Felix In Hollywood

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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?

normadesmond said...

you betcha.

The Cool Cookie said...

Is it me, or did Shelley Winters seem to always die around water in her films.

Neely OHara said...

Pauline was always pretty much right on the money -- notable exceptions being Bonnie & Clyde and Network...