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, 15 September 2023
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
This early Technicolor picture may be one of the most beautiful color films ever made and it's got a great cast, (Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Nigel Bruce, Fred Stone), so I suppose we should be half way there. It's a backwoods yarn about a feud that has gone on for generations between the Tollivers and the Falins and of how railroad engineer MacMurray gets caught up in the middle of it.
The problem is the story-line of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is mostly trite and there's not much director Henry Hathaway or that fine cast can do to redeem it so all we are left with are the images and the fact that it was shot on location. The unhappy ending, too, is something of a downer making this film historically significant but otherwise forgettable.
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