Tag: Harold Gould

Blu-ray Review: Inside Daisy Clover

June 3, 2020

Inside Daisy Clover, a fictional tale about a child star in the 1930’s, stars Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover. A fifteen-year-old tomboy, she lives with her senile mother Lucile (Ruth Gordon) on the beach, selling forged autographed pictures of movie stars to passerby. Expressive and quick to anger, Daisy smokes cigarettes, writes graffiti, and uses her fists to solve problems. Tired of eking out a

DVD Review: The Arrangement (1969)

September 4, 2019

Written and directed by Elia Kazan (A Face in the Crowd), The Arrangement, released in 1969, was based on his own bestselling novel of the same name. Having read Kazan’s A Life, it quickly becomes clear that Kazan saw something of himself in the film’s protagonist, Eddie Anderson, a high-flying advertising executive. So, perhaps he’s to be forgiven for failing to realize that Eddie is