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If Hot Blood is remembered at all today, it is for its ludicrous advertising blurb "Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and drives Cornel Wilde!" Set in the gypsy community of contemporary Los Angeles, the film stars Wilde as aspiring dancer Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco Luther Adler into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash Jane Russell. Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it. Several risque complications and lively musical
Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.
Jan 1, 1956 Limited
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
Definitely one of the more intriguing and neglected of Ray's second-degree efforts.
If not Nicholas Ray's greatest movie, then surely the rapturous culmination of his palpable desire to do a musical
Ray milks the comedy element for all it's worth, and the musical numbers are staged surprisingly well by a director mainly known for his gritty dramas.
All the lively song-and-dance routines and steamy shots of a scantily clad Russell can't make up for the crass dialogue and boring melodramatics.
An oddity, then, but one distinguished by Ray's characteristic refusal to patronise or glamorise his characters.
An always lively presentation despite its preposterous storyline.
Crap. The first dud I've seen from Ray, and it's pretty much without any merit whatsoever. Although it's only 80-odd minutes, it's painfully lethargic, and although it offers the promise of perhaps getting a glimpse into gypsy lifestyle and culture... we don't really get it. Apart from some dancing and singing and
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