Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Live Today for Tomorrow (Universal-International). On the bench, Judge Fredric March is a pitiless interpreter of the letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...
Live Today is unquestionably an earnest picture on a serious theme. Thanks largely to the charm and skill of Florence Eldridge (offscreen, Mrs. Fredric March), it is also at times quite poignant. But, considering how well Michael Gordon directed Another Part of the Forest, this is a surprisingly uneven job; notably, Gordon squeezes much less than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes cut their eyeteeth. Well filmed and well acted, especially by Fredric March and Florence Eldridge (TIME...
Another Part of the Forest. Dirty doings in the deep South as Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes cut their eyeteeth, with Fredric March and Florence Eldridge (TIME...
Another Part of the Forest. Dirty doings in the deep South as Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes cut their eyeteeth. Well filmed and well acted, especially by Fredric March and Florence Eldridge (TIME...