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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Egg and I (1947) with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. WW2 vet MacMurray and new bride Colbert face challenging challenges on a chicken farm way out in the country. Based on the book by Betty MacDonald. Is it a screwball comedy? A rom-com? A live...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Gentleman's Agreement (1947), with Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and John Garfield, dir. Elia Kazan. A look at anti-semitism, with the story told as a reporter's series in a prominent magazine. Reporter Peck presents himself as Jewish in order to experience the bigotry both subtle and violent...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Prince and the Pauper (1937) directed by William Keighley (who would later work on The Adventures of Robin Hood), featuring top-billed Errol Flynn, and actual twins Billy and Bobby Mauch, with Claude Rains doing his "power-hungry court intriguer" bit with poise. Flynn shows up about half-way...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,359
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Here at the Shellhammer Palais du Film Ancien, it was- The Saint Takes Over (1940) with George Sanders as the Saint, Wendy Barrie as an elegant but tough mystery person on a mission, and Jonathan Hale as Inspector Henry Furnace of the NYPD. Fernack's been framed by mobsters, Wendy Barrie...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
An odd offering, starting out as a 30s/40s rom-com, then grim manslaughter tale, then melodramatic drama as only classic Hollywood could produce, is And One Was Beautiful (1940), with headliners Robert Cummings and Laraine Day under the direction of Robert B. Sinclair, who brought us such varied...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,291
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein, via YT. Flash cuts, massive crowd scenes, striking shot compositions, this has it all. The movie nerd lingers on... The Saint in London (1939), brought to us by John Paddy Carstairs, with George Sanders and Sally Gray. We're trying to watch...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As well, decades since I read a "Saint" book. I remember checking a copy out of the local library not long after reading all the Sherlock Holmes I could find, then beginning to work through Chandler, Van Dine, Stout, and Hammett. Simon Templar was only peripherally known to me, sort of via the...- Julian Shellhammer
- Post #31,285
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Saint in New York (1938) dir. Ben Holmes, with Louis Hayward at the Saint, Kay Sutton as a mysterious character tied up with a criminal organization, and Jack Carson and Paul Guilfoyle as a pair of Mutt and Jeff thugs played a la Damon Runyon. With crime running rampant through a large...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Eyes in the Night (1942) starring Edward Arnold as Capt. Duncan Mclain, a blind detective who solves mysteries with the help of his dog, Friday (who out-Rin-tin-tins Rin-tin-tin in some skill sets). Supposedly the first in a projected series, it did not catch on. With Ann Harding, playing a...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Barnaby Jones, S1 E1, and Mannix, S1 E1. Did not see these first time around. The Quinn Martin style parodied so devastatingly in Police Squad! is out in full force.- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Klaus, from 2019, from directors Sergio Pablo and Carlos Martinez Lopez, written by Sergio Pablo, Jim Mahoney, and Zach Lewis. Sort of an animated How Did Santa Become Santa? movie. Voice talent includes Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, and Rashida Jones. In its own way a naturalistic proposal...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It's unanimous - Christmas Movie Season has been extended at Le Shellhammer Palais du Christmas Movies. Final date TBD, or when we watch the last movie on the traditional rotation. Recently it was It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). It made my grandpa heart...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Miracle on 34th Street (1947), dir. George Seaton, with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, and Edmund Gwenn as St. Nicolas or maybe not St. Nicolas, just a kindly old man with whiskers. Personal favorite Christmas movie, a Christmas movie that deals with Christmas, not just set at or during or around...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
They Were Expendable (1945), dir. John Ford, with Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, and Donna Reed. A selection of the Missus, who had never seen it before.- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Alice in Movieland (1940) a Warner Bros. short with Joan Leslie as small-town hopeful Alice Purdee, who wins a contest to go to Hollywood for a screen test. She doesn't 't make a favorable impression, but spunk mixed with ambition can go a long ways, even in Tinseltown. It was directed by Jean...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Pork Chop Hill (1959) headlined by Gregory Peck, directed by Lewis Milestone. The cast of supporting players is lengthy and incredibly recognizable. There is not a wasted shot or evidence of padding in the whole hour and a half. This has been mentioned before, but Peck never once fires his...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Destination Moon (1950) with John Archer, Warner Anderson, and Tom Powers. Serious attempt at a science fiction story. From a story by Robert Heinlein, who also contributed part of the screenplay. Heinlein was a favorite author in my youth. Private enterprise undertakes a flight to the moon, and...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
White Christmas (1954) with Bing, Danny, Rosemary, and Vera-Ellen, dir. Michael Curtis. The romantic interludes slowed down the movie for the grandkids, but the humor holds up fine, both physical and character-wise. The production numbers are swirlingly dazzling. Also, the Prep and Landing...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
With delight, finished Santa Calls by William Joyce, and Peter Spier's Christmas!. Joyce's adventure tale takes youngsters out of the Abilene of 1908 and to the North Pole where Santa Claus presides over Toyland. The artwork is enormously detailed, providing us with anthropomorphic animals...- Julian Shellhammer
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Wow, what a cotton-headed ninny-muggins I am. It should be "DonR" not AHP91. Send me to the the County Home for the Rushed and Inattentive.- Julian Shellhammer
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