Every eight years or so, I watch Drums Along the Mohawk to see if it gets any better. According to my cursory notes from my last viewing, it apparently has gotten a little bit better. As the titles rolled, I was hopeful–it is John Ford after all (his first color film) and screenwriters Lamar Trotti […]
Entries Tagged as 'Lamar Trotti'
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939, John Ford)
March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Claudette Colbert· Henry Fonda· John Carradine· John Ford· Lamar Trotti· Sonya Levien· Ward Bond· ★½
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, William A. Wellman)
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
The seventy-five minutes of The Ox-Bow Incident are some of the finest in cinema. The film is eventually a solemn examination of the human condition, quiet in its observations, with spare lines of dialogue of profound importance. But before this period in the film, which roughly lasts from twenty minutes in until the end, Ox-Bow […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Dana Andrews· Henry Fonda· Jane Darwell· Lamar Trotti· Walter Van Tilburg Clark· William A. Wellman· ★★★★
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· ★★★★



