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The Left Handed Gun
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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It is as fundamentally unsatisfactory a film as was ever made by people with talent and serious intent.
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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Too Much, Too Soon
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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The film does not unduly sensationalize the material and it is neither uninteresting nor unconvincing. It is however almost unrelievedly downbeat.
Posted Nov 29, 2023
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South Pacific
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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South Pacific is too sophisticated to have the broad general suitability of The King and I. For its more limited audience, however, it is a practically perfect screen version of a contemporary musical comedy classic.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The Sound and the Fury
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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The Sound and the Fury is another depressing but generally tasteful and responsible examination of the seamier side of life.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Imitation of Life
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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It is an inadvertently compromising title to put on a film that actually is nothing but an imitation of life and a bad one at that.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Some Like It Hot
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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Some Like It Hot is the wildest and wooliest comedy since Preston Sturges left Hollywood and the Marx Brothers disbanded as a team... Director (and co-author) Billy Wilder is one of the best in the business and knew exactly what he was doing.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The Shaggy Dog
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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It is a real shaggy dog story in the sense of having neither explanation nor point. It is intelligently made however and surprisingly likeable especially for youngsters. Also its lunatic premise gives rise to some pricelessly funny bits.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The Diary of Anne Frank
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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The movie is done with taste and skill and no little cinematic distinction.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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I Want to Live!
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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Most of the picture’s impact, however, is the contribution of Susan Hayward, giving the performance of her career as the doomed but indomitable Barbara.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The Horse's Mouth
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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In the first place the hero’s adventures have an inspired slapstick quality such as screen comedy seldom achieves nowadays. Secondly... on occasion, [it is] quite moving as a study of the temperament of the artistic genius.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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King Creole
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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Presley shows signs that he is getting the hang of acting. The picture itself, however, after a promising enough beginning turns into a lurid melodramatic hash.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Rio Bravo
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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In addition to its excessive length and consequent slow pace the film has other liabilities... Nevertheless the characterizations are unusually solid and get more interesting as they go along.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Aparajito
(1956)
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Moira Walsh
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[The sequel to Pather Panchali] is movingly and beautifully done on its own terms and establishes that its author-director, Satyajit Ray, is not a one-picture man but the possessor of an authentic movie-making talent.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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The picture takes an inordinate amount of time getting started but once underway it displays a flair for the unexpected, the imaginative and the madly logical that all good fairy stories should have.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The Nun's Story
(1959)
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Moira Walsh
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[Conveys] a profound and moving insight into the total self-sacrifice and tough-fibred holiness of convent life. Moreover it clothes these insights in striking dramatic terms which can hardly fail to absorb and edify the believer and the unbeliever alike.
Posted Nov 28, 2023
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Some Came Running
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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I do not know whether or not James Jones’ censorable, over-length novel had an intelligible point of view. The partially disinfected screen version in any case occupies two hours and fifteen minutes displaying a total lack of one.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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The Defiant Ones
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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Kramer has given the story the kind of stark production it needed and especially has obtained heightened realistic effects through the calculated omission of background music.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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The Old Man and the Sea
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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The emotional impact is second hand and the narrative seems unnecessarily padded.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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The success of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof more probably rests on the straight-forward grounds that it is a strong, well-acted drama and more especially that its theme... has a tragic pertinence for many contemporary audiences.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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A Tale of Two Cities
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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In writing the screen play T. E. B. Clarke has addressed himself to modernizing the speech and attitudes. Unfortunately this does not make the story seem any more plausible. It only makes it seem rather flat.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Damn Yankees
(1958)
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Moira Walsh
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The baseball jokes are funny, the lyrics apt, the players expert and, most important, the mood fast and unpretentious The sexy dancing and demeanor of Gwen Verdon are in a class by themselves.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Pather Panchali
(1955)
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Moira Walsh
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The film proves to be, rather like The Old Man and the Sea, an artfully devised tribute to the human spirit. The black-and-white camera work is both a joy in itself and a sensitive instrument in carrying out the director’s purposes.
Posted Aug 24, 2023
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