Thursday, February 18, 2010

Movies

The General Died At Dawn (1936) Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll in a muddle of oriental intrigue. Odd, uneven, with some directorial and editorial choices that made me exclaim in puzzlement. Akim Tamiroff is wasted in a faux-asian role, William Frawley is thrown away as a reprehensible unappealing boozer, but Philip Ahn is convincingly reptilian and threatening. Really not worth it. 4/10