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The Era -- Day By Day
"To Have and Have Not" and "Laura," not a bad week for releases. And as you noted, Lizzie, Ms. Corby seems smitten with Ms. Bacall:- Fading Fast
- Post #10,506
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
La Notte from 1961 is an Italian film with Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti At first you think "intellectuals" see life with a deeper, richer, and more-complex insight, but if the characters in La Notte are "intellectuals," then you might find yourself revising your opinion...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,618
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Whazzat?" queries Krause. He must have been exhausted from that speech; it was a long one for him. ******************************************************************************* Every fall I have to decide whether "Pug Manders" or "Bruiser Kinard" is the greatest football name ever. Can...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,503
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
You have to read ever so slightly between the lines, but it's pretty clear what's surprisingly being said here. ********************************************************************************** As Lizzie says, movies on paper.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,500
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Fog Over Frisco from 1934 with Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Alan Hale and Henry O'Neil You watch Fog Over Frisco for the leads, in particular, for a Bette Davis, seconds before her breakout to major stardom, and you watch it for the 1934 zeitgeist and argot – reporters...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,616
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White, first published in 1932 The Brits love a good detective fiction story, which sparked the genre's huge vogue in the first half of the 20th century. Often set in a quaint village or country house, and usually centering on a murder(s), the...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,221
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Carole Landis' moon picture, in case you were wondering. My favorite Carole Landis pic. And let's note this very forward 1944 thinking:- Fading Fast
- Post #10,494
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Pretty smug, aint'cha? Heard from your son lately? More importantly, just tell us this storyline if finally over.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,490
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"T'is ain' got nut'n t'do wit'tat daughteh'ra yehs, does it? She makes me noivous." That's awesome. **************************************************************************** A gang'a hoodlums beat'im oop on th' street an' left'im farr dead!" What the heck, is she losing her mind or is it...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,487
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I See a Dark Stranger from 1946 with Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Garry Marsh and Tom Macaulay Had Alfred Hitchcock made I See a Dark Stranger, it would probably be a classic as nobody combined spy intrigue with humor better than the master director. Here though, director Frank Launder still...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,615
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Heeh," offers Alice, scratching the match on the seat of her overalls. "Lemme help...." Freakin' perfect.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,483
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Paid from 1930 with Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, John Miljan, Purnell Pratt and Douglas Montgomery Other than getting a bit muddled and mawkish at the end, Paid is a hard-hitting and entertaining precode that says some cops are bad and the legal system is brutally unfair and...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,614
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I'm losing track of interest in how old all these people are supposed to be."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,476
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"That IS true, isn't it," sighs Ma. "Oi'm saahry, Francis, Oi know Oi roide ye haaard soomtoimes. Ye carry a heavy lood." She needed to say that; she's been hard on him for months now. ***************************************************************************** "Monozygotic" is a word you...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,472
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Split Second from 1953 with Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Robert Paige, Paul Kelly, Frank DeKova, Arthur Hunnicutt, and Richard Egan. At only eighty-five minutes long, there is a lot of plot, a lot of characters, and a lot of philosophy on life, love, and honor...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,611
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The Copacabana agreed yesterday to replace its Manhattan nightclub license with a temporary six-month permit and to pay the city a total of $37,371.34 in business taxes, while leaving unresolved the question of whether purported slot-machine king Frank Costello is a part owner of the club. The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,463
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Three Strangers from 1946 with Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. If you put O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi into a film noir blender, something like Three Strangers could come out. In O. Henry's tale, good people learn a lesson about giving...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,608
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
...since he caan't droive aroond in that caar oof his noo moor. I miss the mayor mobile. ********************************************************************** Uncle Frank, attempting a pull on his Tootsie Roll.... :) **********************************************************************...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,459
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Yeh," acknowledges Alice. "I bet Hooveh neveh t'rew 'is BVD's onna stage... She's relentless. **************************************************************************** -- but if V-E Day is proclaimed on a day already marked as a holiday, no additional day off will be given. Somebody...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,455
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Well, it's like this. Nine years ago I knew this guy named Judas, a real pirate, and we were working the China coast, but I double-crossed him with this big curly-haired Irishman who was bumming around with a couple of kids -- one of whom was Terry, godbless'im, just a little kid in short pants...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,452
- Forum: The Golden Era
