Too Late Blues
The Bold Story Of A Man Caught Between Two Strange Loves!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2012
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens & Seymour Cassel | |
Directed by | John Cassavetes | |
Edited by | Frank Bracht | |
Screenwriting by | John Cassavetes & Richard Carr | |
Composition by | David Raksin | |
Art Direction by | Tambi Larsen & Hal Pereira | |
Produced by | John Cassavetes | |
Director of Photography: | Lionel Lindon |
Entertainment Reviews:
The jumpy, freewheeling Cassavetes style -- for which Darin's jazz, I suppose, is a metaphor -- seems well worth fighting for.
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Film4
John Cassavetes' first Hollywood-made project shows a tendency to force casebook psychology on the characters at a loss of spontaneity.
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Variety
An uncompromising movie, for good and for ill.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Interesting mainly for its jazz atmosphere and Darin's nonsinging performance.
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TV Guide
One of the more impressive Hollywood movies to be set in the hip, flip jazz world.
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Time Out
It's pretentious, lugubrious, mawkish, and full of both naivete and macho bluster. It also has moments that are indelible and heartbreaking.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B+ --
One of the better and more honest jazz films ever made in Hollywood.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
After his pioneering independent film SHADOWS (1960), actor/writer/director John Cassavetes made his major studio directorial debut with this gritty, low-key drama about jazz musicians. Bobby Darin plays John "Ghost" Walefield, a pianist who scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse. Ghost's agent Benny (Everett Chambers) introduces him to Jess (Stella Stevens), a would-be singer who looks beautiful, even though her voice is fair at best. Ghost falls hard for her and agrees to put her in the band, though it's hard to say if he believes in her musical talent or just wants her companionship. Ghost and his band score a record deal thanks to Jess' presence, but after a humiliating fight in a pool hall and Ghost's discovery that Jess occasionally turns tricks to pay the rent, he puts his integrity up for sale, fires his band, and starts spending his time with a rich woman who likes to hang out with musicians -- and is willing to pay for the privilege. A number of real-life jazz greats appear onscreen and on the soundtrack, including Slim Gaillard, Benny Carter, and Shelly Manne; the role of Ghost was originally written for Montgomery Clift, who was forced to back out at the last minute, leading to Bobby Darin's casting.
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