Fonda actually overcomes her sexiness to give a powerhouse performance. She can plan anger, frustration, rage, confusion. It's all there. And the scene when she's on the phone with her father is really hysterical. Very funny. Franciosa was good, Hutton looked a little lost, but Jane was dead on great.
There is no "off" position on the genius switch.
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What's wrong with black and white?
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Roads? Where we're going we don't need. . . roads.
I wonder why it was done in black and white? Not that I mind, of course....
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Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER
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This film was made right at the end of an age when dramas were still filmed in black and white. One needs to look no further than The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) in technicolor to see that the technique had already been mastered then. But this film was considered to be, at least at the time, more of a comedy than a drama, and another Tennessee Williams' play turned film was put to film in color to spectacular results a few years earlier in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I've read somewhere that black and white pictures cost less to produce at the time, and that may be your answer right there.
That’s a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.
This movie does look like it was done on a VERY low budget.
By the way, I like your signature. That line is from three movies, all of them based on the same play.
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Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER
Wikipedia says the budget was close to two million, and the box office over four million. I can only qualify those numbers by saying that around two million was about the average for films of that period. I believe To Kill a Mockingbird was shot on around the same budget. I suppose one could change the question to, would it be better in color? I don't think so.
Thank you for the comment on my signature. I have a feeling you're the one who wrote yours
That’s a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.
Oh, this movie certainly wouldn't be better in color.
And yes, I came up with my signature all by myself.
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Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER
There's a freshness, a creation in what she was doing in this film, not just reaching on the shelf for a lot of things that other people have used before. If only the same could be said for some of her later work, where she was often coasting.
shareShe certainly runs the gamut. It is a full on performance, very active, animated, and physical.
shareLong before she got that long rod up her arse and became humourless.
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