Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for his middling portrayal of Harry Stoner, partner in a Los Angeles dress-manufacturing firm who is at loose ends as he desperately tries to keep the business from going under, in Save the Tiger, a drama that’s occasionally rich but more often as frayed as Harry’s hopes and dreams. Partner […]
Daily Archives: June 30, 2009
Semi-sensational in the dark style of his Mildred Pierce five years earlier, Michael Curtiz’s Young Man with a Horn, allegedly based on the life of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, slides bumpily from individual story into moral fable. This is one film that gets thinner and thinner, and more and more ridiculous, as it hums along. […]
Dennis Grunes 