Friday, April 17, 2009
TOUGH LOVE
Today's movie was the WWII drama
with Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger and a sizable cast of very good second level players.
They used to play this film for management courses. It is about achieving the balance between tough but fair leadership and the softer affiliative approaches.
Peck is the hard ass and Jagger the civilian, a former lawyer.
Of course, that was not the direct intent of the production. It is a good solid drama about war and the men who go to it both as trained warriors and as drafted civilians.
Peck is very good in the pivotal role. He had a great career after this film and you can see him "coming on" with his performance here. It is the old star thing of being himself but with Peck there was a clear difference. He acted on top of it. A dynamite combination.
Jagger won a Best Supporting Oscar. He was in a lot of films as the second lead. I always enjoyed seeing him.
I saw this when it came out. I remember a lot of it. I would have been 12. That's 60 years of remembering. Ask me about the movie I saw last week. Huh?
I would definitely be willing to see it again. I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
