Archive for May, 2009
May
07
Red
Drama| 1 Comment »Was there any one else better to play Billy Buck, John Steinbeck’s trusted ranch hand, surrogate father figure to a ten year old boy and a smoldering fantasy man for the boy’s mother than Robert Mitchum? No, there was not, and still there is no one.
The longest and costliest movie shoot in the history […]
May
07
The
Set Your Recorders| No Comments »Joan Crawford was always good at playing a victim. A victim of love, circumstance, mental illness, mean sisters and mean daughters. In Mildred Pierce she is great at playing the victim—a victim of love and of a mean daughter. This was her first picture at Warner Brothers after being let go by […]
