Although in no way comparable in force to Mark Donskoi’s The Rainbow (Raduga, 1944), about the Nazi invasion and occupation of a Ukrainian village, The Moon Is Down belongs to the same genre of films made during the Second World War. Here it is a Norwegian village that the Nazis invade and occupy, attracted by […]
Daily Archives: September 24, 2009
Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from her play, which derives from Muriel Spark’s novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is highlighted by a truly creative and brilliant performance by Celia Johnson (best supporting actress, BAFTA) as Miss Mackay, the headmistress of Marcia Blaine, a conservative girls’ school in Edinburgh in the 1930s, for whom […]
Detective James Wilson (Robert Ryan, brilliant) has been a cop for eleven years. ”All we ever see,” a fellow L.A.P.D. officer explains, “is crooks, murderers, winos, stoolies, dames all with an angle. You get so you think everybody’s like that. Till you find out different, it’s kind of a lonely life. . . . Jim […]
Dennis Grunes 