I adored Patricia Neal. Perhaps my favorite onscreen moment of hers came in Otto Preminger’s “In Harm’s Way” when her Lieutenant Maggie Haynes, about to make love with John Wayne’s Captain Rockwell Torrey, takes off her shoes without using her hands while her mouth registers anticipatory pleasure. Indeed, I adored her: “The Hasty Heart,” “The […]
Daily Archives: August 8, 2010
Slack and slight, the western Night Passage is most famous for Anthony Mann’s last-minute refusal to direct it, his taking the occasion to badmouth its premise and prospects, and star Jimmy Stewart’s subsequent refusal ever to work with, even to talk to, Mann again. Mann and Stewart had made eight films together, all in the […]
Dennis Grunes 