Shooting Down Pictures

the video is really fun, thanks for sharing!

this was really fun.

very nice video, i enjoyed it

thanks Charles - though it may not be "prime" Monty, look for an entry on Elia Kazan's WILD RIVER as part of the Shooting project later this year...

Montgomery Clift is one of my favorite actors of the 1950's along with Marlon Brando and James Dean. The Heiress shows Clift in his prime as a talented actor and matinee idol. The Heiress is one of my favorite films in the Clift filmography along with The Search, Red River, The Big Lift, A place in the Sun and From Here to Eternity, Pretty much everything before his tragic car crash from which I agree he was never the same as a an actor and hollywood star.

Fair enough. Like I said I enjoy your website and you are certainly entitled to discuss whatever you want about a particular film. Just my two cents.

Well hawksian, you have to understand that Clift is the all-time favorite actor of one of us.


Our point on Morris was that Clift's performance adds a layer of uncertainty to the character - that he might be a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Ordinarily I really enjoy your video essays but this time I think you miss the boat by focusing on Clift when it is de Havilland that gives one of the great performances in screen history.

Also it is very apparent in both the novel and film that Morris IS a fortune hunter.

It's a great idea and a pleasant result to make it a two-ways dialogue, of a man and a woman commenting their perception of a scene dealing with the confrontation of a man and a woman in their respective attitudes. I hope you will develop this duet format too.
I haven't seen The Heiress, but your gesture analysis of this scene reminds me of the flirtatious piano scene towards the end of McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap, between Ruggles and Mrs Judson, which is also, if memory serves, a great mise-en-scene of body language.

Thanks James - it honestly means a lot to receive your feedback.

Your video essays are always anticipated and quite interesting. PLease continue with them in the future.

Thank you Mr. Film Experience! fyi you have one of the funnest movie sites out there. I've been culling a few of my own 20:07 stills from my project and will probably issue a quiz at some point...

I'm glad you and Cindi share the same favorite leading man. We'll stay in tune on the blog-a-thon.

this was really fun. Like Cindi, Clift is my favorite actor.

I'm going to be hosting a Monty blog-a-thon on October 17th for his birthday (i haven't officially announced it yet since we're still three months away) so I hope you'll do another ;)