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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Great Emotional Movie
I saw this movie on TV when I was like 13 or 14 years old (the Big Show in the afternoons on ABC New York, I think)...It left a big impression on me as a kid...I don't know why, really, but it solidified my impression that Burt Lancaster was a great actor, and hero of mine...Shirley Booth was absolutely amazing, no doubt knew the role by rote from the stage...Anyway, I can never can forget this movie, and the moral conflicts it conjured up in my mind as a young teenager...Truly an emotional movie that I remember to this day...
Shirley Booth went on to play Hazel, the all knowing maid, in a TV sitcom of the same name...It ran for a while and was work and money, I'm sure, but kind of beneath an actress of that talent, in my opinion...
Burt Lancaster, what can I say...One of the greats, and one of my heroes as a kid (Jim Thorpe, All American)...He certainly didn't shy away from certain roles that may have been atypical to his ordinary stereotype...
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
I liked this movie, but I'm also a Burt Lancaster fan, especially as an athletic swash buckler...
Unique & Great Movie if you like Burt Lancaster at his athletic finest...I did...OK, flimsy/iffy plot & but realistic to many of us who've never gotten to the South Pacific...Beautiful photography...In line with the masses' attitudes towards South Pacific natives at the time...They were still exotic...Although, this movie was filmed during thermo-nuclear tests in the South Pacific, especially by France & America...
It shows the vast gap between two cultures & their inevitable clash...1st world capitalism greed versus 4th world innocents in their belief in the value of an absurd commodity...Whatever works to whoever's favor, as Burt's character proves...As his majesty, O'Keefe is humbled?, as he acquires his maiden (a beautiful, young, English turned native chick)...I like this movie...
If you really think about it, given Burt Lancaster's life long & uncompromising liberal stance, then this movie is right up his alley as a statement during the McCarthy era political times...As a reality check in many ways, to those who might use the ultimate weapon of destruction, and the hell with anyone else who might be only able to kneel naked before their particular God...
Long live Burt with his great physique as a younger man, and his forward looking political views which will last forever...Just like his unique films...