Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Duel in the Sun is on TCM.
Barf!
I don't know why but Jennifer Jones bugs me. She bugs me almost as bad as the expressionless Loretta Young.

Well, Duel in the Sun is stunningly overblown cheese whiz of the highest calibre.

Poor Marion Davies got such a bad rap for heart financing her films and then had her career ruined by assumptions made based on Citizen Kane. Jones is another example, Selznick's obsession with her, my goodness there are some amazingly poor performances. I have great sentimental feelings for Portrait of Jennie, but other films ack.

Back to Duel in the Sun, worth it totally for the death scene of Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore's reaction. Makes me cry every time. Of course, King Vidor demanded his name be removed from the film, I can't remember if it was. And I do find the final creepy crawl over the rocks to be hilarious. The technicolor is overripe, too, but glorious. Joseph Cotten is the one the really bugs me. Well cast cheese still does smell awful sometimes.