Classic Favorites Of Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn: Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Jules Dassin Writers: Richard Brooks, Robert Patterson Cinematographer: William Daniels Composer: Miklós Rózsa Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, Jeff Corey, John Hoyt, Jack Overman, Roman Bohnen The inmates of cell R17 at Westgate Penitentiary - ruled over by a benevolent warden and a sadistic head guard - fed-up...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... integrate the human drama into the apocalyptic crisis. A letter from Hitch’s old collaborator Hume Cronyn, who was also married to BIRDS co-star Jessica Tandy, neatly skewers the screenplay’s failings — the character tensions have a way of dissipating, leaving nothing for the people to work through except the bird attack: our spoiled heiress heroine Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren)...
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... prison warden Captain Munsey, as smooth and repellent as a silkworm. He’s superbly played by Hume Cronyn , but the character is written as a caricature and a symbol: he’s so deplorable that the film pointedly associates him with both homosexuality (gasp!) and Nazism (he listens to Wagner records while beating up prisoners with a rubber truncheon that isn't just a rubber...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... Miles performed her role, Mrs. Wire, from the 1978 London production of "Vieux Carre." Tandy Cronyn presented a postcard Tennessee had sent her late mother Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche DuBois, from Italy, reveling in how Blanche would love Rome. Her father Hume Cronyn had been instrumental in keeping the young starving playwright alive, optioning his 9 one-acts. Eli...
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... Miles performed her role, Mrs. Wire, from the 1978 London production of “Vieux Carre.” Tandy Cronyn presented a postcard Tennessee had sent her late mother Jessica Tandy , the original Blanche DuBois, from Italy, reveling in how Blanche would love Rome. Her father Hume Cronyn had been instrumental in keeping the young starving playwright alive, optioning his 9 one-acts. Eli...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, and Hume Cronyn. (108 minutes, 1943)Rebel: Tiresome, justifiably vague time tablet characterizing Stallone, pre-stardom, as a disassociated political extremist (a fascinating balance to Rambo). Cast includes Antony Page, Sylvester E. Stallone, Rebecca Dirties, and Henry G. Sanders. (112...
