Driving Miss Daisy Crazy
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
directed by Otto Preminger
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Preminger lights Joan Crawford the way my headlamp lights the tent at night on a camping trip, and that's the best comparison I've got for this all-too-typical, all-too-dated stab at adulthood by way of too much tumid repetition. I like the rumor that Otto Preminger had "no memory" of making this movie when a reporter asked him about it later on, because it's just the sort of film you get a little caught up in - because Dana Andrews is in it, because Henry Fonda plays a creepy alcoholic, and because the rain reminds you of Fallen Angel - and then have a hard time recapping on your blog. When the staff at Variety writes that Crawford "really makes the most" of a "thesping plum" of a role, you've got all you really need to know. Alfred Hitchcock probably hated Daisy Kenyon, because Alfie knew just where all this acting-driven nonsense belongs.
directed by Otto Preminger
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Preminger lights Joan Crawford the way my headlamp lights the tent at night on a camping trip, and that's the best comparison I've got for this all-too-typical, all-too-dated stab at adulthood by way of too much tumid repetition. I like the rumor that Otto Preminger had "no memory" of making this movie when a reporter asked him about it later on, because it's just the sort of film you get a little caught up in - because Dana Andrews is in it, because Henry Fonda plays a creepy alcoholic, and because the rain reminds you of Fallen Angel - and then have a hard time recapping on your blog. When the staff at Variety writes that Crawford "really makes the most" of a "thesping plum" of a role, you've got all you really need to know. Alfred Hitchcock probably hated Daisy Kenyon, because Alfie knew just where all this acting-driven nonsense belongs.
posted by NPK at 7:37 AM
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