Something to Live For 03/14/23

Hollywood’s postwar shift to social consciousness addressed familiar issues like bigotry and discrimination. On his way to making his gargantuan, serious epics, famed director George Stevens paused for this almost entirely forgotten contemplation of American anxiety in the business rat race, with a side order of alcoholism and potential adultery. Ray Milland is the troubled ad man who tries to help the drink-impaired actress, Joan Fontaine. Wife Teresa Wright waits patiently back home, but for how long?  Is Stevens just dabbling in neorealistic doldrums, or did he feel the wave of dull existential despair as well?  It’s one of his least-known films. On Region Free Blu-ray from Viavision [Imprint].
03/14/23