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Great movie! I still prefer Bringing Up Baby and Philadelphia Story, but this one is great, too.Holiday with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Great movie! I still prefer Bringing Up Baby and Philadelphia Story, but this one is great, too.Holiday with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
One of my favorites as well. I own a copy of it on dvd, but find myself watching it whenever I stumble upon it. It was the movie that made me see the light wherein concerned with Glen Ford; he was perfect for the part.
Love that movie. "Candy gram! Candy gram for Mongo!"Blazing Saddles
"Mongo only pawn in game of life."
Holiday with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Last night, Dark Victory with Bette Davis and George Brent; young Ronald Reagan in a small part. Also, sometime last week, Marked Woman with Bette Davis again; my wife and I are on a Joan Crawford - Bette Davis kick. Scattered in through there I watched (by myself) Twenty-Four Eyes, a Japanese film from 1954, about a school teacher and her students, set in the years 1928 to about the late 40s. Miss Oishi is sent to a rural school on an island where her "modern" ways, such as Western clothes and riding a bicycle, at first create an reaction of disapproval. Strongly sentimental as she watches her students grow up and take part in WW2.
Fantastic and under-rated movie. Almost not a bad scene in it and a much more serious undertone than the more popular "Bringing up Baby" or "Philadelphia Story" that C44Antelope mentioned. And no simple happy ending - almost pre-code in the switching of sisters for Cary Grant's character.
What was the new evidence? The switchblade?"Re-watched Twelve Angry Men last night. A great film."
I used to like that one, but having seen so many real trials, and being on several juries myself, I know that the main plot point - that of a juror introducing new evidence in the jury room, would result in an *instant* mistrial. The plot just doesn't work after knowing that.
I absolutely loved it. Hepburn is so, so charming. Like you said, it's really interesting to see how it's more "seriously mocking" the upper classes than Bringing Up Baby, which I'd call right out screw ball comedy.
On the weekend we went to see 12 years a slave. Absolutely powerful and moving experience. Yesterday I watched Battleground on TCM such a great film.
A tag to the movie...One-eyed Mrs. Taggart is an emasculating woman whose husband, a successful building contractor, has been dead for ten years. Joining her for the traditional annual celebration of her wedding anniversary are her three sons: eldest Henry is a transvestite; middle son Terry is planning to emigrate to Canada with his shrewish wife Karen and their five children; and youngest Tom, a promiscuous philanderer whose many past relationships have ended at his mother's insistence, arrives with his pregnant girlfriend Shirley in tow. Throughout the day and evening, the domineering, evil, vindictive, manipulative matriarch does everything in her power to remind her children who controls the family finances and ultimately their futures.
This one comes to us from Hammer Productions, and in it, she's still got her evil despite her age.Bette Davis adds another portrait of evil as the most merciless mother of them all . . .