Philip Mershon's Felix In Hollywood: Couldn'ta Said It Better.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Couldn'ta Said It Better.

"...Shelley Winters makes the victim so horrifyingly, naggingly pathetic that Clift hardly seems to be contemplating a crime: it’s more like euthanasia.”

--from Pauline Kael's review of
"A Place In The Sun"

4 comments:

mrpeenee said...: Notice how comfortable Mr. Clift looks with having someone climb up on his back?; June 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM
normadesmond said...: you betcha.; June 28, 2012 at 6:23 AM
The Cool Cookie said...: Is it me, or did Shelley Winters seem to always die around water in her films.; June 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Neely OHara said...: Pauline was always pretty much right on the money -- notable exceptions being Bonnie & Clyde and Network...; July 6, 2012 at 7:53 PM