With the weakening of film studios in the 1950s, due to the rise of television and one of the last attacks against monopoly by the SCOTUS, many actors, such as Cornel Wilde, started their own production companies. The prolonged exposition by writer Horton Foote and Elmer Bernstein's music creates suspense in this largely unpredictable story of criminals on the run. Characters who seem unlikeable at first become increasingly sympathetic as we learn more about them. And nothing is more satisfying than sitting in a warm movie theatre, munching popcorn, goobers and jujubes, while the actors struggle in a blizzard.
Review of Storm Fear
