A few days ago I watched The Founder on Netflix (danie, I think, suggested it) and I enjoyed it much more than I expected. It has a 'cold open' where Michael Keaton's character is in a close-up giving a sales pitch and from that moment on I was involved.
This morning I watched Wind Across the Everglades (1958). An Audubon Society agent (Christopher Plummer) fights a poacher (Burl Ives) of plume birds in early 1900s Florida. I liked it. Have you seen this, muskrat? It had the feel of a lost Disney film or something like Long Hot Summer.
Nope. Saw it was on, buncha Burl Ives flicks on TCM the other day. I like how ol Burl could be Mr. Holly Jolly X-Mas one minute, be stone cold evil the next.
Long Hot Summer felt like a lost Disney film to you? We talkin about that same Faulkner flick with Paul Newman? Ol Cool Ranch Luke slathered over a heaping helping of Southern fried Orson Welles? A'yuh, I saw it. I guess it's like a Disney flick, with every body sweating and drinking all over the place. About as Disney as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Which, all things considered, is pretty Disney by today's standards.