Showing posts with label Tyrone Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyrone Power. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2013

THE RAZOR'S EDGE (1946)

Young Tyrone Power is given grief by his wealthy girlfriend Gene Tierney, because she wants him to quit "loafing" and get a high-powered job and acquire a lot of money that she can be proud of.  He loves her, but a brush with death on the final day of WWI left him filled with questions about the purpose of life.  He moves to Paris to find himself.  During this same time a friend, Anne Baxter, gets married to a simple man, they have a child and are quite happy together.  I'm not going to get all into the rest of the story, you can do that yourself, but I liked THE RAZOR'S EDGE.  It's a pretty slow starter, but it's redeemed by a very good second half.

The reason I watched THE RAZOR'S EDGE was, as you don't remember, I was curious about how Anne Baxter won over Teresa Wright from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES for Best Supporting Actress...and I'm still curious.  Anne Baxter's performance was very good, but not near as perfect as Teresa Wright's.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

ABANDON SHIP (1957)

[Update 02/27/2022: Need to redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

A cruise ship is blasted and 26 survivors gather on and around a large lifeboat.  Ship officer Tyrone Power has to take charge of these weak-minded losers and if that means tossing some of the old and injured overboard then so be it.  Or something like that.

I was hoping ABANDON SHIP would be better than Hitchcock’s weak LIFEBOAT...and it is better, but not by much.  There's a bunch of people on a boat, there's a lot of talking and people get upset, somebody threatens to eat a dog, another guy is stabbed and another shot with a flare gun, people drown, somebody spots a shark fin.  Sounds exciting, but it's really not.  I doubt I’ll ever watch it ever again.  Skip it.