Centennial Summer
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監督: Otto Preminger
脚本: Michael Kanin / Albert E. Idell
音楽: Alfred Newman
制作: Darryl F. Zanuck / Otto Preminger
撮影監督: Ernest Palmer
制作会社: 20th Century Fox
No synopsis available.
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
監督: Otto Preminger
脚本: Michael Kanin / Albert E. Idell
音楽: Alfred Newman
制作: Darryl F. Zanuck / Otto Preminger
撮影監督: Ernest Palmer
制作会社: 20th Century Fox
Right from the outset, this film mis-fires. Walter Brennan comes across as a fish out of water and Cornel Wilde, with his rather ropey French accent, just doesn't work at all well, either. The latter man, having just arrived in Philadelphia from France for the US Centennial Exposition, soon becomes the object of the affections of two sisters - Jeanne Craine ("Julie") and Linda Darnell ("Edith"). Which of them will win his affections? The problem with this film is that, though colourful - there is absolutely no chemistry anywhere to be seen. The songs from Jerome Kern are pleasant enough, but there is no showstopper - and the singing, well those are either ensemble efforts or solos from actors who, frankly, aren't very good singers. The execution of the story is not without the odd bit of humour, but the presentation looks frequently quite stagey with plenty of set piece choreography that, again, might have looked fine in a theatre but is somehow rather dated and stilted on a big screen. It is watchable, and Darnell steals the show, if anyone does, but I struggled with this rather procedural and stilted melodrama.
