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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year MGM 1941: A WOMANS FACE and THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO: BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972)

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 11:46 p.m.

For this MGM 1941 episode, we again pair a classic with a rarity: Cukor's\xa0A Woman's Face, starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, and Conrad Veidt, and\xa0The Trial of Mary Dugan, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Laraine Day, Robert Young, and Tom Conway (aka "The Nice George Sanders"). We discuss\xa0A Woman's Face\xa0as a proto-Warner Bros. Crawford noir, the persona of Robert Young, the uses of no-subtext acting, and the starkly different construction of these two women-on-trial movies. And in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, we take a brief look at\xa0Buck and the Preacher, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier (and co-starring future acteurist spotlight subject Ruby Dee, although she doesn\u2019t get a lot of screen time in this one).\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0 A WOMAN\u2019S FACE [dir. George Cukor]

0h 50m 59s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN [dir. Norman Z. McLeod]

1h 21m 53s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO: \xa0Sidney Poitier\u2019s Buck and the Preacher \xa0(1972)

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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