Reviews by fernando

(OK) Harryhausen has charm and style in his monsters and backdrops (here is Rome,the Coliseum, il Foro, destructed sans pity) , Besides that not too much, suaf determined Hopper and Taylor

(OK) Greta cast for this filosophical cinicism og rich and poor, roght and wrong, witty, funny, with charm in some details (the slumbers of London where Robert Newton hits sweet Deborah Kerr, or Emlyn Williams does what he knows), and Morley becoming mature. Hiller and Harrison are impecable

(OK) Good Petri, in a pretty sicilian town, without mafia clisés, midllem meeting and talking about dangerous annoyms attributed to infidelity but its another thing that great naif romantic Volotné discovers and is the new vicitm. His love for Irene Papas is pure bittersweet including the visit to blind Salvo Randone in Palermo.

(OK) Great Leisen, superb Olivia keeping her secret for her memory. Leisen takes his time and ages to depict one love (or to, the first Lund wich acts as his son too, and the boy) in the life; touches of romantic comedy of too bitter tupes (Culver and Olivia in the beginning) ending in joyous melodrama

(NX) Effective, taut, linear, its unsolved as unsolved is each character. Amy Ryan is convincing as guilty mother...

(OK) (Good criterion copy). JL Thompson is so efficient in this thriller with frienship plot (Bucholz is seen through Hayley liar dreamy consciousness); but pa John Mills (there's an underplay father/daughter in some scenes) advances with anotehr logic till tense finaleon the sea

(OK) What is glossy and expanded in the Cukor version; here is straight, less is more, with the detective Pettingell supplying the inferences. The amid affair with Walbrook is the best deviation.

(OK) Impressed by the plot: a hard lobbyist (Mature for once well casted) being lobbyied by an environmentalist (Neal) with a credible impostor (Gwenn as a graveyard prints his invitations to parties and builds an identity)....

(OK) Small but nice, well staged (best number is the Champions in the roof, simple, hard; them Bob Fosse with Debbie agiants New York night skiline; the baloon dance is too crowded in the screen with all the cottonlike snow ); it has a softened power of that 'you can be a star' in this melting pot of NY....

(OK) Reed hit the screen. Good with the nervous masses and the miners drama, good with the frivolous melodrama (Lockwood is ambivalent and nice), excellent supporting cast Emlyn Williams is a touching rascal...