The Country Girl
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Movie Reviews of The Country Girl
Movie Review: The Most Depressing Musical Ever
Summary: 3 Stars
This isn't the kind of movie where the characters break into song at the drop of a hat, but there are a lot of musical numbers. Bing sings for his audition, has a flashback of himself recording a song, sings as part of the broadway show he is starring in and he even duets with a cabaret singer at a bar. None of the music is especially interesting and it sometimes slows the momentum of the story.
As far as the acting goes, everyone comments on Kelly and Crosby, but Holden is the pro here. He gets taken for granted because he's done this role so many times and he makes it look easy. Granted, Crosby is a revelation, but it's more because he is playing so much against type. And Kelly is doing her best Ingrid Bergman impersonation. I swear she even takes on Bergman's accent. It just left me thinking how much better Bergman would have been in the role. The fact that she won the Oscar just shows that politics win Academy Awards. Any of the other four actesses were more deserving.
The movie itself has a good story with some surprises, though it's a little stagy. Worth a look to see Holden showing them how it's done.
Movie Review: Good Movie But Kelly is Overrated
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD is great! No extras are included, however. Bing Crosby's performance is outstanding and William Holden is fine as well, though not on a par.
But Grace Kelly (who inexplicably won the Oscar for this) is terribly miscast. She is all right, but hardly Oscar material. The Oscar that year SHOULD HAVE GONE to JUDY GARLAND in "A Star Is Born". It was the biggest Oscar Robbery in the history of the Oscars. They only gave it to Kelly because of her box office appeal at the time...she had 3 hit movies that year...Rear Window and Dial M for Murder, the other two. Also, Kelly won because dowdy, frumpish characters are what the Academy likes. Totally unfair.
This, notwithstanding, "Country Girl" is still a good movie made by Crosby's fine acting!! He is the reason to see this picture!
Movie Review: Country Girl
Summary: 3 Stars
This was not an exceptional acting performance on Grace Kelly's part, but Bing Crosby did wonderfully. The film was slightly depressing, and the plot moved slowly. Overall, a decent film, but one only to be watched once--not a fun "watch ten times" film.Movie Review: Strong performances in dull and overrated film
Summary: 2 Stars
A Broadway producer (William Holden) attempts to help an alcoholic actor (Bing Crosby) make a comeback but encounters complications from the actor's domineering wife (Grace Kelly). This Clifford Odets play was highly acclaimed at the time as a brave treatsie on the complications of alcoholic co-dependency (Kelly's character is a reformed alcoholic) but it has lost it's luster and is pretty dull viewing today. Holden and Crosby are in fine form but Grace Kelly's one note performance and drab appearance apparently convinced Oscar voters that she was up to something and they gave her the statuette over competitors Judy Garland ("A Star Is Born"), Audrey Hepburn ("Sabrina"), Dorothy Dandridge ("Carmen Jones") and Jane Wyman ("Magnificient Obsession"), all four better performances than Kelly's. The back stage dialog is good and the atmosphere is convincing but unneeded Crosby musical numbers are terrible and overblown. Overall, a very cold and drab film.
The dvd transfer is acceptable but suffers from quite a bit of scratches and debris, especially during the final scenes. There are no extras.