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Friday, March 23, 2018

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     Autumn Leaves
1956  NR  DRAMA  1h 48min
CAST— Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene
MUSIC— Hans J. Salter  DIRECTOR— Robert Aldrich

     Joan Crawford gets upstaged, not by a malevolent bimbo, but by a man! Cliff Robertson is the main attraction in this mediocre May/December romance that takes a turn for the worst. Crawford plays a middle aged work-at-home bachelorette who happens to meet a younger man in Robertson. So begins a love affair that culminates into a marriage that seems too good to be true. Soon Robertson begins exhibiting untrustworthy behavior, including lying, stealing, memory loss, etc. It all stems from past dealings with his father; and guess who’s in town. Takes a while to build up any steam and by then your patience may be exhausted. If the characters’ emotional turmoil had been reversed the film may have been more. Then again it may have been just another Joan Crawford flick.
OUR RATING— **
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