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Siskoid

The Glenn Miller Story is not a collaboration you'd expect from James Stewart and Anthony Mann. It's really rather saccharine. Folksy and square is obviously one of the personas Stewart most easily adopts, but the fact a director of gritty westerns would make this... well, it certainly speaks to Miller and his wife being like this for real. I do wish he'd done more flourishes like the filters on the Louis Armstrong performance, because otherwise it's kind of your standard biopic. This happens and this happens and this happens. The music is good, obviously, even if it takes an hour for Miller to "find his sound" and churn out the hits that are still recognizable standards 80 years later (crazy!), and it's fun to get origins for the songs, fitting the biographical data, even if they ARE largely made up whole cloth. The movie is, first and foremost, a romance, and everything gets bundled into the Glenn-Helen relationship, ups, downs, songs, everything. And perhaps that's how I can forgive the "what happened there?" climax, it really ends on Helen's touching reaction.

3 years 11 months ago

MMDan

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10 months 3 weeks ago