Curtis woos her by feigning wealth and impotence, while Lemmon is pursued nearly to the altar by millionaire Joe E. PFA, No The first and shortest James Bond flick, and if not the most elegant, in many ways the most imaginative, with all the wild gadgets, bright tropical colors, and exotic locations that a still-moderate budget could buy.
To Sean Connery, the Bond role was a first chance to charm his way to stardom, and to the distinguished Joseph Wiseman, as the villain, it was obviously a camp. Filmed on the Jamaican coast, without slums but with much blue ocean min. From the 16mm collections of Bob Ekman and Paul Etheverry. Plus live theremin by Robert Silverman, special guests Mr. EC, Steamboat Bill, Jr. In one of his funniest tour-de-forces, Buster Keaton is an effete Boston lad with beret on head and ukulele in hand, who visits his roughneck steamboat-captain father in Mississippi.
In the face of peril, Keaton proves his resourcefulness once again — and he was resourceful, having thought up not only these impossible predicaments, but also their hilarious solutions. Paul Muni is the Capone-like gangster, defeated by his own arrogant stupidity; Ann Dvorak is the jazz-baby sister for whom he holds a more-than-brotherly love; George Raft is a coin-flipping mobster the first coin-flipper in filmdom , and Boris Karloff does a bit as a rival thug memorably shot down while bowling 89 min.
PW, It is in this film that John Wayne — the outlaw Ringo Kid — steps out of the bushes and into the path of the oncoming stagecoach, and in doing so steps into film history. Shot in Monument Valley, Utah, with the legendary Ford landscapes that dwarf and isolate the characters against the overwhelming skies.
This film also teaches us something about the differences between archetypes and stereotypes, Westerns and westerns 96 min. The Shanghai Gesture Josef von Sternberg directed this from a cot, but if the story of sin and redemption in a Chinese gambling house looks at times like a fever dream, chalk it up to stylistic despair, not delirium. Growing Up in the Universe Richard Dawkins explains life through science. Humanist Hall, Oakland, Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
