“I believe in myself and I am answerable to myself. I will not live according to printed mottos like the directions on a medicine bottle!”
Vincent Price is magnetic as vainglorious, manipulative and abusive land baron Nicholas Van Ryn, whether he is prowling the halls of his gothic estate, seducing the heroine within hours of his wife’s passing, brooding in his secret tower room, or attempting to maintain a weakening grasp on the farmers he exploits and oppresses.
So magnetic,…
Some interesting testimonies, marred by a distasteful hyperfocus on Morrison’s weight — there would have been ways to portray how his shifting appearance echoed the shift in his life and the struggles he was going through without constantly insisting on how he « put on weight ».
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Rewatching this film was the occasion for me to ask myself a few edifying questions:
Where does the air in Atlantis come from?
For that matter, where do the sky and clouds come from??
Where does the water come from, it can't endlessly fall down???
How can they swim underwater for so long????
How does Kida's cage-thing not fall down when so shoddily attached?????
How can they fall in love in two days??????
How did the king hide a dozen…
