richardchatten
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz holds a well deserved reputation for creating films with strong female characters, and the ladies will love this charming romantic wallow that he made during his journeyman days at Fox set in Cornwall at the turn of the century.
Like many a young woman who had recently lost her spouse in the war Gene Tierney was looking for romance, which when it comes is in the spectral form of a bearded Harrison fresh from 'Blithe Spirit'; complete with an appropriately spectral ambience created by glacial photography by Charles Lang and a characteristically haunting score by Bernard Hermann.
Like many a young woman who had recently lost her spouse in the war Gene Tierney was looking for romance, which when it comes is in the spectral form of a bearded Harrison fresh from 'Blithe Spirit'; complete with an appropriately spectral ambience created by glacial photography by Charles Lang and a characteristically haunting score by Bernard Hermann.
As 'UFO' approached the conclusion of its second series the plots became more and more fanciful and bizarre, as is demonstrated in 'Reflections in the Water', which manages to combine imaginative design involving an underwater geodesic dome in furtherance of a typically elaborate attempt by aliens to penetrate Earth's defence; with spice added by occasionally salty dialogue, including from the computer itself.
At the episode's conclusion we are for the first and last time treated to an all-attack on Moonbase by a massed force of UFOs which provides the story with a brief but spectacular finale.
At the episode's conclusion we are for the first and last time treated to an all-attack on Moonbase by a massed force of UFOs which provides the story with a brief but spectacular finale.
A potentially provocative portrayal of the alienation of an urban everyman swiftly founders on Joel Schumacher's predictably crass handling.
The image that appears in the posters of a crew-cut Michael Douglas squinting through cracked spectacles is striking but misleading, as the short-sleeved shirt that marks him out as one of the ranks of the wage slaves is discarded early on in his rampage in favour of the combat boots and fatigues associated with the silent majority.
That the various subjects of his ire range from shop assistants to a bunch of jerks playing golf was obviously just a further example of Schumacher hedging his bets.
The image that appears in the posters of a crew-cut Michael Douglas squinting through cracked spectacles is striking but misleading, as the short-sleeved shirt that marks him out as one of the ranks of the wage slaves is discarded early on in his rampage in favour of the combat boots and fatigues associated with the silent majority.
That the various subjects of his ire range from shop assistants to a bunch of jerks playing golf was obviously just a further example of Schumacher hedging his bets.