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kingrat wrote:To bring up the Delmer Daves thread again: THE BADLANDERS was recently shown on TCM. The first half of this western is especially good, with excellent shot selection and editing. Though it was billed on TCM as a western remake of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, it doesn't feel that way at all. THE BADLANDERS has a hero (Alan Ladd), whereas THE ASHPALT JUNGLE is very much about a group. No Sam Jaffe character. If the girl in the hotel is supposed to be the Marilyn Monroe character, she isn't. The endings of the two films are completely different in action and meaning. Alan Ladd isn't the most expressive actor, and it's a little odd that Ernest Borgnine is playing a good guy. THE BADLANDERS is worth seeing on its own terms.
On the sudsy guilty pleasure side: you'll never see the "Nice girls hold out for marriage" gambit more deftly executed than by Claudette Colbert in PARRISH.
Thanks for the recommendations for other Daves films. Anyone who could direct THE HANGING TREE and 3:10 TO YUMA obviously had talent.
That's an interesting revelation about the Asphalt-Badlanders connection to me, too. I hadn't made that W.R. Burnett connection before. But two wiseguy questions pop into my head: Aren't almost all heist movies a remake (they wish) of The Asphalt Jungle? And wouldn't the dead guy back in prison who told Ladd about the gold be the Sam Jaffe character (in highly edited form)?MissGoddess wrote:What I like best about The Badlanders are the scenes and relationship between Ernest Borgnine and Katy Jurado.
I had no idea this was supposed to be a remake of The ASphalt Jungle. I never would have known had I not read it here.![]()
Gee, I just thought she was too inarticulate and afraid of rejection to express herself. I honestly hadn't noticed her voice in that movie other than to note that she spoke like someone with no education. And poor self-esteem. And a boatload of adoration for Sterling. Of course, if you are a pushover for a beautiful loser like Hayden in this movie, you have bigger problems than the police being after him.kingrat wrote:Moira, to me Jean Hagen's voice in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is so grating that Sterling Hayden almost becomes a saint for not popping her one. Actually, the character irritates me: she hooks up with a hood and then constantly nags at him for being one. Those are the only scenes in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE I don't love.
Ain't it the truth. I can't say that Delmer gets what would be described as a "better performance" out of them in A Summer Place, but he gets a less irritating one than Sirk did. Actually, in Imitation of Life each of Dee and Donahue's characters is so self-absorbed (a natural state for all teens), they have no clue about the problems of any of the people around them. Dee's teen never asks herself, why would John Gavin love a squirt like me? Or could he be using me to get close to Mom (Lana Turner)? Or why is Susan Kohner crying herself to sleep at night? Or maybe Mom should re-think this idea of being a great actress, 'cause, gosh, she stinks, doesn't she? Then again, the only character in Imitation of Life who shows an awareness of others is Juanita Moore, who goes a bit far on that sensitivity bit, since, well, she is a noble lady, but a martyr. My real sympathy in that movie is for Kohner. She deserved a freakin' break and could have done better than Troy the White Boy too.kingrat wrote:Getting back to Delmer: Is it my imagination, or does Daves get better performances from Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in A SUMMER PLACE than Douglas Sirk does in IMITATION OF LIFE? I think the answer is 1) yes, but 2) it's hard to tell.