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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0617742105292
Label: Critics Choice Classic Television Collection
Manufacturer: Critics Choice Classic Television Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Critics Choice Classic Television Collection
Region Code: 1.0
Sales Rank: 127316
Studio: Critics Choice Classic Television Collection
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Product Description:
It was still a few years before Ava Gardner would perfect her irresistible insolent sexuality, but Whistle Stop has her perfectly cast as a big-city-lovin small-town girl paired with real-life tough guy George Raft, who plays a suave neer-do-well gangster. Raft later would star with Gardners future husband Frank Sinatra in Around the World in Eighty Days and Oceans Eleven, but here their undeniable chemistry sparkles. Cagey Victor McLaglen steals his fair share of scenes as the devil on Rafts shoulder. 1946/b&w/85 min/NR.
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Rating:  -
It takes twenty minutes to reach the reason to watch Whistle Stop, a semi-noir, semi-melodrama starring George Raft as a small-town loser and Ava Gardner as a small town...loser. That's when Victor McLaglen as Gitlo, a big, aging bartender and friend of Kenny Veech (Raft), visits him in the lonely train station at Ashbury, pulls out a deck of cards for two or three hands of Casino, and starts to talk to Kenny. McLaglen's three-minute monologue is a masterful combination of friendliness, wooing and ... Read More
Rating:  -
Despite the cast of Ava Gardner and Victor McLaglen this film is poorly scripted, highly fictionalized and filled with sub B movie histrionics. George Raft's name is featured above the movie's title in the opening credits and undeservedly so. Raft who is probably best known as the Hollywood actor who turned down roles that Humphrey Bogart parlayed into stardom, gives a cliched, wooden, flat performance as Kenny the town tough guy. Kenny is unemployed and spends most of his time shooting pool, playing ... Read More
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