Summer Storm
by Douglas Sirk
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Actor: Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton, George Sanders, Hugo Haas, Linda DarnellDirector: Douglas Sirk
Brand: Video Communications Inc.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: KPF-607
Studio: VCI Entertainment
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DVD Review: Mother Russia births another serfer with two left feet
Summary: 2 Stars
In pre-Revolutionary Russia, Linda Darnell is a voluptuous peasant girl determined to rise thanks to her natural endowments. She does attract foolish Count Edward Everett Horton and magistrate (he can investigate crimes) George Sanders, who is engaged to Anna Lee. But Linda's father marries her off to a thick peasant, who unfortunately loves her dearly. The outcome is a fatal stabbing, a trial, and the real perpetrator self-condemned only years later.
The film is an adaptation of a minor novel, The Shooting Party, written by Anton Chekhov when he was 24. The 1944 print has been pretty well refurbished. But from first minute to last, I was painfully, restlessly aware that every aspect is burdened by the cliches of Hollywood square moviemaking. I am a set, I am a costume, I am makeup, I am tired awkward words from a dumbed-down script, I am a Kodak camera, I am editing playing listlessly with its alphabet blocks.
Hey, don't all of Douglas Sirk's movies suffer from his conventional approach? Can I, having seen the lifelike, intelligent, emotionally and psychologically sophisticated film dramas of recent decades, any longer endure the drear and dreck of the bygone Hollywood studio system? It's a rhetorical question because I know you young whippersnappers don't give a dreck about what Ye Olde Reviewer can endure. Pass the popcorn.
FOOTNOTES
1 The supplement contains an audio-only interview with author/film buff Bernard Dick, who admires Sirk of course, and probably everything else from Tinseltown.
2 It also includes a trailer of Uncle Vanya, the 1957 Broadway production transferred to the screen with cast intact: Franchot Tone, Dolores Dorn, Gerald Hiken, George Voskovec. Apparently it's heavy handed on the humor. Is Kit-Parker-Films also going to give us this Chekhovian corpse as embalmed by the American undertaker?
3 The DVD case says the Summer Storm music score was an Oscar nominee in 1945. Bah! Hollywood dreck.
4 One of the stills to promote the film shows Miss Darnell supersultry, as if auditioning for The Outlaw. Well, let me give the girl a break. She certainly would have outperformed amateur Jane Russell on the screen, and would have outboobed her too after Howard Hughes personally fitted her with his Flying Fortress brassierre.
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