Razzman
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Shadow of a Doubt with Joseph Cotton.
I tried telling him that in a few years he will be off to see it wearing ladies underwear clutching a bag of kit kats. He didn't believe me!
I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with a friend last night, probably my thirtieth time seeing it. "Well ain't this place just a geographical oddity - two weeks' from everywhere!".
I laugh every. single. time when he wakes up and goes, "My hair!"
"You stole from my kin!"
"Who was fixin' to betray us!"
"That don't make no sense!"
Classic.
"Uh, Wash, I suppose it would be the acme of foolishness to ask if you happen to have any hairnets?"
"There's some over there in yon' bureau. Mrs. Hogwollop's, I guess. I won't be needin' 'em!"
Saw a British "post war second wave" film last night that I'd never seen before (thank you Lord above for TCM) a little gem called "The L Shaped Room". What beautiful Black and White photography and that sense of post war, post empire ennui just permeates everything. Great film making with NO Hollywood ending. I enjoyed it thoroughly...
Worf
I agree with your premise. "An Education" was an excellent film that really knocked my socks off when I rented it last years. Kinda funny isn't. England the land of pretense and stiff upper lip... begins to turn out some of the most stark, honest and human drama of the era!And I watched the previous film on TCM, A Kind of Loving. Another example of the early sixties "kitchen sink drama" (a term that used to be used far more often than "British New Wave" to characterize these films) like The L-Shaped Room. It was excellent, and would make a really good double feature with a more recent film set in that time, An Education - the female lead even looked a bit like Carey Mulligan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism
I love shadow of a doubt, but I doubt you'd get away with the kind of 'friendship' he has with his neice these days!
The train scene always kills me: "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"
or "Oh George...not the livestock"
Great film.
Watching The Big Heat with Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin tonight. Borrowed from my local library.
I like that movie. My fave scene in it is when Ford's brother in law and some vets come over to protect his child from abduction by the mob after they'd mistakenly killed his wife. They don't recognise Ford at first and he practically gets killed by them before he realizes they're their to protect his little girl. I personally would've been proud to see those mobsters try and tackle battle hardened combat vets protecting a child. As one vet said.... "I've stormed places those punks wouldn't go without a tank!"Excellent film. The famous hot-coffee-in-the-face scene was actually pre-dated by a scene in Raw Deal (1948), where Raymond Burr throws (towards the camera) what appears to be a flaming flambeau pot at a woman who accidentally spills a drink on his shoulder. Says Burr: "Take her away...She should have been more careful."