Directed by H.C. Potter
Screenplay by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr, from the play by Hella Wuolijoki
Starring Loretta Young, Joseph Cotton, Ethyl Barrymore, and Charles Bickford
Here’s a new thing: let’s start this entry by just carrying on the discussion from the last entry on Mogambo. But don’t you worry – I promise it will circle around to being about this entry’s film, The Farmer’s Daughter. But first, let’s take a sidetrack into yoga. Continue reading
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Directed by John Ford
Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, based upon the play “Red Dust” by Wilson Collison
Starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Donald Sinden
A confession to start – I did not finish Mogambo. I know how it begins, but not how it ends. Although, because it’s a remake of Red Dust, which I have seen, I can probably guess how it ends. This is how it went: I started it, watched about 35 minutes in the first sitting,[1] then spent three weeks slogging through the next 25 minutes. And then, at roughly the 1 hour mark, facing down the possibility of having to watch another hour of the movie, I gave up. That’s why this entry is 47 ½ and not 48. And is also the why the moral of this story is don’t be afraid to quit things that no longer give you pleasure. How ever you define pleasure.
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