Skip to main content

Of Human Bondage film with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard

 Miserable.  Leslie Howard is bloodless, and why he'd be attracted to Bette Davis, and uneducated nasty waitress is baffling.  Worse, he's obsessed by her for 90% of the movie.  She treats him like dirt, "marries" his rival, has a baby, destroys his art work yet . . . Finally she dies and he can marry a nice, mousy girl.


Howard at first is in Paris studying art, then studies medicine.  He is poor, has a club foot.  Novel covers his life to age 30.  The movie deals only with the Bette Davis relationship period.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Netflix Lincoln Lawyer

 Just a long yawner.  Acting was fine; there just wasn't nearly enough plot to carry 10 episodes.  Tech guy accused of killing wife.  LL takes on the case after the tech lawyer's first lawyer is murdered.  Mickey Haller gets the guy off . . . trick is the guy is guilty.  He used a drone to dispose of bloody clothes.  Subplot Maggy McFierce trying to get a conviction of a human trafficker.  She loses but then wins.  The divorced couple almost gets back together, but they are on opposite sides of the adversarial process and work comes first.  Won't be in a hurry to watch Season 2
Post a Comment
Read more

Live and Let Die

 The Fleming book, flawed by 50's racism, moves along in plot and character.  Fleming is an excellent writer--great descriptive powers and pacing. The movie has no redeeming qualities.  All that's left from the book is the racism, and in the book you can feel Fleming's doubts about his racist scenes slipping in.  In the movie (made years later), the racism is incredible.  1972.  Those who say no progress has been made should watch this.  Impossible to imagine this film being made today.
Post a Comment
Read more