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RE: The Day the Earth Caught fire, "The Trouble with Harry", Gwenn and Laughton

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In Reply to: RE: The Day the Earth Caught fire--- posted by patrickU on May 14, 2008 at 10:27:30

patrickU,

I don't know the "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" but will look for it.

J'aime beaucoup votre desscription presque poétique de "The Trouble with Harry",actually one of my favourite of Hitchcock's- a quiet movie but the humour covers a kind of sinister and surreal quality of ammorality and dismissive of death. Death is treated as it was in "The Seventh Seal"- a kind of game.

When I compared Laughton- for me one of the ten best movie actors ever- to Gwenn, it is to compare dark -Laughton- and light- Gwenn. Laughton always maintains a kind of mysterious twitchiness- both agressive and insecure at the same time while Gwenn seems straightforward and taken at face value.

By the way, are you a fan of Laughton's "Hobson's Choice" That I think is one of his greatest- along with "Bounty", and "Hobson" is in some ways more impressive than "Hunchback". It's also one of John Mills' best movies- his subtle transformation under the guidance of Brenda De Banzie, who plays one of Laughton's daughters. The best movie ever made centered around the world of shoemaking!

Cheers,

Bambi B

Follow Ups:

RE: And the best film about cigar smoking..... - patrickU 11:46:39 05/14/08 (2)
- Yes, yes, yes: "Witness for the Prosecution" - Bambi B 13:18:22 05/14/08 (1)
  - RE: Yes, yes, yes: "Witness for the Prosecution" - patrickU 13:30:31 05/14/08 (0)

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