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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 10, 2019 6:56:21 GMT
love these american films about big families and raw american power. usually set in small towns. about family rivalries, town politics set in the backdrop of beautiful landscapes. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, WILD RIVER are other examples. these films seem to be elegiac. this film has a huge star cast with PAUL NEWMAN, LEE REMICK and ORSON WELLES. MARTIN RITT brought the best of out of NEWMAN with HUD and this one. NEWMAN plays a tough as nails "barn burning" character who arrives at the mansion of a wealthy missisippi family and impresses the patriarch (WELLES) with his wily ways. this turns his daughter and son against the newcomer. this is a really long drama (almost two hours long). the happy sugary ending was quite unexpected though.
(8/10)
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Mar 10, 2019 14:52:27 GMT
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Post by louise on Mar 10, 2019 16:52:06 GMT
I like it. Great performances all round. And a very surprising ending - it looks as if everything is heading for tragedy, and then suddenly it isn't.
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Post by kijii on Mar 10, 2019 18:59:22 GMT
I like them too!! Do you ever get The Long, Hot Summer(1958) mixed up with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)? I know I do. I always have to remember which one had Orson Welles/Angela Lansbury as the parents and which one had Burl Ives/Judith Anderson as the parents. Come to think of it, the stories had other similarities such as: A son trying to win his father's affection, etc. A young Paul Newman in them. Both being released in the same year. Both about old Southern families. Both had strong patriarchs with weak wives always trying to placate their husbands. Both had source material written by authors who grew up in the South. What else do they have in common? Come to think of it, it's a wonder that people don't get these two movies mixed up.. more often.  Truth be told, I'll bet people do.... |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 12, 2019 14:09:37 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 16, 2019 14:12:02 GMT
I think Lee Remick is absolutely ravishing in this movie.
Yes, indeed she was. (And that's why you must see Wild River.) I ran into her (literally, by accident) at the DGA awards in the late 80s and she looked great then, too, though older, of course. I always loved her. We lost her way too soon.
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