Re: Excellent, thorough review from Glenn Erickson re the "Eddie G. Kino 3" including BLACK TUESDAY
After holding on to a cruddy copy of Black Tuesday for over a decade, I finally was able to see the restored version. No, Fregonese doesn't belong in any pantheon. He was pretty much what the French call a routinier. It would have been a similar picture with Fred Sears directing. However, the paltry production values are covered over by the glorious dark lensing of Stanley Cortez. Robinson's decades of professionalism holds it all together, and his scene with Jean Parker dying in his arms has more raw human emotion than three hours of Robert Oppenheimer's moral quandray,
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