and Elmer Gantry, which I would very much recommend to you for many different reasons.
I have been hearing about Elmer Gantry for years, so I might as well make an effort to find and watch it. I think my father really likes it, too.
Yvonne de Carlo I don't know much about, but that dance scene is gold.
Siodmak was so good with music. He directed some musicals in France in the 1930's, but almost all of his American work is horror, crime, or noir. I think he may be the reason popular culture associates jazz with film noir, even though I've actually heard relatively little of it in the genre so far.
I believe Yvone De Carlo is most famous for The Ten Commandments (1956) and The Munsters (1964–65); I had previously encountered her only on the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Follies (1971), where she originated the anthemic survivor-blues "I'm Still Here." She's very good as Anna partly because she's a regular girl in the same way that Steve is a regular guy—when they meet in a drugstore, she's wearing slacks and an open-collared shirt and she's got her hair piled up on top of her head in a way that suggests less that she likes the style and more that she doesn't want to think about it for the rest of the day; he's wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and they look like an ordinary pair of aimless young adults, which is what they are. She's not some kind of spellbinding glamour girl. She doesn't need to be in order for Steve to be obsessed with her. The weirdest problem with their relationship is that I think they genuinely like each other, or they like each other when they're at their best. They just don't stay at their best when they're around each other for very long.
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I have been hearing about Elmer Gantry for years, so I might as well make an effort to find and watch it. I think my father really likes it, too.
Yvonne de Carlo I don't know much about, but that dance scene is gold.
Siodmak was so good with music. He directed some musicals in France in the 1930's, but almost all of his American work is horror, crime, or noir. I think he may be the reason popular culture associates jazz with film noir, even though I've actually heard relatively little of it in the genre so far.
I believe Yvone De Carlo is most famous for The Ten Commandments (1956) and The Munsters (1964–65); I had previously encountered her only on the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Follies (1971), where she originated the anthemic survivor-blues "I'm Still Here." She's very good as Anna partly because she's a regular girl in the same way that Steve is a regular guy—when they meet in a drugstore, she's wearing slacks and an open-collared shirt and she's got her hair piled up on top of her head in a way that suggests less that she likes the style and more that she doesn't want to think about it for the rest of the day; he's wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and they look like an ordinary pair of aimless young adults, which is what they are. She's not some kind of spellbinding glamour girl. She doesn't need to be in order for Steve to be obsessed with her. The weirdest problem with their relationship is that I think they genuinely like each other, or they like each other when they're at their best. They just don't stay at their best when they're around each other for very long.