IMDb plot summary: After winning a game show contest, a newlywed couple travels to New Orleans where the husband seeks to reclaim his ancestral plantation mansion from his biracial stepbrother.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring James Coburn, Lynn Redgrave, and Robert Hooks.
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots is a Sidney Lumet film based on a Tennessee Williams play. The story follows a couple of strangers who got married on TV in exchange for a large amount of money, and now the newlyweds are returning to the man's rundown plantation. He dreams of restoring the home to its former glory and making it a tourist attraction, but his mixed-race half-brother, who is next in line for the property, has other plans. That synopsis took me longer than usual because the plot gets... complicated. There are a lot of differing dynamics going on here between the three characters we have on screen, and that would be okay if any of them were interesting. Mostly what ends up happening is characters go back and forth from one person to the next, fighting about the same things over and over again, without ever really seeming to get anywhere. And Lynn Redgrave is just... so difficult to watch here. The combination of her thick accent, high-pitched voice, and choice of intonation make it sometimes almost impossible to track what she's saying, and it's hard to get to know her as a character, which I think we need to do. Not a great movie.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots > Wyatt Earp
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < Roberta
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots > Running With Scissors
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < The Formula
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < Deja Vu
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots > Maid in Manhattan
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots > Instinct
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots < Mystic Pizza
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots > Hamlet 2
Final spot: #3061 out of 3657, or 16%.
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