Daisy Kenyon (Fox Film Noir)
by Otto Preminger
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Actor: Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Joan Crawford, Martha Stewart, Ruth WarrickDirector: Otto Preminger
Brand: Daisy
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Producer: Otto Preminger
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Writer: David Hertz
Writer: Elizabeth Janeway
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Daisy Kenyon (Fox Film Noir)
Movie Review: "Not a Bad Crawford Melodrama"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Daisy Kenyon" has never been one of my favorite Joan Crawford films, but it's nice to see it finally comes to home video via DVD. The picture was never released commercially, and the only time I saw it was on American Movie Classics back in the late 1990's. Personally, I love anything Crawford has appeared in after her Oscar winning performance in "Mildren Pierce", in which she starred in a series of blockbuster films like "Humoresque", "Possessed", and "The Damned Don't Cry". "Daisy Kenyon" is a good film, but not great. It's a pretty simple story of Joan being caught between a married man with a family and a man played by Henry Fonda who loves her, but suffers from a mental disorder. Not much happens in the story, so I recommend this film for only true Crawford followers. It's also nice to see one of my favorite soap opera actresses playing a small part in this, Ruth Warrick, from "All My Children". The film is beautifully restored, and there's a nice documentary on the movie featuring neat info on the movie and the star from Crawford historians.
Summary of Daisy Kenyon (Fox Film Noir)
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/11/2008 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: NrOtto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon is an unsung beauty from Hollywood's golden age, a remarkably good and intelligent movie that's all the more gratifying because it could so easily have come out formulaic and sappy. In 1947 it was regarded (and implicitly shrugged off) as a "women's picture" or, more specifically, a "Joan Crawford picture." But there's more going on here. This was shortly after the Oscar for Mildred Pierce revived the actress's career, and the nature of a Crawford picture was changing since she had entered her (gasp) 40s. New York careerwoman Daisy (a magazine illustrator) is trying to break off her longtime affair with a high-profile lawyer and family man (Dana Andrews), and tentatively beginning a relationship with an attractive WWII veteran and widower (Henry Fonda). The men's roles are as important as Crawford's, and neither man is entirely what he first seems--Andrews a self-centered manipulator in all arenas, Fonda a poetic New Englander who used to design boats. Enough ambivalence, wounded psyches, and intimate violence surface to make the movie a kissing cousin to film noir... albeit a variation of noir in which no gun is pulled. Noir also leaks in through the gorgeous Fox craftsmanship. Leon Shamroy's lustrous lighting paints the characters and their studio-made, persuasively three-dimensional environs with insinuating shadow, while still serving director Preminger's penchant for fluid camerawork and mise-en-sc?ne that doesn't dictate our attitudes toward the characters. The production is a model of Hollywood professionalism at every level, and the three star performances are each atypical and complex, with Crawford more restrained and thoughtful than we're accustomed to seeing her. And speaking of model performances, plan to rewatch the film while listening to the commentary by Foster Hirsch, author of the excellent critical biography, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King; Hirsch is especially sharp on Preminger's stylistic choices and the underappreciated Dana Andrews. --Richard T. Jameson
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