The Gypsy Moths
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Movie Reviews of The Gypsy Moths
Movie Review: A favorite for fans of skydiving
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie after my interest in skydiving turned into more of an obsession than a mere hobby. It is a great movie. It had a lot more sex than I expected from a movie from 1968, but it was approached in a mature and realistic manner. The DVD has a cool documentary called "The Skydivers" that explains the men behind all the awesome freefalling cinematography. It also includes an insightful commentary track from the film's director. Gene Hackman is great in this movie as the hard partying Catholic stuntman. Burt Lancaster is relied as more of a stoic and recognizable force than a heavy-handed performance. See this movie.Movie Review: The Gypsy Moths
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie has special meaning to me as it is about sky divers in the late 1960's; who, like the barn stormers of early 1900's, travel from town to town putting on airial sky diving shows. The movie was filmed at my grandparents, Harry, Twila Nelson, farm and airport in Benton, Kansas. My grandparents, father Henry Nelson, and I worked and built the airport in 1960. The airport was Nelson's Airfield. Other parts of the movie was filmed in ElDorado, Kansas. While filming the movie I was a freshman in high school. I got the opportunity to meet and visit with the stars, Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Deborah Kerr, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia. The movie is a B movie that was made back in the 1950's, 1960,s that was produced as fast and cheap as possible. The story line is marginal and action is slow. It is not a bad movie, but not one of the caliber that Gene Hackman and Bonnie Bedelia went on to make later in their careers. It has some good airial views and sky diving stunts. If you like flying, sky diving, you will enjoy some of the scenes in this movie, and if you are a fan of B movies with the early careers of some of the stars, then I recommend this movie.Movie Review: I REALLY wanted this film to get five stars
Summary: 3 Stars
But I couldn't do it. The talent in this film is considerable and the skydiving sequences which were primarily filmed while in free fall were ground-breaking. But the three main plots of the movie and the additional subplots just never seem to jell together. Sure there are breasts in this film, lots of them, but they never seem to make up for the rather confused nature of the film. I was surprised at how slow-paced this film was for a movie about skydiving daredevils. The plot about the Cape is interesting but I never got why they didn't call it a batwing, which is what it was.
Primarily, this movie will be of interest to people who like skydiving scenes. And breasts.
Movie Review: Deborah Kerr naked
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to agree with Charles Hall.
Fist of all a great cast like this deserves something better (much beter). This film is ok if you really don't have anything to do and are a fan of Kerr or Lancaster's.
I was mislead into watching this cuasi-movie, again, by the reviews. But who the heck is Frankenheimer? I just wanted to see if by chance (like when the donkey blows into a flute and a wonderful note comes out unexpectedly) a non-first rate director could produce a great movie. Let's give it a chance, I said.
And I watched the whole thing because after one hour I was still expecting something to get started. But no, the whole thing was really the story, not the warm up for the story!
So besides the cast, a nice photography and -I have to say it- Ms Kerr's naked scene there's nothing really told in this thing. Yes, by the end of the movie, I had a hint that the perpetrator of this movie had wanted to tell us something, but I am not sure if it had to do with skydiving, Edipo's complex, phetishism, or what. The funny thing is that there's always going to be people who like it because they have found out there's a message in it, and that skydiving is just a metaphor of it. Well, sure, but of what?
Consume at your own risk.
Movie Review: I hated this silly movie
Summary: 2 Stars
This glorified soap opera is a waste of a great cast. What other reviewers call "spare dialog" I call unnaturallly long pauses between phrases, especially on the part of Lancaster and Kerr.
The plot seems to revolve around how these professional skydivers are afraid to jump out of planes and sometimes forget to pull their rip cord (I kid you not).
There are some swell aerial scenes at the beginning and end, plus you get to see Deborah Kerr naked, but otherwise this movie is just awful.