Change Your Image
grandosegood
Reviews
No Way Out (1950)
Widmark and Potier deliver intimate yet intense performances!
Widmark, who stands out as an excellent actor, delivers us his jaw-dropping racial attacks in some of the more intimate scenes of the movie, particularly in the beginning hospital room. Poitier as well delivers a performance that is worth watching again and again. if you can, que this movie up on your netflix, prime, hulu or whatever you use. that being said, this movie was worth the watch. i would give this movie a solid 9 out of 10 for dealing with prominent racial issues of the era, top notch performers doing their thing and expert directing by josephl mankiewicz. it may be available on the criteron collection if i'm not mistaken.
The Quiet American (1958)
unfufilling story on makiewicz part
"A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl. " The Quiet American features Audie Murphy as the role of The American in search of a "thrid force" in Vietnam, Michael Redgrave as Thomas Fowler, a British correspondent covering the Indo-China War, and Giorgia Moll as Phuong, Fowler's mistress. When Fowler and The American end up in a Vietnam guard tower, we are treated to Vietnam's pitch black night and the War's prominent gunfire. They are seated with two Vietnam boys who barley know how to operate a gun. All four of them are huddle together in this small bird's nest, unaware if they'll be alive tomorrow morning.