feaito
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You're right...but what can we do about marketing policies?....If not...Fox would be finally officially releasing "Sunrise".....or "Zoo in Budapest" (1933)....or "The River" (1929)...or even "Lloyd's of London" (1936), among many others...on DVD.
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I've just watched this grand film and I want to share my views with you pals...
Since a teenager I had read about this film, especially being one of its stars, Madeleine Carroll, an absolute favourite of mine...she shines brightly here, indeed..
I had read that this was one of the few or the only Hollywood film of the period that dealed with the Spanish Civil War, and not only that, 'cos it took sides with the Republicans, in other words, it portrays the Republicans as the heroes here....
To tell a long story short: after King Alfonso (Alphonse) XIII os Spain (grandfather of current King Juan Carlos (John Charles) I), was deposed by a Republican-Socialist Government?...Spain entered one of its most difficult times of its History...then the Civil War began, around 1936, with the Republicans (Socialists) on one side and Nationalists, lead by Francisco Franco on the other...well Franco became Dictator Supreme in 1939, after he won the war, and mantained his position as such, until his death in 1975, when Democracy and Monarchy was restored.
Well, I was always so intrigued about this film....until I bought Image's DVD release in March...Hadn't seen until today....
Henry Fonda plays a peasant who lives in a farm near the city-port of "Castelmare"...he meets mysteriours foreigner Madeleine Carroll....the war begans...and the story goes on...
I must say that this film gained space and grew in my heart, with each passing moment, when the action, the war, the famine, grew more & more...it's greatly paced, photographed....by the underrated William Dieterle...who (what a coincidence!!) also was responsible for the breathtaking "Portrait Of Jennie"...which by now, you all know is one of my top 5 films.
Filmed in glorious B & W, with excellent supporting performances by Leo Carrillo, Reginald Denny and John Halliday (what a villain!!....I recommend to watch him too in Dietrich-Cooper's Borzage "Desire", produced by Lubistch)
Some sequences almost seemed to belong to the expressionist (german), neorrealist (italian) movements.
BTW, among the supporting cast, in small roles,I catched glimpses of Lupita Tovar (Susan Kohner's mother and the female star of 1931's spanish version of Lugosi's Dracula, in which the main character was played by Carlos Villar?as) and Katherine DeMille (Cecil B. DeMille's daughter and Tony Quinn's firts wife..and an excellent actress too).
Henry Fonda, as usual, is excellent, his performance reminds me of his role in the great "The Grapes of Wrath"...and Madeleine Carroll is equally excellent.
The picture quality is very good. Image's releases have never "deceived" me. Their "Evangeline" release (I know I've said this a million times!!) is great too.
Well, friends, it's a Walter Wanger picture released by United Artists, I don't know which channel has a copy of it...but TCM, must show it...(well maybe TCM has shown it previously, I don't know, maybe Mongo does). If you can't catch it on TV or buy it...get it through Netflix (as some pals here do).
Best Wishes for all of you.
P.S.: After watching films like these, I feel great. 'Cos although it is a drama, in these hard times, it gives you hope that there's a chance for peace and justice in this messed-up world, if all people had the principles & views of Fonda's character.
BTW, Fonda's character's (Marco) last words (although much shorter; the film runs only 84 minutes) even (IMHO) have hints of Chaplin's final speech in "The Great Dictator",yet to come.
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BTW I read about Orry Kelly & Grant sharing home...in Geoffrey Wansell's "Haunted Idol"...Very Good Book..Still gotta read Warren G. Harris's book on Grant!
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I really enjoyed "How To Steal a Million"....A very entertaining romp...with Audrey, O'Toole, Hugh Griffith (wonderful as Audrey's father), Charles Boyer...Good news!!...
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YES, and IMHO she "shines" even more than Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music"...another film I used to be very fond of, but don't like anymore (it happened the same to me with "The Wizard of Oz")...In fact, when I watched the film as a boy, it was Eleanor towards whom I was attracted to...not Julie. She looked radiant.
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It's true..I read that in the 1920's Grant shared an apartment or a room? with Orry-Kelly, who sold hand-painted ties then?... But that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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I mean, it was taken/borrowed from there..
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Read it somewhere..he borrowed it from a dog of his?
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The Only thing I can say is that Loretta Young really looked ravshing in those clothes as Empress Eugenie in Fox's 1938 "Suez"...and that Shearer's outfits in "Marie Antoinette" were really the epitome of Adrian's genius, she looked awesome in them!...They certainly should have been properly conserved and displayed for public view in museums, along with the stills of the actresses wearing them.
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I looked it up in both Ephraim Katz's "Film Encyclopaedia" and Quinlan's "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Movie Stars"...and NOTHING...I even checked a french book I own called "Dictionnaire Mondial des comediens" (World Dictionary of actors), which has plenty information of french and other continental actors...and nothing too... Try these links, all in french, sadly:
www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=6192.html
www.geneastar.net/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=47&t=47
chronobio.asurtech.com/structure.php3?rub=3&id=3281
Hope it helps
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Everything Cary did was excellent...from "I'm No Angel", "She Done Him Wrong" and "Blonde Venus"....TO:
"Holiday"
"Bringing Up Baby"
"Only Angels Have Wings"
"Arsenic and Old Lace"
"Once Upon a Time"
"Talk of the Town"
"Notorious"
"To Catch a Thief"
"North by Northwest"
"People will Talk"
"Gunga Din"
"Suspicion"
"Mr. Blandings Builds His DreamHouse"
"The Awful Truth"
"My Favorite Wife"
"Penny Serenade"
"Topper"
"Sylvia Scarlett"
"In Name Only"
"Hot Saturday"
"Philadelphia Story"
"Operation P?tticoat"
"Charade"
"I was a Male War Bride"....as you can see he's my absolute fave actor...he acted almost only in true-classics...he epitomizes Hollywood!
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Execllent dvd...March is great...Waiting right now to receive: Loretta and cary Grant's Born to be bad; Corinne griffiths' Garden of Eden and Grant's "Signature Collection"....Also Bought Dark Passage and Dead Reckoning!!!
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Thanks edge, with all that data I'll search on the web...Everything you tell me sounds so thrilling....she'd deserve an A. Award....But so many who did, didn't receive the award at all or received almost before they died, i.e.: Myrna Loy got it late in her life....though her qualifications were very obvious.
An regarding this post, Let's not we forget that lovely Eleanor Parker was directed by Mr. Wyler in "Detective Story" opposite Kirk Douglas....which sadly I've never seen...it's a Paramount picture...which TV channel may have it in its "library"?, 'cos it's not available for sale.
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Yes, she was a "versatile" talent indeed...
There you named another fave of mine, beautiful red-head, Eleanor Parker...BTW has she written her autobiography? Or is it any biography of hers out there available?....Whe I think of her "The Naked Jungle", "Scaramouche", "Escape Me Never", "Escape from Fort Bravo", "Between Two Worlds","Interrupted Melody", among many more.. (such a variety of roles & films!)....all come to my mind...
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Yes!! your turn MovieJoe....Congrats!!! Agnes Moorehead was really nasty & annoying here!!
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As I stated in this post...I just LOVE sharing views with people who care...and have a PASSION for this.
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Fine Moviejoe, hope really that this movie will live up to your expectations...Happy viewing..
I saw Gable and Lombard's "No Man of Her Own", and maybe I was too young, but I remember I was so thrilled for watching this famous couple in their only film together (I think I had watched previously the Movie "Gable and Lombard"...starring Jill Clayburgh?)...that I felt somewhat disappointed, 'cos found it was somewhat a "routine" film...I almost sure that nowadays, I'd watch it with another, more mature, eyes! Anyway, it's not a five stars (Maltin) picture, but still feel its worthwhile.....wonderful Dorothy Mackaill is the third leading player here.
"We're Not Dressing" must be sth!..I loved the 1950's british movie based on the same play (The Admirable Crichton)...which also served as basis for DeMille's 1919 "Male and Female"...also shown on TCM, in April?
On the othe rhand, many times I was on the verge of buying "Supernatural", "Island of Lost Souls" and "Murders in the Zoo", on VHS...but I (wrongly) kept waiting for their dvd release....I'm eager to watch the three of them....in "Supernatural", also featured is intriguing (at least for me), Vivienne Osborne....who was a featured (starlet?) in Paramount pictures of the early 30's....also feel intrigued by Peggy Shannon and Wynne Gibson too..well and Nancy Carroll, who was then a 1st magnitude star
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Thanks M.L....Since childhood I was...what do you call it a "Library Mouse"...I read everything that had to do with films!!
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Yes I read she even repeated her role in Dodsworth on TV?...I also have taped from TCM "Female", along with "Frisco Jenny" and "Madame X"...Would like that TCM could borrow her late '20s and early '30s Paramounts...
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both wild guesses:
1.- Red Skelton?
2.- Sammy Davis Jr.
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Yes, you're right...but sadly, those A. Awards were won by him, for "Bad Girl" in 1931, which is a lesser known film nowadays, with Sally Eilers and James Dunn, scarcely seen...anywhere..and the silent "Seventh Heaven"...which was very famous in its time...maybe they show this films on Fox Movie Channel...
And yes I hadn't mentioned Moonrise...good reminder!
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Nope..
Clue # 5: An escaped convict
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Yes, Orry-Kelly did wonders with Bette davis in "Jezebel", among others..
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Well "To Be or Not To Be" is a sure buy for me...I've never seen that one....and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is highly amusing too, and I'd buy it too...
Weird what happened to us with "That Uncertain Feeling",,,isn't it...phooeyy!! I disliked it...although the cast, sets and everything seemed all right...well it just happens that way sometimes!
Nice story about "Fools For Scandal", that one plus "Love Before Breakfast", "They Knew what they Wanted", "Hands across the Table" and "True Confession", are must-see Lombard films...I enjoyed her in "Swing High Swing Low" with MacMurray and "The Princess comes Across"....Thank god I've got "Nothing Sacred" and "In Name Only"...ready to watch!!
What have you Bought/Taped Lately?
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Ladymirabelle...I've also heard that the original british 1939 version of "Gaslight" aka "Angel Street" aka "The Murder in Thornton Square", is the best, 'cos altough it hasn't the glossy MGM treatment of the Bergman version...it's much more suspenseful and better-well done...so I'm eager to watch it...and it has Anton Walbrook in it (A wink M.L.
I think it's pretty much the same with Fredric March's 1931 Paramount version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", compared with the 1941 film, produced by MGM with Spencer Tracy....I've also read that John Barrymore's 1920 silent version of the tale is very good too!