Sudden Fear
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Movie Reviews of Sudden Fear
Movie Review: Sudden Fear
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD quality was great, except the volume was a little low on parts of the movie.Movie Review: American Kabuki
Summary: 2 Stars
The first half of David Miller's noirish melodrama proceeds like a variant of the standard heiress-marries-murderous-cad film, such as SUSPICION, BORN TO KILL, and THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL. Though the film is especially well shot, the acting is very strange. Jack Palance tries gallantly as the cad, but Gloria Grahame purses her mouth too much in evil prissiness; Joan Crawford, as an heiress-playwright (how many of those do you suppose there are in the world?), does her usual post-MGM routine of alternately shrilling orders at people and then using her peculiar irritating whimper to cozy up to her new husband Palance, whom she foolishly believes is wildly in love with her. Then, halfway through the film, everything changes when Crawford listens to an accidental recording of Palance and Grahame plotting her murder: as she listens, she rolls her eyes in terror and bites her knuckles and strides up and down her well-appointed study in anguish. As in POSSESSED (1947), the director seems to be taking advantage of Crawford's background in silent film. The acting becomes more and more gestural and stylized as both words and naturalism go right out the window. The rest of the film is almost all done in pantomime`as Crawford weaves her own counterplot against Palance's and Grahame's murderous schemes.
The stylization of gestures and movement only directs your attention more to her outlandish makeup and hairdo and his equally bizarre facial features; as a result the second half seems like an American version of Kabuki theatre. But for all the praise the film has garnered it's really not much fun. Crawford was incapable of being likeable in this latter half of her career, and outside from a few choice moments where she imagines how Palance might do her in (including a wonderfully hilarious shot of her falling in terror to her death from a skycraper), this is the rare later films of hers that is not much relieved by camp humor. The film has its own odd brand of ingenuity, but it's ultimately not much fun.
Movie Review: Brilliant Movie - Dreadful DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
Kino Video ought to be embarrassed to release such a poor quality print on DVD. What everyone has said about the transfer is true. It is truly dreadful. There are better copies of this film on VHS. At one point Joan backs away from the camera in horror until her performance is nothing but a fuzzy blur.
Joan Crawford's work deserves better treatment. Hopefully the upcoming Crawford boxed set from Warner Bros will include a better version of this film. Keep your fingers crossed.
That said, I love this movie, even with it's ridiculous ending. That milk! Those eyes! But why does Joan's character cry out in warning at the end of the film only to smirk pridefully as she walks away?
Movie Review: A tresured noir given poor picture quality by KINO
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie is a masterpiece of noir with performances that are superb. However, the grainy gooey VHS-like picture quality can only be attributed to a very poor and shoddy transfer by KINO.Movie Review: 5 star movie , 1 star copy !! SHAME !!
Summary: 1 Stars
i love this movie, but when i watched this dvd version of it, i thought for a moment that my tv was playing up.the sound and image are dreadfull !!!! adjusting sound and vision on tv doesn't help either, i prefer copying a video tape on dvd myself.
that's not all, nowadays we expect a dvd to come with trailers, documentarys etc.. you know some extras to enjoy the whole surrounding that made the movie. here: NOTHING ! nothing at all
compare this with dvd of "mildred pierce" or "straight jacket"
they come with FAB extras.
this dvd version is done with no effort at all.