An eminent octogenarian, haunted by bad dreams and sad memories, travels through an eventful all-day car ride and a painful review of his life, en route to accepting an award at the day's end. One of Ingmar Bergman's best movies, starring Victor Sjostrom, a noted Swedish director of the silent …
Jovial broadside at American consumerism, Madison Avenue, television, the fame game, anything else in the line of fire. It joins Frank Tashlin's eye with George Axelrod's ear (he wrote the original Broadway play); and Tashlin, at any rate, never had it so good. An invaluable social document. With Tony Randall, …
The real excitements in this semi-documentary crime story are not Hitchcock's fancy stylistic inventions (the camera drawing ferris-wheel circles around the hero's dizzy head, or following the fellow through an entranceway as he pretends to slam an invisible door behind him), but rather they are the life-sized re-creations of banal …