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It really is the second half of the film that shines: the pre-wedding party, Crosby and Armstrong singing jazz, the bride climbing out of windows and falling into swimming pools, and finding herself caught between two romantic suitors, neither of whom is her fiancée.

High Society captures Bing Crosby closer to the end of his career than the beginning, and while he perhaps feels a little more relaxed and understated here than in earlier roles he remains a winning talent and a wonderful vocalist.

By contrast, Sinatra feels entirely comfortable. Here he is in his element: a superb singer and musical performer, his character is a perfect fit and an absolute delight. He is paired for much of the film with Celeste Holm, an immensely talented and engaging performer.

Grace Kelly makes her final professional film appearance here, and while she seems a little out of place she demonstrates a tremendous gift for comedy. As is always the case with Kelly, she also wears designer clothing like nobody in cinema before or since.

A divorced socialite (Grace Kelly) finds her affections caught between her ex-husband (Bing Crosby), her new fiancée (John Lund), and a tabloid reporter (Frank Sinatra) in Charles Walters’ musical comedy High Society (1956).

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Downhill Racer

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That's why I started Crewsing Movies. To bring out the ones that fell through the cracks.

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The movie does a skillful job of involving us in the competition without really being a movie about competition. In the end, Downhill Racer succeeds so well that instead of wondering whether the hero will win the Olympic race, we want to see what will happen to him if he does.

Chappellet has a casual affair with a girl (Camilla Sparv), who seems to be a sort of ski groupie. She wants to make love to him, and does, but he is so limited, so incapable of understanding her or anything beyond his own image, that she drops him. He never does quite understand why.

There are the anonymous hotel rooms, one after another, and the deadening continual contact with the team members, and the efforts of the coach (Gene Hackman in a superb performance) to hold the team together and placate its financial backers in New York.

Downhill racing is an intensely individual sport, and we feel that through some remarkable color photography. Races are shot from the racer’s point of view, and there are long scenes that nearly produce vertigo as we hurtle down a mountain.

Robert Redford plays this person very well, even though it must have been difficult for Redford to contain his own personality within such a limited character.
He plays a man who does nothing well except ski downhill and does that better than anyone.

Downhill Racer is about David Chappellet, a member of the U.S. skiing team, who fully feels his humanity only in the exhilaration of winning.
The rest of the time, he’s a strangely cut-off person, incapable of feeling anything very deeply, of communicating with anyone, incapable of love.

To be the world’s best skier, or swimmer, or chess player, you’ve got to overdevelop that area of your skill while disregarding almost everything else. This is the point we miss when we persist in describing champions as regular, all-round Joes. If they were, they wouldn’t be champions.

Some of the best moments in Downhill Racer (1969) are moments devoted to capturing the angle of a glance, the curve of a smile, an embarrassed silence. Together they form a portrait of a man that is so complete, and so tragic, that Downhill Racer becomes excellent.

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My grandmother and mother were religious. I tried several churches until I, too, became an Atheist. (with Buddhist feelings) Thanks for sharing your thoughts on all of this. I appreciate you.

I agree. In several marriages I did not have children because I did not want them to end up like me. I'm glad you cried, as I do each time I see it.

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