Beautifully written by Robert Riskin from a story by Clarence Budington Kelland, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town won Frank Capra the directorial Oscar. Both the New York critics and the National Board of Review named it the year’s best film. Why was the film considered so important? Correctly, Garbicz and Klinowski cite its association with […]
Daily Archives: September 19, 2008
Maria Schell (best actress, Cannes) is tremendously real—as earthy as she is luminous and poignant—as Helga Reinbeck, a German doctor serving as a nurse who is kidnapped by Partisans—Bosnian Serbs—in desperate need of medical attention during the Second World War in Die Letzte Brücke, one of the most trenchant humanistic antiwar films to come out […]
Dennis Grunes 