Other comments above analyze the good & not so good of this film quite well. ..so I will just hit a few notes here and move on...
Julie Harris's post World War 2 Acting School work - shows a bit too much. She is (to me anyway) overplaying the "Look at Me! I'm A Brittle Emerging Misunderstood Adolescent!!!
There's the scene where she jumps into--and refuses to leave-- the wedding car of her newly married brother & sister-in-law. Am I more annoyed at her for jumping into the car more...or for the clueless people (including Dad, Brother who just toss her out of the car--onto the ground & drive off)???
Ethel Waters - is always REAL - This is the mature actress whose real life career started several decades before...and who (per online bios) could bring her sometimes sad experience with men - children - to this role. Thus, this movie (as a whole) is less dated...because WATERS deals with this disturbed adolescent (& patiently listens to her rants--) through most of this film.
Yet this is still a quality film...Not enough action if you need to see buildings and people blowing up...and no CGI, etc. but still---Waters and the two kids.
..and Waters singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow""--can still be seen on YouTube clips!
Julie Harris's post World War 2 Acting School work - shows a bit too much. She is (to me anyway) overplaying the "Look at Me! I'm A Brittle Emerging Misunderstood Adolescent!!!
There's the scene where she jumps into--and refuses to leave-- the wedding car of her newly married brother & sister-in-law. Am I more annoyed at her for jumping into the car more...or for the clueless people (including Dad, Brother who just toss her out of the car--onto the ground & drive off)???
Ethel Waters - is always REAL - This is the mature actress whose real life career started several decades before...and who (per online bios) could bring her sometimes sad experience with men - children - to this role. Thus, this movie (as a whole) is less dated...because WATERS deals with this disturbed adolescent (& patiently listens to her rants--) through most of this film.
Yet this is still a quality film...Not enough action if you need to see buildings and people blowing up...and no CGI, etc. but still---Waters and the two kids.
..and Waters singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow""--can still be seen on YouTube clips!