Movies

Wild River (1960) High-class big-budget Elia Kazan drama set in 1930s Tennessee. Montgomery Clift is the guy who has to get a stubborn old woman off her island before the dam is finished and she's flooded out, Lee Remick the widowed granddaughter/love interest. A well-presented story that carries you along with it at a steady pace, but it's not really compelling or stirring. My choice for Family Movie Night, and it was satisfactory. 6/10

I Was a Shoplifter (1950) A peppy little Universal Studios B-movie crime drama depicting the pursuit of a criminal gang which blackmails amateur department-store shoplifters into working for them under threat of public exposure. Scott Brady is the young handsome hero, Tony Curtis a minor ethnic hoodlum, with few familiar faces in the rest of the cast. Cracks right along and shows some interesting shoplifting techniques along the way. It's edutainment! 7/10