Darned Remakes....
I mean, 'Red Dust' was fine, Hollywood in 1953 has no originality if they are just pumping out remakes. ;)
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Red Dust is awesome too. But you're right about Hollywood in the 1950s having no originality. But have pity on them, television and post-war disillusionment was destroying the movie industry, so studios like MGM were trying to recapture the glory days of the 1930s.
Think of how many 1930s films were remade in Technicolor in the 1950s: Red Dust was remade as Mogambo, The Women remade as The Opposite Sex, Gone With the Wind into Raintree County (not exactly a remake but really, come on: a "sweeping Southern epic" starring an actress that's practically a physical reincarnation of Vivian Leigh!), Ninotchka into Silk Stocking, etc,etc.
I think that Mogambo was among the better ones. Really, when you replace Joan Crawford ("Crystal" in The Women) with Joan Collins ("Crystal" in The opposite Sex) and Greta Garbo (title role in Ninotchka) with Cyd Charisse ("Ninotchka" in Silk Stockings), you're not gonna get anything that's better than second-rate.
Fiddle-dee-dee!
Charisse was spectacular in "Silk Stockings", better than the monotonous, humorless Garbo. Compared to today, when cinema consists mostly of studio movies about comic book characters and independent films about oddball teenagers, the films of the 1950s were remarkable in their originality.
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