Showing posts with label Natalie Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natalie Wood. Show all posts

Friday, 1 December 2023

The Great Race (1965)

 

Natalie Wood (with Tony Curtis and Keenan Wynn in the background) production still from Blake Edwards’s The Great Race (1965)

Monday, 1 January 2018

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)



In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

Mildly entertaining, but quite sentimental melodrama made in good style and taste.

Halliwell*: "Charming sentimental fable in Hollywood's best style."

Maltin***1/2: "Charming, beautifully made fantasy..."


Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Splendor in the Grass (1961)



A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

A melodrama about sexualanxieties among adolescents is well staged, but some of the performances are over the top and the topic is quite dated by modern standards.

Halliwell*: "Impressive though curiously unmemorable addition to a nostalgic young sex cycle which was already played out; production and performances well up to scratch."

Maltin***: "Sentimental sudster..."