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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Honestly, who names their kid 'Kingery'?" "Kenesaw Mountain" had already been taken. ********************************************************* I know he was injured, but he seems better, so any idea why Skeezix hasn't been called back for D Day?- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Lizzie, agreed on King, brilliant.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Diabolique, a French film from 1955 with Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse Set in a dreary French boarding school, the film follows two teachers: the principal's wife (played by Vera Clouzot) and his mistress (played by Simone Signoret). Together, they plot to kill the principal...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,497
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I like your take. I enjoyed it a lot too. My comments on it here: #28,739- Fading Fast
- Post #31,496
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I think I've lost the thread in "Harold Teen" along the way: why can't Shadow run either the soda-fountain shop or the youth center? Or get a job in a war factory? I get that his height keeps him out of service, but why can't he do anything?- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Story of Temple Drake from 1933 with Mariam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue and Florence Eldridge The Story of Temple Drake, based on the William Faulkner novel Sanctuary, was scandalous in its day. Still, despite being a precode, little is actually shown in this tale of rape, sexual...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
