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What Movie Is This?
Permlink Replies: 7 - Pages: 1 - Original Post: Jul 19, 2012 6:52 PM Original Post By: JSandtcm Threads: [ Previous | Next ]

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Re: What Movie Is This?
Posted: Jul 21, 2012 1:57 PM   in response to: slaytonf in response to: slaytonf
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Yes, we read the transcript of the play in high school and I saw the movie maybe a year later. We had a book that had several plays such as this one, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, HARVEY and THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and they were illustrated with stills from the film adaptations.

WEDDING works on the page and it probably worked on the stage, but Frankie, up close and in your face on a movie or TV screen is just way too much to bear and too obviously an adult, which for me made it all the more intolerable.

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Posted: Jul 21, 2012 12:15 PM   in response to: clore in response to: clore
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per clore:
the details may have been a bit jumbled as far as the ending goes. That seems to often be the case for films not seen in decades

Definitely the case with me. I often misremember plots of movies I haven't seen in a very long time.

I haven't been able to sit through the film a second time . . . . "Frankie" is just too annoying for me to get past the first half-hour or so again.

Same here. I just read the book.


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Posted: Jul 21, 2012 8:34 AM   in response to: slaytonf in response to: slaytonf
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Except that Emma doesn't die and the children realize they were wrong and rekindle their affection for her.

I realize that, but was willing to consider that the details may have been a bit jumbled as far as the ending goes. That seems to often be the case for films not seen in decades. There was a death toward the end and a change of heart on the part of the "children" but Emma moves on to another family as I recall.

You may be right on the second film. Despite being an admirer of Zinnemann, I haven't been able to sit through the film a second time and my first viewing was when I was in high school which was over 40 years ago. "Frankie" is just too annoying for me to get past the first half-hour or so again.

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Posted: Jul 21, 2012 5:30 AM   in response to: clore in response to: clore
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Except that Emma doesn't die and the children realize they were wrong and rekindle their affection for her.

The first movie may be the silent version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. You can see it on YouTube to confirm. Type in Uncle Tom's Cabin 1927.

It's not exactly the same, but I'll take a stab at the second movie. It might be The Member of the Wedding:

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83261/The-Member-of-the-Wedding/

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Posted: Jul 21, 2012 1:42 AM   in response to: veroncia in response to: veroncia
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The third movie that you mentioned is most likely EMMA with Marie Dressler.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022854/

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Posted: Jul 21, 2012 12:55 AM   in response to: JSandtcm in response to: JSandtcm
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Hi, I love these films and I do not know what the name of the movie is PLEASE HELP!!! First movie: its a silent film about a little slave girl who is friends with a little white girl and the little white girl dies at the end and the little slave girl prays for her by her bed side. The second movie: This girl goes to live with a slave nanny and the girl is dirty,loud and cant make firends. she has a neighbor who is a little boy and the little boy dies and then the nanny also dies and the girl goes to live with her brother.. The third movie is where there is a nanny and a man who has 3 children and the wife dies then the nanny and man get togehter and the man dies the children are older and the children accuse her of stuff and then the nanny dies and the children are sad that she died... HELP PLEASE I hope this was enough info....:)

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Posted: Jul 19, 2012 8:07 PM   in response to: JSandtcm in response to: JSandtcm
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Judgement at Nuremberg.

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What Movie Is This?
Posted: Jul 19, 2012 6:52 PM
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Spencer Tracy plays Judge Haywood! It's about the Nazi's on trial!

Very Good Movie! Can' t remember what it's called?