"Hollywoodland" **1/2 (out of four): Competent but hollow dramatization of the life and suspicious death of actor George Reeves.

I might be too young to have grown up on the George Reeves “Adventures of Superman” series (I’m more of a Christopher Reeve child, personally), but I do remember seeing those quaint 50s episodes in reruns as a kid. Mr. Reeves made an affable enough superhero, in over-sized glasses and a frumpy costume; for those cheaply-produced half-hours, he got the job done. I remember hearing something about the “curse of Superman” and that Mr. Reeves had committed suicide. I had no idea about the details surrounding his death and, after watching “Hollywoodland”, Allen Coulter’s dramatization of Mr. Reeves’ final days, I’m no more the wiser.

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