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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 19, 2017 23:31:52 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Aug 4, 2018 2:17:08 GMT
I just saw the film on DVD, today... I bought it because Rhonda Fleming was in the movie...  ...and I love time travel stories. Ms. Fleming was fantastic, and seeing Bing Crosby's character introducing a bit of the 20th century to people living in the past was fun... But, despite listening to Ms. Fleming's beautiful singing voice, I found the musical concept of this movie to be rather boring and pointless. I found it interesting that there were some similarities with the movie: "Somewhere In Time" (1980) , which is one of my favorite movies... - We see a painting of Ms. Fleming's character at the beginning of the film...
- There is an special object that travels though time, which Ms. Fleming's character gives to Mr. Crosby's character...
- Mr. Crosby's character travels into the past in a without a Machine or without using some Time/Space phenomenon.
- Mr. Crosby's character returns to the present in a similar fashion...
- Ms. Fleming's character wants Mr. Crosby's character to stay with her, as she watches him disappear. |
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Post by claudius on Aug 4, 2018 11:55:36 GMT
Yeah, this was the one I was most familiar with. Cedric Hardwicke in a music number!
Merlin is never portrayed well in these adaptations, either a narrow-minded fathead, a villain, or both. T.H. White's version would have bonded well with the Connecticut Yankee.
Anyone see the 1931 Will Rodgers version? That one had a climax involving knights, racketeer machine-guns, automobiles, a tank, and a helicopter! That one had its television premiere on the Disney Channel in 1993!
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Post by politicidal on Aug 4, 2018 12:57:22 GMT
Only saw this one 
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Post by teleadm on Aug 4, 2018 14:28:20 GMT
It felt like a missed opportunity.
There was one touchy moment when Bing watches a sick kid die, instead of feeling sorry they went out singing "Busy Doing Nothing"
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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 4, 2018 21:25:46 GMT
For those wondering why the OP seems kind of random, with just a pic from the film, it was originally posted in anticipation of the much-hyped solar eclipse of last summer.
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...and I love time travel stories.
