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Post by timshelboy on Dec 18, 2021 2:11:04 GMT
Just a few notes on the cinema films not yet covered/mentioned: PURSUED - 1947, stark, moody western drama opposite Mitchum - a change of pace from her usual sensible daughter territory  TRACK OF THE CAT 1954 - Wellman's odd adventure movie about panther stalking isolated rural farming family - colour & cinemascope with many snow scenes make for interesting visuals. Teresa's role as the bitter spinster sister was probably tactically a worse career move than playing Jean Simmons's mum at age 35 the year before. Note that in 1947's PURSUED she got top billing..... but 7 years later she is now billed below Mitchum in smaller font....Would like another look. It is on TALKING PICTURES channel regularly. With Diana Lynn below and below that Mitchum modelling snow and technicolour friendly outdoor wear  .jpg) _11.jpg)  How could I have forgotten "Track Of The Cat" the movie that put Dysfunctional Family firmly into westerns. On the current film noir thread I mentioned "High Noon" as a western "knocking at the door" of noir. "Track Of The Cat" might easily be another. It was dismissed as Eugene O'Neill on the range at the time but critic Dennis Schwartz has attempted to rehabilitate it "A brilliantly realized ambitious dark, brooding Western set in the 1880s in northern California on an isolated snowbound ranch. It is based on the book by Walter van Tilburg Clark, one of whose other books, The Ox-Bow Incident, had also been filmed by William Wellman. The scorching literate script is by A.I. Bezzerides. It has the haunting feel of a Poe work and the primitive savageness of Indian folklore. Cinematographer William H. Clothier bleached out the primary colors and that gave the images the look of a black and white film. The haunting luminous look created was very effective in charging the film with the sub-textual sexual energy that lingers from the hot melodramatics and also giving it an alluring aura of mystery."Anyway - you have prompted me to give it another spin... Here it is if anyone interested TRACK OF THE CATPURSUED might join the queue for Western Noirs? And OX BOW INCIDENT?(same author of source novel as TRACK OF THE CAT I think)
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 18, 2021 2:55:47 GMT
How could I have forgotten "Track Of The Cat" the movie that put Dysfunctional Family firmly into westerns. On the current film noir thread I mentioned "High Noon" as a western "knocking at the door" of noir. "Track Of The Cat" might easily be another. It was dismissed as Eugene O'Neill on the range at the time but critic Dennis Schwartz has attempted to rehabilitate it "A brilliantly realized ambitious dark, brooding Western set in the 1880s in northern California on an isolated snowbound ranch. It is based on the book by Walter van Tilburg Clark, one of whose other books, The Ox-Bow Incident, had also been filmed by William Wellman. The scorching literate script is by A.I. Bezzerides. It has the haunting feel of a Poe work and the primitive savageness of Indian folklore. Cinematographer William H. Clothier bleached out the primary colors and that gave the images the look of a black and white film. The haunting luminous look created was very effective in charging the film with the sub-textual sexual energy that lingers from the hot melodramatics and also giving it an alluring aura of mystery."Anyway - you have prompted me to give it another spin... Here it is if anyone interested TRACK OF THE CATPURSUED might join the queue for Western Noirs? And OX BOW INCIDENT?(same author of source novel as TRACK OF THE CAT I think) And I think you are right about "The Ox Bow Incident." It has been a long time since I saw "Pursued" so don't remember it that wall. May need to revisit it as you are giving "Track of the Cat" that next spin.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 19, 2021 14:27:26 GMT
She was good in Shadow of a Doubt. Can’t say I liked the Little Foxes all that much. Still need to see Mrs. Miniver and Best Days of Our Lives.
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Post by Rufus-T on Dec 19, 2021 17:20:23 GMT
I always find much similarity in look between Ellen Page and Teresa Wright. Ellen Page could have played her.  |
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 25, 2021 20:55:01 GMT
Thanks for the great tribute, tim. I love this actress. She never gave a less than wonderful performance and more than held her own with the likes of Bette Davis, et al. I think my personal favorites are THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, MRS. MINIVER, and SHADOW OF A DOUBT. So wish I could have seen her in the Broadway version of THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, directed by Elia Kazan. Also would love to see her in the Playhouse 90 version of THE MIRACLE WORKER, if I could ever find it. And OMG, I can't believe you saw her in MORNING'S AT SEVEN! I love that play! And that production was shown on Showtime, but I didn't see it then and now I cannot find it. I'm sure she was wonderful in that, too. (Oh, I envy you that experience!) Mornings at seven (USA production) Enjoy!  MORNINGS AT SEVEN
Finally watched it, tim, and really, really enjoyed it! Can't thank you enough! Thought it was mostly on target, missing some of the Chekhovian aspects, but that's not really a surprise. But it was very much worth it. Wonder if the 2002 Broadway revival was better? It's cast included Piper Laurie, Estelle Parsons, Frances Sternhagen, Christopher Lloyd, and Buck Henry and was directed by Daniel Sullivan. Will never know. I'd still like to see a real film version of the play, but something tells me that's never going to happen. Anyway, thanks again for making it possible for me to see something that I have longed to see for such a long, long time.
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