24 Frames: Amargo Triunfo (Bitter Victory, Nicholas Ray, 1957)

I kill the living and save the dead. A wonderful and terribly underrated war movie; what is striking now (apart from how it anticipated, in various respects, both Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and Minghella’s The English Patient) is the sheer, unflinching intensity of some of the scenes: Leith stabbing the Nazi guard, his mercy-killing of

100 anos de Errol Flynn – Parte 4

42- Amando Sem Saber (Four’s a Crowd, Michael Curtiz, 1938)E eis que Michael Curtiz coloca dona Rosalind Russell numa screwball de ambiente jornalístico dois anos antes que Howard Hawks fizesse a mesma coisa em Jejum de Amor. Este é um exemplo razoavelmente divertido do gênero mesmo Curtiz estando completamente “fora de mão” e Mr Flynn,