These notes accompany screenings of Leo McCarey’s Ruggles of Red Gap on October 3, 4, and 5 in Theater 2</a>.
A notable and oft-neglected comic Western is Ruggles of Red Gap….
These notes accompany screenings of Leo McCarey’s Ruggles of Red Gap on October 3, 4, and 5 in Theater 2</a>.
A notable and oft-neglected comic Western is Ruggles of Red Gap….
These notes accompany the screenings of Leo McCarey’s </i>Love Affair</a> on March 23, 24, and 25 in Theater 2.</p>
Leo McCarey (1898–1969) was a key figure in 1930s Hollywood. We have previously shown two of his Laurel and Hardy shorts; Duck Soup (1933), with the Marx Brothers; and his melancholy meditation on old age, Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Although we did not include it, The Awful Truth, from the same year, is one of the best screwball comedies, and he made several other noteworthy films during his best decade.
These notes accompany the Leo McCarey screening program, October 6, 7, and 8 in Theater 3.
Leo McCarey (1898–1969) has long been one of the most unheralded major directors in film history. (I made my own small effort to resurrect his status in a 1973 Film Comment article.) At that time, I reminded readers of a quote from critic (and later screenwriter) Frank Nugent from 1939: “McCarey directs so well it is almost antisocial of him not to direct more often.” Unfortunately, McCarey remains all too obscure to this day.
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