falconhawke

Slow, waaaaayyy too quiet, waaaayyy too dark, stupid eye makeup and just overall too long. Everyone whispered, and I found it hard to believe that at some point during rushes someone didn't say it's all whispering.

Interesting plot though, if you can hear it at all.

In those days, storytellers wrote interesting and ripping yarns, and filmmakers and experienced appealing actors made ripping good films.

This film as the book it came from, which I read many many years ago, is a tale and not actual history and it is not meant to be thought of that way. It's not always easy to make the bad guys get some sympathy and respect from moviegoers. And that can be especially true when the bad guys serve an over-arching evil purpose. This movie, this Director, and these actors manage to do it, at least as much as it probably could've been done. Meanwhile it's a well paced movie, with beautiful scenery, exciting action sequences, and it's an interesting tale that provides a lot of interesting things to think about had some thing like this ever been attempted.

The quibbler's that review this film down to it's minutest detail, can quibble. But I think that if you want to watch a film, that can make you actually feel something for German soldiers who are not themselves overt disgusting Nazis, this one does it. Did such German elite soldiers exist? Probably doubtful, but again this is a tale, not actual history. It's an entertaining film and I recommend it.

This is Dean Stockwell,s movie and he is great in this wickedly hilarious film. I first saw this movie nearly 20 years ago and for years I tried to find out which movie was the one that I saw that made me laugh so hard that day. Eventually I discovered that it was The Happy Years, and I was able to buy a DVD of this film a few years ago so I could finally show it to members of my family.

It's just as funny as the first time I saw it. Yes, it's cute, some of it is heartwarming, there are some morality lessons to learn about treating people, etc., But all that is delivered in a package that is just great to watch and wonderful to laugh with. All of the young actors are top notch in this film, the writing is excellent for all of them. I won't describe the plot, other than it's funny when he's at the school and it's funny when he's not, his summer vacation at home it's just a wonderful portion of the film, and there's lots of other great parts also. When I watch it now, I think the Dean Stockwell could've received or gotten the best actor nomination for this film that year. So what I want to say is that if you miss this film, You're going to be a little less Happy in your heart as the months and Years go by, see it it's great, that's my review.

This is a beautiful movie. The mountains and lakes and rivers and skies, the songs of the operetta story, and at the top are the beautiful big expressive eyes of Miss McDonald.

In the third decade of the 21st-century, beauty and entertainment are still great reasons to see a film. Even if that film is an older one, done in a style that might be slightly different than things people may have seen lately, this is still a wonderful way to spend not quite two hours.

Get lost in the mountains and the wilderness, get lost in the singing by people who knew how the hell to sing really really well, or get lost in Jeanette McDonald's eyes. You'll be glad you did. And you don't have to be knowledgeable or even slightly acquainted with opera, this movie can be enjoyed, because that describes me and yet I liked it from start to finish.

Lucy looks beautiful, Desi looks beautiful, this movie had me pretty much rolling on the floor 30 minutes into it and the laughs just keep on coming if you have a slight sense of humor and just enjoy the show that they put together. Don't try to analyze it, don't try to justify it, don't put it in the pantheon of films, just enjoy it for what it is and you'll probably be laughing pretty much throughout the whole movie. Four college football jocks getting enlisted ed to be a secret bodyguard group for Lucille Ball's character. At Potawatomi University. The whole thing is hilarious, it looks great the print is really good, the sound was excellent, a black-and-white film in 1940 this is one of the best I've seen lately. So I say watch it, enjoy it, and you'll probably tell friends about this movie that made you laugh last night. That's my review and I'm sticking with it.

This is a very well done film with excellent performances from really seasoned and wonderful actors and actresses of the time.

For me with films of this type, I sometimes have a hard time separating how I feel about the film as entertainment, and how I feel about the story and the characters that are portrayed in the film. And that's the case here. I like it as a film much better than I like most of the people being portrayed or the lives they create that cause unhappiness. And like in the film The Bishop's Wife, a lot of the life that the characters are dealing with in the church is all about money money money. I am pretty sure in most cases if not every case that is the reality of these types of families. It was for one that I knew. Although the prosperity gospel being elevated over the last few decades makes this guy and his family in this story look like a bunch of dumb losers. Right off the bat I was annoyed that the minister called his wife mother and she called him father. And on and on and on, with a lot of the worst qualities of people being shown as this family goes from place to place for whatever mysterious reasons we never really are told about. After one more annoying encounter that the minister has with the financial flock who expect lots for their money and really don't want to spend it anyways, I really kept hoping that Cary Grant was going to walk into the room and make all these unpleasant people into soft hearted kind folks who actually lived and talked like supposedly their religion was telling them to. Setting that aside, if you want to watch a quite good film with class actors and actresses about these types of folks in situations like this, One Foot In Heaven is probably one of the best there is.

There are so many reasons to watch this film that it isn't even funny, if you haven't seen it already. If you have you know what I'm talking about.

It's funny, tender, sentimental, brutal, and full of acting performances from every actor on the screen that I think are some of the best in any western I've ever seen. Including Angie Dickinson. And I've seen a lot of westerns. Her weary longing for a better life than the one she has, seizing on the Sheriff as someone she wants to stay with as long as she can despite him trying to get rid of her as much as he can, I think it was an excellent performance.

I don't want to list any more of the reasons to watch this film that I already have. There are just so many as I mentioned at the start that it's really a no-brainer. It is also one of those films that seeing it several times it just seems to get better with each viewing.

But I'm going to list one reason here at the end that also matters to me. This is a John Wayne Western that is not a racist film. There are major characters who drive the plot that are Mexican, it has none of the stuff of the Ford westerns of Wayne's earlier career.

Rio Bravo is now in my top five of westerns that I think are my favorites. If you watch it it could become one of yours also.