Rating: - Great transaction!
I was very happy to receive my VHS movie of Montgomery Clift. It was in excellent condition, sealed as promised, and so far has worked perfectly on my VCR. It took a few weeks to arrive, but it was reasonably priced, so it was worth waiting for. Thank you!
Rating: - Great Black & White Movie!
A must for all Montgomery Clift fans. I liked it when I saw it on the late show thirty years ago and I like it today. It has a wonderful "noir" feel to it and will be appreciated by fans of black and white movies. He was a rare and wonderful actor.
Rating: - Wasted opportunity
Based on one of the handful of great American novels - by Nathaniel West, the author of "Day of the Locust", who died very young - this film was a wasted opportunity that is interesting none the less. The cast is wonderful but the surrealistic novel is both adapted and directed as if it were a social reality tract. Clift is fine as a shattered center, uncomfortably true to his own life at the time, but he's truer to the source material than the film is, so seems at odds with it. Myrna Loy is wonderful in a part that hardly exists in the book, and could have been cut from the film. To give you an ... Read More
Rating: - Poor Monty!
"Loneleyhearts" has two strong attributes in it's' favor: A solid plot premise and a very strong cast. The latter encompass Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy and Montgomery Clift. The story line concerns an advise columnist for the lovelorn who gets "slightly too involved" with one of his (married!) readers. The movie then proceeds directly downhill. None of the roles gel and the substantial talents of all 3 are wasted. The major problem with LH is that it was originally a play. The stage origins are patently obvious and there is absolutely NO transition to the screen. The lines are appropriate for a play ... Read More
Rating: - Miss Lonelyhearts
In Patricia Bosworth's biography of Montgomery Clift, Clift is said to have hated the Dore Schary screenplay based on the novel by Nathaniel West and the play by Howard Teichman, calling it "Miss Lonelyhearts meets Andy Hardy", a joke on Schary as head of MGM. Whilst the treatment changes the fate of the Christ-like figure played by Clift, the character still suffers. He is burdened by the anguish of those who write to his advice column, his editor (Robert Ryan) is in pathological rage over the infidelity of his wife, his father is in jail for killing his Clift's mother, and his girlfriend is so ... Read More
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