Tortilla Flat [VHS]
by Victor Fleming
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Actor: Akim Tamiroff, Frank Morgan, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Spencer TracyDirector: Victor Fleming
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner
Editor: James E. Newcom
Producer: Sam Zimbalist
Writer: Benjamin Glazer
Writer: John Lee Mahin
Writer: John Steinbeck
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
VHS Movie Reviews of Tortilla Flat [VHS]
Movie Review: Flat is the operative word in Tortilla Flat
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw this movie on TCM. The Hispanic guest commentator was not impressed and neither was I. He spoke about it as if it was a train wreck, and, frankly, it's difficult to disagree.
The extremely low-budget flick was pretty much a total waste of time and certainly a waste of talent. Spencer Tracy must have looked back on his illustrious acting career replete with two Oscars and many more Oscar nominations and wondered why he ever accepted the role. But even he wasn't consistent with his accent; it was all over the place.
I thought it was insulting to Hispanics the way Tracy kept tricking them with simple tricks.
I found it very difficult to give a damn about any of the characters. They were not properly developed. Even the early storyline about inheritance is ridiculously rushed.
Hedy Lamarr does okay with her role and she is there for some kind of romantic subplot, but most of the time she's angry at the man who wants her and she ends up marrying. When she's not telling him to get away from her after he shows up at work, or the time he forces himself on her (sexual harassment), and gets out her knife, threatening to cut him to pieces, she's slapping him across the face for a rude remark he made about her being happy to marry anyone who has money.
But then there's a huge jump from the non-relationship to them getting married at the end. What did he ever do for her? He bought her a vacuum cleaner (which she couldn't even use because her house didn't have electricity). That's one of my pet peeves about old "romance" in movies. The men and women do and say very little but somehow they're suddenly madly in love. O-kay. What-ever. It must be nice to be so easily impressed.
Most of the characters had bad manners. The best behaved of the lot are the dogs.
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