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Post by louise on Jan 22, 2023 10:43:00 GMT
That Wonderful Urge! (1948). Tyrone Power is a journalist who has written a series of articles criticising wealthy heiress Gene Tierney. He follows her incognito to Sun Valley, where he finds he actually likes her. They begin to fall in love,but then she finds out who he is, and, in revenge, announces to the other newspaper reporters that she and Power are married. This is a disaster for him, and sets off a trail of events in which they keep trying to get the better of each other. Quite an amusing comedy which happily does not lapse into sentimentality.
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Post by CountVolpe on Jan 22, 2023 16:09:07 GMT
Hotel Mumbai (2018)
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Post by politicidal on Jan 23, 2023 3:15:00 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 23, 2023 16:59:08 GMT
Sapphire (1959). Murder mystery set in London. A young pregnant apparently white girl is found murdered, the police are surprised to find out she is mixed race, and believe this may be the motive for her murder. The father of her baby, a young white university student, was going to marry her, his family were not happy about it. And there are several other people who may be involved. Quite good mystery, with some rather brutal but no doubt authentic racial attitudes shown by various characters.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2023 2:46:25 GMT
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Post by stryker on Jan 24, 2023 13:33:04 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 24, 2023 15:58:21 GMT
The Shiralee (1957). Peter Pinch as an Australian who finds his wife with another man, and leaves home taking his young daughter with him. They travel around together while he does various jobs and gets into a lot of fights. Quite an interesting story, with Dana Wilson very good as the little girl. It helps if you enjoy seeing Peter Finch get into punch ups, as there are a lot of those.
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Post by louise on Jan 24, 2023 18:32:02 GMT
Heaven Knows Mr Allison (1957). During WW2, marine Robert Mitchum lands on a Pacific island and finds to his surprise a solitary nun, Deborah Kerr. The two of them have to survive together on the island which is all right until the Japanese arrive. Quite an entertaining comedy-drama, with Mitchum and Kerr both very good.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 24, 2023 18:39:25 GMT
The Quiller Memorandum 1966 directed by Michael Anderson Belongs to the more serious spy thrillers that came in the 1960's, while not in the class as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 and The Ipcress File 1965 but it's still pretty good. George Segal's spy is in Berlin trying to sniff out Neo-Nazis, not commies, has no weapons, just uses his fists when he needs to. Good support from Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and Senta Berger, as a teacher he befriends. Good use of Berlin locations and has a screenplay by Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2023 18:40:35 GMT
Sapphire (1959). Murder mystery set in London. A young pregnant apparently white girl is found murdered, the police are surprised to find out she is mixed race, and believe this may be the motive for her murder. The father of her baby, a young white university student, was going to marry her, his family were not happy about it. And there are several other people who may be involved. Quite good mystery, with some rather brutal but no doubt authentic racial attitudes shown by various characters. Agreed. Saw that a few years ago and quite enjoyed it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 24, 2023 20:25:13 GMT
FRAGMENT OF FEAR 1970 -- One of those movies you watch and then forget. Then when you hear the title you think, "how come I haven't seen this?" And then you start watching and bits and pieces start to come back. It's easy to understand why you forget it because so little of consequence happens in it. David Hemmings investigates the murder of his aunt who ran a charity that helps reformed criminals find well-placed jobs. From the get-go strange things happen, both to him and the audience. I.e., a woman totally disconnected to him discovers the body of his aunt. Then shortly thereafter she becomes his fiancee without any establishing narrative. There's a dreamy quality to it. It's a collection of familiar British character actors with a mystery that is interesting but ultimately peters out into one of those "was it all his head?" situations. They cheat on that possibility because there is a sequence where a character is shown speaking to Hemmings on the phone and we see what he is doing, without Hemmings being present. If we see what he is doing, then how can it be in his mind? There's something lazy to it--as if they had the money to make it but hadn't worked out the story. It defaults to the all too-familiar late 60s early 70s plot trope of main character helplessness and failure. If they had been open to the possibility of the story going somewhere, then they could have done more with what they had.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 25, 2023 14:54:39 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 25, 2023 18:08:55 GMT
Excellensen 1944 directed by Hasse Ekman This Swedish movie stars Lars Hanson in his next to last movie, he hardly made any movies after he returned from his Hollywood stint at the end of the silent era. Here Hanson plays a celebrated elderly Austrian poet who opposes Nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading Nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner. The movie takes place in Austria around the time of the anschluss. Rather bold anti-Nazi movie since WWII was still was going on, and Sweden was supposed to be neutral, but the winds had changed. Better than I thought it would be. (It hasn't got any English title)
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Post by louise on Jan 25, 2023 18:56:42 GMT
Now, Voyager (1942). Bette Davis is a repressed spinster who is oppressed by her cruel mother (Gladys Cooper). Then a psychiatrist(Claud Rains) gets her to cheer up a bit. Then she goes on a cruise and falls for Paul Heinreid who is married and has a daughter who is oppressed by HER cruel mother (mothers do not come well out of this film). She can’t have Heinreid, but she decides to befriend his daughter instead, because she knows what it’s like to be oppressed by a cruel mother etc. I know this is a film that is much admired, but I found it very melodramatic.
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Post by stryker on Jan 25, 2023 20:33:10 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 26, 2023 7:28:46 GMT
Bad sister (1931). The bad sister is Marianne (Sidney Fox) who is loved by the good doctor Linley (Conrad Nagle) who in turn is loved by the good sister Laura (BetteDavis). Then the charming con man Corliss (Humphrey Bogart) comes to town and bewitches Marianne while claiming to want to build a factory in the town. Marianne, desperate to please Corliss, fakes her father’s signature on a letter saying the scheme to build the factory is sound, and Corliss elopes with her and a lot of money from trusting citizens. But does he intend to marry her? And will the good doctor realise that Laura (the good sister) is the one he should marry? Fairly entertaining family drama with an unexpectedly cheerful ending - bad girls were not always punished in pre code movies.
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Post by gspdude on Jan 26, 2023 14:55:08 GMT
The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939) A Classic. Well done by all, especially Charles Laughton. 9/10.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 26, 2023 18:07:43 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 26, 2023 18:29:03 GMT
Apartment for Peggy 1948 directed by George Seaton That's William Holden, Jeanne Crain and Edmund Gwenn in a publicity pic, and the movie was in Technicolor. The kind of movie I would normally not bother to watch, but since I like Holden I gave it a go. Frankly it was a bit too sugary for me, but it had a few really good scenes, and there is a serious undertone about the shortage of somewhere to live and to live on a G.I.Bill after WWII for young couples, this story takes place in the academic world.
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Post by louise on Jan 26, 2023 20:50:29 GMT
The Catered Affair (1956). Interesting comedy-drama about a poor couple (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) whose daughter ( Debbie Reynolds) tells them she is going to marry her fiancée (Rod Taylor), in a few days, as they have a chance to go to California for their honeymoon. They meet Taylor’s parents, who are richer than they are, and Bette Davis becomes jealous when she hears about the expensive weddings they gave their daughters. She determines that her daughter is going to have a big wedding too, in spite of the fact that nobody wants it except her. Things get very tense as the list of expenses for the wedding grows and Borgnine sees his hard earned savings (with which he hopes to buy his own taxi) in jeopardy. Good performances all round, and a very satisfactory ending.
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