Archive for the 'Tawdry' Category
Peyton
Tawdry| No Comments »I love this movie. I watched it constantly in the store. Actually this is one of my favorite movies with “Place” in the title. It is up there with Summer Place, Place in the Sun and In A Lonely Place. It is incredibly tawdry. In fact it falls into the catergorey “dictionary tawdry”.
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Imitation
Tawdry| No Comments »This is a remake of an earlier picture that starred Claudette Colbert but now it gets the Douglas Sirk treatment. Coney Island, 1947, war widow and actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) meets up with a homeless African American single mother Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore). Both woman have daughters close to the same age and both […]
Flamingo
Tawdry| No Comments »This was a Movie Place favorite. It is tawdry with a capital T. It has every thing a good soap opera should have: sex, corruption, blackmail, suicide and murder. The only thing missing is drug use. It is no wonder that it was the basis for the 80’s prime time soap opera.
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Mildred
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Peyton
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