What On Earth Am I Watching?

The belief is this was the first movie with an overhead helicopter shot like that, showing the bus and the train far up like that, but it seems a '48 movie has that distinction, but this may be the best known earliest one for it.

Many of these things have not transcended time. Oddly enough, Come Back, Little Sheba has seemed to do so to an extent, but Splendour In the Grass and this one have virtually vanished. I would like to see Dark At The Top of the Stairs sometime, but familiar with Shirley Knight's performing abilities and can guess how she comes across. It says a lot this man killed himself when his popularity waned.

Picnic seemed like it should have been a musical.

First and foremost, like Mickey rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holden was totally all wrong in this, not that this thing was a compelling story to begin with.

Novak couldn't act her way out of a paper bag and looked bigger than any other woman she got near.

Of all these things from this era, Peyton Place makes me laugh the most and seems to be the only one remotely enjoyable. Corny, but at least you feel there is a plot moving about there.

This thing tried to hinge everything happening in relation to the silly picnic and nothing there clicked.

And this won a Pulitzer? Says a lot about the Pulitzers.

Like the opinion of someone who seems to be obsessed with dreck like ' Real Housewives ' really means anything.

I don't think he was supposed to be a "young rebel". He was more like a nearly middle-aged loser.