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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 10, 2019
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March, muses about the nature of war and the men who wage it, the film’s already established March’s read more
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 10, 2019
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March, muses about the nature of war and the men who wage it, the film’s already established March’s read more
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 10, 2019
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March, muses about the nature of war and the men who wage it, the film’s already established March’s read more
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 10, 2019
With the exception of Grace Kelly (the only significant female character in the film), none of Bridges at Toko-Ri’s main characters are ever explicitly scrutable. Even when the admiral, Fredric March, muses about the nature of war and the men who wage it, the film’s already established March’s read more
Peyton Place (1957, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 28, 2017
Peyton Place takes over a year and a half starting in 1941. Director Robson has a really slick way of getting the date into the ground situation. Robson and cinematographer William C. Mellor go a little wild with Peyton Place–there’s a lot of location shooting and Robson tries hard to make the view read more
Champion (1949, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 9, 2016
Champion is a boxing picture. It ends with a big fight, as boxing pictures are wont to do. However, as the fight starts and the film cuts between all the people Kirk Douglas’s Champion has wrong, the film isn’t asking the viewer to root for the protagonist. Douglas is a bad guy. The entire third read more
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Mark Robson, 1954)
Movie Classics Posted by Judy on Nov 11, 2015
This is my contribution to The Wonderful Grace Kelly Blogathon, hosted by The Wonderful World of Cinema blog. Please visit and take a look at the other postings. William Holden and Grace KellyAfter watching this powerful and haunting Korean war film, I belatedly realised it wasn’t really a goo read more
Bedlam (1946, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 29, 2013
Bedlam is about a third of a good picture. It’s like writers Val Lewton and (director too) Robson didn’t quite know how to make it work, what with having to have Boris Karloff in it. Karloff’s the villain, the head of a mental institute in the eighteenth century. Karloff’s s read more
The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2013
Quite surprisingly, The Seventh Victim–in addition to being a disquieting, subtle thriller–is mostly about urban apathy and discontent. Though there aren’t any establishing shots of New York City (or of the small New England town protagonist Kim Hunter comes from), Robson and writ read more
Isle of the Dead (1945, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 3, 2013
The Greek anti-defamation league, if it existed, mustn’t have had much power when Isle of the Dead came out. It’s a quarantine drama, a genre I’m unfamiliar with but certainly has a lot of potential, set on a small Greek island. There’s nothing on the island besides an amate read more
The Ghost Ship (1943, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 9, 2012
Although the title suggests otherwise, The Ghost Ship is not a supernatural thriller. It is, however, a very effective suspense picture. Russell Wade (in a sturdy lead performance) is a new officer. On his first ship out, he begins to suspect the captain–Richard Dix, who steadily gets creepie read more
Youth Runs Wild (1944, Mark Robson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 2, 2008
It’s hard to know how Youth Runs Wild was supposed to turn out. RKO took it away from producer Val Lewton–the State Department was concerned the film would be detrimental to morale–but they were over his shoulder the entire time. The question is whether Youth Runs Wild was ever an read more