I like it because of its quirks. There's a lot of interesting undeveloped stuff in the movie. I think that the script is the problem and that the sum does not add up to the parts. And yes, there are several Lewis movies I like more (My Name is Julia Ross, Gun Crazy, The Big Combo, and Terror...
Boone thought very highly of her directing abilities, saying something to the effect that Lupino could rouse an actor out of walking through a part during a long-running series.
That's a great NYU story. I was there in the 90s (I went to college late) and that would never have happened even then.
Everson was a very generous man as well. At the end of each semester, he would invite students over to his apartment to screen movies he didn't have time to squeeze into the...
Mark, I certainly may have misread the tone - it sometimes happens to the best of us.
It wasn't Haig; I missed him by a few years. But it was one of his disciples. Outside of Production, I was lucky enough to have taken a few Cinema Studies classes with William K. Everson. He was also a nice...
Thanks for all the kind words about the review. Moonfleet is a strange movie. I was aware from past readings that Lang was a last minute hire on the project; he is about the least likely director, unlike say Raoul Walsh, to fit in 'the studio system'. Moonfleet would unquestionably be...