The Legend of Lylah Clare

Viewed March 29, 2020.

The studio head was hilarious. Hard to describe Novak's performance it was that good. Definitely rivals Crawford's in other Aldrich flicks. Loved the flash back scenes and the way they were shot. The satire is a little heavy handed but eh I liked it.

Ano de centenário de Robert Aldrich filme #6. Lembra quando acharam uma boa ideia escrever um roteiro que misturasse Sunset Boulevard com Vertigo? Pois então. O ponto alto ainda é aquele comercial de comida de cachorro no final, tem um efeito parecido com o final de Mad Men, não me assustaria se foi essa a inspiração. DVDRip HANDJOB

A colossal, unparalleled disaster. Makes Valley of the Dolls seem deep and insightful. Peter Finch commits another atrocity upon the field of acting. Kim Novak is completely lost. The rest of the cast is wandering around wide eyed and indignant. Aldrich camps up Sunset Boulevard to a ridiculous degree. Just unbelievable.

This part of that peculiar breed of film from the late 60s that involved old Hollywood pros pushing up against the rapidly changing styles of the time and emerging with material that was uniquely awful. The movie shifts wildly in tone, as if the filmmakers reconsidered how seriously to approach the material on a daily basis. The movie bumbles along awkwardly to the end, which happens to be a sharp freeze-frame in the middle of a satirical dog food commercial. That's the kind of movie it is.

Aldrich hits bottom trying to milk the has-been-actress cash-cow one more time.

Still another difficult movie to rate... I had the good fortune to see this camp classic in a theater years ago--I don't think the small screen could really do it justice. It's not a camp classic for the same reasons as, say, "Valley of the Dolls", but it practically creates its own, new genre of gothic camp. So very ill-conceived, and just as fascinating.