grumpy736-1

Joined Jul 2006

Age 72, midwestern born protestant, B.A. and M.S. at LaVerne College, USMC vet, liberal politics, Al Gore, John Kerry admirer, married, widowed, remarried, one child, two grandchildren, loves Japanese, Chinese, Korean films as well British and American. French, Italian, not so much.

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White Cargo

6.0

Aug 9, 2016

Four lonely white men in 1910 Africa rubber plantation

First of all I took this film to be a stage play with all four actors having declaimed those lines hundreds of times. It turned out after the ending I went to the reviews, yes, it had been a stage play in London and the playwright was hired to write a film script. I think he just rearranged the scenes for the camera setups. It works very well as a stage play -- the actors in the film deliver the lines as if they had said them for months and each word is carefully enunciated --- no mumbling naturalism or words not made clear to the audience in the back rows. Some of the reviews denigrate Hedy Lamarr's performance.. I'm not a fan but I don't see how she could do anything else with it given the times and the restrictions. I say it is well worth watching for cinema students looking for how to rework a stage play

Wild River

7.5

Aug 5, 2016

Came on TCM10 minutes in -- did not know it was Elia Kazan

I agree with most of the praises that precede this post -- I'm glad I tuned into it on TCM and on my recently added wide screen TV -- it is the made for wide screen version and it is magnificent. The reason I stepped in here was: there was a sharecropper (?)who resembled James Earl Jones so I looked into the credits. Someone was ahead of me and said that it was James Earl Jones' father, who also had a deep resonant voice.

Jo Van Fleet deserved a Best Supporting Actress definitely. Albert Salmi had a role he could play easily -- with menace that worries an audience. A nine because I didn't buy into the romance with Lee Remick and those scenes were too long for me.

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