Nice, quick B, featuring a who’s who of 30’s Bs, serials, and character actors.
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1966
Many reviews here have used the words “Existential” “Minimal,” “Absurd,” “Brechtian,” and all apply. I was most fascinated by Millie Perkins, playing the mysterious “Woman.” While her dialogue is minimal, her facial acting is brilliant, capturing the many nuanced emotions such a woman would feel. She should’ve been a bigger star.
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1966
Many reviews here have used the words “Existential” “Minimal,” “Absurd,” “Brechtian,” and all apply. I was most fascinated by Millie Perkins, playing the mysterious “Woman.” While her dialogue is minimal, her facial acting is brilliant, capturing the many nuanced emotions such a woman would feel. She should’ve been a bigger star.
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1934
Excellent Hitchcock. Some incredible camera angles- particularly in a certain scene in the ski lodge. While Peter Lorre gives his usual outstanding brand of sinister performance that only he could give, the real standout to me was Edna Best, who brings a quiet emotional intensity that crescendos to a climax.
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1962
Suzanne Pleshette is just wonderful and proves she can carry a movie as its heroine, something she should’ve had more chances to do. She definitely shows early hints of her later comedic characters. Troy Donahue and Rossano Brazzi are up to their romantic tasks, and Angie Dickinson all but steals the show as the deliciously bitchy Lyda.
The real star of the film is Italy- beautiful on location shots in Technicolor.
I’d have given this one more star if it didn’t contain a BIZARRE scene with trumpeter Al Hirt and his servile girlfriend. Ew.
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1934
Excellent Hitchcock. Some incredible camera angles- particularly in a certain scene in the ski lodge. While Peter Lorre gives his usual outstanding brand of sinister performance that only he could give, the real standout to me was Edna Best, who brings a quiet emotional intensity that crescendos to a climax.
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1962
Suzanne Pleshette is just wonderful and proves she can carry a movie as its heroine, something she should’ve had more chances to do. She definitely shows early hints of her later comedic characters. Troy Donahue and Rossano Brazzi are up to their romantic tasks, and Angie Dickinson all but steals the show as the deliciously bitchy Lyda.
The real star of the film is Italy- beautiful on location shots in Technicolor.
I’d have given this one more star if it didn’t contain a BIZARRE scene with trumpeter Al Hirt and his servile girlfriend. Ew.
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