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Joe Sales blogpage: February 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Tuesday, February 27, 2007. The Left Hand of God. US 1955. Twentieth Century Fox. 87m. Cinemascope. An American pilot takes the identity of a priest in order to save a small village and escape the Chinese warlord who has enslaved him. Written by: Alfred Hayes, based on the novel by William E. Barrett. Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, E.G. Marshall, Agnes Moorehead. Lee J Cobb, Victor Sen Yung. Posted by Joe at 5:42 PM. Sunday, February 25, 2007. At his death ...
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Joe Sales blogpage: March 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Sunday, March 25, 2007. Neil Simon's London Suite. US TVM 1996. RHI. Misdemeanours of assorted hoteliers at the Grosvenor in London. Miscast and mostly overacted compendium with a heavily American-slanted tourist's view of Britain. Not its author's best work, unwisely integrating the various separate playlets into one, so that none of the stories really satisfies or gives the characters a proper story arc. Written by: Neil Simon, from his play. Friday, March 23, 2007.
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Joe Sales blogpage: December 2006
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A selection of personal film reviews. Friday, December 29, 2006. During WWII a football match between German soldiers and Allied PoWs is used by the Nazis as propaganda, but the prisoners also use it as a chance to escape. Old fashioned, escapist (literally) Roy of the Rovers. Style yarn, an affectionate rip-off of PoW film cliches to begin with ( The Great Escape, Albert R.N. Posted by Joe at 6:49 PM. Sub-title: A Tale of the Christ. Dollar-for-dollar probably MGM's most expensive movie ever made: a con...
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Joe Sales blogpage: August 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Tuesday, August 28, 2007. US 1988. MGM/Lucasfilm/Imagine Entertainment. 126m. Panavision. In a faraway land, the safety of a child born to overthrow a wicked sorceress falls into the hands of a midget farmer. Slick and sometimes sluggish fantasy, heavily derived from Tolkien and Lucas's own Star Wars. Written by: Bob Dolman, from a story by George Lucas. Production Design: Allen Cameron. Special Effects: John Richardson. Posted by Joe at 10:08 PM. Dark variation on A...
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Joe Sales blogpage: June 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Sunday, June 24, 2007. US 1998. Warner Bros/Jerry Weintraub. 89m. John Steed and Dr. Emma Peel team up to foil a sinister plot to control Britain's weather by the retired metreologist Sir August de Wynter. Written by: Don McPherson. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent, Fiona Shaw, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, Patrick Macnee (as Colonel "Invisible" Jones), Keeley Hawes. Production Design: Stuart Craig. Posted by Joe at 10:51 AM. Which pre...
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Joe Sales blogpage: April 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Thursday, April 26, 2007. GB 1961. Columbia/Hammer. 82m. bw. A beautiful paraplegic's sanity is threatened by her deceitful stepmother. Well acted psychological thriller with minor elements of Les Diaboliques. And The Lady Vanishes. Which sets its stall out from the start plotwise, so that the ultimate sting in the tail is quite well concealed. Written and Produced by: Jimmy Sangster. Posted by Joe at 11:34 PM. Sunday, April 22, 2007. Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert.
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Joe Sales blogpage: January 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. GB 2006. Universal/Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP/Toho-Towa. 109m. In an infertile society of the near future, a civil servant stumbles upon the world's only pregnant woman. Dingy looking British science faction, a sort of Blade Runner. Without the slickness, or Brazil. Without the black comedy, drawing upon contemporary issues in sometimes heavy-handed fashion. Relentlessly gloomy but never dull, with some bravura scenes and good cameos.
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Joe Sales blogpage: May 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness*. GB 1958. Twentieth Century Fox. 158m. Cinemascope. The true story of would-be missionary Gladys Aylward, who in the 1930s successfully transported hundreds of refugee children across the Chinese mountains to safety during the war against Japan. Written by: Isobel Lennart, from the novel "The Small Woman" by Alan Burgess. Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat (who died soon after completing his scenes),. Friday, May 25, 2007.
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Joe Sales blogpage: September 2007
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A selection of personal film reviews. Sunday, September 30, 2007. The Seventh Seal* *. A knight returning from the Crusades to his plague-ridden homeland, is confronted by Death, and challenges him to a game of chess; a game he knows he will lose, but stalls sufficiently to save a young couple from the same fate. Max Von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot. Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson, Nils Poppe, Erick Strandmark, Inga Gil, Gunnel Lindblom, Inda Langre. Posted by Joe at 11:42 PM. Sunday, September 23, 2007.
