![]() It loses steam about 2/3 of the way in and climaxes a little clumsily, but on balance this is an above average effort with much to recommend it. Eleanor Parker plays the title character delicately and memorably - it's hard to understand how such a beautiful and talented actress isn't as well remembered as some others. In other words, he's somewhat miscast, but not fatally so. Gig Young, as the leading man, is handsome and dashing enough for the role but he has a funny, crooked way of talking that always makes you feel like he should be playing big city 1950's newspaper reporters. He makes no secret of his disdain for the transparent notions and motivations of those around him, and delights in always having the last scathing word. He marches through his scenes with that famous bored superiority, and revels in always being the most intelligent person in the room. Fox News host Tucker Carlson speaks at a National Review Institute event on March 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Cobb probably the finest character actor in the history of film, gives a typically extraordinary performance. Tucker Carlson ousted at Fox News following networks 787 million settlement. Wilkie Collins The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian sensation novels, and quickly became a phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Great sets, costumes, dialogue and photography (excellent atmospheric use of shadows). Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher who lives in London, needs a job and an escape from the city for the autumn months. This is one of those exquisitely crafted, though flawed in spots, old movies that you can just lose yourself in. ![]()
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