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I would have loved to see this one!! and Mary Lou, now that my brother has began to learn how to copy VHS to DVD (it's a sort of long process), I promise to try to have "Min and Bill" (of which I own the original VHS) copied for you; I haven't forgotten about "Sunrise" either, I hope my bro can copy it 'cos my cousin could not
. You know, since I own many original VHS of movies that haven't been released on DVD, like "Craig's Wife", "Midnight", "Remember the Night", "The Divorcee", "A Free Soul", "Rosalie", "Riptide", "Sitting Pretty"
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I'm sure Path has nailed it, congrats!...I knew I had seen this one recently! Great choice Lolite!
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What more can I say?....thank you very much mongo, evh, path and pgms, you make my day!
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LEO,
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I WILL EVER ADDRESS YOU DIRECTLY, 'COS I FEEL YOU ARE A LOST CAUSE, SINCE "EONS" AGO; YOU HAVE PI***D ME OFF! YOU CANNOT INSULT SUCH A CHERISHED MEMBER OF THE BOARDS AS MARY LOU, A VERY NICE, CLASSY, GENEROUS, CULTURED LADY, WHOM I FEEL LIKE A KIND OF SURROGATE MOM. WIPE AND CLEAN YOUR MOUTH OF ALL THE RUBBISH THERE'S ON IT, BEFORE EVEN MENTIONING HER NAME YOU LOW CLASS, LOWBROW PERSON.
YOU KNOW LEO, EVEN IF YOU HAVE MONEY, ROLLS ROYCES OR WHATEVER YOU DREAM OF, ECONOMIC SUCCESS AND MATERIAL POSSESSIONS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING AND THEY CANNOT CONCEAL IGNORANT, WORTHLESS TRASH LIKE YOU.
'COS YOU KNOW, CLASS AND GOODNESS ARE TRAITS YOU'LL NEVER TOUCH, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY OR POWER YOU CAN GAIN... NO LEO, CLASS, CULTURE, FRIENDS, ARE THINGS THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY.
ADIEU, SO LONG, NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE, ENOUGH RANTING AND COARSENESS.
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Thanks Mary Lou, I feel flattered by this thread you created with my name on it! It is thrilling!
I know that all of these reviews were posted on another threads like the "A Great Movie Alert" (created by our pal Path-thanks for those good reviews!) and "Claudette Colbert-Star of the Month", a very successful thread created by minatonga (thanks guy!), who I wish would visit us more frequently (also Venerados)....'cos it's people like that, who love the movies, the classics, and are open to exchange opinions, information in a civil and respectful way; people from all places, all ages, all races, tolerant, compassionate, caring, nice, sympathetic, etc... things that bring us together, 'cos the world has too much fighting and aggressiveness, to repeat that kind of unnecessary behaviors 'round here.
So....I copy-pasted these small reviews independently, thus creating a thread for each movie...to try to erase the "effects" of so many threads which lately have fallen under the "attack" of verbal & ignorant terrorists...we won't take or accept it! For each "verbal" terrorism on our threads/boards, we'll create three or four constructive and positive ones!!.
I hope that these reviews will encourage people to watch the movies scheduled in March ("Tovarich" & "It's a Wonderful World!" in Colbert's Tribute) and the other two ("History is Made at Night" and "The More the Merrier") will encourage TCM/tcmprogrammer to take note of the good movies yet to be obtained for scheduling, just as previously they have noticed it and borrowed "Portrait Of Jennie", "Midnight", "Garden of Eden" and many more....'cos people, TCM is always listening to their viewers, I'm sure of that and also, let's not forget, that not everyone can afford to buy them on VHS or DVD!
Fernando aka as "feaito"
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Stumped...sounds familiar...Love is many-splendored Thing?
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And Loly, thanks for your appraisal and kind words, it is a pleasure for me too, to have the opportunity to exchange ideas with so knowledgeable, civil and nice people. These Message Boards are a real haven for me.
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On Borrowed Time?
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It sounds so terribly familiar and amusing...hope someone can guess which movie is, 'cos I wanna see it.
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This gorgeous film is also scheduled in March to honour the wonderful Claudette Colbert as Star of the Month:
Tovarich means Comrade
Delightful sophisticated `continental' comedy (kind of a `reverse' Ninotchka), so entertaining indeed, that when it ends you have the feeling that it moved along too swiftly, keeping you wanting at least 30 minutes more of film!
French born actors, Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert work together wonderfully well, under Anatole Litvak's very good direction, in this engaging comedy, based upon a french play adapted by Robert E. Sherwood himself, about two penniless members of the highest rank Russian nobility (escaped from the 1917 Russian Revolution) currently living in Paris, who masquerade as commoners in order to be hired as servants of an aristocratic household, full of sort-of-zany and bizarre characters.
Isabel Jeans and Melville Cooper are perfectly cast as the aristocratic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dupont, who hire them, absolutely unaware of their new butler's and maid's pedigrees. Basil Rathbone, as always, gives an excellent performance as Comissar Gorotchenko, a very `special' guest at a lavish dinner party arranged by the Duponts, one of the funniest (and at the same time, most dramatic) sequences of the movie.
Boyer and Colbert are so utterly charming that one does not wonder why the Duponts and both, their daughter and son, are completely conquered and taken by the `undercover' Royal Russians, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Boyer) and Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Colbert), known by them as Michel & Tina.
This was the third and last pairing of its leading stars, who had previously worked together successfully at Paramount Pictures, in `The Man From Yesterday' (1932) and `Private Worlds' (1935).
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This great movie is scheduled in March to honour Claudette Colbert as Star of the Month. You must see it! Here I'm pasting a small review I wrote some years ago, which I had already posted on the Claudette Colbert Thread:
Great Screwball Comedy
Extremely funny madcap comedy starring two of the greatest stars of the classic period of American film: tongue-in-cheek Claudette Colbert and good fella Jimmy Stewart.
Stewart plays a detective on the run, who's being chased by the police, because of his involvement as an accessory in a murder case, in which the principal accused is his client. Colbert is a poetess who `accidentally' gets involved in Stewart's escapade from the cops, reluctantly at first, eventually becoming a runaway herself and falling in love with Stewart, and causing him a lot of trouble in the process. Her character is joy to behold and is hilariously played with top expertise by this gifted comedienne, in one of the last original screwballs from the '30s.
This movie is a wonderful example of classic Hollywood comedy at its best, with top performances all around, by seasoned pros (Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, et al). It's non-stop fun from start to finish, and by the way, Stewart plays a much rougher guy than his usual more likeable persona in this period -he even gets the chance of knocking around Colbert. It's a pity that it's not available on VHS or DVD. You may have the luck of watching it on TCM.
...I may add now that you'll be lucky enough to watch it on TCM in March...
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I also had posted this capsule-review in the "A Great Movie Alert" thread, talking about the great Jean Arthur. It's a Walter Wanger/United Artists production and I hope TCM will schedule it in the near future.
"Wonderful Movie"
Upon knowing this movie featured Charles Boyer and, especially, Jean Arthur, I expected a light romantic comedy, but what I got was much more...
First of all, this is a powerful romantic film, directed by one of Hollywood's masters of Romance, Frank Borzage. Jean Arthur stars as Irene Veil, in a role different from the usual stuff we expect from her.... she portrays this character, sensitively, luminously, almost with an ethereal quality, but at the same time very humanly. She's simply terrific.
Charles Boyer, is great as Paul Dumond, a headwaiter who falls madly in love with her, and after watching him in this 1937 film, one understands why he became the continental lover per-se, the epitome of the romantic and sensitive hearthrob.
There's wonderful chemistry between the two leads, sadly they never worked together again.
The picture also features outstanding performances by Colin Clive (star of "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein"), who plays Bruce Veil, Arthur's megalomaniac husband, and Leo Carrillo, who impersonates wonderfully a Chef who's Boyer's best friend.
Apart from being a romantic film, this movie has very dramatic moments indeed, but at the same time has fine lightweit comic touches, here and there.
In all a great poetic & ultimately romantic melodrama, with comedy touches, featuring a very warm and credible love story, between two human beings, who meet by chance. Great!!!
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I do not know if TCM has ever showed this movie, it may be, because it has aired many other Columbia pictures like "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" or "It Happened One Night". If not it should.
I had posted this capsule-review on the "A Great Movie Alert" thread. Hope it's useful, 'cos this one is for me 10/10, a must-see:
"Damn the Torpedoes!...Full speed ahead"
The line that serves as title for my review is spoken by the great Charles Coburn all through the movie, and at the end of the film it is used as a "subtle" innuendo of what's going on...you'll know what I'm talking about when you see this great film.
I am a fan of pre-codes, in other words, films that were released before the Production Code was fully enforced (1930-1934), but this does not mean I do not love too, films produced during its full enforcement, because it never ceases to amaze me how certain masters of the American Cinema (Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, Lubitsch, etc.) found ways of subtly insinuating what could not be fully showed or directly told onscren.
This film takes place during the severe house (and men) shortage in World War II Washington D.C. and tells us the story of how the funny cupid-mister-fix-it character played by Coburn (Mr. Dingle) gets "clean-cut" Joel McCrea (Joe Carter) into Jean Arthur's (Miss Milligan) small Apartment. Previously, he has managed to get inside of it himself.
I had seen McCrea and Arthur together in the screen for the first time in the Early Talkie "The Silver Horde" (1930), a nice and entertaing adventure yarn (she plays his spoiled rich fianc?e), but neither Arthur had yet blossomed into the excellent actress and deft comediene she was yet to become in the mid 1930's, nor had the great chemistry between both stars developed the way it did in this gem of a movie.
As I said before, in spite of censorship's shortcomings and the Code's restrictions, great directors such as George Stevens (the man who gave us Kate Hepburn's "Alice Adams" or Liz Taylor's "A Place in the Sun") knew how to handle the scenes and show us, insinuating it in a subtle way, in this case, the sexual tension between Connie Milligan and Joe Carter. In fact, never I had seen McCrea or Arthur in such sexy-romantic-"physical" scenes (by 40's standards), showing the love and desire they feel for each other, all the longing for "more".
McCrea seems so much "passionate" in his romantic secenes, than usual, and Arthur looks sexy to the hoot. What a fine figure this lady had! She surely looks much younger than the 43 years old she was when she made this movie and gets to wear some sexy-outfits (I liked her especially with her hair "loose") and even a translucid (or look-through) black nightgown.
Trust me, this is one of the most engaging, romantic, amusing, comedies from Hollywood's Golden Era, that you can get.
Now, one more time Columbia-Sony leads us into mistake, with its statement on the back-cover of the DVD Case, that this film was "remastered in high definition". The quality of the transfer is so-so, pretty uneven I'd dare to say, with many imperfections. But then, it's the only DVD edition available of this masterpiece, so buy it anyway! You won't regret it.
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Welcome Lolite, I'm happy to heart that.
And yes you guessed it!! Congrats!!! I just watched once more, this great swashbuckler on Saturday!
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Ah!..and to Coffeedan's mum, Welcome, hope you'll enjoy lots of more birthdays in company of your son.
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Just a Guess: "It's a Gift" and "Man on the Flying Trapeze"?
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No Lolite, Hi ya doin'?
Clue # 2: A French Buccaneer
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Don't miss Ancaria's sensuous dance and the scenes at the Roman Colisseum Keith, even if they might be considered tame by today's standards, you can guess they were pretty strong and risqu? for those years!
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Thanks Joe!...
Clue # 1: A Man suffering from Gout
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MovieJoe, You and everyone who has not seen "The Sign of the Cross", must see it, because the copy TCM has aired, as I've said before, is the original one as it was originally shown in 1932.
Charles Laughton is great (plus make-up-you will notice his "roman" nose) as the decadent Nero, surrounded by naked slaves, especially a male one who is always on hand. Claudette Colbert is stunningly sexy as the voracious and jealous Poppaea, you have to watch her taking a bath in ****' milk; Fredric March as the Roman Centurion, wearing short-cut togas which made Laughton go crazy, trying to peek through them...and the aristocratic Elissa Landi (supposedly Elizabeth (Sissi) of Austria's grandaughter, but that's another story) as the patrician christian.
Although the mood of "The Sign of the Cross" is more dramatic, gloomy and ultimately tragic, I've always found so many parallels & similarities between it and the 1951 Epic MGM "Quo Vadis?"...Laughton-Peter Ustinov, Colbert-Patricia Laffan, March-Robert Taylor and Landi-Deborah Kerr. I'd love both of them to be released on DVD.
I'll check for that Selznick book...As for storytelling both Bob Thomas' biographies of Thalberg and Selznick, are great too, by the way.
Next time I go to New York I'll try to go and visit the Astoria Studios, the Book on it has such goregous pictures of the Paramount photoplays (especially) that were filmed in it during the '20s and '30s...of those cherished now forgotten divas: Nancy Carroll, Tallulah Bankhead, et al.
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Think I've got it!!!! The Beast with 5 fingers???
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As You Desire Me?
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I am lost...A Farewell to Arms?
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Maybe "The English Patient"?
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...I pressed the wrong button!...well, and since I have many VHS, I want to preserve those films copying/transferring them to DVD format, 'cos we know that tapes can be worn out!