· by staggerlee42.bsky.social ·6h ago · view on bsky.app ↗

A ★★★★ review of All That Money Can Buy (1941) (boxd.it)

‘All That Money Can Buy’ is a charcoal portrait of man as idealised in the American imagination: a pioneer with rustic attitudes and plain-speaking values, cunningly seduced by Walter Huston’s charism...

boxd.it/fL1bWb Very fun (even if James Craig is as wooden as a chest of drawers)…

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Paul C. Dobbs · 3 · 5h ago

Excellent review Chris. You are right about James Craig there. But I loved Anne Shirley and Simone Simon. And yes, Walter Huston, wow, what a turn!

Chris · 1 · 5h ago

And thank you!

Chris · 2 · 5h ago

Yes, I think that Simone Simon gives a fantastic vampish turn.

John Hodson · 2 · 5h ago

Absolutely, but Huston more than makes up for it.

Chris · 1 · 5h ago

Indeed he does! Looked like he was having a ball 😎