Category: Directed by Lewis Milestone
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Major missed opportunity adaptation of a Somerset Maugham model about working girl Joan Crawford temporarily stranded on a South Seas island with Christian missionary Walter Huston. Huston takes it upon himself to make Crawford godly or ruin her life if she doesn’t consent to it. Sometimes great Crawford performance just doesn’t work with Huston’s loud…
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For the first act or so of All Quiet on the Western Front, director Milestone very gently puts the viewer amid the naïveté of the film’s protagonists, a group of students who drop out to enlist (in the first World War). He opens with this gorgeously complicated shot–brilliantly edited by Edgar Adams and shot by…
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Any movie with a Somerset Maugham reference like this one (to The Moon and Sixpence) is going to get me to go a little soft on it, but given how late the reference fully realizes, Lucky Partners was already reasonably safe. When I saw Lewis Milestone directed it, I knew there’d at least be some…
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