Four stars for the undeniable spectacle of it. Make what you will of the story, characters, religious content. It's from a novel: fiction, not from the Bible as some think. But the great Sea Battle and the astonishing Chariot Race are worth the price of anybody's time. It all looks most impressive, now on Blu-Ray. Acting is of secondary importance. Heston's good, Griffith ok (I'd have given Hawkins that Oscar). One of Rozsa's weaker scores, with almost no impact. Wyler stages it all so well, with a master class crew
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Why Women Sin 1958
'Why Women Sin" - not a great substitute title for the French, 'La Moucharde" (Informer, grass, snitch). A tale of greed gone wild. Seemingly sympathetic Betty (Dany Carrel) is left in the lurch when a friendly truck offers a ride. He's too friendly right away, but Betty puts him off and from then on he's smitten. Once arrived at her destination, Betty is soon caught by police (she'd escaped a reformatory). They offer her freedom if she agrees to act…
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Appointment with Danger 1950
Excellent lesser-known crime thriller with an interesting character angle. Alan Ladd plays a hardened postal inspector sent to investigate a murder connected to the system. His only witness is a nun (Phyllis Calvert) whose interactions with him are more interesting than you might think. Ladd also deals with a mob doll, played by Jan Sterling, who is interesting in a different way: she's a big jazz fan. The rest of the cast couldn't be better: Paul Stewart, Harry Morgan and…
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99 River Street 1953
Top-level film noir, with all the classic ingredients. 99 RIVER STREET has everything you might want or expect in a film noir: a down-and-out protagonist, an unfaithful wife, a shadowy, uncaring city environment, ruthless villains, and a general sense of doom. John Payne is excellent as Ernie, a once-promising boxer, now a has-been, just making ends meet as a cab driver. He's married to a beautiful, but selfish and unfaithful wife (Peggie Castle), the inadvertent femme fatale. She's seeing villainous…
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