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A Nostalgic Mess, 11 July 2004
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dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York
To simply summarize this film is almost impossible, but I'll give it a
shot.
A gangster on the lam takes a bus out of town. On the bus he meets Freckles,
a young man, returning home to help out a friend. Freckles tells him his
home town is a nice quiet place to get away so the man decides to stop
there. In the town Freckles friend is in trouble with a machine that finds
gold. He used the mortgage payment for the bank to buy a a plot of land
because he thought he'd be rich, but machine that doesn't work. How to get
enough money to save the hotel?
That's the first five minutes of the movie, which gets more complicated in
an often needless way. More gangsters show up, there are murders, music,
romance and family feuds, and a good chunk of it never fully gets sorted
out, due to this being a one hour long adaptation of a
novel.
The film smells of nostalgia. I think the film was probably nostalgic even
in 1942, since the world was then at war and this is set in a simpler
time.
The film is okay. Its certainly watchable for Mantan Moreland who plays the
porter at the hotel, but who is really a just one of the guys. I love
Moreland in anything simply because he rarely was anything other than an
equal to the leads. Moreland's roles could always be played by someone other
than a black man with out any change, or rarely a minimal change.
The trouble with the movie is that it has too much of everything for its
brief running time. Too many characters, many of which are cartoons. There
is too many plots, gangsters, feud, romance, gold machine, save the hotel,
murder...so nothing is fully explored. Its a jumble, pleasant enough, but
still a jumble.
If its on, see it, but you don't have to go out of your way for
it.
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