This 1959 Albert Hitchcock movie is one of his best. Starring Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill and Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall this is a mistaken identity plot gone far and long.
Roger Thornhill is a ad executive who as he puts in supports a mother, two ex wives and several bartenders. As he dines one day a waiter asks for a Mr Kaplan in the room. At the same time Thornhill asks the waiter to come over prompting two gentleman to confirm in their minds that he is Kaplan.
As he goes to make a phone call he is grabbed and whisked away. Over the course of the next two hours we see a plot take Thornhill from a meeting with those who assume who they think he is, a perilous journey down a winding seaside road, The United Nations, a ticketless train trip, an art auction in Chicago and ends at Mt Rushmore. This is truly a seat of your pants movie.
Grant is superb, playing a nonplussed ad exec thrust into the role of superspy caught between both the good guys and the bad guys with a romance adding to the mix.
in Hitchcock's cameo in this movie he portrays a man who misses the bus in the opening credits. He did not miss the bus on this movie. Four stars.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
On The Waterfront
Perhaps I need to watch more bad movies. By using TCM as a movie source and using TIVO on the classics of the past I guess my reviews will remain more positive than most. I am not a great reviewer I do not want to watch movies I do not think will be good.
In this movie, finishing up my fifties run Marlon Brando plays Terry an ex boxer working the docks. The docks are run by a gangster who is well ensconced in town by a cooperative D A.
After unknowingly setting up an informant for murder by the mob Terry befriends the mans sister played by Eva Marie Saint. Soon he is convinced to work with the crime commission to change things by the sister and the local priest played by Karl Malden who is wonderful in his role.
The movie contends one of the most famous lines in the movies Brando's " I should have been a contendah"
He was right. This is a contender for one of the great movies. It was. Brando and Malden were tremendous in this move...energizing the screen.
Sometimes with the cartoon like figure he became late in life we forget how incredible Brando was. He was the real thing.
In this movie, finishing up my fifties run Marlon Brando plays Terry an ex boxer working the docks. The docks are run by a gangster who is well ensconced in town by a cooperative D A.
After unknowingly setting up an informant for murder by the mob Terry befriends the mans sister played by Eva Marie Saint. Soon he is convinced to work with the crime commission to change things by the sister and the local priest played by Karl Malden who is wonderful in his role.
The movie contends one of the most famous lines in the movies Brando's " I should have been a contendah"
He was right. This is a contender for one of the great movies. It was. Brando and Malden were tremendous in this move...energizing the screen.
Sometimes with the cartoon like figure he became late in life we forget how incredible Brando was. He was the real thing.
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