I saw this film once last year, when I was on a Joan Crawford kick. Now I am trying to see every Otto Preminger film that I can find. It is strange how you can see the same film in a different way when you watch it for different reasons. As a Crawford vehicle, this [...]
As I have been watching a lot of Danny Kaye movies for the first time this year, I have realized that “A Danny Kaye Picture” involves him playing both a mild-mannered character and an outrageous one that uses outlandish behavior to get out of untenable situations. In The Inspector General he is a pauper mistaken [...]
After the surprise success of Otto Preminger’s film noir Laura in 1944, 20th Century Fox was eager to repeat the box office draw with another Preminger noir. Fallen Angel has the same male lead, Dana Andrews, and, perhaps more importantly, the same cinematographer, Joseph LaShelle, but it lacks Gene Tierney, who played the haunting title [...]
After watching Anatomy of a Murder a few days ago, I knew I wanted to see as many Otto Preminger films as possible. It turns out this one is not one of his typical films. First of all, Preminger started the project as a producer, and gave directorial duties to Rouben Mamoulian. It was only [...]
Composer: David Raksin
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
I saw this film once last year, when I was on a Joan Crawford kick. Now I am trying to see every Otto Preminger film that I can find. It is strange how you can see the same film in a different way when you watch it for different reasons. As a Crawford vehicle, this [...]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
As I have been watching a lot of Danny Kaye movies for the first time this year, I have realized that “A Danny Kaye Picture” involves him playing both a mild-mannered character and an outrageous one that uses outlandish behavior to get out of untenable situations. In The Inspector General he is a pauper mistaken [...]
Fallen Angel (1945)
After the surprise success of Otto Preminger’s film noir Laura in 1944, 20th Century Fox was eager to repeat the box office draw with another Preminger noir. Fallen Angel has the same male lead, Dana Andrews, and, perhaps more importantly, the same cinematographer, Joseph LaShelle, but it lacks Gene Tierney, who played the haunting title [...]
Laura (1944)
After watching Anatomy of a Murder a few days ago, I knew I wanted to see as many Otto Preminger films as possible. It turns out this one is not one of his typical films. First of all, Preminger started the project as a producer, and gave directorial duties to Rouben Mamoulian. It was only [...]