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This is clearly a beginning film for Kramer, who doesn't seem concerned with the idea of pacing. Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2020. When the final moments of the movie wind down and ...
Mar 23, 2011 · Reviews. Not As A Stranger. By. Nathan Rabin. Published March 23, 2011. ... By that thinking, 1955’s Not As A Stranger looks like such a sure-fire smash, but it should be unwatchable. Why else ...
Apr 2, 2018 · Not as a Stranger. Rating: 2 of 5. Olivia de Havilland and Robert Mitchum star in this 1955 medical soap opera that follows the trajectory of idealistic student Lucas Marsh (Mitchum) from med school through private practice in a small town. Passionate and pious, Marsh treats every mistake as a potential crime and holds everyone (himself ...
Aug 5, 2019 · NOT AS A STRANGER (director/producer: Stanley Kramer; screenwriters: from the book by Morton C. Thompson/Edna Anhalt/Edward Anhalt; cinematographer: Franz Planer; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: George Antheil; cast: Robert Mitchum (Lucas Marsh), Olivia de Havilland (Kristina Hedvigson), Charles Bickford (Dr. Runkleman), Frank Sinatra (Alfred Boone), Broderick Crawford (Dr. Aarons, Medical ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Typically well-meaning slice of Kramerkitsch, based on a bestseller by Morton Thompson (what else, with that title?) about a medical student (Mitchum) driven by
Not As A Stranger taps into the raging fury and animal sexuality lurking underneath Mitchum’s quiet-storm demeanor; the film’s redemptive arc requires him to realize what he has in a good, wholesome woman like de Havilland, but Mitchum’s bedroom eyes and leering swagger suggest that he really belongs to a femme fatale like Grahame, who undoubtedly tumbled out of the womb clutching a ...
The curious nature of their relationship is stated but not imparted in the film.And then there is Frank Sinatra as a light-hearted lad in medical school whose later weight as a big-city doctor is ...
