The Bride Wore Black 1968
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The Bride Stripped Bare
François Truffau’s Colourful Homage to Hitchcock Produced shortly after Completing His Famous Book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Is A Bleak Tale Of Revenge
The ‘Bride” Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) has A Quest of sorts,To Round Up and Illuminate A group of men,
A group of Men she has Never Met in the Flesh,who’s Names are Written in a little Black Book She Keeps on her person, She Calculatingly inserts herself Into Their Lives for a brief period ,without much variance is Disguise,Then Like the Seprent Beneath the Flower Strikes Suddenly and waits her Victims Last breath to Reval Her True Identity .
Tags: Based off Novel, Bernard Herrmann, Bride, Childhood Sweetheart, church, Death, Fall from A Great Height, Femme Fatale, François Truffaut, French, Gun, Hitchcock, Homage, Lost Love, Marriage, Murder, Mysterious Death, Noir, painter, poison, Record, Revenge, Shot Dead, Stabbed to Death, suffocation
A Summer Place 1959
Posted by spheer2002 | Filed under Films of the 1950's
“As for you Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do!”
If you are Familiar with the ‘Notebook this is a must see this is the godfather of period thwarted teenage love ,but when they made this when it was actually based in its time, the dawning of the golden age of Camelot in American which ended abruptly with bye bye birdy and the assignation of JFK in 1963..
After 2o years of absence Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) comes back to Pine Island a Wealthy ,Exclusive Isolated community of the coast of Maine where he worked as a lifeguard as a teenager,Now A Millionaire he brings his family to the mansion belonging to the Hunters who’s servants quarters he used to sleep in . Now a Holiday House as the Hunters have lost their fortune Bart Hunter a chronic alcoholic ( Arthur Kennedy) is indignant at the prospect of having the former help Lord it over him, however when he arrives that is the very least of his troubles, and Old Flame between Ken and Barts Wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) is rekindled and the Children of both Ken and Bart
Johnny (Troy Donahue) and Molly (Sandra Dee) fall madly in love, all Goes belly after Johnny and Molly spend the night washed overboard from a dingy alone on and island, when Molly’s Mother played Mercilessly by (Constance Ford) a morally bankrupt hypocrite , demands Molly have a Medical Examination by a doctor to see if her “Virginity” is in tact.After the examination Molly Runs away and Johnny threatens to kill Molly’s Mother because of whats shes made her daughter go through, its then revealed that Johnny’s Mother is Having an affair with Ken Molly’s dad.
The children are separated by the Lawyers the hatred for their family but Johnny and Molly Still Try to write to Each over despite that happens hoping upon hoping they will meet again someday.
This Film had Risque Dialogue and Subject matter for 1959 including infidelity, divorce and premarital sex , and you still feel for the who you consider to be the good people in this case the adulterous married lovers, and despise the morally superior and upper Middle Class for their greed and their selfishness .
The only things people will remember (if anything at all) about this film if the popular theme by Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind) and a little song from grease called ‘Look at me Im Sandra Dee” The Film may seem like a soap in all its 1959 CinemaScope glory , but it still has the desired affect,you do feel for Johnny and Molly and what terrible consequences brought the two together
and you hope against hope nothing will pull them asunder
Tags: Alcoholism, Based off Novel, Divorce, Forbidden Love, Infidelity, Lost Love, Love for Children, Love Triangle, Marriage, Max Steiner
Mildred Pierce 1945
Posted by spheer2002 | Filed under Film, Films of the 1940's
Mink Clad Murder
Mommie Knows Best…..
In time middle of the night in a beach house on the upper side of town shots ring out, The Dead Man crys out……..Mildred!……and falls to the floor its seems an open and shut case,,,,but what really happened?
Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford Strange Cargo)a housewife spoils her daughters Especially the eldest while husband Bert looks over the fence for some afternoon delight while his buddy Wally Fay(Jack Carson’A Star is Born) trys to get is paddle in(In Vain) . They soon divorce, leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. Elder postwar class driven daughter (Biatch)Veda (Anne BlythThe Great Carouso) goads her mother about their lack of money and in response Mildred proposes opening a small restaurant. one thing leads to another,and she becomes incredibly successful and even love seems to be around the corner, but money soons starts to by love in the manner of clothes, education, and payoffs all of which leads to the beginning of the film in classic noir style .Also in the cast a wonderfull sardonic Eve Arden (Grease) is the wise cracking sidekick to joan crawford to give humor to this black film.
Its only that sort of mother loving that Joan Crawford can deliver…….
What Price a Mothers Love ?
Tags: Alcoholism, Based off Novel, Divorce, Gun, james m cain, Joan Crawford, Love for Children, Love Triangle, Marriage, Max Steiner, Mother Daughter Relationship, Murder, Noir, Rise and Fall, Self Made Woman, Self Sacrifice
Juliet of the Spirits 1965
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Mommie Dearest
Juliet of the Spirits (Italian: Giulietta degli spiriti) is a film directed by Federico Fellini
Juliet is a 40 something bored married woman who after a strange experience during a New Aged Séance , starts to feel a contact with Spirits as she did as a child She soon becomes aware he husband is having an affair and starts to explore her spititual and sexual self through daydreams and Nightmares,
Described by “Annie Hall” as the smoking gun of Fellinis self indulgence , (he was experimenting with LSD at the time) it is however a film that profiles how people who have forgotten how to live either through career or marriage and become lifes Wallflowers can deal be helped to deal with their own psychological hang ups and empower themselves to live without guilt or shame.
Tags: Decadence, Fellini, Infidelity, Marriage, New Age, Porn Star, Psychotherapy, Séance, Spiritualism, Supernatural
Something’s Got to Give 1962
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'An Unfinished Life'
One of The Most Famous Unfinished films in Hollywood History Something’s Got to Give is the Last Marilyn Monroe appeared in.
A Remake of ‘My Favorite Wife’ it was directed by George Cukor and Starred Dean Martin Cyd Charisse its was one of only two films being shot by 20th Century Fox the other being Cleopatra (which was running massively Budget) The Story Involves a man who has recently remarried 5 years after his wife’s apparent death in a shipping accident, after returning from his honeymoon he soon learns his first wife(rescued from a desert island) is alive and well which creates one or more complications due to complications with Monroe Cukor, and the studio the production was halted shortly after Monroe would soon be dead.
Only a few years later it would be revived an renamed as Move Over Darling directed by Michael Gordon and would Star Doris Day, in the Marilyn role, and would give Day two New songs for her Future Live Shows.
Somethings Gotta Give was released on dvd in the most completed chronological form form in 1999 featuring Monroe’s famous nude scene (The first of a Major star at the time) its a glimpse of that might have been if completed,
Tags: Comedy, Divorce, George Cukor, Marilyn Monroe, Marriage, Presumed dead, screwball, Unfinished
The Women 1939
Posted by spheer2002 | Filed under Film, Films of the 1920's
Forget Meg Ryan and Eva Mendez this is the original and the BEST!,
To those of the Sex and the city generation who saw the remake and found it a crap copy , please see the original if ur eyes dont roll to the back of your head just because the films in black n white….plot was totally reworked sand thought
The Women follows the lives of a handful of wealthy Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), a cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary. After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Mary’s friend and cousin Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) learns from a manicurist that Mary’s husband has been having an affair with a predatory perfume counter girl named Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). A notorious gossip, Sylvia delights in sharing the news with Mary’s other friends and they all show their true colours..
Tags: All Female Cast, Based off Play, Cowboy, Divorce, George Cukor, Joan Crawford, Marriage, New York, Perfume, ranch, Reno
