42nd Street in the Rain The colour musical film is a strange beast. Hollywood explored many of its possibilities. And people did buy lots of tickets. But until very recently, musicals were all but dead. That’s because they were never able to create a self sustaining genre, actually what they missed were a few constants… Continue reading The Band Wagon (1953)
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Films released in 1953
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Rule of Threes My own estimation is that this is a pretty poor movie cinematically, with the exeption of the then-shocking juicy exuberance of the beach scene. But it is crackling good storytelling and that overcomes the wooden direction and uninspired acting. I’m a believer in the power of structure in stories. Here we… Continue reading From Here to Eternity (1953)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Green Eggs I watch so many bad films that I’m worn out for any try at campiness. I never recommend films as jokes, and many seemingly bad films are really good ones with bad production values. But this one is such a disaster it deserves all the bad press it has accumulated. (And it is… Continue reading The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
deGaulled After the war, France was a mess — an agricultural economy with a bad reputation world-wide because of near universal collaboration with the Nazis. America resolved to rebuild Europe and part of the plan was to cast Paris as a romantic place. The instruction went out to US and UK studios. The US studios… Continue reading Innocents in Paris (1953)