Letty Lynton

ok so because of legal issues, the pre-Code movie about Joan Crawford wearing gorgeous gowns and poisoning a man was kept from us for 90 years. earliest example of she did that! cinema i have personally seen, though CLEARLY there are more out there that they won’t let us…

mia lee vicino

Did Letty Lynton live up to the legend? I think so!! I left the theater obsessed with Clarence Brown’s direction. His work in the late 1920s/early 30s is generally underrated and this features plenty of new examples of the same super clever camera movement that you see in…

bkrewind

It was super fun to see this tonight in a sold out theater! There was lots of laughter, clapping, & gasps. I’ve never thought of Robert Montgomery as charismatic & smoldering before, but there he was. And equally so was of course Joan Crawford, & also Emile Renau! Steam was…

Penny_S

This legally-limboed Crawford classic by Clarence Brown (National Velvet) eventually lives up to its reputation. Though Crawford's outrageous fashions are a delight throughout, the shooting at first is unremarkable and the first 2/3rds feel like a rehash of other plots. But…

Jack Often

“Right now, this minute, I hate you.” “Hmmm, in ten minutes, you will love me.” Finally, after so many decades, Letty Lynton returns! Famously, this MGM film had been held back from public view since the 1930s, following a lengthy series of legal battles that stretched…

theironcupcake

"I feel as though I had escaped from a burning building." (Previous review here.) On March 5, 1932, the New York Times reported a story about some proposed legislation championed by Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York and pending review by the Actors' Equity…

theironcupcake

I hope that I'm alive when the legal issues with this movie are resolved so, I can actually see a good quality copy of Letty Lynton!  I just want to see Bob Montgomery and Joan Crawford at the height of their beauty by Miss Crawford looking stunning in Adrian designed…

Emily

you can get away with murder if you have cool fits

liza

100/100 Had the absolute privilege to see this at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood today at the world premiere. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have gotten this opportunity. Never once did I know where this movie was going, it was such a rollercoaster. I…

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