-nine minutes, but quite full of content. It’s so full of content, in the first act, I was convinced George Sanders was somehow going to remain non-central to the picture, since so much time was being spent establishing the ground situation he finds himself in. […]
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 […]
Foreign Correspondent (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
October 19th, 2005 No Comments
Well shit, I was wrong. I thought Foreign Correspondent was pre-Rebecca and I am incorrect.
I suppose the confusion has to do with the way Hitchcock made Correspondent. It’s very much in the style of his 1930s British films (I’m thinking primarily of The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes), while Rebecca was not. Rebecca was […]
