Movie Review - Macao
Macao (1952)
directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
It doesn't quite suit Robert Mitchum to play the comedic straight man to William Bendix's fish-out-of-water naïveté, Jane Russell's busty impertinence, and eight screenwriters worth of thematically inconsistent material. In part because the whole thing seems to want to be smarter, in part because no one really tries.
directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
It doesn't quite suit Robert Mitchum to play the comedic straight man to William Bendix's fish-out-of-water naïveté, Jane Russell's busty impertinence, and eight screenwriters worth of thematically inconsistent material. In part because the whole thing seems to want to be smarter, in part because no one really tries.
posted by NPK at 7:35 AM
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