Girl 27 (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

David Stenn

Guionista:

David Stenn (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 julio 2007 (USA)

Género:

Documental

Plot:

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped. |

Plot Keywords:

Underage | Mother Daughter Relationship | Newspaper Headline | Sexism | Character Assassination

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

interesting story told semi-competently

Reparto

Baby Peggy	...	Herself (as Peggy Montgomery)
Richard Bann	...	Himself
Kelly Brown	...	Himself
Ned Comstock	...	Himself
Joan Crawford	...	Herself (archive footage)
Patricia Douglas	...	Herself
Buron Fitts	...	Himself (archive footage)
Clark Gable	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jean Harlow	...	Herself (archive footage)
Judy Lewis	...	Herself
E.J. Mannix	...	Himself (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer	...	Himself (archive footage)
Judd D. Minter	...	Himself (as Judd Minter)
Patti Minter	...	Herself
Norma Shearer	...	Herself (archive footage)
David Stenn	...	Himself
Michael Taitelman	...	Himself
Jack Terry	...	Himself
Greta Van Susteren	...	Herself

Duración:

USA:86 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Compañía:

TLR Productions

Trivialidades:

If you freeze shots of the hand-written call sheet early in the film, some names of the other extras can be found on the IMDb. They include Eleanor Bayley (5), likely Amber Norman (17), Nancy Deshon (24), Ruth Day (26), Ginger Wyatt (29), Darleen Hackley (aka Darlyn Heckley, 33), Vivian Mason (54), Patsy Perrin (59), Sue Gomes (80), Nancy Page (83), Peggy Campbell (86, probably Jean Stevens), Collette Merton (96), and Thelma Joel (97).

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Harlem Bound (1935)

Banda de Sonido:

Pulse

interesting story told semi-competently

I have rather mixed feelings about this movie. It brings up an interesting, forgotten scandal, which I give it credit for. But I felt the movie was always straining a little too hard to be interesting, as though the filmmaker knew he really only had a 40-minute short but was determined to get a feature length film out of it.

The movie is a mix of a documentary about the rape and a documentary about uncovering the rape, and I found that an interesting, fairly successful approach. The various film clips range from relevant to flippant. The filmmaker's worst instincts came out during the interviews with the victim. Tossing in film clips earlier made a certain amount of sense, but doing the same thing during her painful answers felt gimmicky and insensitive and just took away from the power of the scene. Sometimes you have to be willing to let a person or a situation speak for itself, but that doesn't happen in this movie.