Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Radio review – Ford Theatre – “Anna Christie” (1949) ***

Ingrid Bergman and Broderick Crawford are both excellent in this strong adaptation of the Eugene O’Neill play. She's a hooker whose dad is a sailor; Crawford plays the sailor who she falls in love with. Bergman was best known for her whispy oh-I'm-so-in-love-I-can't-help-it parts as in Cassablanca but here she plays someone with a bit of spine and fire and it's great. Crawford is a lot more animated too than we normally hear him. Ann Revere is in the cast too.

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