An American crime drama directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Jim Brown, George Kennedy and Fredric March.
A new black sheriff is elected in a southern town. He arrests a white man for drunk driving and causing an accident. The arrested man's friends and family get angry and start demanding he be set free, so the old sheriff works as a deputy to help solve the problem.
Not bad. The plot held my attention and the characters were written and acted well. I liked what some of the people said about being a sheriff, not a white or black one and the girl being killed was a girl, doesn't matter what color. The video was Panavision Metrocolor. If you've been following my posts, you know this is perfect. Even if I were to make a film now and had access to those cameras and film, I would still use that. Audio was good. I could hear all the dialogue and the 1960s folk rock soundtrack fit the setting. I rate this adequate. It's better than o.k. because it brings up discrimination issues and used awesome video recording equipment.
An American drama directed by Otto Preminger, starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, George Kennedy and Jim Backus.
Neighboring white and black farmers unite against a rich man's family trying to buy their land.
I didn't think this was so bad, but critics found it stupid, heavy-handed and coarse. My favorite quote was from Channel 4 "Preminger wears a liberal heart on his sleeve and then blows his nose on it". I liked that the poor farmers banded together against the rich land grabber, but that came after countless racist and sexist scenes. Filming was a nightmare because locals disagreed with desegregation and attacked the cast and crew on multiple occasions. I thought that the audio and video were both good. Panavision Technicolor is my favorite type of film because of the contrast, saturation and heavy grain. I'm boviously biased and unashamed. The plot and characters held my attention. I rate it adequate because I kind of liked it. You may want to watch it.
An American romantic drama directed by John Derek, starring George Kennedy.
A young woman has just graduated from college and inherited her family's wealth. She goes first to the middle east and then to Spain, looking to lose her virginity. She meets a man in Spain and they fall in love, but he is seriously injured in a bull fight.
I have seen films claimed to be the best that were worse than this. Obviously, this is claimed to be the worst. It has 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and has won Golden Raspberry awards. The production looked and sounded fine. I could hear and see what was going on. There were even some unique stylistic decisions like silent movie text screens when she was with the shiek. The plot was clear and the characters had a little bit of development. Not much, but some. The writing was alright, but the dialogue was a little hokey. There were some sex scenes, but they were done tastefully. I'm not saying it was great, but I don't see what was so bad about it. I rate it o.k. because it's a regular movie that I thought was alright. You may want to check it out if you don't have something better to watch.
