Colonel Effingham's Raid
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監督: Irving Pichel
脚本: Berry Fleming / Kathryn Scola
制作: Lamar Trotti
撮影監督: Edward Cronjager
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: Irving Pichel
脚本: Berry Fleming / Kathryn Scola
制作: Lamar Trotti
撮影監督: Edward Cronjager
制作会社: 20th Century Fox
I found this to be quite an entertaining tale of the eponymous, curmudgeonly, old gent (Charles Coburn) who returns from the army to his home town, only to find that standards have gone to pot and that there is no longer any civic pride in the place. The culmination of this cultural disintegration is the proposed demolition of the dilapidated city hall on the town's rallying "Confederate Monument Sq.". Can he galvanise the locals into thwarting the plans of the city planners and of an increasingly indifferent population? Irving Pichel leaves almost all of the heavy lifting here to a competent Coburn, but the rest of the cast (most notably a lacklustre Joan Bennett) and the rather uninspiring script let the film down a bit. Coburn always did have oodles of charisma, and is ideally cast here - but he can't do it all himself, and after a while the story runs too thin and thereby too predicably. That said, it is enjoyable to see a character actor having some fun on screen and it's a short and sweet nostalgia ride that does, certainly, raise the odd smile.
