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The 1944 NYT review thinks Robinson is the stand-out here. Empire Online thinks it most surely should have won the Best Picture Oscar in its year and calls it "Film noir at its finest, a template of the genre".
It's on Roger Ebert's Great Movie list. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 96%.
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We saw this not long ago on Swedish television, it´s a really great film!
ReplyDeleteMacMurray is great in dramas and comedies, both.
DeleteI guess My Three Sons was before my time, but MacMurray looks a bit familiar. I really want to see this, because it sounds like a good movie.
ReplyDeleteMy 3 Sons ran 'til 1972. He was also in The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Son of Flubber (1963), which would _definitely_ be before your time if hat tv series was lol. You might've seen him in The Caine Mutiny (1954), it gets a lot of tv play at times.
DeleteOne of my favorite Fred MacMurray films is the early sixties Disney movie Follow me Boys.Fred is passing through a small town and ends up becoming the Boy Scout leader and living his whole life in that town.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen that one but will be on the look-out for it. googling.... It seems to get good reviews online, and it seems to fit my husband's favorite type of movie: funny, with a happy ending :) I think MacMurray is generally underrated. He had such a wide range!
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