*contains spoilers Director John Sturges’s (1910-92 emphysema) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) was a film which helped introduce martial arts into mainstream American movies and it is also a film which looks at racism and xenophobia in a way that remains relevant in the United States to this day. Thankfully, to a lesser degree.…
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*contains spoilers Hollywood did, however, give Tallulah financial independence and she left with $200,000 and a resolve to return to the stage. It would be a decade before she made another film. She opened on Broadway to rapturous applause in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford would star in the film version a year or so…
*contains spoilers When Jean Renoir’s first movie in America, Swamp Water, was made at 20th Century Fox, Renoir was told off in memos during production by studio head Daryl F Zanuck (1902-79 pneumonia). He accused the director of using too many dolly shots and taking alternate takes of the same scene. He was worrying too…
*contains spoilers As many will already know, Orson Welles’ movie The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) was taken out of his hands by RKO studios and over an hour was hacked from it. What remains is still regarded a masterpiece. The same type of thing happened with Jean Renoir’s (1894-1979 heart attack) last American movie The Woman…
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