wfufidio Reviews

Woman and the Hunter (1957)

Ann's lousy swan song

[3/10 · 16 August 2023]

Love triangle mixed with adventure. Jilted gold digger (Sheridan) and embittered safari guide (Farrar) take spoiled rich kid (Loder) on hunting trip that turns from big game hunt to manhunt. Low budget affair filled with stock footage to simulate safari. Reflecting the mid 1950's, the African hunting guides areportrayed as competent and not as cartoonish.

Ann Sheridan looks somewhat haggard for her age and overly made up for a gal on safari. For Sheridan fans it's a mere 11 years on from the sultry Nora Prentiss. According to Wikipedia she is reported as saying the movie should have been lost in Kenya. She deserved a better final movie appearance than this.

Naked City: Bridge Party (1961) Season 3, Episode 12

Bridge location

[8/10 · 14 September 2022]

This is the New haven railroad bridge spanning.the Hutchinson River. In the background facing east is the Pelham Parkway bridge leading to New Rochelle and City Island. Being familiar with the railroad bridge in the 1970's it was still operational. I hink the closure was strictly a plot addition. The NH rr is now part of Amtrak and passenger service no longer runs along this track. I believe Dobbins' house is now gone swallowed up by the giant CO-Op City complex built adjacent to the bridge. Sad to see how his pastoral section of NYC was paved over. I used to water ski and fish under this bridge.