"FLAMINGO ROAD"-Woman "Railroaded" by a Mean Little Town!
I truly enjoyed a recent showing of the Joan Crawford film "Flamingo Road" on Turner Classic movies. She plays a "Carnival" dancer who has the great misfortune of getting stranded in a corrupt little Southern town with a bad attitude. It seems as if the minute her pretty toe sets foot on their "hallowed" ground the bastards have it in for her-from the Sheriff played to the hilt by that "evil personified" actor Sydney Greenstreet, to the restaurant and shop owners who refuse to hire her despite the short lived love and support of one of the Sheriff's deputies played by a very handsome Zachary Scott. Joan's travails deepen with every frame-she wanders hopelessly through a landscape of hate not unlike a heroine out of Tennessee Williams-surrounded by "good ole boys" confident in their feeling of "entitlement." One keeps hoping that things will get better for this dame, but alas it never does. After living for ...