George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

1984, Movie, NR, 112 mins

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey: Review

This career biography of the prestigious Hollywood director, George Stevens, is lifted a level or two above the norm by the fact that it was written, directed, and narrated with love by the subject's son. GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY begins with James Dean's Jett Rink proudly pacing off his little piece of Texas--a correlative for the way in which Stevens the filmmaker took the measure of the American West he loved so deeply. Next Katharine Hepburn recalls how at ag... read more leave a comment