Poverty, and fresh love’s capacity to undo its grip of despair, at least temporarily: in adapting Maxim Gorky’s play Na dnie for the French screen, Jean Renoir takes on a great theme. On this occasion Renoir’s primary interest lies elsewhere than in social analysis, the crux of Gorky’s concern. However uneven the result, Les bas-fonds […]
Daily Archives: August 29, 2008
Dalton Trumbo, it turns out, had a sense of humor; based on his 1940 novel, Chronicle of a Literal Man, his script for Stuart Heisler’s whimsical The Remarkable Andrew certifies this. A dedicated young city accountant, Andrew Long, is hauled into court on a charge of extortion trumped up by crooked politicians whose embezzlement he […]
Dennis Grunes 