For three-quarters of its running time this is one of the truly great Hollywood films of the 1930s, a brutal, angry pre-Code portrait of the chain gang existence that is also somehow a film about Depression-era America. It looks stunning, oily, grimy and sweat-soaked and the performances are mostly great (special shout-out to Edward Ellis as the good-hearted old con who looks out for Muni and Glenda Farrell his blackmailing wife) but the whole sequence with Muni as the successful engineer…
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If I Should Die Before I Wake 1952
"God is very far away."
Those final twenty five minutes are utter perfection.
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Pistol 2022
Tempted to add an extra star just to piss off everyone (mostly men) who said, "Not very punk to stream on the Disney channel is it?" Yawn.
Nothing is "punk" in 2022 and anyone still holding on to those confused ideals is deluded in the extreme. What did they expect? A Ken Loach drama shot on 16mm and shown exclusively at Dial House for everyone with an original A&M 7" of Anarchy?
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