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Two top notch performances in the film are those of Anya, who plays a young widow, and Zou Na, who plays a servant.
The point of the movie seems to be that widow remarriage is a good thing.
THE WIDOW OF ST.-PIERRE may not be a great film, but amidst a crop of mediocre current releases, it's a fine effort that boasts a hardworking cast, awesome costumes and sets, terrific cinematography and excellent direction.
The story revolves around Claire Marrable (Geraldine Page), an older affluent widow who lives in a luxurious Tucson home located in the middle of the desert.
The widow of Pearl has a big problem too as far as I see it - why would ANYONE want the life of their executed husband made into a Hollywood movie?
Una Merkel made herself into a star by playing secondary roles such as Kitty Kelly in The Merry Widow with Land Tuner and the housekeeper in Rich, Young, and Rretty, again, with Jane Powell.
Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi) aspires to be a successful writer, but she is very repressed by her widow dominant mother Connie MacKenzie (Lana Turner), a woman dedicated to raise her daughter in a conservative way and work hard in her shop only.
Some of the performances (especially I thought that of Hardie Albright as Dimmesdale, with the exception of that closing scene) seemed a bit forced, although I appreciated the attempt to mix some humour into a movie that could have been very heavy, as Alan Hale and William Kent portray the attempts of Hockings to help Goodfellow court the widow Crakstone, although in some ways (again, I haven't read the novel) that seemed unconnected to the overall story.
This movie further benefits from fine acting from an excellent cast: Page really sinks her teeth into her juicy evil old bat role, Gordon projects her usual winningly spunky charm as the endearingly feisty Ms. Dimmock, plus there are sturdy supporting contributions from Rosemary Forsyth as sweet young widow neighbor Harriet Vaughn, Robert Fuller as the dashing Mike Darrah, Mildred Dunnock as the timid Edna Tinsley, Joan Huntington as Ms. Marrable's bitchy niece Julia Lawson, and Peter Brandon as Julia's conniving stockbroker husband George.
"The Widow of St. Pierre (Veuve de Saint-Pierre)" is a very unconventional relationship triangle, with resonances of "Dead Man Walking."
Marianne Faithful's performance as the slightly out of it middle aged widow who becomes a hand job operative in a Soho sex shop to earn money for her sick grandson's operation is wonderfully judged.
Small town widow with nothing but time on her hands marches into the C.I.A. one day and volunteers her services; very soon, she's on assignment as a courier in Mexico, but the pick-up gets botched and she's kidnapped and taken to Albania.
She really did her best portraying a suicidal widow of a Holocaust victim who becomes a trapeze artist after she is saved from drowning by Kirk Douglas's character.
Shortly after, when his assistant (played by Bill Gunn, the director) commits suicide, Dr. Hess comes into contact with his widow Ganja and sweeps her along in his strange and depressing 'vampire' universe.
But this factoid is of interest in that, 3 years later, Paramount would try the same thing, once again with M Chevalier directed by Ernst Lubitsch, on another of the major hits of the Viennese musical stage during the first decade of the 20th century, and that time the result would be a smash success: The Merry Widow.
Irina Palm is a small,quiet film about a widow (Marianne Faithful,who will always be remembered as Mick Jagger's girlfriend back in the mid to late 60's,and had a brief recording career herself before Heroin & other drugs side tracked her), who has seen better days,finds out her grandson is dying from an illness that could only be cured in a hospital in Australia.
Inter the mystery man Brett Curtis(Warren William)introduced as the widow Cartwright's suitor.
He starts off as a bad boy, but of course his tough exterior melts away to reveal his inner sentimentality when he meets a widow and her two children, one of which is played by one of those hideous Culkins.
Rosaleen is the young widow of Gordon Cloade who was killed in a gas explosion in his London home.
Living by a lake a widow comes face to face with what today we would call a mid-life crisis; vaguely melancholic and slightly wistful lest she did, as she suspects, marry the wrong man, she allows her thoughts to drift to her first dance and the names on her very first dance card who, on a whim, she decides to trace.
An escaped convict protects a widow from greedy land developers who want the property for something.
Along the way the escaped convict falls for the widow and becomes a father figure for her two children.
I didn't expect a masterpiece in "Dracula's Widow" of 1989, but I was still somehow disappointed.
Directed by Nicholas Cage's brother Christopher Coppola and starring 70s sex icon "Emanuelle" Sylvia Kristel, "Dracula's Widow" may not look like a promising Horror film as such, but at least I expected an entertaining sleaze and gorefest.
"Dracula's Widow" is only recommended if you really have nothing better to do.
Big Bad Wolf starts in Cameroon as brothers Charlie (Christopher Shyer) & Scott Cowley (Andrew Bowen) are on a big game hunt, however the hunters become the hunted as a big Werewolf like creature kills Scott... Jump forward 'Seven Years Later' in the US & Scott's widow Gwen (Sarah Aldrich) has married Mitch (Richard Tyson), Scott's son Derek (Trevor Duke) & Mitch don't get on & in order to impress some school mates he steals the keys to his stepfather's isolated log cabin so they can have a party there.
Not-so-grieving widow Claire Marrable is horrified to hear that her supposedly wealthy husband has apparently left her penniless.
And their remains become mulch for the widow's growing garden as each is buried under a quickly flourishing sapling.
On the sidelines are Rosemary Forsyth, herself a (young) widow with a nephew, Robert Fuller as Miss Gordon's nephew, and Joan Huntington as the scheming wife of Page's nephew.
These 3 bank robbers forsake an easy escape to chase after the most nefarious outlaw since Black Pete of Micky Mouse fame whose spurned girlfriend, who's part of the gang, vows to kill the poor young captive widow.
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