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Louis Hayward Movies
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Genres:
Western
Starring:
Rod Taylor,
Ernest Borgnine,
John Mills,
Luciana Paluzzi,
James Whitmore,
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Just recently I found a video store in New Haven County where fine old westerns can be had on VHS. One of the ones I had long wanted to see was "CHUKA" or Chuka: the Gunfighter, from 1967.The video transfer was high quality and so watching this movie on tape was an enjoyable experience. Luciana Paluzzi is stunningly beautiful.Indeed, Chuka is something of a Hollywood fantasy but the to...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Barry Fitzgerald,
Walter Huston,
Louis Hayward,
Roland Young,
June Duprez,
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This is a dramatization of the consummate Agatha Christie book, the benchmark for the whodunit. Each of the characters is nicely portrayed by accomplished actors. The pacing, the subdued dialogue, all make this film work, even though it was felt necessary to doctor the plot and rename characters (this I will never understand). I won't criticize because I've never felt that w...
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Genres:
Adventure
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Fredric March,
Olivia de Havilland,
Donald Woods,
Anita Louise,
Edmund Gwenn,
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Fredric March, usually such a fine actor, was unable to give more than a wooden performance in the title role of 'Anthony Adverse'. Warner Bros. would have been better off using their up-and-coming new star, Errol Flynn, for this one--giving us the chance to see him paired once again with Olivia de Havilland. There are no sparks between March and de Havilland--he seems too old ...
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