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"Forbidden Planet" 1956 starring Walter Pigeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen
"Symphony of Six Million" 1932 staring Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunn
- It's been awhile since I've watched this one from beginning to end and I had forgotten how much of "Star Trek" is in this movie eleven years before there was a "Star Trek"
"Symphony of Six Million" 1932 staring Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunn
- Pre-code in its honest and in-depth portrayal of the Jewish immigrant community of NYC - after the code was enforced, movies became more homogeneously "traditional" American and characters and communities like these were reduced to small more "sanitized" roles
- The moralizing and sanctimony - a doctor should work in a clinic for the poor for little pay and not "sell out" for a profitable Park Avenue practice - is obnoxious, but so arrogantly sure of its righteousness that it's interesting to watch it power through every cliche to loudly hammer home its pious point
- One more pre-code note, Irene Dunn has a limp throughout and wears dowdy clothes - something studios rarely allowed their glamorous stars to do on screen
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