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Run Silent Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 14, 2019
Run Silent Run Deep runs a little short. Just when the film has the most potential does it sort of shrug and finish up real quick. There’s a third act reveal and it’s a good one, but it’s not good enough the movie can end on it. Especially not after it’s just had such a strong second act. Burt read more
Run Silent Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 14, 2019
Run Silent Run Deep runs a little short. Just when the film has the most potential does it sort of shrug and finish up real quick. There’s a third act reveal and it’s a good one, but it’s not good enough the movie can end on it. Especially not after it’s just had such a strong second act. Burt read more
Run Silent Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 14, 2019
Run Silent Run Deep runs a little short. Just when the film has the most potential does it sort of shrug and finish up real quick. There’s a third act reveal and it’s a good one, but it’s not good enough the movie can end on it. Especially not after it’s just had such a strong second act. Burt read more
Run Silent Run Deep (1958, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 14, 2019
Run Silent Run Deep runs a little short. Just when the film has the most potential does it sort of shrug and finish up real quick. There’s a third act reveal and it’s a good one, but it’s not good enough the movie can end on it. Especially not after it’s just had such a strong second act. Burt read more
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 26, 2017
The Day the Earth Stood Still opens with these sensational titles. 3D text jumping out, set against the backdrop of space, Bernard Herrmann’s score at its loudest; the titles suggest the film is going to be something grandiose. It is and it isn’t. For the first act, director Wise moves quickly, read more
The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 27, 2015
So much of The Sound of Music is exquisite, the film’s got enough momentum to get over the rough spots. The film has three and a half distinct sections. There’s the first, introducing Julie Andrews to the audience, then introducing Christopher Plummer and family to the Andrews and the a read more
The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 30, 2013
The Curse of the Cat People is apparently Kent Smith. Well, him and writer DeWitt Bodeen. Smith and Jane Randolph return from the first film, this one set over six years later. They have a daughter–Ann Carter in an almost perfect performance–who’s a lonely child. She eventually im read more
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979, Robert Wise), the director’s edition
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 20, 2013
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of those imperfect films. No matter how many versions, there’s no way to fix one thing without breaking another–or it might just be broken all together. For example, I don’t know if I’d ever realized how focused director Wise is–dur read more
The Body Snatcher (1945, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 29, 2013
The Body Snatcher has half an excellent foundation. Nineteenth century medical genius Henry Daniell can’t escape his past associations with a shady cabman (Boris Karloff). These past associations being of the grave robbing variety. There’s also Daniell’s romance with his maid (Edi read more
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 31, 2012
Mademoiselle Fifi is split down the center, roughly, into two parts. The first involves Simone Simon on the trip to her hometown. The second is when she reaches the town. The film takes place in occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, but it opens with a title card presenting it as an analo read more
Classic Movie Legend Tribute: Robert Wise
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by minooallen on Sep 10, 2012
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Robert Wise, born on September 10, 1914!
Some directors become legends by carving a cinematic niche for themselves. Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense. Frank Capra has a tendency to champion the everyday man. George Cukor is synonyms w read more
The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 7, 2011
What makes The Haunting so good–besides Wise’s wondrous Panavision composition–is the characters. Yes, it succeeds as a horror film, with great internal dialogue (Julie Harris’s character’s thoughts drive the first twenty minutes alone and the device never feels awkwar read more
Criminal Court (1946, Robert Wise)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 3, 2010
If you took a film noir and removed the noir, you might have something like Criminal Court. The plot is noir. An upstanding attorney (Tom Conway) accidentally kills mobster (Robert Armstrong) and runs off, unknowingly leaving his girlfriend (Martha O’Driscoll) to take the wrap. What does Conw read more
Robert Wise blog-a-thon
Movie Classics Posted by Judy on Sep 1, 2009
I’ve rather belatedly discovered in the last few days that there is a blog-a-thon about the film director Robert Wise just starting now at the Octopus Cinema website. I don’t know all that much about Wise as a director, but, looking at his astonishing body of work, which stretched from read more