The Prizefighter and the Lady mixes a couple genres–the philandering husband whose wife can’t stop loving him standard and, additionally, stunt casting. Heavyweight contender Max Baer stars as a heavyweight contender, who fights the champ, played by champ Primo Carnera. Myrna Loy plays the suffering wife, while Walter Huston and Otto Kruger finish the supporting […]
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Boys Town (1938, Norman Taurog)
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I can’t figure out–past being an inspiring melodrama–if the filmmakers were trying for anything with Boys Town. The question of its success as that inspiring melodrama is easily answered… it fails. The first act of the film deals with Spencer Tracy trying to get Boys Town, starting just as a home, started. It works pretty […]
Tagged: Dore Schary· Eleanore Griffin· John Meehan· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Mickey Rooney· Norman Taurog· Spencer Tracy· ★½



