The most interesting thing about this movie is that someone deemed it valuable enough to put on video. Strictly a B-movie - you have to wonder what Ethel Barrymore is doing in this clunker. It was a bit like a stage play in that the entire action took place in one evening with the characters saying "Helen, I need a word with you in the den, or upstairs, or whatever". The Doctor seemed to go from professional interest in Helen, to marriage in just a few lines of dialogue. Lets just say it wasn't MGM.
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6 Reviews
Moulin Rouge!
(2001)
Possibly, no probably the worst movie ever seen!
8 January 2002
I kept fast forwarding to get to the good part (like a plot) but soon realized there was no good part - just lots of color and noise. Marilyn Monroe sang "diamonds are a girl's best friend" much better; MGM made much better musicals in the '50's; Verdi and Puccini wrote operas that made you cry over the courtesan with a heart of gold dying of TB who finally meets her true love; and Monmartre at the turn of the century was probably a lot more interesting than this glitzy mess.
My Dog Skip
(2000)
Excuse me, but are we watching the same film
11 January 2001
I found this movie totally lacking in real emotional feeling or maybe just the kind of writing and plotting which produces dramatic tension. For example, first the Mom goes against the Fathers' wishes and gets Skip, then the father tells Willie at the birthday party that he can't have Skip, then the Mom goes to the front porch, takes the fathers cigar out of his mouth and puts it in hers and gives the dog back to the boy. The script seemed full of plot lines which went no-where. Compare this to a classic like "Lassie" or the "Yearling" or for childhood experiences - "To Kill a Mocking Bird" and you'll see what I mean.
A Murder of Quality
(1991 TV Movie)
The best - why can't Americans do productions like this?
11 July 2000
A murder of an instructors' wife (at a seemingly second rate public school in England) brings out George Smiley. The plot gives the director the chance to bring out the best and the worst of the British class system. All delivered in quick, almost incomprehensible-to-American-ears, English. Very intellectual - very elegant. And Denholm Elliott (as Smiley) was such a superb actor, you wonder how he could live with himself!
Poldark
(1975–1977)
You've Got To Love These Guys
26 May 2000
What a series! My husband and I were spellbound for the 18 or so hours (over a month) it took to watch Part 1 and 2. The plot twists are great but what is primarily so entrancing is the presentation of life at the end of the 18th Century. We particularly like Ross Poldark's propensity for going into prisons and removing prisoners who have been falsely jailed or whom he is fond of. He does this on a fairly regular basis. Cornwall seems to be very much like Seattle - only a few scenes are shot in sunshine - all in all, a sort of up-scale, historical soap-opera.
The Third Man
(1949)
where have you been all my life Harry Lime
24 March 2000
If one of your first memories was watching DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" that is, if you track your life in part by the movies you've seen, it's a great day when you watch one that you know nothing about, especially one as fabulous as this. Then you're able to ask your husband, 1-1/2 hours into the film "where's Orson Welles? Are you sure he's in this?" Cinematography - haunting. A vanished world, even as recently as post WWII plus the apartment interiors and street scenes show the vestiges of fin de siecle Vienna. Script by Graham Greene and the direction is so fast-paced your mind is a few seconds behind the soundtrack, struggling to catch up. And -I love the way the part in German wasn't sub-titled leaving us as much in the dark as Joseph Cotton. Wow!
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