The films reviewed here represent those I have liked or loved over the years. It is not a list of my favourite films but all the films reviewed here are worth seeing and worth seeking out. I know many of you won't agree with me on a lot of these but hopefully you will grant me, and the films that appear here, our place in the sun. Thanks for reading.
Friday, 29 March 2019
THE KREMLIN LETTER
Just how seriously John Huston took any of this is hard to say but "The
Kremlin Letter" is still one of his most entertaining pictures. A shaggy
dog story with a plot that is virtually impossible to follow, it's
possibly his daftest picture since "Beat the Devil". An all-star cast
play various spies, both Russian and American, and they would all seem
to be after the letter of the title; that much is clear...or is it!
Huston himself wrote it, together with Gladys Hill, from a novel by Noel
Behn though like "Beat the Devil" you feel as if they're making it up
as they go along, which is all part of the fairly nasty fun. The superb
cast act with the straightest of faces, (there's a great cameo from
Orson Welles while Max Von Sydow and Bibi Andersson as usual walk away
with it). Sold at the time as a serious antidote to the Bond movies the
film wasn't a success but is now seen as a cult classic.
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