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All because of this terrible Covid and lockdown and all I guess. I watched some old movies. Terrible I would say. Scarlett Street in which Edward G Robinson tries some romance with that face, Pied Piper ( Two versions, in one Peter OToole is awful), On The Beach ( a most illogical Nevile Shute book), a simplistic movie by Hitchcock in which Ingrid Bergman goes to Argentina as a spy and Cary Grant walks around in stylish suits. The worst one was Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Pathetic characters. Long time ago I did not feel this bad or did not want to hurt the parents.
Bill
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Have seen each a couple times. Are there classic films of the era that you like?
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I have not seen so many but I do like some of them.
Battleship Potemkin 1925
David Copperfield 1935
You cant Take IT With You 1938
The Bells of St Mary's 1945
Beauty and the Beast 1946 French
The Bicycle Thief 1948
The Big Sleep 1946 Raymond Chandler story and William Faulkner script
A Woman's Vengeance 1947
Wizard OF OZ 1939
Regards
Bill
because who can be that pathetic? Ingrid Bergman is firstly a magnificent beauty and wonder to behold who has never left me hoping her scene would hurry up and end but I'd have to ask what are you looking for in a film if these ones you name strike you as "terrible" There are plenty I'd agree fit that list. Try on One Girl's Confession where it seems obvious the female lead was chosen for her buxom blondness though her delivery is as interesting as reading a shopping list, The Treasure of Monte Christo or Deadline at Dawn which despite starring Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas and a screenplay by Clifford Odets never surpasses incredulous.
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this is the primary reason why I never liked Casablanca along with the fact that Humphrey Bogart had as much sex appeal as a wet noodle! No wonder she left him in Paris!... Sabrina didn't work for me in the same reason... even though I still liked the dialog, story and of course Hepburn and Holden!
Watching Roman Holiday recently I could not stop laughing, not from and planned humor but from the total silliness and hype and the easy exploitability of the audience of the era. My older brothers and sisters would beat me up if I tell them this.
Bill
On The Beach is an awesome movie. If you didn't feel depressed from that movie you aren't human. A very strong message, and not overdone in the least. Much of the effectiveness of the movie was due to the performances of the cast....Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and others.
I read the book again before watching the movie. It is a strange book with the characters enjoying life in spite of knowing there were only a few months to live. They are having parties and shopping for cribs and toys. They dont seem to be too intelligent with no thoughts on how to face the future. They are more concerned on the quantity of wine left in the club. And this loose woman is after a married man who does not accept his family is dead. He buys a diamond for her! I think the producers wanted to give this woman some class by casting Ava Gardner. Death is taken so casually in the book. I dont know about the Aussies but no American captain of a submarine would give up that easy.
Bill
You seem to think you know how people would/should act while man caused extinction is staring them in the face. All I can do is laugh and shake my head. BTW....it was fiction.I still think that you are not human if you weren't touched by the background singing of "Waltzing Matilda" by a group of doomed Aussies while Peck and Gardner finally did the inevitable.
Edits: 06/10/21
My mistake. Guess am conditioned by the panicky approach to fire, floods, shootings et al.
Cheers
Bill
Dan Duryea's performance alone is worth the price of admission.
It is terribly seedy and immoral junk. I cant stand the slapping of women which Dan Duryea does very well. This is a story unearthed from the underground of seedy Paris. Maybe the Koreans could make a real violent version and the reviewers would go gaga and give an Oscar.
Bill
I see it as a moral tale.
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