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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Fear from 1954, a German Film It's hard to separate the, at the time, scandalous personal lives and marital woes of director Roberto Rossellini and his wife, star Ingrid Bergman, from this tale of infidelity, but a movie should stand on its own, which Fear does well, though not brilliantly...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Allow me to rephrase the question and to break it into two part. First, can you write the numbers "two" and "zero" in that order?" "Like this?" [Willow writes the number twenty on the form.] "Yes. Good. Now can you say the number 'twenty' out loud?" "Twenty." "Congratulations, you are now...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,587
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I also love the entire meta Frank thing at work here: Frank deals all day long with sketchy people who have "custom" codes of honor and a creative approach to abiding the law, but they are all uncomfortable putting their name on a letter that says he is a man of strong moral character. The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,582
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Cigarette?" offers Inky Quinlan, extending a monogrammed silver case. "No thank yee," frowns Uncle Frank. "Ye bought thoose, as Oi recall, from me. In any event," he continues, leaning back in his swivel chair, "Oi've gaaaht an assoinment farr yee." "Ah," nods Inky, his immaculate moustache...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,581
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Plucking the Daisy from 1956 with Brigitte Bardot and a cast of others you probably won’t notice – thanks to Brigitte Bardot. Plucking the Daisy is a silly little French screwball comedy that has three notable features for 1956: Brigitte Bardot scantily clad but not naked, other attractive...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,638
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Well," scowls Uncle Frank, "they waaarn't no warrse than that brisket ye sent ovarr last moonth. Oi'm s'proised ye didn't ask farr a shoe coupon farr it!" "Now I like t'at," laughs Shaughnessy. "I remembeh when you was sellin'at grain alcohol mixed wit' ice tea, an cawlin' it Scotch." The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,578
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Frank and Doyle's conversation today is freakin' hilarious. They are all insane these people and they are all like the people I grew up with (my Dad's and grandmother's friends, not the kids I grew up with). You have to have known people like this to know, truly know, that there are people like...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,575
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Supernatural from 1933 with Carole Lombard, Vivienne Osborne, Randolph Scott, Alan Dinehart and H.B. Waner For fans of horror-movie history, Supernatural is one not to miss. For fans of old movies in general, it's still an okay picture, due more to the stars than story, though. Either way...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,637
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I can think of many adjectives for Annie, but flibbertigibbet is definitely not one of them. Somebody has got to rug this old lady.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,571
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...me nivver exactly gooin' thru th' proparr channels whin Oi come ovarr here," Frank's asking the word "exactly" to do a lot of heavy lifting here.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,568
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Agree, and she should use that as an out from that marriage.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,565
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As the Earth Turns from 1934 with Jean Muir, Donald Woods, David Landau, Arthur Hohl and Dorothy Appleby As the Earth Turns is a soap-opera-style, slice-of-life look at farming in rural Maine in the 1930s. Its classic theme of rural-versus-city life plays out among a few intertwined...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,636
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Mr. Alfred D. McKelvy is the founder and president of the company that manufactures the Seaforth line of after-shave lotions, talcum powders, and men's colognes. And right after Jimmy took this photo, Mr. McKelvy handed him a free sample. That makes sense as, otherwise, his comment was a bit...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,563
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
The Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, first published in 1960 Nevil Shute is a storyteller. In The Trustee From the Toolroom, Shute spins an engaging and enjoyable yarn around a "simple" man, a modest engineer who builds miniature engines, clocks, etc. - models - and then writes about...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,229
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Someday the kid will snap, and then they'll all be sorry. And one more "pantywaist" might be all it takes.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,559
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Bink Scanlan Perfect. (Although, I think Ignatius "Inky" Quinlan gets the nod in the best-name competition.) Oh, and "Cranky an' Spanky," nice touch. ******************************************************** Rocky Graziano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Two Ton Tony Galento, et. al.... We are living...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,556
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
No Questions Asked from 1951 with Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Jean Hagen, Howard Petrie and George Murphy In movies, insurance companies are much more interesting than they are in real life. In noirland, in particular, they often sit somewhere between the cops and bad guys, willing to deal as...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,634
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I know money was much tighter then, but going to small claims court to sue over one book that you even admitted was given to you seems a bit much. ******************************************************************* Odds that Annie Curls drives off an embankment now running 1-1, stalls on a...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,552
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I saw it a long time ago, so my answer is from a distant memory, but yes, I believe it is the "good dictator" fantasy argument that some indulge in: It is the belief that the "right" strongman will fix all the problems that our "muddled" democracy can't handle. Of course, once all that power is...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,630
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Yes, as that is part of the kidnapper's final speech from prison.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
