Who_remembers_Dogtanian
may 2023 se unió
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A delightful and uplifting, beautifully made film. Whether you're interested in Richard Burton or not, if you enjoy an inspirational story of how a working class kid, despite his circumstances became one of our greatest actors then you'll love this.
In mood and style, this feels the 2021 film, THE DIG. Like that, this doesn't need action, excitement or special effects - it uses acting to enable us to subtly get to know these people. We really feel like we're part of the claustrophobic, isolated mining community. We are magically transported back to the 1940s. We can taste the coal dust in the air.
Toby Jones seems to be brilliant in whatever he does at the moment so it's no surprise that he gives an outstanding performance. What is exceptional is the performance from Harry Lawtey. For the first half of this picture you're not watching an actor, you're convinced watching a real Welsh teenager in the forties. For the last half - well that surely is Richard Burton!
In mood and style, this feels the 2021 film, THE DIG. Like that, this doesn't need action, excitement or special effects - it uses acting to enable us to subtly get to know these people. We really feel like we're part of the claustrophobic, isolated mining community. We are magically transported back to the 1940s. We can taste the coal dust in the air.
Toby Jones seems to be brilliant in whatever he does at the moment so it's no surprise that he gives an outstanding performance. What is exceptional is the performance from Harry Lawtey. For the first half of this picture you're not watching an actor, you're convinced watching a real Welsh teenager in the forties. For the last half - well that surely is Richard Burton!
RANKING: it's low rating is simply because, besides having Jim Dale, this doesn't star the classic Carry On team )because most of them were dead!) This is essentially a fond 1990s tribute to those much beloved films. But because it's not 'the real team' audiences virtually boycotted what they considered blasphemy.
If you ignore the fact that this is meant to be a Carry On film and accept it just as a comedy film, it's not too bad - I'd go as far as saying it's actually quite funny and enjoyable. It's also miles better than some of the latter originals such as Emmanuel, England, Convenience and Girls.....and of course those tiresome early ones before Talbot Rothwell started writing them.
TYPICAL: although it tries to capture the silliness and smuttiness of the originals, because those older pictures were so character based, it's not really a Carry On film. Jim Dale however gives this some authenticity and the 'new' team seem to have such fun, that sense of enjoyment will infect you.
SEXY LADIES: always an essential ingredient in a Carry On film and here, that role is perfectly played by lovely Sara Crowe. The belly dancing scene could almost be from 1968!
If you ignore the fact that this is meant to be a Carry On film and accept it just as a comedy film, it's not too bad - I'd go as far as saying it's actually quite funny and enjoyable. It's also miles better than some of the latter originals such as Emmanuel, England, Convenience and Girls.....and of course those tiresome early ones before Talbot Rothwell started writing them.
TYPICAL: although it tries to capture the silliness and smuttiness of the originals, because those older pictures were so character based, it's not really a Carry On film. Jim Dale however gives this some authenticity and the 'new' team seem to have such fun, that sense of enjoyment will infect you.
SEXY LADIES: always an essential ingredient in a Carry On film and here, that role is perfectly played by lovely Sara Crowe. The belly dancing scene could almost be from 1968!
Let's laugh at stupid people seemed to be the thinking behind this. Do not be tempted to think that John Ford's follow-up to GRAPES OF WRATH (possibly one of the greatest films ever) is actually a follow-up. No siree Bob.
This is a staggeringly unfunny and distasteful comedy. The basis of its so-called humour is that southern farming families are essentially imbeciles. Apparently the play this was based on perpetuated that slack-jawed southern stereotype even more but because of it also had some quite salacious content, this film version was sanitised and slashed to pieces transforming it into alleged 'family fun.'
Mr Ford seems to do his best to alienate his rural downtrodden fans he'd built up with his tiresome Will Rogers pictures during the last decade in this hour and a half of prejudice and mockery. It beggars belief that this was made by the same team who made GRAPES just a year earlier. It feels more like a filed stage play.....an amateur stage play at that. Comedy clearly wasn't Ford's forte.
It's not a screwball comedy so a comedy drama like this needs you to believe in the characters but these characters are completely one dimensional devoid of any emotion. Charley Grapewin is simply too ridiculous to accept as a real person - he gives what is possibly the most irritating performance of the whole 1940s.....and he's not funny. I think we're supposed to develop sympathy for him and his plight but you end up wishing he'd just go away. Marjorie Rambeau is almost as annoying - stop singing woman!
Incredibly there's a performance even worse than these two - Grapewin's son. Violent, ignorant, hateful and nasty are his attributes - I think we're supposed to find him funny rather than wondering why he's not in a special hospital.
If for some reason you want your Illusions shattered that Gene Tierney was a great actress, this is the film for you! What the hell was she supposed to be? Apparently in the original play, that character is a bit of a vixen but in this her role is reduced to a piece of dusty furniture which occasionally moves.
On the plus side, the photography in the last eleven seconds when the dog comes into shot is o.k.
This is a staggeringly unfunny and distasteful comedy. The basis of its so-called humour is that southern farming families are essentially imbeciles. Apparently the play this was based on perpetuated that slack-jawed southern stereotype even more but because of it also had some quite salacious content, this film version was sanitised and slashed to pieces transforming it into alleged 'family fun.'
Mr Ford seems to do his best to alienate his rural downtrodden fans he'd built up with his tiresome Will Rogers pictures during the last decade in this hour and a half of prejudice and mockery. It beggars belief that this was made by the same team who made GRAPES just a year earlier. It feels more like a filed stage play.....an amateur stage play at that. Comedy clearly wasn't Ford's forte.
It's not a screwball comedy so a comedy drama like this needs you to believe in the characters but these characters are completely one dimensional devoid of any emotion. Charley Grapewin is simply too ridiculous to accept as a real person - he gives what is possibly the most irritating performance of the whole 1940s.....and he's not funny. I think we're supposed to develop sympathy for him and his plight but you end up wishing he'd just go away. Marjorie Rambeau is almost as annoying - stop singing woman!
Incredibly there's a performance even worse than these two - Grapewin's son. Violent, ignorant, hateful and nasty are his attributes - I think we're supposed to find him funny rather than wondering why he's not in a special hospital.
If for some reason you want your Illusions shattered that Gene Tierney was a great actress, this is the film for you! What the hell was she supposed to be? Apparently in the original play, that character is a bit of a vixen but in this her role is reduced to a piece of dusty furniture which occasionally moves.
On the plus side, the photography in the last eleven seconds when the dog comes into shot is o.k.