Thursday, February 24, 2011

Root Beer Tapper Not On Shockwave Anymore?

Thunder on the hill - La campana del convento

1951, Douglas Sirk.

In Inghilterra, in un momento di gravi alluvioni portatore anche di epidemie, un convento che funge da ospedale si ritrova ad ospitare numerosi rifugiati. Tra questi Valerie, a young woman who must endure the sentence to be hanged for killing his brother and is transferred to the place of execution.

Sister Mary, director of the hospital, with a dark history behind it, now realizes that Valerie is innocent and that his conviction can only be the result of a miscarriage of justice. Initially with the sole intention of making the expectation of the scaffold, extended by events, less painful, Mary will be found almost by accident to investigate the matter ... A yellow

exciting and rigorous, with recitations of the "old way" in the sense of the word, those from schools as well as by talent, exemplary, in style theater. Perhaps today we are more accustomed to this kind of action scenes, spectacular aspects and only in noir are still slow and lingering shots as required, attention to the eye as the sentences concise and meaningful.

Yet this style could still have his nice For, just as it is saturated with suspended situations and dramas concealed, only to reveal at the end. He does not feel the passage of time and I do not think its charm lies in its antiquity. It would be great to see someone today riproponesse a movie with all the rigor of this method and, without giving room for personal or excesses of interpretation which is spectacular, keeping the story intact. What

I say more? Nice, very nice, 80 min interesting, exciting without trying fibrillations, and often moving, full of good manners and high values \u200b\u200bof free speech. Recommended to all without delay.
I just can not deny me a few frames of "my" beloved black and white.




One of the many recommended by his friend Napoleon Wilson, sometimes I really have to thank him.
edit: too expensive Harmonica spoke to me on several occasions in this film.

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