What are your opinions on the films of Richard Quine?
Jul 22, 2021 1:39:24 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 22, 2021 1:39:24 GMT
A solid director of solid entertaining movies.
Drive A Crooked Road is one of Mickey Rooney’s best. Rooney was a pretty egotistical guy, but his character here is sensitive about his height and Quine often puts him in shots that contrast him with much taller men.
I agree that Pushover is a perfectly acceptable second-tier noir. It is also worth seeing just for being Kim Novak’s first credited role.
Unlike directors today, Quine knew how to frame, shoot, and edit a dance number. Witness the justly famous “Alley Dance,” a competition between Bob Fosse and Tommy Rall in My Sister Eileen.
Bell, Book, and Candle ran a little long but I still relished seeing Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak together again.
Sex and the Single Girl gave me one of my favorite laugh lines. Tabloid reporter Tony Curtis boasts to his editor that, “All the dirty lies you’ve heard about me, ARE TRUE!
I described his work as “solid” above and the others I have seen match that. Journeyman work but competent. He gets the job done. Also seen and enjoyed: The World of Susie Wong and The Notorious Landlady (Kim Novak again). I haven’t seen any of his work after the mid-‘60s.
The Alley Dance. Bob Fosse in blue. As good as Rall is, I think Fosse has a few inches on him.
Drive A Crooked Road is one of Mickey Rooney’s best. Rooney was a pretty egotistical guy, but his character here is sensitive about his height and Quine often puts him in shots that contrast him with much taller men.
I agree that Pushover is a perfectly acceptable second-tier noir. It is also worth seeing just for being Kim Novak’s first credited role.
Unlike directors today, Quine knew how to frame, shoot, and edit a dance number. Witness the justly famous “Alley Dance,” a competition between Bob Fosse and Tommy Rall in My Sister Eileen.
Bell, Book, and Candle ran a little long but I still relished seeing Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak together again.
Sex and the Single Girl gave me one of my favorite laugh lines. Tabloid reporter Tony Curtis boasts to his editor that, “All the dirty lies you’ve heard about me, ARE TRUE!
I described his work as “solid” above and the others I have seen match that. Journeyman work but competent. He gets the job done. Also seen and enjoyed: The World of Susie Wong and The Notorious Landlady (Kim Novak again). I haven’t seen any of his work after the mid-‘60s.
The Alley Dance. Bob Fosse in blue. As good as Rall is, I think Fosse has a few inches on him.