Sunday, 12 April 2026

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 Elia Kazan)

Some of Leon Shamroy's lighting of rain patterns on Dorothy Maguire almost foreshadows Conrad Hall's in In Cold Blood.

Expert direction of actors - you sense he's been allowed time to rehearse with them - lots of long takes, but Dorothy Spencer knows how to cut it together too.

See here for more considered jottings.




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