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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 13 October, 1950 DVD Release : 30 October, 2007 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Stanwyck In Jeopardy |
| This is an excellent Barbara Stanwyck double bill on one disc. The first movie is MGM's TO PLEASE A LADY (1950)in which she's paired with Clark
Gable. It is essentially a star vehicle with Gable as usual dominating the film with his screen presence. Here he plays a macho racing car driver who gets some bad press from feminist reporter Stanwyck and the battle of the sexes begins. Of course after much ado they eventually end up in each other's arms and it all comes to a very pleasing close. A bit of a fluff of a movie really but Gable and Stanwyck - two great icons of the Golden Age strutting their stuff - make it watchable and it's all nicely handled by director Clarence Brown. Some good racing sequences in it too like dirt track events and at the Indianapolis 500 but good character actors such as Adolphe Menjou and Will Geer are wasted in small throwaway parts. The real meat on this disc is the second feature - a marvellous little thriller called JEOPARDY. Produced by MGM in 1952 this is a forgotten little gem that hasn't dated one iota. Stanwyck plays the wife of Barry Sullivan and mother to their young son Lee Aaker on vacation on a deserted and remote Mexican beach when suddenly tragedy strikes. A dilapidated wooden pier collapses trapping Sullivan under a fallen pylon and guess what? - yes, the tide is coming in. Unable to free him Stanwyck sets off by car to find help and the only aid she can muster comes from an unscrupulous escaped convict (Ralph Meeker) who wants more from her than money or a change of clothes if she wants help. What should she do?? Meeker runs away with the picture! He gives a terrific performance! Once he comes into the film you can't take your eyes off him. An actor in the smouldering Brando style he surprisingly never made much of his career in films. Although he gave splendid performances as the unsavoury, disgraced cavalry officer in the Mann/Stewart western classic NAKED SPUR (1953) and as one of the doomed sacrifical french troopers in Stanley Kubrick's powerful World War 1 drama PATHS OF GLORY (1957) his only real claim to fame is as Mike Hammer in Mickey Spillane's KISS ME DEADLY in 1955. His performance in JEOPARDY should have done wonders for him but at best he had only a so-so career in films. He died in 1988. Because of this release JEOPARDY can now take its rightful place as a classic noir. A memorable, taut and exciting thriller thanks to the tight direction by John Sturges, crisp Monochrome Cinematography by Victor Milner, excellent performances and an atmospheric score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Extras, however, aren't up to much except for a radio version of JEOPARDY and trailers for both movies. This disc is also part of a Barbara Stanwyck box set celebrating her centenary. Hard to believe that the lady would be a 100 years old if she was still around! |
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