After taking care of ill family members last week,I decided to get back into movie viewing. Taking a look at TV listings,I found that a rather rare Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons team up was being shown,which led to me finding out how dangerous beauty could be.
The plot:
Always having a place in her heart for the town due to the locals funding a life-saving operation during her childhood,heiress Corby Lane decides that it is time to return and pay the town back. Standing out like a sore thumb,Lane crosses path with doctor Robert Sellers. Telling him her idea,Lane is taken aback,when Sellers says that there are better ways that she could show gratitude to the town. Ignoring Sellers advice,Lane unintentionally sets a gold rush off in the town.
View on the film:
Breezing into town, Jean Simmons gives a sparkling performance as Lane,with Simmons using Lane's heiress status for an out of her depth comedic quality,and her misguided bleeding heart to stir up trouble between Lane and the locals. Being the main part of the community,Robert Mitchum gives a wonderful performance as Sellers,thanks to Big Bob's swaggering delivery capturing the at odds folk spirit between the town and Lane.
Placing the viewer in the middle of the "gold rush" Lane brings into town, Lloyd Bacon & cinematographer Harry J. Wild paint the title with a tall tale atmosphere of Lane's diamonds being the only thing that shines in the dust covered town. Giving everyone in town a rough sketch,the screenplay by D.D. Beauchamp/ William Bowers and Richard Flournoy show a wonderful feel for the place,with the writers opening the proud,but struggling state of the town. Whilst trimming any possible spiky exchanges Lane could have had with the locals,the writers give the snap exchanges between Lane and Sellers a light Screwball Comedy mood,as Sellers tells the town that Lane is beautiful,but dangerous.
The plot:
Always having a place in her heart for the town due to the locals funding a life-saving operation during her childhood,heiress Corby Lane decides that it is time to return and pay the town back. Standing out like a sore thumb,Lane crosses path with doctor Robert Sellers. Telling him her idea,Lane is taken aback,when Sellers says that there are better ways that she could show gratitude to the town. Ignoring Sellers advice,Lane unintentionally sets a gold rush off in the town.
View on the film:
Breezing into town, Jean Simmons gives a sparkling performance as Lane,with Simmons using Lane's heiress status for an out of her depth comedic quality,and her misguided bleeding heart to stir up trouble between Lane and the locals. Being the main part of the community,Robert Mitchum gives a wonderful performance as Sellers,thanks to Big Bob's swaggering delivery capturing the at odds folk spirit between the town and Lane.
Placing the viewer in the middle of the "gold rush" Lane brings into town, Lloyd Bacon & cinematographer Harry J. Wild paint the title with a tall tale atmosphere of Lane's diamonds being the only thing that shines in the dust covered town. Giving everyone in town a rough sketch,the screenplay by D.D. Beauchamp/ William Bowers and Richard Flournoy show a wonderful feel for the place,with the writers opening the proud,but struggling state of the town. Whilst trimming any possible spiky exchanges Lane could have had with the locals,the writers give the snap exchanges between Lane and Sellers a light Screwball Comedy mood,as Sellers tells the town that Lane is beautiful,but dangerous.