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maybe I am a dinosaur from the fifties, and I am out of touch with todays movie going generation, and apparently that is the case with regards to this movie, since so many people loved it.
In the opening scene of "Malta Story" Mr A.Guinness bore such a startling resemblance to Noel Coward that I fully expected his first words to be "Certain women need striking regularly - like gongs" or some such world - weary bon mot.Unfortunately his dialogue is hardly deathless prose and even the Master would have had trouble bringing it to life.Indeed Mr Guinness wanders through the picture as if looking for a focal point and failing to find one.And therein lies the fatal weakness of the whole movie.Mr J.Hawkins likewise gives up early on and ends up giving a "Jack Hawkins" performance without an ounce of individuality.It could have been spliced from any of a dozen British war movies.Many of the early
fifties
usual suspects turn up and do their schtick to very little purpose.
The film leads the audience to believe that it might be half decent initially with an intriguing back story that focuses on some experiments carried out on two young people in the
fifties.
To be fair, he's now in his
fifties
and one would expect some slowdown.
The noir imagery combined with Spillane's no nonsense character Mike Hammer works marvellously to create a mood and feel seldom found in low budget detective films of the early
fifties.
David McCallum showed that he was one of Britain's top young talents of the
fifties.
The film carries you from the
fifties
to the near present by focusing on three primary architects contributing to the evolution and development of the sport.
"the day time ended" may be a low budget indie film, but it isn't too much of a stretch to compare it with the "existential" European films of the
fifties
and sixties.
Saw this film in the late fifties, maybe three or four times, and never since then forgot it.I remember it was one of the first Warner like cinemas cope features, process called Warnerscope which gave a very neat cinematography.
On the surface it's one more of Hollywood's early
Fifties'
anti-Commie movies, complete with appeals to patriotism, a hard-boiled hero and a slimy (and copiously perspiring) bad guy.
"Toi le Venin" is Robert Hossein's masterpiece,and one of the great thrillers of the fifties.Based on a Frederic Dard novel,a writer the director often worked with (see also "le Monte-Charge" which Hossein did not direct but in which he was the lead too),the screenplay grabs you from the first pictures on a desert road by night where a beautiful blonde might be the fieriest of the criminals to the mysterious house where he finds his femme fatale ..and her sister.Then begins a cat and mouse play .One of the sisters is in a wheelchair .But is she really disabled?Which one is the criminal who tried to kill the hero on that night?
This is done by playing songs from the late
Fifties.
According to Harron they used film stock that is no longer produced and
fifties
style studio lighting even for the outside locations to give the colour portions its distinctive look.
But it's definitely worth watching for the history of the time, and to see the heavy-handed government repression that was a characteristic of the
fifties.
In the
fifties
the age restrictions for films in Brazil were the following: no restriction, 10 years old, 14 years old and 18 years old.
Based on the James Van Druten's Broadway hit, which was a vehicle for Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer in the early fifties, the film was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash.
I am in my
fifties
and have a lot of friends in the music business...who are now still trying to become adults....no more fans,groupies,money etc...and they are having such a hard time adjusting to a regular life...as they see the new bands etc getting the spotlight...it is almost like they have to begin anew...this film is a testament to what a lot of the old rockers from the 70's and 80's are going through now....and that's where I find the film sad and depressing.BUT it portrays the life of an old rock star-abandoned and lost-in a believable way.The young girl who arrives at his decrepit home reminds me of Hollis maclaren (Outrageous)...and she is one lady in a film you will cheer for.
For Englishmen in their
fifties
(and I am in that bracket), it is always entertaining to see glimpses of and hear sounds of the Swinging Sixties, and although this film spends a lot of time in offices, it has plenty of Sixties nostalgia, including red buses, Carnaby Street, a song by Lulu and a delicious shot up the micro-skirt of a waitress, the like of which England has never seen since in public places.
I am very sorry that this charming and whimsical film (which I first saw soon after it was first released in the early fifties) has had such a poor reception more recently.
Particular mention should be made of the limited but good music - especially the catchy and memorable song "It's a fine, fine night", which was issued separately on an HMV 78rpm record (10 inch plum label, I think!) in the
fifties.
After seeing all the Jesse James, Quantrill, jayhawkers,etc films in the fifties, it is quite a thrill to see this film with a new perspective by director Ang Lee.
Finally there is a man in his late
fifties
who calculating his own advantage delivers a simple-minded hitchhiking woman to a furious client who - taking her for guilty in having scratched his car - natural beats her up.
This movie could be perfect, were it not for the awkward presence of Ann Blyth; we see that she is trying her best, dressed in the
fifties
style in scenes just before 1920 - unforgivable.
maybe a
fifties
version of when harry met sally?
It had the mood and mindset of the old
fifties
movies except alot more gorier.
The movies he made in the late Forties through the mid Fifties, however, sometimes give "work" a bad name.
This story was so unbelievably corny, this is one of the worse pieces of crap I have seen from the
fifties.
This is definite high camp from the
fifties.
There was no charm or cult intrigue, which is characteristic in many of the adorned
fifties
Sci-Fi flicks.
Fifties
movies are -- well --
fifties
movies.
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