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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Anne of Green Gables from 1934 with Anne Shirley, Helen Westley and O. P. Heggie This short and small-budget production of Anne of Green Gables is charming and whimsical without being cloying as it keeps its bite and its characters real. An older brother and sister, played by O. P. Heggie...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,319
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Landfall by Nevil Shute published in 1940 Nevil Shute was a prolific author - and an aeronautical engineer - which gives his wartime romance and adventure novels, like Landfall, an insider's knowledge of a pilot's challenges. Yet Shute never lets technical details overwhelm his fun and...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,118
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Page Four is gonna Page Four: "...to exchange a couple of brassieres which she had discovered were too small for her." Intrepid reporting brings you all the pertinent facts. I would not have had Mrs. Miller on my bingo card as a woman whose husband would kill his wife's lover. How freakin'...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,438
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Assault on Precinct 13 from 1976 with Austin Stoker, Laurie Zimmer, Darwin Joston and Tony Burton Assault on Precinct 13 is a good movie because it doesn't try to be more than it is: a low-budget film about a Los Angeles gang's assault on an almost-closed police precinct. It's an action film...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,315
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I didn't think it was possible, but I'm begin to like Miss Kaplan. If it is Burma, and now having read the first three years of "Terry and the Pirates," the history those two share is incredible.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,435
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Loungers' Pets
You are spot on. Tug, the dog, was already living there for years when, Aria, the cat (a rescue kitten) came to live. We laugh as Aria, so far, is very dog/pack like.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Display Case
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Change of Heart from 1934 with Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ginger Rogers and James Dunn What's most striking and most fun about Change of Heart is how its core story could be told today with nothing more than surface changes. College kids, still, with false bravado masking fear of failure...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,313
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Three on a Match from 1932 with Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot and Warren William Some people aren't happy being happy. A good marriage, a healthy child and financial security would check many people's happiness boxes. Yet some people become bored when everything is going...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,311
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Well-written parting scene, Lizzie, very touching. I love that Miss Kaplan and Mozelewski showed up. "Action in Arabia" is, as Corby said, not dissimilar to Sanders' Falcon movies. It's kind of like a B-movie mashup of the Falcon and "Casablanca." Did anybody have bees on his/her bingo card?- Fading Fast
- Post #9,427
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Loungers' Pets
My girlfriend's mother's 85 pound dog and 6 pound cat disproving the "fight like cats and dogs" myth. They are thick as thieves.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Display Case
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Mary Stevens M.D. from 1933 with Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot and Glenda Farrell Warner Bros., in its inimitable precode way, lets the melodrama rip as it races through several social issues in Mary Stevens M.D. A female doctor, casual sex, corrupt politicians and padded medical bills are just...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,310
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The bombing of the Monte Cassino Monastery noted on page one of the Eagle is depicted in the 1945 movie "The Story of GI Joe." The feelings of the troops in that movie are summed up by this terse line of dialogue from one of the pinned down soldiers, "I'm a Catholic and I say bomb it."- Fading Fast
- Post #9,411
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Woman in Hiding from 1950 with Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff and Peggy Dow Woman in Hiding is a good, not great work-a-day noir whose biggest selling point, then and now, is its bird-sized force-of-nature lead actress Ida Lupino. She gives this movie's contrived story of greed some...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,308
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Heh," snickers Uncle Frank. "He probably kept crashing into the headboard." That's freakin' hilarious.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,404
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Butch is using guest stars now? Hey, can you get Georgie Jessel?" One thing we know, it won't be Rabbi Wise.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
My personal favorite comment on people holding superstitions. It is said that a visitor once came to the home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr and, having noticed a horseshoe hung above the entrance, asked incredulously if the professor believed horseshoes brought good luck. “No,”...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,395
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
My Night at Maud's from 1969, a French film My Night at Maud's is an intellectually pretentious New Wave French film, so, a French film, from the 1960s by famed director Eric Rohmer. The quick summary is it's a nearly two hours movie of three characters smoking a lot as they talk endlessly...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,306
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...'Yeh,' nods Joe, used by now to having reading matter snatched out of his hand. ..." :) "...Oh, I f'get," needles Miss Kaplan. 'You go f't'em brainy-lookin' dames...."' :) As to the skates, the only thing I can think of is they are "registered" for a warranty if they are expensive skates...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,380
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Late Show from 1977 with Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy and Eugene Roche More homage than send-up of the many 1940s B-noirs movies, The Late Show works mainly because of its unlikely but surprisingly enjoyable pairing of Art Carney and Lily Tomlin. Sometimes you write sentences in life...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
