DISQUS

dragonmum · 5 months ago

It's been a while, but I remember this movie. The scene that stuck with me the most was at the end, when Rhodes has said some offensive things that "accidentally" got broadcast, and he's sitting in his fancy dining room, waiting for dinner guests that will never show up, ranting hysterically on the phone. It was that single broadcast that in one moment ruined his meteoric rise, proving that you can't just say anything you want and get away with it. Man, I gotta rent this now.

Nick DeNife · 5 months ago

This movie had been on my "gotta buy sometime" list for quite a while. I'd never seen it, but I'd always heard great things about it, and being a huge fan of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, I was extremely interested in seeing him go beyond Andy Taylor. I purchased the DVD from Amazon after reading this review, and... whoa. I had absolutely no idea Andy Griffith had that character in him. Lonesome Rhodes is the absolute polar opposite of Andy Taylor - a selfish, lustful, filthy, drunken slob with amazing cunning and charisma that he can turn on and off like a faucet. This guy would have pushed Aunt Bea in front of a bus if it would have gotten him ahead. Every performance in this movie is amazing and its message is still so timely that it's actually scary.

One a side note, let me thank you for having the foresight to have a feature like this on the FSR site. I have a TV show in Cleveland that shows old films (mostly horror and sci-fi, although I like to sneak a few classics in every so often to keep my viewers off-balance) and I get a lot of thank-yous from people who discovering or re-discovering old movies. You guys are doing everyone a service.