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]]> http://blog.vanvoice.com/2008/01/08/reel-politique-dvd-review-the-naked-prey/#comment-2738 The Vancouver Voice Blog » Blog Archive » Reel Politique: DVD Review, Road House Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:18:43 +0000 http://blog.vanvoice.com/2008/01/08/reel-politique-dvd-review-the-naked-prey/#comment-2738 [...] But Road House is really about the stars. In his third film, Widmark is still doing the psycho bit successfully, reduced at the end to a cackling monster, like Batman’s Riddler or Joker. Lupino is “stretching,” singing “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),” and playing the femme fatale. Basically, Lupino is the “guy” in this film, the smoking and drinking user whom no one can nail down. This makes the film an interesting contrast to the Joan Crawford vehicle Possessed, where Crawford’s character falls for a guy, Van Heflin, who has all the earmarks of the typical femme fatale. And Wilde, though required to be stolid, has an interesting background, and in the future after this film, a fascinating career, as the audio commentators on the disc remind us later. Both Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde were impatient with Hollywood’s then already crumbling procedures, and joined a general movement of stars into self-production, each ending up helming about the same number of films. The British born Lupino, from a theatrical family, directed some seven films, including Outrage, a noirish film about rape, and the suspenser The Hitch-Hiker, along with numerous episodes of television, and Wilde directed eight, including the minor masterpiece The Naked Prey. [...] […] But Road House is really about the stars. In his third film, Widmark is still doing the psycho bit successfully, reduced at the end to a cackling monster, like Batman’s Riddler or Joker. Lupino is “stretching,” singing “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),” and playing the femme fatale. Basically, Lupino is the “guy” in this film, the smoking and drinking user whom no one can nail down. This makes the film an interesting contrast to the Joan Crawford vehicle Possessed, where Crawford’s character falls for a guy, Van Heflin, who has all the earmarks of the typical femme fatale. And Wilde, though required to be stolid, has an interesting background, and in the future after this film, a fascinating career, as the audio commentators on the disc remind us later. Both Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde were impatient with Hollywood’s then already crumbling procedures, and joined a general movement of stars into self-production, each ending up helming about the same number of films. The British born Lupino, from a theatrical family, directed some seven films, including Outrage, a noirish film about rape, and the suspenser The Hitch-Hiker, along with numerous episodes of television, and Wilde directed eight, including the minor masterpiece The Naked Prey. […]

]]> http://blog.vanvoice.com/2008/01/08/reel-politique-dvd-review-the-naked-prey/#comment-2055 dave Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:21:03 +0000 http://blog.vanvoice.com/2008/01/08/reel-politique-dvd-review-the-naked-prey/#comment-2055 i saw this movie when i was young and it has always stuck in my memory for the desperate scenes of mr wilde running from the natives and escaping just in the nick of time i saw this movie when i was young and it has always stuck in my memory for the desperate scenes of mr wilde running from the natives and escaping just in the nick of time

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