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...30p.m.-Freud. John Huston directed this ponderous rendition of the early life of the great pioneer in psychoanalysis. This is not really a very good film, but Montgomery Clift does a creditable job in the difficult title role, and Susannah York is a stunning leading lady. It's good fare for Clift fans and Social Relations majors. Channel...
Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift - a soggy and unintentionally demeaning memorial. It is the music that comes off best. The Shirells are funny and sexy, Bo Didley wonderfully raunchy and Chuck Berry, his voice past the point of strain, still kinetic and outrageous. He is a performer who neatly and emphatically encapsulates the lowdown power of rock'n'roll...
...years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals of Hollywood signaled the end of the star system as it had flourished till then...
...Would she have raised a ruckus about the meaninglessness of Gay's life had he lived in a cowboy heyday and been able to profitably hunt and trap, or shoot Indians and harass settlers, or drive cattle instead? We'll never know. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable star: Montgomery Clift steals the show as a jelly-brained rodeo rider. The mustang scenes are good action...
...Mankiewicz, who directed and Gore Vidal, who wrote the screenplay. Katherine Hepburn is Aunt Venable, raising carnivorous plants in her garden and dreaming of her son, Sebastian, a gay post who ended up being eaten by canaibah. Elizabeth Taylor is the traumatized niece who witnessed the set, and Montgomery Clift is the shrink who cures her. Overacted, overwritten and overheated...