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What Are You Reading
I loved "The Imitation Game" when it first came out on cable (or maybe streaming, I don't remember anymore, but now I want to see it again). Because of you, I'm going to add "Enigma" to my comments. Thank you.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Pursuit by Ludovic Kennedy originally published in 1974 Written before the release of information about the breaking of Germany's Enigma code, Pursuit's telling of the chase and sinking of the Bismarck, while not the subject's definitive book, is still a good, short and engaging account. It...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Yes there is - Re Day's transition - but being movie, it's a bit rushed at the end, yet still reasonably well handled. I enjoyed "I Was a Male War Bride" too. As you said, Grant was outstanding and, I'd add, so was Sheridan - I liked them as a screen couple.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Keep Your Powder Dry from 1945 with Lana Turner, Laraine Day and Susan Peters By 1945, Hollywood was at the retread stage of wartime propaganda movies, but it still managed to put out some reasonably good efforts like Keep Your Powder Dry, an early similarly themed version of 1980's...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
You are spot on.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Coma from 1978 with Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark and Lois Chiles Trust in institutions ebbs and flows. In the 1970s, like today, that trust was at a low resulting in movies like Coma about a massive and grossly immoral conspiracy at one of Boston's top hospitals. If you...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
What a wonderful review. I particularly loved this paragraph: "The book does pack an emotional punch. At times you might catch yourself wiping away a tear. The descriptions of young love, of heartbreak, of death and salvation are sincere and well drawn. If it’s an emotional trap set for the...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
L'Atalante from 1934, A French film L'Atalante is described by some critics as the greatest or one of the greatest films ever made, which proves the uselessness of the expression "the greatest film ever made" and it proves that the opinions of critics are still just opinions. If you can get...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,003
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Bookish Noirs/Moving Pictures
Just so you are aware, those are fun comedies with some mystery and drama mixed in, but they are not really noir. The comparison to "The Thin Man" is good as they are, IMO, good B-versions of "The Thin Man."- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
You might enjoy her biography, my comments on it here: #8,581- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's funny, when I wrote up the movie "The Passionate Plumber" (comments here: #29,948 ) that Keaton and Durante did together, I noted how they were both funny on their own, but didn't really work as a team.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
That is great color. As I was watching this movie, I kept thinking how well Keaton could have fit into 1960s/1970s TV. I didn't love the movie, but enjoyed Keaton's, Eilers' and Brophy's performances. In the draft I wrote and then cut and pasted into here, I had a postscript that said "I bet...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Doughboys from 1930 with Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers and Edward Brophy Buster Keaton doing physical comedy in a farcical story where his deadpan response sits at the core of the humor is what Buster Keaton does best, as seen in Doughboys, an okay very early talkie from 1930. Keaton, in this...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
With comicstrips dropping out or being shrunk and new ones popping up, I'm just glad "Terry and the Pirates" continues as is and in reasonably large size. And great call, Lizzie, it was a condensed movie today.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Yup. Rationally, I knew my 1943 Dodgers season and 2023 Yankees season were both over in August. At least 2023 had all those new rule changes that truly made the game so much better (now, get rid of the ghost runner). I know it will never happen - the playoff money is too good - but I wish...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Yes, you are correct about Duval. That was in the 1995 version, which I saw on cable back in the '90s and it wasn't good. It was during Demi Moore's "I'm going to make every movie I do a feminist hero movie" phase even if I have to change Hawthorne to do it. I apologize, I don't understand...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The House of the Seven Gables from 1940 with Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, George Sanders, Dick Forman, Cecil Kellaway and Nan Grey A good story is always an auspicious start for a movie. Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables provides that good story. Of course, being...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I have a feeling that what you're thinking of Re Niven is that he played the part in the 1939 remake of "Raffles." To your query, IMO, Flynn didn't have the "polish" or "poshness" that the role called for and that both Coleman and Niven had in spades. Flynn played the jolly bounder well; Niven...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Raffles from 1930 with Ronald Coleman, Kay Francis, Alison Skipworth and David Torrence It is amazing how many plot twists Hollywood could fit into these early and clunky talkies. Raffles is a good movie with enjoyable characters, but your head will spin a bit as this fast-moving picture takes...- Fading Fast
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What Are You Reading
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung originally published in 1898 E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, wrote this collection of eight stories almost in response to a challenge from his famous relative to create a gentleman crook equal to Conan-Doyle's famous...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
