Elaine Devry, an actress who appeared in such films as The Atomic Kid and A Guide for the Married Man and on dozens of TV shows after becoming the fourth of Mickey Rooney’s eight wives, has died. She was 93.
Devry died Sept. 20 in her home in Grants Pass, Oregon, according to a notice placed on a local funeral home website.
Devry married Rooney in Las Vegas in November 1952 and made her first onscreen acting appearances the next year in the Rooney-starring comedy film A Slight Case of Larceny and on an episode of the Ronald Reagan-hosted CBS anthology series General Electric Theater.
In the Republic Pictures sci-fi comedy The Atomic Kid (1954), directed by Leslie H. Martinson, she was introduced as “Elaine Davis (Mrs. Mickey Rooney),” and her character, a nurse, marries her husband’s Barnaby “Blix” Waterberry at the end of the movie.
In A Guide for the Married Man...
Devry died Sept. 20 in her home in Grants Pass, Oregon, according to a notice placed on a local funeral home website.
Devry married Rooney in Las Vegas in November 1952 and made her first onscreen acting appearances the next year in the Rooney-starring comedy film A Slight Case of Larceny and on an episode of the Ronald Reagan-hosted CBS anthology series General Electric Theater.
In the Republic Pictures sci-fi comedy The Atomic Kid (1954), directed by Leslie H. Martinson, she was introduced as “Elaine Davis (Mrs. Mickey Rooney),” and her character, a nurse, marries her husband’s Barnaby “Blix” Waterberry at the end of the movie.
In A Guide for the Married Man...
- 10/22/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Mickey Rooney Jr., an original Mouseketeer, musician and actor who was the first of screen legend Mickey Rooney‘s nine children, has died. He was 77.
Rooney Jr. died Saturday at his home in Glendale, Arizona, his longtime companion Chrissie Brown told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death is unknown, she said.
Rooney Jr. played in bands with Willie Nelson and appeared with the actor-musician in Jerry Schatzberg’s Honeysuckle Rose (1980) and Alan Rudolph’s Songwriter (1984). He also had small parts in John Brahm’s Hot Rods to Hell (1966) — he helped score the soundtrack — and in the 1975 NBC movie Beyond the Bermuda Triangle.
His mother was Betty Jane Baker, a singer and winner of the 1944 Miss Alabama beauty pageant. She first met Mickey Rooney when he was stationed in the U.S. Army in Birmingham, Alabama, during World War II. She became the second...
Mickey Rooney Jr., an original Mouseketeer, musician and actor who was the first of screen legend Mickey Rooney‘s nine children, has died. He was 77.
Rooney Jr. died Saturday at his home in Glendale, Arizona, his longtime companion Chrissie Brown told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death is unknown, she said.
Rooney Jr. played in bands with Willie Nelson and appeared with the actor-musician in Jerry Schatzberg’s Honeysuckle Rose (1980) and Alan Rudolph’s Songwriter (1984). He also had small parts in John Brahm’s Hot Rods to Hell (1966) — he helped score the soundtrack — and in the 1975 NBC movie Beyond the Bermuda Triangle.
His mother was Betty Jane Baker, a singer and winner of the 1944 Miss Alabama beauty pageant. She first met Mickey Rooney when he was stationed in the U.S. Army in Birmingham, Alabama, during World War II. She became the second...
- 7/18/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Howard Hawks' 1946 adaptation of "The Big Sleep" is one of the best Humphrey Bogart movies. It's a great detective movie, following private eye Philip Marlowe (Bogart) as he investigates a blackmail case surrounding wild-child socialite Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers) on the instruction of her elderly father, General Sternwood (Charles Waldron). The General also wants Marlowe's help finding his missing companion, Sean Regan. When Carmen's widowed older sister Vivian (Lauren Bacall) attempts to throw him off the case, Marlowe begins to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. The questions pile up, and the answers come quick, but "The Big Sleep" is not a mystery...
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The post No One Behind the Scenes of The Big Sleep Understood The Story appeared first on /Film.
- 4/29/2022
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
Paul Wendkos directed this 1957 noir from the screenplay (and book) by David Goodis, the writer responsible for Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player. Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield are a duo of unlikely jewel thieves and Martha Vickers, the problem child of Bogart’s The Big Sleep, is still a beautiful fly in the ointment.
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- 4/4/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Each month before the Smackdown event, suggested options for an alternate ballot in Best Supporting Actress...
by Nick Taylor
How is it I've ended up watching three Bogie & Bacall collaborations in reverse chronological order while celebrating the Smackdown years? At least this means that their pairings have only grown more rewarding, rather than less. I’d probably rank To Have and Have Not ever so slightly above The Big Sleep, but boy is it a twisty, entertaining film, making real cinema out of Raymond Chandler’s novel without sanding away his cynical wit and venom. The Big Sleep also boasts the only real instance in any of these films of a supporting performer truly overshadowing the star couple for sheer charisma and watchability. That actress is Martha Vickers, in the role of Lauren Bacall’s drug-addicted, nymphomaniac sister Carmen Sternwood. If it’s one thing for Moorehead to walk away...
by Nick Taylor
How is it I've ended up watching three Bogie & Bacall collaborations in reverse chronological order while celebrating the Smackdown years? At least this means that their pairings have only grown more rewarding, rather than less. I’d probably rank To Have and Have Not ever so slightly above The Big Sleep, but boy is it a twisty, entertaining film, making real cinema out of Raymond Chandler’s novel without sanding away his cynical wit and venom. The Big Sleep also boasts the only real instance in any of these films of a supporting performer truly overshadowing the star couple for sheer charisma and watchability. That actress is Martha Vickers, in the role of Lauren Bacall’s drug-addicted, nymphomaniac sister Carmen Sternwood. If it’s one thing for Moorehead to walk away...
- 6/5/2021
- by Nick Taylor
- FilmExperience
Staten Island vampires face the music and off-tempo dancing as What We Do in the Shadows presents "The Trial."
This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers.
What We Do in the Shadows Episode 7
What We Do in the Shadows, episode 7, "The Trial," finds the Staten Island trio judged by a tribunal the transgression of dispensing with vampire royalty. The episode is yet another high point in a series which seems to pick up speed with every installment. The proceedings themselves are quite perilous, and the charges rather dire, but the implied menace works well for the humor, disarming the sentencing to a toothless threat. Now that Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) has met his second, final, death, someone has to pay.
Also adding to the suspense is that the accused vampires at the center of the suspected vampicide have no recollection of the murder itself, which is how the episode opens.
This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers.
What We Do in the Shadows Episode 7
What We Do in the Shadows, episode 7, "The Trial," finds the Staten Island trio judged by a tribunal the transgression of dispensing with vampire royalty. The episode is yet another high point in a series which seems to pick up speed with every installment. The proceedings themselves are quite perilous, and the charges rather dire, but the implied menace works well for the humor, disarming the sentencing to a toothless threat. Now that Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) has met his second, final, death, someone has to pay.
Also adding to the suspense is that the accused vampires at the center of the suspected vampicide have no recollection of the murder itself, which is how the episode opens.
- 5/8/2019
- Den of Geek
In its inaugural year, 2005, I began writing for the Muriel Awards, a year-end voting collective dedicated to summing up the year’s achievements which features accompanying essays by its members, and I’ve written for them every year since. Six years ago, Muriels creator Paul Clark initiated the Muriels Hall of Fame, a separate division which is, as Clark puts it, “an attempt to honor the finest achievements in classic cinema.” In order to be considered qualified for Muriel Hof induction, a film must be a minimum of 50 years old, based on the date of release recorded by IMDb, as of the end of the previous calendar year.
Well, the distinguished members of the Muriels Hall of Fame Class of 2018 have been announced. In fact, Clark and the Muriels started announcing them a little over a month ago, on August 11. So, I am only 33 days delinquent in passing along the news,...
Well, the distinguished members of the Muriels Hall of Fame Class of 2018 have been announced. In fact, Clark and the Muriels started announcing them a little over a month ago, on August 11. So, I am only 33 days delinquent in passing along the news,...
- 9/16/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
TV stalwart Paul Wendkos' biggest success in movies was as the director of the Gidget series. I'm Scottish so I don't know what that was. But it turns out he had a real gift for expressionistic noir, as demonstrated in his debut film The Burglar, which was scripted by pulp noir icon David Goodis, whose novels provided source material for Delmer Daves' Dark Passage, Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall, Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, René Clément's And Hope to Die, Beineix's Moon in the Gutter (the author was big in France) and Sam Fuller's Street of No Return.The movie, a low-budget affair, substitutes flair and vigor for production values, and stars lifelong noir patsy/creep Dan Duryea and up-and-coming sex bomb Jayne Mansfield, with the result that it always seems to be in the wrong aspect ratio. Duryea's cranium seems to have an extra story built...
- 11/8/2016
- MUBI
Former child actor Teddy Rooney has died. He was 66. Rooney's sister, Kelly, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that her brother died on Saturday in a convalescent home in Southern California after a long illness. Teddy was one of late actor Mickey Rooney's nine children. His mother was model and actress Martha Vickers, who was married to Mickey from 1949 - 1951 as his third of eight wives. Rooney acted alongside his mother on an episode of Playhouse 90 in 1957. In addition, he was featured in his father's film Andy Hardy Comes Home in 1958 and General Electric Theater in 1960. Among Rooney's most...
- 7/6/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
This proto- juvenile delinquent epic launched celebrated WW2 warrior Audie Murphy on the road to Hollywood fame, fortune and more troubled times. Audie commits every crime short of shooting dogs and nuns, but those wacky liberal social workers still give him the benefit of the doubt. Director Kurt Neumann back our hero with expert acting support from Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt and James Gleason. Bad Boy DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1949 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 86 min. / Street Date January 5, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Audie Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason, Stanley Clements, Martha Vickers, Rhys Williams, Selena Royle, Jimmy Lydon, Dickie Moore, Tommy Cook, William F. Leicester, Stephen Chase, Walter Sande, Ray Teal, Charles Trowbridge. Cinematography Karl Struss Art Direction Theobold Holsopple Production Design Gordon Wiles Film Editor William Austin Original Music Paul Sawtell Written by Robert Hardy Andrews, Karl Kamb, Paul Short Produced by Paul Short...
- 3/5/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
We've waited long enough: Bogart's take on Raymond Chandler's tough guy Philip Marlowe is finally on Blu-ray, with Lauren Bacall hyped as his provocative leading lady. The fascinating 1945 pre-release version is also present, with an uncut copy of Bob Gitt's versions comparison docu. Somebody tell Elisha Cook Jr. not to drink that stuff. The Big Sleep Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1946 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 114 min. / Street Date February 23, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D. Brown, Bob Steele, Elisha Cook Jr., Louis Jean Heydt, Sonja Darrin, Tommy Rafferty, Theodore von Eltz. Cinematography Sidney Hickox Film Editor Christian Nyby Original Music Max Steiner Written by Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, William Faulkner from the novel by Raymond Chandler Directed by Howard Hawks
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep became...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep became...
- 2/13/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up!”
The Big Sleep screens this Saturday morning, January 9th at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117) as part of their Classic Film Series.
Director Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1946) is one of the best Humphrey Bogart movies, one with more twists and turns than a pretzel factory. As Philip Marlowe, Bogie gives one of his best performances as the honest Private Eye up against the corruption and deceit of the Sternwood family and their “acquaintances”. Lauren Bacall is charming and sexy as Vivian, Bogies main love interest. But whose side is she on? Martha Vickers effectively plays Bacall’s younger spoiled sister whom Marlowe frequently encounters in his quest for the truth.
John Ridgely appears as Eddie Mars the chief villain of the piece. Veterans Elisha Cook Jr. (Harry Jones), Regis Toomey (Bernie) and Louis Jean Heydt...
The Big Sleep screens this Saturday morning, January 9th at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117) as part of their Classic Film Series.
Director Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1946) is one of the best Humphrey Bogart movies, one with more twists and turns than a pretzel factory. As Philip Marlowe, Bogie gives one of his best performances as the honest Private Eye up against the corruption and deceit of the Sternwood family and their “acquaintances”. Lauren Bacall is charming and sexy as Vivian, Bogies main love interest. But whose side is she on? Martha Vickers effectively plays Bacall’s younger spoiled sister whom Marlowe frequently encounters in his quest for the truth.
John Ridgely appears as Eddie Mars the chief villain of the piece. Veterans Elisha Cook Jr. (Harry Jones), Regis Toomey (Bernie) and Louis Jean Heydt...
- 1/8/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Mickey Rooney dead at 93: Four-time Oscar nominee, frequent Judy Garland co-star may have had the longest film career ever (photo: Mickey Rooney ca. 1940) Mickey Rooney, four-time Academy Award nominee and one of the biggest domestic box-office draws during the studio era, died of "natural causes" on Sunday, April 6, 2014, at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood. The Brooklyn-born Rooney (as Joseph Yule Jr., on September 23, 1920) had reportedly been in ill health for some time. He was 93. Besides his countless movies, and numerous television and stage appearances, Mickey Rooney was also known for his stormy private life, which featured boozing and gambling, some widely publicized family infighting (including his testifying in Congress in 2011 about elder abuse), his filing for bankruptcy in 1962 after having earned a reported $12 million (and then going bankrupt again in 1996), his eight marriages — including those to actresses Ava Gardner, Martha Vickers, and Barbara Ann Thomason...
- 4/9/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Los Angeles (AP) — Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, died Sunday at age 93. Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died at his North Hollywood home. Smith said police took a death report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and it was not a police case. He said he had no additional details on the circumstances of his passing. Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking up film and TV credits more than 80 years later — a tenure likely unmatched in the history of show business. "I always say, 'Don't retire — inspire,'" he told The Associated Press in March 2008. "There's a lot to be done.
- 4/7/2014
- by Anthony McCartney (AP)
- Hitfix
Anthony McCartney, AP Entertainment Writer
Los Angeles (AP) - Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, died Sunday at age 93.
Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died at his North Hollywood home.
Smith said police took a death report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and he had no additional details on the circumstances of his passing. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office said it was not their case because Rooney died a natural death.
There were no further immediate details on the cause of death, but Rooney did attend an Oscar party last month.
Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking...
Los Angeles (AP) - Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, died Sunday at age 93.
Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died at his North Hollywood home.
Smith said police took a death report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and he had no additional details on the circumstances of his passing. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office said it was not their case because Rooney died a natural death.
There were no further immediate details on the cause of death, but Rooney did attend an Oscar party last month.
Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking...
- 4/7/2014
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
Veteran film producer and friend to many of Hollywood's stars
The office walls of the film producer AC Lyles, who has died aged 95, were plastered with celebrity photographs. He seemed to know everybody in Hollywood, from presidents and governors to the great names of film, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. James Cagney, William Holden and Ronald Reagan were close personal friends.
Lyles worked for the same company, Paramount, for most of his life, starting as a mailroom office boy in 1937, after the studio's head, Adolph Zukor, gave in to his weekly letters begging for a job.
Indeed, he maintained that he had decided on his ninth birthday that he was going to be a producer. At the age of 10, he had a cleaning job at the Paramount cinema in his home town of Jacksonville, Florida, and seeing the silent film Wings, starring Clara Bow, reinforced this aspiration.
The office walls of the film producer AC Lyles, who has died aged 95, were plastered with celebrity photographs. He seemed to know everybody in Hollywood, from presidents and governors to the great names of film, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. James Cagney, William Holden and Ronald Reagan were close personal friends.
Lyles worked for the same company, Paramount, for most of his life, starting as a mailroom office boy in 1937, after the studio's head, Adolph Zukor, gave in to his weekly letters begging for a job.
Indeed, he maintained that he had decided on his ninth birthday that he was going to be a producer. At the age of 10, he had a cleaning job at the Paramount cinema in his home town of Jacksonville, Florida, and seeing the silent film Wings, starring Clara Bow, reinforced this aspiration.
- 10/6/2013
- by Michael Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
Humphrey Bogart movies: ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘High Sierra’ (Image: Most famous Humphrey Bogart quote: ‘The stuff that dreams are made of’ from ‘The Maltese Falcon’) (See previous post: “Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Movies.”) Besides 1948, 1941 was another great year for Humphrey Bogart — one also featuring a movie with the word “Sierra” in the title. Indeed, that was when Bogart became a major star thanks to Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra and John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon. In the former, Bogart plays an ex-con who falls in love with top-billed Ida Lupino — though both are outacted by ingénue-with-a-heart-of-tin Joan Leslie. In the latter, Bogart plays Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade, trying to discover the fate of the titular object; along the way, he is outacted by just about every other cast member, from Mary Astor’s is-she-for-real dame-in-distress to Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee Sydney Greenstreet. John Huston...
- 8/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Big Sleep
Written by William Faulkner, Leigh Bracket and Jules Furthman
Directed by Howard Hawks
U.S.A., 1946
There are, arguably, two minds when it comes to intricately plotted, complex mystery stories. There may exist other, more nuanced opinions, but it feels safe to assume that most people fall into one of the following categories. First, there are those who simply do not have or, quite frankly, want to award said story their time and patience. Too many names, too many different subplots, made up alibis and in the end it often seems like much ado about, well, not a whole lot. Second are those who either genuinely enjoy trying to wrap their heads around all the large and minute details a protagonist follows in his or her quest to uncover the truth or maybe do not even invest much stock in the minutia yet still discover a level...
Written by William Faulkner, Leigh Bracket and Jules Furthman
Directed by Howard Hawks
U.S.A., 1946
There are, arguably, two minds when it comes to intricately plotted, complex mystery stories. There may exist other, more nuanced opinions, but it feels safe to assume that most people fall into one of the following categories. First, there are those who simply do not have or, quite frankly, want to award said story their time and patience. Too many names, too many different subplots, made up alibis and in the end it often seems like much ado about, well, not a whole lot. Second are those who either genuinely enjoy trying to wrap their heads around all the large and minute details a protagonist follows in his or her quest to uncover the truth or maybe do not even invest much stock in the minutia yet still discover a level...
- 4/19/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
The Big Sleep
Written by William Faulkner (screenplay), Leigh Bracket (screenplay) and Jules Furthman (screenplay)
Directed by Howard Hawks
U.S.A., 1946 There are, arguably, two minds when it comes to intricately plotted, complex mystery stories. There may exist other, more nuanced opinions, but it feels safe to assume that most people fall into one of the two following categories. First, there are those who simply do not have or, quite frankly, want to award said story their time and patience. Too many names, too many different subplots, made up alibis and in the end it often seems like much ado about, well, not a whole lot. Second are those who either genuinely enjoy trying to wrap their heads around all the large and minute details a protagonist follows in his or her quest to uncover the truth or maybe do not even invest much stock in the minutia yet...
Written by William Faulkner (screenplay), Leigh Bracket (screenplay) and Jules Furthman (screenplay)
Directed by Howard Hawks
U.S.A., 1946 There are, arguably, two minds when it comes to intricately plotted, complex mystery stories. There may exist other, more nuanced opinions, but it feels safe to assume that most people fall into one of the two following categories. First, there are those who simply do not have or, quite frankly, want to award said story their time and patience. Too many names, too many different subplots, made up alibis and in the end it often seems like much ado about, well, not a whole lot. Second are those who either genuinely enjoy trying to wrap their heads around all the large and minute details a protagonist follows in his or her quest to uncover the truth or maybe do not even invest much stock in the minutia yet...
- 4/19/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Three men more than any others are responsible for influencing the way modern movies present private detective stories. The names that matter are Dashiell Hammett, for writing The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler, for The Big Sleep and Humphrey Bogart for his performances as the leads in both film adaptations. Such is their legacy that it is possible to trace almost every characteristic of the detective genre back to one or all of those names.
Though The Maltese Falcon has the better story, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep is arguably both the greatest pulp detective movie, and Humphrey Bogart’s finest career moment, and it isn’t difficult to see how, given the talent attached to the production. Bogart himself was joined by Lauren Bacall, director Howard Hawks.
And now, the BFI has brought The Big Sleep back to the big screen, some 55 years on.
The...
Three men more than any others are responsible for influencing the way modern movies present private detective stories. The names that matter are Dashiell Hammett, for writing The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler, for The Big Sleep and Humphrey Bogart for his performances as the leads in both film adaptations. Such is their legacy that it is possible to trace almost every characteristic of the detective genre back to one or all of those names.
Though The Maltese Falcon has the better story, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep is arguably both the greatest pulp detective movie, and Humphrey Bogart’s finest career moment, and it isn’t difficult to see how, given the talent attached to the production. Bogart himself was joined by Lauren Bacall, director Howard Hawks.
And now, the BFI has brought The Big Sleep back to the big screen, some 55 years on.
The...
- 1/2/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
The Next Three Days (12A)
(Paul Haggis, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde. 133 mins
What kind of a schoolteacher would stage an audacious prison break to spring his unjustly accused wife? One played by Russell Crowe, of course. Remade from French thriller Pour Elle, this supposedly everyday thriller suffers somewhat in the plausibility department, with Crowe gleaning the requisite logistical and criminal knowledge from a few Google searches and Neeson's helpful ex-con (while fulfilling single-parent duties). But after a long, slow build up, the suspenseful climax is at least well-handled.
Out from Wed
The Big Sleep (PG)
(Howard Hawks, 1946, Us) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, 114 mins
Sacrificing plot clarity for wisecracking dialogue and smouldering seduction (the producers removed a big chunk of explanation in favour of more Bogart-Bacall smooch time), the definitive Chandler detective movie is still wildly enjoyable. Bogey's Marlowe shows shades of vulnerability...
(Paul Haggis, 2010, Us) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde. 133 mins
What kind of a schoolteacher would stage an audacious prison break to spring his unjustly accused wife? One played by Russell Crowe, of course. Remade from French thriller Pour Elle, this supposedly everyday thriller suffers somewhat in the plausibility department, with Crowe gleaning the requisite logistical and criminal knowledge from a few Google searches and Neeson's helpful ex-con (while fulfilling single-parent duties). But after a long, slow build up, the suspenseful climax is at least well-handled.
Out from Wed
The Big Sleep (PG)
(Howard Hawks, 1946, Us) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, 114 mins
Sacrificing plot clarity for wisecracking dialogue and smouldering seduction (the producers removed a big chunk of explanation in favour of more Bogart-Bacall smooch time), the definitive Chandler detective movie is still wildly enjoyable. Bogey's Marlowe shows shades of vulnerability...
- 1/1/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Howard Hawks, 1946
Howard Hawks outdid himself in 1946 with this, the first entirely successful adaptation of a Chandler/Marlowe novel. Humphrey Bogart has since been indissolubly linked with Chandler's cynical but honourable La shamus, no matter how many successors have tried on his raincoat and battered fedora since. Hawks emphasised the wit and world-weariness of the original – the screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner is a never-ending succession of indelible one-liners and double entendres.
He also amped up the sexual electricity between Marlowe and the many women he encounters or fights off. Besides Lauren Bacall's smouldering Vivian Rutledge and her blowzy sister Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers), there's an early encounter in a bookstore with future Sirk-siren Dorothy Malone that is so erotic it will remind you why your grandparents said they "preferred it when they kept their clothes on". (Malone does remove her spectacles.) Along the way, the arcane mystery,...
Howard Hawks outdid himself in 1946 with this, the first entirely successful adaptation of a Chandler/Marlowe novel. Humphrey Bogart has since been indissolubly linked with Chandler's cynical but honourable La shamus, no matter how many successors have tried on his raincoat and battered fedora since. Hawks emphasised the wit and world-weariness of the original – the screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner is a never-ending succession of indelible one-liners and double entendres.
He also amped up the sexual electricity between Marlowe and the many women he encounters or fights off. Besides Lauren Bacall's smouldering Vivian Rutledge and her blowzy sister Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers), there's an early encounter in a bookstore with future Sirk-siren Dorothy Malone that is so erotic it will remind you why your grandparents said they "preferred it when they kept their clothes on". (Malone does remove her spectacles.) Along the way, the arcane mystery,...
- 10/17/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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