On 6/7/2012 4:48 PM, PC Girl Mandy wrote:
Never saw it.. now I have to go get it. Comes across as a bit B grade
though, after reading through IMDB.
It was definitely an A picture, though. Of course all US films have
been A pictures for years, ever since the death of the Double Feature.
You see B referred to the film's place on the bill, not its quality. In
fact a lot of B pictures were considerably better and lasted longer then
the picture they accompanied. Most of Bogart's films were B pictures as
were John Wayne's but they have stood the test of time far better than
the terrible musicals which were the A on the bill.
The curse of the modern US picture is that all of them are A pictures
solely because theatres no longer show double features and that means
there is no lower budgeted place for film makers and actors to learn
their craft. Today many "actors" start at the top so there is no place
for them to go but down. It is like expecting a student driver to win
the Indianapolis 500 and keep doing so. The same goes for screen writers
and all the other crafts.
Oh how we need the B picture to return.
cat
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