Dec 28th
Waterfront*
(GB 1950)
Rank/GFD/Conqueror. 80m.
A drunken Liverpool sailor makes a largely unwelcome return home after 14 years to his aspiring family.
Efficiently made dockside melodrama, also quite well capturing its Merseyside locations, with an equally fascinating array of talents old and new - all hampered by an over-the-edge central performance, but with a moving final scene.
Written by: Paul Soskin, John Brophy, from his novel.
Producer: Paul Soskin.
Director: Michael Anderson.
Starring: Robert Newton, Avis Scott, Richard Burton, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Kenneth Griffith, Olive Sloane, James Hayter.
Photography: Harry Waxman.
Music: Liszt.
Waterfront*
(GB 1950)
Rank/GFD/Conqueror. 80m.
A drunken Liverpool sailor makes a largely unwelcome return home after 14 years to his aspiring family.
Efficiently made dockside melodrama, also quite well capturing its Merseyside locations, with an equally fascinating array of talents old and new - all hampered by an over-the-edge central performance, but with a moving final scene.
Written by: Paul Soskin, John Brophy, from his novel.
Producer: Paul Soskin.
Director: Michael Anderson.
Starring: Robert Newton, Avis Scott, Richard Burton, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Kenneth Griffith, Olive Sloane, James Hayter.
Photography: Harry Waxman.
Music: Liszt.
WATERFRONT (1950). The term "larger than life" was never better applied to someone like Robert Newton. James Hayter and Michael Brennan commendably keep their restraint in his presence.
posted by Joe at 3:30 PM
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