I started Mary Stewart's book and found it boring. I thought well maybe the movie is better. I found it to be the worst Hayley Mills' movie she made during Disney. The movie is concerned with jewelry smuggling. The real problem is the villain isn't interesting and one-dimensonal. When that happens it's hard to be passionate for the good guy to win. I do think Hayley Mills is Disney's best young actress and she was always fun to watch in the 1960s. You should watch The Parent Trap instead.
Leslie Howard marries the cold manipulative Myrna Loy only to find himself going back to his more relaxed mistress Ann Harding. I loved Ann Harding in It happened on 5th avenue so it was nice seeing her in an earlier role. This was just ok. It didn't blow my mind but it was a good 3/5.
This movie was mostly directed by Ida Lupino and it was co-scripted by her as well. It's about an unwed girl who gets pregnant. There's the detached pianist who knocked who up and a sweet lame guy who actually does care for her. The ending is over the top and unintentionally had me and my sister laugh. Ida Lupino was simply an awesome director and actress. She was one of the first female directors and really her work still stands well today.
I found the first half of this 1950s black comedy boring but once the murders happened then it got interesting. Alastair Sim plays a watchmaker who is an assasin. Then a couple discovers the bodies one of which is in a piano. Once they do they all on the case. It was an amusing black comedy. It's on Kanopy.
This was an ok Swedish movie from the 1960s. A writer gets his book published but the poverty of the the people around him gets to him and soon he quits his ambitions. His girlfriend gets pregnant and things get worst. The man does something very selfish in the end so it was hard for me to find him likable. Maybe that's why I think this is just ok while it's more than critically acclaimed.
This DEFA movie shows the Nazis marching in on a German town near Poland. I think you have to be a history buff or something because I got lost. At least it was only 64 minutes.
This was ok. This was Arthur Penn's American attempt to do a movie that looked like the French New Wave movement. A stand-up comedian has debts to the mob. The comedian is homeless for a while but once he's secured a position once again he's paranoid someone has discovered his identity. It was a bit experimental. Warren Beatty was good in it.
