Just watching this now on TCM. It's a good movie, but I wish they could have tried a little harder to get the period details more correct. The clothing and hair styles look more 1950s to me, as well as the obvious 50s cars in the street scenes. Jane Wyman had the same hair style in "All That Heaven Allows"!
shareThis movie reeked of the mid 1950s and I found it to be very distracting. The early forties clothes and hairstyles were completely different. The vehicles looked out of place also. They did not even try for any semblance of the early 1940s.
shareWell, what 50's movies portraying the 40's (or any previous time period, for that matter) did do that (ie, really pay close attention to historical accuracy in the atmospheric details, like cars, clothing, etc)? It's always struck me that this sort of thing didn't get taken seriously in American film production until probably the 80s...and even today, other concerns are always going to come into play at least to some degree, keeping us from 100% accuracy. I just kind of take it as a given that in the 1950s, attention to historic detail was kind of low on the list of movie director concerns, at least compared to their importance in the past 30-35 years or so...it's kind of like, they just figured, it's close enough in time, who cares really? (today, you see indie directors like Wes Anderson spending considerable money on things I'm quite sure film directors from the first half of the 20th century wouldn't have even bothered with if they were FREE (read: Anderson hiring a firm to replicate, in excruciating detail, pup tents exactly as they would have been made, style and fabric-wise, in the mid-1960s....if John Ford needed a 1940s tent in one of his 1950s offerings, can anyone honestly imagine him, or anyone back then, doing something like that? If he could even find anyone TO do it...)
It's a reason why, even though I love old movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s, one genre I pretty religiously stay away from are "period pieces" made during that era....Ivanhoe, medieval dramas, French Revolution, you name it. They tried....just not that hard. Miracle in the Rain I guess you could say, tried even less. But it's not surprising to me. It's a good movie and worth watching despite this, imo.
To be honest, if I were watching a movie today that was supposed to take place in 2003, and they were wearing 2016 clothes and hair, and there were some late-model cars here and there I probably wouldn't notice. Probably many would, but it wouldn't be distracting to me. Maybe 50 years from now 2003 and 2017 styles will seem very different but I can't tell today.
"Who's running this airline?!"