September Affair (1950)
Low-Grade Romantics For a movie starring Joseph Cotten , Joan Fontaine and Jessica Tandy , September Affair was a real stinker! Completely predictable within the first 15 minutes, acting was flat and the premise, so sad, the whole movie was gloomy. And not gloomy in the Se7en sense of the word... just flat out gloomy. As a matter of fact, this picture represents the only good part of the film:
A Place in the Sun - 1951
A Disturbingly Brilliant Movie A Place in the Sun was disturbing. How's that for blunt? I mean, it was a great movie but man - it's squirm worthy, rife with so many tragic themes.
Dodsworth (1936)
A Woman's Passions Emotionally Undressed So, this is an incredibly depressing movie about an auto maker who retires and takes a vacation to Europe only to find they want very different things out of life. I guess there's supposed to be a love
The Constant Nymph (1943)
He tried to divide his heart and broke theirs Ya' know...I have no idea why I'm still surprised by some movies. The Constant Nymph really surprised me! Surprise the first - how good it was! Another surprise was the subject matter - an (unrealized) romance involving a fully grown married man (played by Charles Boyer) and a fourteen year old (Joan Fontaine). That in itself was quite surprising, especially in view of my romantically naive view of that era of American life. But none of that was as surprising as my reaction in th…
The Red House (1947)
Creepy Doesn't Begin to Describe It OMG! I just watched one of the creepiest movies of all time! I dunno, maybe I'm overstating it a little, but this movie was seriously creepy. I ran into The Red House quite by accident on YouTube and I'm so
