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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
(I don't even know if this counts...) The Tale of Despereaux (2008), a computer animated feature with the voice talents of Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, and a long list of others. The visuals are rich, colorful, and fluid, considering it's about 15...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Glass Wall (1953) with Vittorio Gassman and Gloria Grahame. Gassman is Peter, a stowaway on a displaced persons ship, who wants to live in America. With no sponsor and no identification, he will be sent back to (presumably) his native Hungary. If he can find Tom, the US paratrooper he aided...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
1955's Chicago Syndicate brought to stately Shellhammer manor Dennis O'Keefe and Abbe Lane in a briskly-paced crime story directed by Fred F. Sears, the driving force behind the camera for Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!, Calypso Heatwave, and The Night the World Exploded. O'Keefe is former WW2 accountant...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
White Banners showed up somewhere on the tube years ago, and it seemed a little, ahhhh, "melodramatic" to me. Foggy memories made me think it was about the triumph of modern refrigeration, and what it meant to world harmony, but your review puts the story in the right light. Another solid...- Julian Shellhammer
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What was the last TV show you watched?
We are watching the Geraldine McEwan series. We will definitely try the Hickson series. Many, many years ago on a student trip I saw The Mousetrap in London. Being a youngster, I admit I didn't appreciate it as I should have. On the same trip the group saw Canterbury Tales, Sleuth, the stage...- Julian Shellhammer
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Started on the Miss Marples ("Agatha Christie Marple") via Brit Box. Slowly winding up The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, courtesy PBS. I still occasionally watch Parking Wars; it's bubble gum for my little grey cells.- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The somewhat mis-titled Missing Women (1951) is about the Bureau of Missing Persons searching for Penny Edwards' character who is tracking down the thug who shot her husband as she and he were motoring along on their honeymoon. The less-than-an-hour diversion starts with a tracking camera roving...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Did I mention The Brasher Doubloon (1947), the re-titled film version of Raymond Chandler's The High Window? George Montgomery stars as Philip Marlowe, and his take on the character is less world-weary and cynical than hip and flip. Nancy Guild, an actress of whom I have never heard, plays not...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) with Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, and Alvy Moore, the iconic Mr. Kimball of Green Acres as a hardened con. Prisoners riot in protest against harsh conditions in prison. The movie opens with news footage of other prison riots from that time, and used the...- Julian Shellhammer
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What was the last TV show you watched?
The Mandalorian, S3 E6. Writer Jon Favreau may or may not have had these inspirations or homages in mind: The Plazir-15 population dependent entirely on robot (droid) labor, a nod to Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. The ugnaughts are an echo of the "gophs" (gophers) who dwell in the lowest...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Going back a while, and in no particular order, The Mob (1951) with Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Neville Brand, Ernest Borgnine, and a host of others, dir. Robert Parrish. Crawford goes undercover to solve murders connected to waterfront union corruption. High-speed delivery of tough talk...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
William Dieterle, the German-born director who enchanted us with Fog Over Frisco, thrilled us with A Midsummer Night's Dream, and stunned us with The Hunchback of Notre Dame, delivers the goods with 1952's The Turning Point, sort of a noir and a crime story blend. William Holden is a cynical...- Julian Shellhammer
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Show us their hats!
A bit of (semi-apocryphall) trivia: somewhere I read that Griffith wanted to be a poet, and planned to reserve David Wark Griffith when he was published. D. W. Griffith was his choice for the medium of film.- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Scandal Sheet (1952), directed by Phil Karlson, with Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, and John Derek. Crawford plays the hard-charging, no-nonsense editor of a great metropolitan daily, tasked with turning a formerly prestigious newspaper into a profitable publication via the means of pandering...- Julian Shellhammer
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Musician's hats
Ranger Doug, The Idol of American Youth? Got to check out these guys...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
From William Wyler, it was 1941's The Little Foxes, with Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, and a good many others, adapted from the drama of the same name. Yikes. Here's the summary from IMDB: The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The File on Thelma Jordan (1949) with Barbra Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, and Joan Tetzel. Assistant DA Corey and mysterious niece of elderly aunt Vera, Stanwyck, become involved. I'm laboring here to remain spoiler free, so let's say there is high-stress relationship problems, theft...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
1950's Ann Sheridan starrer Woman on the Run enabled us to while away an evening as the police try to track down an eye-witness to the murder of soon-to-testify witness in the trial of a big-time criminal. Sheridan's husband stumbles across the homicide, and disappears into the San Francisco...- Julian Shellhammer
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
David Harding, Counterspy, released in 1950, but set in the middle of World War 2. A cross-pollination from radio to screen, with Howard St. John as the tough head of counterintelligence. The radio program was the product of Phillips H. Lord, who created Gangbusters, among others. This movie...- Julian Shellhammer
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Located A&E's run of Timothy Hutton's Nero Wolfe series, available on yew toob. Whether it was Hutton's influence or one of the producers, the shows stick very close to Rex Stout's canon (Wolfe's yellow pajamas, Cramer never lighting his cigar, etc.) Ever since I saw the shows years ago Hutton...- Julian Shellhammer
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