Sunday, September 8, 2013
Half Angel
A Real Charmer
This is my favourite Loretta Young film. She plays a repressed nurse with another, totally opposite personality which comes out when she is overtired. She and Joseph Cotton (another great actor) strike sparks off each other. This is a delightful and unusual romance in lovely colour. Its something that I watch when I need cheering up and I would recommend it to anyone.
Love this movie
If only real life could be so sweet, because this movie is so sweet, I loved it from the beginning to the end. I wished they would make more movies like this.
Slight film, but frothy fun
I'm so grateful that the made-on-demand DVD-R is making small, delightful films like this one available at last. The story itself is lightweight, but it's told so well that you don't mind. Loretta Young is gorgeous in the larger-than-life way that Technicolor made mere mortals into Stars, playing an uptight, sharp-tongued nurse who unleashes her wild, fun-loving side once she goes to sleep & starts sleepwalking. Joseph Cotten is equally enjoyable as the befuddled object of her disdain (while she's awake) & flirtatious affection (while she's asleep). There's an innocence to this sort of film that just isn't possible today, and it's given a charmingly naughty edge by skirting the restrictions of the Hays Code as much as was possible during that time. It's a modest film, but it succeeds wonderfully on its modest terms -- recommended!
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