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Will Penny 1967
If you don’t like Charlton Heston (and I know many of you don’t), you might just like Will Penny. This Western provides Heston the opportunity to lose himself and his cadenced line delivery present in all his other films to let the title character come through, allowing the audience to forget that they’re watching Heston rather than a believable character. Will Penny, an unremarkable cowpoke whose best years are behind him, takes a job which makes few demands on him…
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All That Heaven Allows 1955
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but I’m becoming more and more amenable to melodrama, especially melodrama done well as it is here with All That Heaven Allows. The way Sirk reveals his characters, the way he uses color to show all the different shades and hues of each player shows us facets of not only the leads, but also the supporting characters. It’s the story of a wealthy widow (Jane Wyman) and her younger gardener (Rock Hudson). Their relationship earns them scorn, disapproval, and in some cases rejection from the widow’s neighbors, friends, and children. Man, I’m a sucker for this movie…
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The Narrow Margin 1952
If you’re a film noir lover and want to convert others, The Narrow Margin may just be the best movie to give them. It contains several noir components, but is also a fine thriller in its own right. LAPD Detective Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) and his partner are assigned to travel to Chicago to escort a mob boss’s widow (Marie Windsor) to appear before a Los Angeles grand jury. Only some people in the criminal underworld aren’t very excited about…
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A Bullet for Joey 1955
A Communist agent (Peter Van Eyck) hires an exiled American gangster Joe Victor (George Raft) to travel to Montreal in order to kidnap an atomic physicist (George Dolenz). Victor calls on his old flame Joyce (Audrey Totter) to get the scoop on the physicist’s routines and habits. Meanwhile, Canadian Police Inspector Raoul Leduc (Edward G. Robinson) investigates a series of seemingly unrelated crimes that point to something big.
Despite a great cast, A Bullet for Joey never really rises above…
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