sovay: (Claude Rains)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2023-06-19 03:31 am (UTC)

That's right.

It sincerely boggles my mind that it took a drug bust to make possible a movie in which both Robert Mitchum and Wendell Corey could play romantic and comic leads opposite Janet Leigh and play them as grown-ups.

I suspect the grown-up-ness is the unicorn of this movie, but Mitchum and Corey are close seconds and I'm so glad of them. I really don't want to feel grateful to any of this country's drug laws, so I'll just thank the pot.

No mustache-twirling, no irrational jealous tangents, just people trying to get around relationship problems as people do, with some post-war processing and a bit of You Can't Take It With You on the side (Moss Hart's name drop somewhere in this film was definitely not a coincidence).

I loved your reaction to the line about Moss Hart's new show.

I was so taken with the story and characters of this movie that I overlooked the crew, but Holiday Affair's DP was Milton R. Krasner and its composer was Roy Webb and both of them are better known to me for their work in film noir, which is fun, too. About the only thing in this production I am less than one hundred per cent for is Leigh's tight-sweatered bullet-bra and that was all Howard Hughes.

I would happily have lunch with a seal who's never going to be bank president.

I think we should plan on it. We've got a harbor.

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