Reviews by fernando

Si no fuera por el final...Las señales suicidas de la chica chillan de obvias para el espectador, pero no son vistas por el protagonista. En lo demás, la fluidez de la pareja forzada y el two shot continuo, con pocas y justas elipsis, va muy bien.

3 stars just for Groucho.His lines and gags are above everything else, even his western musical extravaganza. "Do you want your name in lights?" he asks a copa girl. "Are you an electrician?" replies her. "No, but I have connections". What a contrast with Andy Russell's naiveté. Miranda is OK as Fifi kissing men to be recognized.

Tense, intriguing, reasonably violent in spite of the suject (a father takes revenge on the serial killer that slashed her daughter), very noir humor, but there´ssomething I can stand: the screenplay hides the reason because the revengeful father and the police are sure the psycho is the psycho. If he is, then the best thing is when the detective has to rely on him.

Intense, ambitious, armonic in every aspect, in every frame. The stubborn conservative mother is too much but she gets what her stuborness deserves, melodramatically, violently (her own loved son beats her)and sometimes ironically. Don't like the trascendent value (honor of the people, earth etc.), a little on the primitive comunism side, pre soviet (the hammer and saw are the naif symbols of the producers); but there´s is the energy that structures the vast meanings, inlcuding the musicals.

The plot of psicopath obsessed with being part of the family whose photos he processes is more than OK, but Williams is too histrionic in his patetism, the dreams are a repetitive trick, the suspense and visual intrigue is poor.

Melodrama with a lot of hits really interpreted (because is evident she doesn't sing)by Hayward. Thelma is overexposed by Lamar Trotti obvious sarcasm,but is excellent when confronting Hayward's depression. Susan is better when suffering. Robert Wagner is convincing

I'm kind of deaf to opera and to Kathryn Grayson in particular buy I admit I was moved by the ending with the 'Mimi' aria. The stage and the long shots are spectacular. Gordon Douglas is ok

The feeling, the comedy, the places, the pace, everything is so italian that I don't know why Christian Jaque directed this and not an italian. I like Fernandel, afraid of his italianization, unconsciously putting the fingers upside, italian style; and when he laughs for the first time before Toto, when is jailed with his former wife.

Bill Wellma, you´re one the greats. Splendid reconstruction and action full of details in the Alaska saloons,the stops around the fire, the explicit arttraction between Gable and Young. Not just dog Buck, everybody, clark, Young, Oakie and refined bad guy Owen, feels the call of the wild.

Solemn (Diana Wynward talks to the camera more than once), excesivie respectful with the aristocrats and monarchy (but Una O'Connor, husband Mundin and daughter Ursula Jeans have a special dignity), a long story not too episodic.