Takes too long to get where it’s going, and the whole subplot with Robert Ryan feels like a way to pad out the runtime (welcome though Robert Ryan always is). Otherwise excellent, Lee Marvin holds the whole thing together magnificently. Oh and shaving with cold water isn’t bad, I voluntarily do it every morning mostly out of being too lazy to wait for the water to get hot, so it being the catalyst for the group finally bonding was funny to me.
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I honestly can’t rate this because clearly it is some kind of gay fever dream. So I’ll just drop in a block quote from TCM’s article on the production of Torch Song:
Between husbands at the time, Crawford appears to have had designs on some of her co-workers. She had insisted that former choreographer Charles Walters be assigned to direct, and, to ease her qualms about dancing on screen again, he had offered to play her dancing partner in the…
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Maisie 1939
I love movies like this where the writer was clearly like, "Oh shit, I need another 12 minutes of material to fill this thing out...ooh I wonder if I could add a murder and wrap it up within the last 10 minutes of the movie?" Honestly the reason I watched this is because I have a friend with a daughter named Maisie and they have the poster for this hanging up in their house, and next time I go there…
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