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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
White Tie and Tails from 1946 with Dan Duryea, Ella Raines and William Bendix For a short B movie, White Tie and Tails punches well above its weight class because of its strong cast, fun romcom story, smart dialogue and wonderful personalities. All it needs today is a film restoration so that...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,510
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Forty Guns from 1957 with Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson and Eva Brent Forty Guns is a good Western written and directed by Sam Fuller that tries to be a bigger movie than it is, but in an endearing way. Fuller didn't make the epic he seemed to be trying to make...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,508
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
What a great post. I learned so much from it. I can't even imagine a surgery like that without anesthetic. And as you note, what a fantastic life she had. I might just have to seek out "Cecilia." I continue to be amazed at the amount of knowledge - smart, insightful and arcane knowledge - that...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,191
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Tell the truth, Lizzie, did you breathe out once while writing the (mainly) Sally monologue? :) ******************************************************************* The Triple Dead Heat is an insanely exciting finish. ******************************************************************* Heels...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,008
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I watched Ms. Stanwyck in the 1957 movie "Forty Guns" this past weekend in which she played a role that foreshadowed her "The Big Valley" matriarch role a bit. Once I get time to write a review of "Forty Guns," I'll post it here. I think you'd like the movie.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,506
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The full text before war-time paper rationing required editing: "Boston catcher Clyde Klutz will be sidelined today after crashing into the concrete corner of the Braves dugout yesterday while chasing a foul pop off the bat of Mickey Owen. Owen failed to hold onto his bat at the completion of...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,003
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Double Indemnity from 1944 with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Gaines and Porter Hall. "Margie, I bet she drinks from the bottle." - Edward G. Robinson playing insurance inspector Barton Keyes Double Indemnity deserves its status as one of the great film noirs...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,504
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
It would be surprising if Hu Shee missed.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,999
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"President Roosevelt was described today as "more vigorous than most men of 62" following an examination by his personal physician. The report from Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, M. D., was seen as putting an end to speculation that the President's health will be an issue during the Presidential...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,996
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Honestly, I don't like any of these people. BRING BACK LEONA!" Ya think the pirate costume still fits?- Fading Fast
- Post #9,990
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Take Aim at the Police Van a Japanese film from 1960 Japanese director Seijun Suzuki is known for making a series of B movies cult classics in the 1950s and 1960s that incorporated elements of film noir and crime drama overlaid with Japanese culture and surrealism. Take Aim at the Police...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,503
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Lazy River from 1934 with Robert Young, Jean Parker, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, C. Henry Gordon and Ted Healy Hallmark movies rightfully get made fun of today as the vast majority of them have embarrassingly simple and obvious plots, tiny budgets, awkward dialogue and poor production...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,502
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...draped in a voluminous cotton nightgown." Are you sure it is the nightgown that is voluminous? ************************************************************** "Today we have only this one edition, and it is not complete. Fourteen pages are missing, including most of the comics, which we...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,982
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Evelina by Frances Burney originally published in 1778 The eighteenth-century social customs of Britain's upper classes would be obscure to us today if not for Jane Austen. Her books, and the many movies they've engendered, have kept knowledge of those rigidly orchestrated societal rules part...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,186
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Aren't you getting a little warm in that jacket?" It's been how many days - weeks? - since Burma has had a bath? She's probably pretty, umm, "earthy" as it is right now, not that the tiger will mind.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,977
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"... I was writin' a letteh t'MacPhail about Petey." The doctor stops writing. "And who are they?" she queries. "You know, MacPhail, Larry MacPhail. You know, t' Dodgehs. Heeza guy traded Petey." "And who," presses the doctor, "is Petey?" "I dowanna tawk about Petey," mutters Sally, her eyes...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,974
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Please Don't Eat the Daisies from 1960 with Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn and Jack Weston Hollywood made many lighthearted battle-of-the-sexes romcoms around this time, but even these movies needed some real bite to fully work. And if the romcom couple...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,501
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I've always felt that there was a hint that Alice like Sally, well, a whole lot. Not sure Alice even fully understands it. She did spend a few years "up state." I guess neither Joan or Brian wanted to be the one "caught with a correspondent" so they settle on dust - really, dust? Re "The...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,969
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I agree, but a tabloid is gonna tabloid, it's in its DNA.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,966
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Singapore Woman from 1941 with Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Jerome Cowan and Virginia Field Singapore Woman is a 1941 B movie remake of the 1935 A picture Dangerous. Despite the B version's shorter runtime, smaller budget and mainly tier-two cast, it maintains much of the A picture's punch...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,498
- Forum: The Moving Picture
