Saturday, January 31, 2026

Movie review - "Madison Avenue" (1961) **

 A real oddity, in a way. A sort of early 1950s executive melodrama that came out years too late with stars on the silde - Dana Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain. It's in CinemaScope but it in black and white.

It's very dull. Lots and lots of chat, too much given to Dana Andrews who needs people to bounce off. Not dramatised in anyway. Feels like a bunch of hasbeens trying to recapture glory. I think even in 1953 this would have been a programmer - movies like Executive Suite had lots of stars and colours.

Could this have worked at all? Maybe with sex from people that the audience wanted to see sex with. 

So dull. So random. 

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