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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
This Could Be the Night from 1957 with Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa, Julie Wilson, Joan Blondell, and Neile Adams This Could Be the Night is a pleasant, lighthearted, slow-burn romcom between two true opposites set in a lively Runyonesque New York City nightclub populated...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,645
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I bet Mr. Hansel was very lonely when they banned Esquire from the mails. No kidding, plus: "Al Hansel, Kelly St., Bronx, executive." "executive." Challenge!- Fading Fast
- Post #10,622
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Bink and Inky, that's quite the crew Ma has in her store this morning. I love how much Inky ties to dress up his language, but if you've ever known someone like that in your real life, you'll consider suicide just to get out of the conversation. Now, where is Frank? I don't think Sally is...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,617
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Agreed, all are good movies. "Four's a Crowd" has one of the best model train scenes of all the old movies (which had a good number of them):- Fading Fast
- Post #31,644
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I still say," sighs Alice, "he shoulda rode wit' t' tawp up." God luv ya, Alice. ********************************************************** Well, now we know who the ghost writer is. A little inside-comicstrip joking going on, I guess.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,612
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"S'matteh, f'get t'put 'is leash awn?" Bink's growing on me. ********************************************************* I've been in 405 E. 54th as I had a friend who rented an apartment there years ago. ********************************************************* "You know, the safe thing to...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,607
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
A Handful of Dust from 1988 with Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Alec Guinness and Judi Dench This visually appealing adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust is like an episode of Downton Abbey without the slickness. This more-sedate approach is fine, but...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,641
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1934 Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust doesn't fit squarely into one genre as this short book has elements of comedy, satire, soap opera and farce – so it's basically life. It’s also Waugh’s way of saying that England’s gentry in the pre-war...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,231
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
I like Bo the character a lot, but he needs a better comicstrip around him.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,604
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Oi should caaahl aahn Mistar Billingsley. We did soom business in th' oold days." No doubt they did. ********************************************************************** "Hmph, she thinks she's SO SMART." -- O. DeHavilland. Perfect, Lizzie...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,601
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
A wealthy naturalized German cork importer and former Brooklynite could face the death penalty if he is found guilty of serving as the paymaster for a Nazi spy ring. Fifty-five year old Helmut Ludwig Suhl was arraigned yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court on a charge of conspiracy to commit...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,598
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Holiday from 1930 with Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Robert Ames , William Holden, and Hallam Cooley This 1930 version of Holiday, being so early in the "talkie" era of Hollywood, is stagey and technologically inchoate compared to the better-known 1938 version. Yet, on its own and even in...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,640
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
DIdn't they make a movie of this in 1931 with RIchard Barthelmess and Kay Francis? I can't think of the movie you're referring to, but it would certainly fit the precode style of movies from that era. There's also a pretty good foreshadowing of this in Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel "A Handful of...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,592
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Fear from 1954, a German Film It's hard to separate the, at the time, scandalous personal lives and marital woes of director Roberto Rossellini and his wife, star Ingrid Bergman, from this tale of infidelity, but a movie should stand on its own, which Fear does well, though not brilliantly...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,639
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Allow me to rephrase the question and to break it into two part. First, can you write the numbers "two" and "zero" in that order?" "Like this?" [Willow writes the number twenty on the form.] "Yes. Good. Now can you say the number 'twenty' out loud?" "Twenty." "Congratulations, you are now...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,587
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I also love the entire meta Frank thing at work here: Frank deals all day long with sketchy people who have "custom" codes of honor and a creative approach to abiding the law, but they are all uncomfortable putting their name on a letter that says he is a man of strong moral character. The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,582
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Cigarette?" offers Inky Quinlan, extending a monogrammed silver case. "No thank yee," frowns Uncle Frank. "Ye bought thoose, as Oi recall, from me. In any event," he continues, leaning back in his swivel chair, "Oi've gaaaht an assoinment farr yee." "Ah," nods Inky, his immaculate moustache...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,581
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Plucking the Daisy from 1956 with Brigitte Bardot and a cast of others you probably won’t notice – thanks to Brigitte Bardot. Plucking the Daisy is a silly little French screwball comedy that has three notable features for 1956: Brigitte Bardot scantily clad but not naked, other attractive...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,638
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Well," scowls Uncle Frank, "they waaarn't no warrse than that brisket ye sent ovarr last moonth. Oi'm s'proised ye didn't ask farr a shoe coupon farr it!" "Now I like t'at," laughs Shaughnessy. "I remembeh when you was sellin'at grain alcohol mixed wit' ice tea, an cawlin' it Scotch." The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,578
- Forum: The Golden Era
