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The Girl Can't Help It 1956
I'd read a lot about the irony of Frank Tashlin bringing so much live-action style to the short cartoons he directed at Warer Bros. and Screen Gems - while alternately making some of the most cartoony live-action comedies of the 1950s.
Well, seeing is believing. Other than a few scenes of Edmund O'Brien being forced to relate surprisingly excessive amounts of exposition in one CinemaScope framed shot (at least he has room to pace back & forth in the widescreen frame),…
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 1999
I had no idea Shonda Rhimes co-wrote this.
🎶...but it makes sen-nse...🎶
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The Bad Seed 1985
It’s almost literally The Bad Seed for Dummies - every implicit action, suggested thought, and subtextual element in the play and/or 1956 movie is spelled out in big bright flashing neon signage.
That being said, dumbed-down The Bad Seed is still fairly entertaining, both on purpose and in spite of itself. This Christine Penmark seems a little too active and on-the-ball of a mother to make the story fully plausible.
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