tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post7440154197894531398..comments2024-03-27T23:36:43.408-07:00Comments on Apocalypse Later Film Reviews: Barbary Coast (1935)Hal C. F. Astellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16807389103456317098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post-55589301253318589562009-09-04T01:02:22.630-07:002009-09-04T01:02:22.630-07:00Thanks, Ed. Yeah, you're spot on with the shro...Thanks, Ed. Yeah, you're spot on with the shrouding foggy atmosphere. It does remind of Only Angels Have Wings, which stunned me when I first saw it and really need to see again.<br /><br />The ending was inevitably unbelievable because 1935 meant it was released under the code and the rules decreed that the bad guy couldn't get away with it. This is why for Kind Hearts and Coronets, the most deliciously dry black comedy ever made, the Americans required an extra ten seconds of footage to change the gloriously subtle and hinted ending into something definitively hammered home.Hal C. F. Astellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807389103456317098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post-16211877248557835312009-09-03T06:26:15.506-07:002009-09-03T06:26:15.506-07:00This is an interesting but uncharacteristic early ...This is an interesting but uncharacteristic early Hawks movie, notable, as you say, mainly for the performances from Robinson, Hopkins and especially Brennan (love the line he delivers after he's reformed at the end: "I feel like a pure white kitten."). They're all fun to watch, and the exterior scenes have a lovely, moody fog-shrouded atmosphere that points the way ahead to <i>Only Angels Have Wings</i>. Of course, the plot is silly and melodramatic, and mostly perfunctory too, and the ending is just utterly unbelievable. It's a film that works as parts rather than a whole.Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.com