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More than half a century later, I found this film still moving and still relevant. One can pretend that the world and women's lives have been transformed but even now, this rings true. Women who divorce often do not have an easy time with rebuilding and even though this film made the wife a bit too unsympathetic and the husband too "nice," plenty of forty-something men leave wives who helped them through school and difficult times to go find a younger, fresher edition. I lived it, without all the exaggerations and transparent walls, but with two daughters and a remarried ex-husband. This film spoke to me and I would say that with a bit of truth-telling, there would be a chorus of ayes from those who can do more than imagine feeling the wife's loss and hostility at the husband who betrayed their youth -- perhaps even more than she did by being ambitious. I would like to report that the present is a new world and for some it is, for many, it is not and the great Ms. Davis' eyes tell truth.

I do not believe I watched the whole thing. I tried. I really, really tried. I tried to like something of it but let's face it. This isn't Gary Cooper and this isn't High Noon and no one is going to Yuma. What a politicized mess. tell me something I don't already know. Bad guys are bad and good guys are good and bad girls are good too. Glad we got that straight. Now let's get on to the trashing of normal everyday folks to Dalton can be happy in his red diaper. Feel better now? Good. I think this one belongs back in the drawer. Back of the drawer. If you want to watch a western, there are many better ones readily available. This one is not worth the time. Sterling is better served in his other ventures and so are the others in the cast. Even if you only have one station and this is the only thing on, read a book. Rent Sparticus. Don't bother with this waste of film and effort all around.

I remember Susan Hayward as my father's very favorite actress. He never said anything specific about why but when her movie was on the TV, he wouldn't budge. I feel the same way. This movie is a favorite of mine even though it breaks my heart because it shows off her beauty, her talent and does it without relying on spectacle. It relies on her eyes and her smile and her tears. The story is sad but the true loveliness of the performance is that even in her harder and unkinder moments, one sees the personality, the emotional wealth beneath and it touches the heart. I do so love this movie that I was very happy to see others share the emotional connection. Dana Andrews ain't bad either. In fact, the whole cast is great but Ms. Hayward, now there was a star. She and Barbara Stanwyck had what women today don't see on the screen. Style, substance and dimension. Wow.

It amazes me that so many people cannot see that the past is different from our debased and decadent present. This is a lovely reminder of what was and will never be again. We will keep on remaking poor Carrie but will not and cannot remake this movie in a way that is true to its truth, that love is a wonderful thing and that music, real music is an uplifting and special experience that expands the world of the audience. I have seen the movie several times and by modern standards it is corny but it is also true that we would be much better off in a world of this music and these people with their love for each other and for music and for having a good and joyous life is a whole lot better than one in which Saw XXX has an audience. This is real magic both at the movies and in our aspirations, without the need for Harry Potter and this is what we have lost.

People who think this film is too 1930's don't remember a time before abortion was the answer to every inconvenience. This is a fine movie and yes, it is of its time. Men were and remain selfish because women, in their affection allow it. Women allow it because they love. Children then and now are the prize and often the lure. Bette is marvelous, as good as ever. To be honest, Fonda is his usual boring self. I liked the lawyer but he had to be disposed of because he loved too well. For him the boy wasn't the prize. I honestly think this is a good film for exploring the darker side of Stella Dallas. I also think some of the other reviewers could do with a time machine, or at least a moment of contemplation that the past is at least a different country.

I am very fond of the stars and many members of the supporting cast. I adore Portrait of Jennie. I think Ayn Rand was a prophet and wise beyond the ability of most people to even comprehend. Putting all of that aside. Even putting aside all of the music, the clothes, the atmosphere and the dialog. This is still wonderful. This is a story of fate, of love and how the two sometimes come together in an undeniable vision that, once seen is never forgotten. This is a wonderful movie and I enjoy it more with each viewing. Now that Ms. Jones is gone. she can always be as she was here and that is, she was loved by not just one man but by almost everyone who saw her back then when she and the world were so very much younger. Fate, not always so kind but somehow this movie makes one feel that there are worse things than to be fated to an inescapable love.

I think Mr. Eckhart is nice to look at but doesn't convince me that he is a lover of poetry. was Jude Law busy? I think Ms. Paltrow is the luckiest person ever born. As a matter of fact, she was born exactly one half of one inch from home base and declared to have had a home run and. indeed, run the bases in record time. But for the accident of her birth, we would never have had to deal with one film after another that demonstrates how lucky she is and how unlucky we are. Sometimes talent is inherited and sometimes nepotism leads to ... yet another example of the perpetually miscast and unappealing mother of Apple boring us to tears. The story works better as a book than a film because while it makes little sense, it was helped with very nice prose. Perhaps had it starred an actress with some warmth and style we would at least have enjoyed watching it wander from one improbability to the next. Oh well, at least as she gets older we will be spared the incessant drum beat of how marvelous she is and she will become the next former young beauty who has less and less opportunity to wander vacantly through various movies like a lost member of the audience but for her very good luck in her choice of parents. Can't wait.

I liked the movie and the one thing about it that I didn't like was Monty. He was too old by at least 15 years for the part, the girl and the hurt. The hurt was a young man's hurt. Robert Ryan had the lock on the mature man's regret and Monty was supposed to be at the front end of the voyage but having been acting and living in bathos for all his life,he was too well seasoned. Instead of a boy whose dad had left him wounded and who was going to emerge from this transformed and transforming, he was Monty front and center and always. I loved Ms. Hart's Justy. Now there's a characterization who developed and a person who was and became. Ryan was once a boy, became a hard and then a bitter man and perhaps regained a bit of himself at the end. Ms. Loy, well-faded but true, a lodestar who was beyond much but hope, the inverse of Ms. Stapleton but in some ways more than that and the true core of the film in that she was a Lonelyheart even though she had material comfort. I'll admit it, I liked Monty in some of his roles but in this,he is terribly miscast. He might have pulled it off before we learned too much about him and his self-pity but alas, the part and the actor met too late. At bottom, his compassion for others here, as in in almost every other role, was just self-pity writ large.

People may not like hearing it but this movie evidences that but for her last name and connections, the director of this mess would be hard-pressed to get paid employment as a grade school teacher. This is what used to be called a "hot mess" and it does no one any favors. The playing with time and music could have been interesting but ends up being distracting. The acting is wooden and it seems uniformly so and it appears likely to have been the intention of the director. The whole effect is a bit nightmarish (eyes wide something or other?) but whatever was intended,what one should do is get the Norma Shearer version (not perfect history but a fine film) and say 10 times -- nepotism is a bad idea in film-making just as it tends to be everywhere else.

Just for starters, this is a very, very boring movie. Not even the clothes or the icky implied sex plus dirty words said with a smile reduces the overwhelming ennui. Her dad is played by a 70 year old man saying he is 57. She says she has been legal for three years. Does that mean 21 or 24? When you look thirty, who cares? If Mr. Doughboy is the love interest who is suave and a skateboarding infant is the love interest who went to Europe to "find himself," my advice is recast, recast, recast. By the way, the complaints about the blonds all looking the same is correct. they were too similar and I think it was intended as a joke but it was flat. Too flat to help lift the proceedings. Boring. Boring. Boring. Is that 10 line minimum satisfied yet?

Yes, the stars are old and it is sad that they got old. It is sadder still that they got involved in such an awful mess. There are alternatives, even if one has to accept less money or even develop the project. I think Al is overdoing things and has for a while but Deniro is still very interesting to watch and I think his performance in Flawless as a heartbroken older cop was wonderful. This film is degrading for them and for the viewer who makes it through to the literally bitter end. The tricks in the plot aren't interesting and the whole thing makes no sense from any perspective. If the confession is written down, why read it? I do think the stars, perhaps most of the cast, ought to go to a spa somewhere and come up with a new project to redeem themselves or perhaps, as Paul Newman did with the Silver Chalice, send out an Apology and follow it with a better effort so that all will be forgotten (well maybe not, but at least forgiven).

This is going to be a strange review because I have to admit I love this film for all the wrong reasons. I love it because I enjoy looking at it. I love looking at these faces and hearing these voices. I was just watching a particularly dreadful, stupid new slasher film for no good reason other than I pretty much watch everything when it occurred to me that certain things make a person happy and other things make a person unhappy and probably destroy a few brain cells along the way. People Will Talk makes a person happy, may improve the viewer's diction and add some vocabulary and a sense of style. I guarantee a renewed crush on Cary Grant. That smile can melt the poles far more than any period of extended solar flare activity. Forget the plot and even the message (which is a very nice one about love and respect and the undeniable fact that littleness of soul is no way to advance professionally), People Will Talk is worth your time. Most of the modern slasher gore fest is not only not worth your time, it is actually harmful in that it may make you less available to the charms of Cary and company. Do yourself and everyone you know a favor, watch People Will Talk.

One has to wonder whether anyone cares what words mean. Hey folks, this is a true story told in a deliberately understated way to avoid sensationalizing the subject, which was plenty exciting enough. Anyone who thinks it is propaganda either doesn't know what the word means or doesn't realize what is really going on and has been going on for some several hundred years now. Simply stated, there are a very few places in this world where people have achieved a measure of freedom and relative comfort. That is the exception. The rest of the world is a place with far less comfort and freedom. In 1945 and in 2010 there are plenty of bad guys who would like to do harm and once in a while someone upsets their plan. That is a good thing and telling us about it is a good thing. It isn't propaganda. It is our history.

There is a reason why this powerful film has been so hard to see. It is now part of the fast fading truth that the Japanese were implacable, cruel and sadistic enemies. Rather than acknowledge just how horrible the behavior meted out by the Japanese war machine -- which absolutely included the enthusiastic support of most of the civilian population and a healthy percentage of Japanese residents of the US (and US born citizens of Japanese descent), we would rather moan about the use of the atomic bomb to end the war and avoid the monstrous casualties that would have resulted from an invasion of the home islands. What we expected, absent the use of BOTH bombs is very clear. Every purple heart issued since the end of WWII was created in anticipation of US casualties to be suffered to subdue the Japanese, based on their conduct of the war in China, in the Pacific and wherever they could impose their cruelty. Try looking up vivisection and US POWs Japan. This film tells more than our post-modern sensitivities can bear when it is so much easier to beat up on ourselves. By the way, we also saved countless Japanese and the one politician who recently admitted it publicly was hounded out of office. This film should be made available to anyone and everyone who doubts the reality of the war as it was rather than as our media prefers to pretend it was. Teahouses and mincing maidens my ...

The only reason to add another review for this remarkable and rightly praised film is to give a shout out to Jim Caviezel. Not only is he a wonderful actor who is willing to take on challenging work from a professional perspective and a person who appears to be a regular and decent human being living a normal life that is unusual for an actor who has the opportunity (based on the behavior of his fellow actors) to behave badly, but he did this movie. That is a risk that a lot of the bad boy actors who are very quick to criticize the United States would never, ever do because it required courage. That is the reason for this review. It is a big, grateful thank you to a brave and terrific actor who takes chances as an actor and as a human being and for that he deserves a 10.

Gore is not my usual thing but this is a sort of chess game plus Spanish prisoner plus violence with very nice looking male leads that turns out to be worth the time spent on it. Agree that some of the details could be improved but all in all, it is worth the two hours. One thing that is very striking is the casting. The Tom Archer character and his son are cast with actors who look like a father and son. remarkably so and the kid is a beautiful child with real camera presence. the actress who plays the mom looks like she could be the mom but beyond that is a prop. the one line that resonates is that when she looks at her husband, she sees the son. So does the audience. That said, the mechanic is a somewhat handsomer version of the same type and the two of them fill the screen with enough male energy to make the screen sizzle. the bad guys are very bad indeed and the good guys -- one a bit more shaded than the other but still coming down squarely on the "hero" side, are satisfying. In the end, it is a parable, a chess game, a conundrum and a lesson that probably needs to be learned by most of us in that things aren't simple, bad things happen and that two wrongs most assuredly don't make a right but that the male instinct to protect should be understood and supported when it appears in the sheepdog because that is our only defense against the ravening wolves amongst us.

First of all, this is a very funny, sly film. The characters are all types and only one -- Rusty -- runs true in that what you see is what you get. Kit is not really independent and does need regular rescuing. The three characters snag 3 bottles of scotch when it is only one to a customer? Is that a hint that this is all one long and very well told joke. Yes indeed my fellow film-o-philes. John Wayne is absolutely terrific and even without a horse, rides tall. Kit isn't Ayn Rand, she is the anti-Ayn Rand but Rusty is a male hero straight out of Rand. The whole thing is a delicious froth that signals the problems we still face and increasingly ignore because, well, because we don't pay attention. Stolen military uniforms and a star who didn't serve? Mexican lovely and a history with Mexican lovelies? Three bottles, three characters? There is a message here if one wants to see it. Long live John Wayne and I know that wasn't his birth name but he was man enough for me and for America for 70 years and counting and would have been even under any other name because he was right -- as in correct. There, now I've gone and swooned over the Duke one more time.

They may be better looking than most ranchers but the story is what rings the bell sweet and true. Even if it never happens quite like this except in the movies, it is still worth watching and believing that it is possible to have work that one loves and save it with an idea and with love, love of the family, love of friends and love of the land. I loved this movie and everyone associated it with it. I especially love Lance Henriksen, who proves that a man can keep his charm for a very, very long time. Great fun to watch and enjoy. This is worth a thousand "rom-com" movies that fall flatter than the proverbial pancake. It may be more of a rom-life but I'll take it any day. Love the feeling it gives and the love that it shares.

This is a very good movie about two very bad people. The problem, which hurts the movie, is the sermonizing. If the killers were nuts, don't execute them. However, they deliberately did things that they knew were wrong and because they knew they were wrong, they are sane under the law. I am not sure that they really were sane but I am sure that arguing against capital punishment using a case involving the possibly insane isn't particularly effective.End vote is 8 for the acting and a 0 for the sermon. Capital punishment has its critics and its defenders and not a one will change sides as a result of this film. By the way, Orson is the biggest, baddest guy on this or any other set. The man is mesmerizing as always.

I confess, I love John Wayne and I love westerns. This movie is one of the reasons. A little bit of the Bounty, a little bit of Moby Dick and a bit of the Searchers. Everyone adores Montgomery Clift but let's get eal here. In Red River John Wayne (shorn of his usual handsomeness at that age) owns the screen and allows Monty to share the edges and in the Misfits Clark Gable does the same. That is because no matter what the current polls or movies show us, there is nothing as attractive as an American hero in full flower and yes, the metrosexual is charming but the man is still the center. You can try to look away but the personna is magnetic and the voice unmistakable. This is a great one by a great one.

Interesting that there are so many different interpretations when only one makes any sense. The whole thing is a view from inside a broken mind. The dreamer is who we have been calling Vivian. Not sure whether the character is a he or a she. For sure the entire thing is a combination of madness, possibly induced or deepened by long-term abuse, possibly not because the childhood could be a fantasy as well. Vivian, seen as Downey is the one who dreams while asleep and awake. Asylums don't look like this. The court scene is wrong and clearly imagined. Folks, there hasn't been a death penalty in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a long time. I don't think either child is real. All those apples = knowledge. Think about the clues. The security guard who dies, the one who doesn't. The police-like car used and the one sunk. The child drowned and the child saved. The husband dead and the husband alive. The whole thing is a nightmare. Don't you wonder why some psychotics do what they do? It is because they are in this kind of world. I would have rated higher and intended to do so before I saw how confused everyone seemed to be so apparently the message is not clear and I'm not sure if the plan was to make it so ambiguous. By the way, about the concern as to Downey's Vivian being weird but not serial killer-weird? We never do know if Vivian ever "did" anything or imagined it all. American Psycho anyone? Maybe it really does deserve that 9 I was toying with. I'll sleep on it.

For starters, the two stars should have switched roles. Jude Law could have pulled off a Sherlock Holmes that one would have wanted to see in this movie and even in some sequels. Plus, Downey could have done Watson as a rumpled genius who gave more support than is generally known. Then, to actually have made the whole thing work, a different director, one who hasn't been marinating in the sexually confused alternate universe of Mr.Madonna, could have made a buddy movie for this age that revealed a mind meld without bedroom influences. Gee, where is Alfred Hitchcock when you need him? He knew when and how gay inferences should be used to season rather than poison a franchise-worthy film.

This animated tale is a lovely gift to the whole family. the images are wonderful, the voices delightful and the message is timely and memorable. Little Virginia asks the question #1 kids' Christmas question (hist, is Santa Claus real?) and gets an answer that gladdens all of our hearts as well as hers. I think this is a home run, 4 * are of 4 here. Virginia asked the question years ago and the answer given in 2009 is the same answer she got back then and we have all heard in the years since.

(Spoiler given away in the title and not much of a surprise.) And the answer is YES!

I saw it and saw the audience reaction. Unlikely to win any awards. Ernest effort but actually miscast and misdirected. It was entirely a modern sensibility rather than the 1930s. People didn't talk that way and I doubt that they interacted that way then or now. Dialogue was weakest part. Planes and flying shots were great and the clothes were terrific. Hillary is now way too thin. Amelia actually was prettier and far more animated, even in still photography. In fact, Richard Gere is somewhat prettier but his hair kept changing the degree of greyness and often in the wrong direction and sequence. Continuity anyone? That said, an interesting failure and the clothes, well her clothes were to die for, literally. I think that sometimes one has to try and they certainly did try but the effort showed a bit too much.

For those who thrill to a little bit of leftist rhetoric with their smaltz, here is the movie for you. The music by the way is fine and the song that still brings a tear to my eyes is the definitive divorcée cri de coeur. the movie however is a piece of junk for several reasons. The only decent performance is from the ever reliable Brad Dillman. Redford can't do Republican because he is simply a boy and can't play a man. Newman could but Redford even at 70 is still too emotionally flabby. As for La Streisand. She is an excellent communist. She's been playing the part to perfection for years and I have no problem with that but sentimental, good mom and woman in love who actually feels love for a human being, not in this life. I don't mind her quirky looks and even liked Yentl but this is a mess from beginning to end. Rachel had the right idea (stay away and out of the movie and the lives of these losers). (By the way, you are allowed to go to Cuba and stay there, the tough part is leaving so both the actress and the character could have done the appropriate thing and literally put their bodies where their hearts are, 90 miles off shore).