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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

George Stevens - Gunga Din (1939)

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Plot Outline:
Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a crude cockney soldier's tribute to a native Indian water boy who remains at his job even after being mortally wounded. Hardly the sort of material upon which to build 118 minutes' worth of screen time-at least, it wasn't until RKO producer Pandro S. Berman decided to convert Gunga Din into an A-budgeted feature film. Now it became the tale of three eternally brawling British sergeants stationed in colonial India: Cutter (Cary Grant), McChesney (Victor McLaglen) and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). Ballantine intends to break up the threesome by marrying lovely Emmy Stebbins (Joan Fontaine), while Cutter and McChesney begin hatching diabolical schemes to keep Ballantine in the army (if this plot element sounds a lot like something from the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, bear in mind that Hecht and McArthur shared writing credit on Gunga Din with Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol; also contributing to the screenplay, uncredited, was William Faulkner). All three sergeants are kept occupied with a native revolt fomented by the Thuggees, a fanatical religious cult headed by a Napoleonic Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli). Unexpectedly coming to the rescue of our three heroes-not to mention every white man, woman and child in the region-is humble water carrier Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who aspires to become the regimental trumpeter. Originally slated to be directed by Howard Hawks, Gunga Din was taken out of Hawks' hands when the director proved to be too slow during the filming of Bringing Up Baby. His replacement was George Stevens, who proved to be slower and more exacting than Hawks had ever been!

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Friday, July 30, 2010

George Stevens - Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)

from the film opening screen:

Quote:

"This is an official documentary report compiled from films made by military photographers serving with the Allied Armies as they advanced into Germany. The films were made pursuant to an order issued by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces." Robert H. Jackson, United States Chief of Counsel

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

George Stevens - Giant (1956)

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For your perusal, the last of the Big Three James Dean films, George Stevens' Giant. A long movie split perfectly into two pieces, each gives a slightly different view on Texas life and a married couple living in the mid-1900s before Texas had oil millionaires and life was about ranching and farming.

The first half of the movie is more a romance about the married couple, but my preferred and much beloved second half is more about ranching Texans trying to exist in a world of oil and money and no cows. Even though the first part has some slight commentary about racism and mistreatment of immigrant Mexicans, the second part has it in oodles, complete with James Dean calling someone's wife "a squaw".

Starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor as the often fighting, idealistic in different ways, but always in love married couple. They're joined by the one and only in his last film appearance, James Dean as Jett Rink, and look for the very young Dennis Hopper in the second half, as well as Rod Taylor.