Re: What movies have you seen recently? Part 1
Well time for my reviews of those Eddie G. Robinson films
First up is Silver Dollar. This is the flick that was a little lacking in script but Robinson makes it very watchable. Here's the summary:
Pretty much straight to the point huh?
Edward G. Robinson does a great job as the affiable Yates Martin. His character is a man that has huge dreams of hitting it big as a gold miner in Colorado but he's also a guy that EVERYONE loves because of his outgoing personality. The whole structure of the film with Martin's rise and fall was as old as the hills even back in 1932 when this film came out.
As this was a Pre-Code film the film was able to more freely show Martin's philandering and getting away with leaving his long suffering wife for a young and attractive woman. I'm sometimes taken aback when watching pre-codies even though they're tame by our standards it was pretty wild stuff compared to what would come out just 4-5 years later.
Robinson is the glue that holds the film together and seeing him run the gamut of emotions from an idealist wanting to make it in the world to becoming hugely rich and influential in not gold but rather silver and then finally losing it all once the Gold Standard is adopted. There's a great scene just as the movie is about to end where Yates, penniless and hanging onto the hope that he'll be appointed post master general thanks to the kindness of a senator goes to the grand opera house he built. You see Robinson looking at the grand building with melancholy mood reliving an earlier scene where he was at the height of his power. It's a touching scene and moment and it truly makes the film worthwhile.
I give Silver Dollar a 2 1/2 star rating just for Robinson alone.
I'll give the review to the next movie a little later.
Well time for my reviews of those Eddie G. Robinson films
First up is Silver Dollar. This is the flick that was a little lacking in script but Robinson makes it very watchable. Here's the summary:
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds an opera house. He leaves Sarah for glamorous Lily and, when he makes it to Washington as Senator, marries her. When the gold standard is introduced, he's ruined.
Edward G. Robinson does a great job as the affiable Yates Martin. His character is a man that has huge dreams of hitting it big as a gold miner in Colorado but he's also a guy that EVERYONE loves because of his outgoing personality. The whole structure of the film with Martin's rise and fall was as old as the hills even back in 1932 when this film came out.
As this was a Pre-Code film the film was able to more freely show Martin's philandering and getting away with leaving his long suffering wife for a young and attractive woman. I'm sometimes taken aback when watching pre-codies even though they're tame by our standards it was pretty wild stuff compared to what would come out just 4-5 years later.
Robinson is the glue that holds the film together and seeing him run the gamut of emotions from an idealist wanting to make it in the world to becoming hugely rich and influential in not gold but rather silver and then finally losing it all once the Gold Standard is adopted. There's a great scene just as the movie is about to end where Yates, penniless and hanging onto the hope that he'll be appointed post master general thanks to the kindness of a senator goes to the grand opera house he built. You see Robinson looking at the grand building with melancholy mood reliving an earlier scene where he was at the height of his power. It's a touching scene and moment and it truly makes the film worthwhile.
I give Silver Dollar a 2 1/2 star rating just for Robinson alone.
I'll give the review to the next movie a little later.
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