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www.shoestring.org - : Of all the blonde goddesses of the 1950's , fate has been kindest to Kim Novak. Martine Carol, Diana Dors, Betty Grable, Judy Holliday, Grace Kelly, Joi Lansing, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Cleo Moore and Lana Turner are now available for posthumous appeal only. But Novak, who rarely received a rave notice during her heyday, is now recognised as the treasure she was and is. ''Vertigo'', which many consider her best work, will be re-released this fall, following major restoration. And ''Picnic'', complete with its sensuous ''Moonglow'' dance sequence, plays this week at San Francisco's Castro Theatre. more...
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goatdog.com - : This movie is a real meatball. By that, I mean that it is completely lacking in any subtlety, it is awkward and stagy, and it was laughably funny, but for all the wrong reasons. It is so much a product of its time that it is more of a cultural artifact from a forgotten era than a movie. It's like a filmstrip of how we used to think things were, not that they ever really were. It gets two goats because I found it amusing and because of Arthur O'Connell, who is the only actor in the film who could look back on his Oscar-nominated supporting role with pride. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : In the story, a drifter (Holden) rides a freight car into a small Kansas town to see his old school chum (Cliff Robertson) and is fed by a neighbor (Felton), who lives next door to a worried mother (Field), who has two daughters, one of whom (Novak) is engaged to the chum but becomes attracted to the drifter. At the town's annual picnic, the drifter gets drunk and drives away with the fiancee, while the local schoolteacher (Russell) also imbibes too much and pleads with her shopkeeper boyfriend to marry her. The next day, the chum accuses his one-time pal of stealing his car and his girl, and the police tell the drifter to get out of town. Against her mother's wishes, the fiancee takes the advice of her tomboy sister and decides to follow the drifter. more...
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