
Escapist Fun in the ’50s Sun: On The Riviera
So here’s the thing. Walter Lang’s 1951 musical On The Riviera is not a great film. It’s not even a particularly good film. It’s all style without substance, and what could have been a prime […]
So here’s the thing. Walter Lang’s 1951 musical On The Riviera is not a great film. It’s not even a particularly good film. It’s all style without substance, and what could have been a prime […]
You know something? Sometimes all you need in life is Yves Montand singing from the top of the Pan Am building. Or a reincarnated Barbra Streisand. Or Jack Nicholson playing a sitar. Or Bob Newhart […]
Bill Benson (Bing Crosby) has just wrapped up his latest smash show, and is set to open a new one on Broadway in eight weeks. His manager coerces him into hiring young television star Ted […]
Seven months later and I’m still reeling from one of the most disastrous musicals I’ve ever seen on screen. Maybe I’m making too big a deal of it, but it stuns me that Tom Hooper’s […]
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