Fedya
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I saw it. I think the life rings all had names of hotels that were presumably in the Los Angeles area. The diving instructor would have been an immigrant from Sweden.
If you want to see some more interestingly talented kids, watch the second half of the 1934 Technicolor short [*Show Kids*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2012/11/show-kids.html]. Some of the talents are a bit creepy, however.
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> P.S. I just saw Nora's earlier post about this. Nora identified it as free, white and 21-- but it was usually spoken as free, blonde and 21. And of course, how many non-Caucasians have blonde hair...? LOL
I've always heard it as "Free, white, and 21" myself. Inger Stevens says it to Harry Belafonte in *The World, The Flesh, and the Devil* causing a prolonged moment of tension.
As for offensive language, some pepole find Communist apologias offensive; other people find anti-Communist apologias offensive.
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> Some shots are comin' my way and they ain't pina coladas, know what I mean.
So you don't like pi?a coladas, or getting caught in the rain?
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[somebody|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZUzXKDVx8] is laughing, at least.
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*It's a Great Feeling* is a noir?????
Ruth Chatterton in *Female* is a noir?????
*His Girl Friday* is more sci-fi than noir. Although if you ask me, it's even more of a western.
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If I had been reading this forum earlier I would have chimed in that I think it's [*Twist of Fate*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047625/] from 1954 with Ginger Rogers and Herbert Lom, made in the UK.
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Unsurprisingly, [iMDb|http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002561/] has a wealth of information.
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> In the first version, Gutman does it to steal back a thousand dollars from Spade. In the 3rd version, there is no reason given.
I always figured it was to keep Spade from following them to the La Paloma. They could get the bird and leave the city.
Note that in the 1931 version, there's only one visit by Spade to Gutman. In the 1941 version it's split into two, with Spade stealing Wilmer's gun before entering Gutman's suite in the second visit, if memory serves. It would help explain why Wilmer had it in for Spade.
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In *The Man Who Never Was*, the Nazis hire Irishman Stephen Boyd to travel to Britain to find out whether the information identifying the dead body that washed up in Spain (placed there by Clifton Webb) is accurate or not.
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Apparently, this Hungarian film was long considered lost until a copy was found in New York in 2008. Yesterday, I came across an article saying that [money has now been allocated|http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2013/06/05/70438/] to restore and remaster the film.
The movie was directed by Mih?ly Kert?sz, who would later emigrate to America, anglicize his name, and go on to bigger and better things. The restoration is expected to take about a year, to be finished (with any luck) in time for the movie's centenary.
The article mentiones that the movie can also be seen [on Youtube|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_zdTnt_hU], but I didn't look to see if the subtitles are in English or Hungarian.
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> It's as if someone asked "Are we including British series?" and was answered "Oh, just scatter some in the bottom sixty." Not having Doctor Who is also a travesty.
Yes, Minister is also missing from the list.
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The first time I saw *The Crowded Sky* and heard the theme from *A Summer Place* playing in that scene in the background, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.
*The Crowded Sky* is one of those movies that's so truly awful it's a laugh riot.
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> I believe your view of foreign television is skewed. There were many instructional programs
A brief Youtube search yields gems like [this|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnZxGo1x6n8]. :-)
> but great amounts of fiction also. The fiction was not bridled by Western views of morality.
I'd assume in the Soviet Union they were bridled by Soviet views of morality, however.
Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Boy and tractor fulfill and overfulfill their grain quota!
{ducking}
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> Does anyone know if the estates of McQueen and Newman are still arguing over the billing on this turkey???
I would have given serious consideratoin to billing them as Paul McQueen and Steve Newman.
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I figure people can see my screen name ot the left of my posts.
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The Humphrey Bogart *One Fatal Hour* is of course not a remake of the *Two Against the World* they showed today (what a nutty ending!), but of *Five Star Final*, which is a really good movie.
As for the shotest time between remakes, how many movies that were basically *Madame X* were made before they really started cracking down on the code?
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Did you try going to the [iMDb page|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035493/reference] and clicking on the link for the soundtrack?
I only watched the beginning of the short, but I know that one aired. I don't think the Ted Weems [Merchant Marine Corps Cadet Band short|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240966/reference] aired.
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> I guess it's another indication of his lack of originality.
I don't think there's been any originality in movie making since [Fred Ott sneezed|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnOpDWSbyw].
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I always thought you sounded more like Lina Lamont. Or at least Jean Arthur. :-p
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My father, like Elvis Presley, was a victim of the peacetime draft. Dad spent 18 months at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico preventing the Ernst Stavro Blofelds of the world from getting their hand on our missiles.
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I thought that in California it was [soda, not pop|http://novamentis.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/softdrinksmap.png].
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> Elisha Cook, Jr., also of--guess--The Killing
I don't know whether he'd be better remembered as Wilmer the gunsel from *The Maltese Falcon*. Of course, I also tend to remember him as Marilyn Monroe's uncle in *Don't Bother to Knock*
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> Just so you know, the name is "Betty *Boop*."
Perhaps the original poster was thinking of the hilariously bad movie [*Bop Girl Goes Calypso*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050205/reference].
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