feaito
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Yeah Sandy, you hit the bullseye!!! Congrats!!!
Starring Hollywood's "best kept secret", Ms. Deanna Durbin... who got her first screen kiss here (courtesy of Robert Stack).
I'd never seen any Durbin film, until a couple of months ago, when I got her Six Film Pack DVD...great & entertaining films...I loved them all, especially this one.
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Thanks fuster...you are absolutely right too.
When I realize the huge efforts that had been done with films like, for example "Lost Horizon" (1937), to restore its full splendor, even by placing stills with the background dialogue recovered, I feel optimistic & hopeful.
At least, that bad practise of withdrawing the original film from circulation when a remake of it is done, or trying to destroy it, etc., is no longer common nowadays!
Another excellent job of still recapitulation of a lost film is included as a bonus on the DVD edition of "Sunrise", with the "reconstruction" of the lost Murnau film "Four Devils".
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Thanks for replying Richard, yes I knew about those 10 minutes of Garbo's lost film; maybe it (that footage) will be included in future releases of Garbo's movies, on DVD.
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As a die-hard "classic-film-movie-buff", I've always been trying to see as much old films (especially from the period 1920-1960), as I can.
In the middle of this "road" I've found some "stones", i.e.: (believed) lost films such as "Convention City" or "The Divine Woman", which supposedly (unless someone finds a copy in some old "attic") will be never seen again. When films in this category "appear", we who love these movies, are so happy, full of joy, like when a copy of the long-believed lost Valentino-Swanson film, "Beyond the Rocks", was found in Holland.
On the other hand, there are movies which cannot be seen, because they can't be exhibited or edited on any format, due to legal/litigation problems.
For me, it sounds so mean that a film that is 70 years old, cannot be appreciated and cherished by future generations, 'cos, for example, the copyright laws which protect the book or play upon which the film was based, were broken in 1932!
As a result, We, the public, are prevented to watch these gems, perhaps permanently. It is so sad. I wish something could be done with these films. I'm not an expert in U.S. Federal/State Laws, but maybe there's a way?
Currently I remember two films in this situation, both of which should belong to TCM if these legal problems wouldn't exist, two films I would die to see: the 1932 MGM "Letty Lynton" starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther and the 1943 Warner Bros. "The Constant Nymph" starring Joan Fontaine and Charles Boyer.
Anyone knows of other films in similar situations? Anyone knows if there is "a light at the end of the corridor"?
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Nope bb...
Clue # 6: A mean and jealous female cousin
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No Sandy...Eleanor Parker gave a "tour-de-force" performance in that one...
Clue # 5: She mets her love in a Country Club...He plays Polo
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BTW Fredric March signed with him for a two-picture deal in the 1930s and Carole Lombard for three films, also in the '30s.
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Janet Gaynor signed with him for two movies: "A Star is Born" and "The Young in Heart".
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Laurence Olivier. "Marathon Man".
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Sorry, obviously "Algiers" is set in Algiers... what I meant is that maybe "Garden of Allah", was set in Morocco, I do not remember.
BTW, Boyer's roles are very different, in "Garden..." he is a troubled, insecure, fearful monk...in "Algiers" he's the continental, suave, debonair, lover...Also in this movie, the now forgotten Sigrid Gurie.
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Moviejoe, "The Garden of Allah", IMHO is one of the very handsomest movies of all time...the cinematography and the Technicolor is awesome, perfect, flawless...my DVD copy is one of the greatest I own...you wouldn't think it was filmed in 1936 but rather in 1956! (If it weren't for Marl?ne's eyebrows and fashions which show it's 1930's origins). For all it lacks in plot & pace....it has all these other positive things.
"Algiers" has not similar sets as those of "Garden...", 'cos although it's situated in Morocco? (similar country), it's not set in the Desert but in the city...besides it's black and white...and I'd never found a decent copy. But the plot is very entertaining and Hedy looks ravishing (as always)...and her chemistry with Boyer is good...You ought to watch it boy!
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Moviejoe, I feel that maybe you're right about Janet Gaynor's "screen persona" ('cos I haven't seen most of her movies), but here in "The Young in Heart", she adds a special energy to her role...a different style of playing, than for example in "A Star is Born"...she doesn't seem so waif-like...she seems much more sophisticated and even I'd say attractive. You are right about Burke & Young.
BTW I was so happy to know that "Dinner at Eight" (featuring Billie Burke) will be released on DVD next year, as "Libeled Lady", "Stage Door" and "Bringing Up Baby", among others...excellent choices for new releases!!
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Hi Sandy...Not that one...
Clue # 4: A girl with the voice of an angel
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No bbgalaxy...hi, it's been so long, how're you?
Clue # 3: A lavish high society ball
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Nope...
Clue # 2: A High School Graduation Ceremony
Fuster, I'm pasting the rules posted on October 10th 2003, by the creator of this thread, Miss Littletramplover, hope you have fun playing this game:
Okay all, this is hopefully going to be a lot of fun for everyone, and with how smart all of you people are, it will probably be quite easy too!
It?s Classic Film Twenty-One Questions and the rules are very simple:
The object is to get the users to guess which film you have in mind by posting one hint at a time. Hints can be *anything*: years, names, places, colors, quotes-- anything you can think of that has to do with the film. The hints should be well thought out and avoid being TOO easy or TOO obscure. For example, if you choose Gone With the Wind, you would not want to give the hint ?Rhett Butler?. =o)
The one rule I do ask is that only one guess may be posted per hint: so if someone posts a hint, and another user makes an incorrect guess, please do not post another guess. Just wait until the next hint is posted and then make your guess. The person who wins by making the correct guess, then gets to conduct the next round.
I will start off this particular round, of course everyone can join in, and I?m sure you?ll all guess these films before the 21st hint!!
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Well, here I go:
Clue # 1: An orphaned girl.
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The Crimson Pirate
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Thanks for the recommendation Fuster.
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Thanks for the further investigation Cindy.
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I have the DVD and a book where the film is analyzed, and it is stated that Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies all directed parts of it.
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six?
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Thanks for the feedback...I'd love to see the classic silent "Peter Pan", starring the beautiful Betty Bronson.
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I bought the DVD of this film and watched it last weekend, and I can tell to you that it's an engaging and sweet comedy produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Richard Wallace.
It stars Janet Gaynor in her last role (until the 1957 Pat Boone movie "Bernadine"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard (in her first sound film, after Chaplin's "Modern Times" (1936)), Richard Carlson (movie d?but), Roland Young, Billie Burke and Minnie Dupree.
Gaynor, Fairbanks Jr., Young and Burke, are delightful as the Carleton family, a wacky & dishonest family, who try to take advantage from a rich, lonely old lady, played very sweetly by Minnie Dupree. Goddard and Carlson play love interests to Fairbanks Jr. and Gaynor, respectively.
Besides "A Star is Born", "Bernadine" and "Sunrise", I hadn't seen any other Janet Gaynor film, and IMHO, she's adorable here; she's a very fine actress and has great chemistry opposite Fairbanks Jr, as her dashing brother, who in turn, makes a very attractive couple with Goddard.
Richard Carlson plays an odd character, he impersonates a scottish guy (listen to his heavy accent) who wants to "reform" and marry Gaynor. Roland Young is very funny as Colonel Carleton-he had a flair for comedy-; I loved him as "Cosmo Topper", and he gets to play again opposite Billie Burke (hilarious) as his zany wife.
Sadly, this movie does not belong to the TCM library, but
it might have been aired by TCM (on loan-out terms). Anyway, I hope that it'll be scheduled in the near future.
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I did like "Algiers", IMHO it had more "plot", than for example "The Garden of Allah", which is visually very handsome, but with an inferior plot-line.
Hedy is alluring as the lady who bewitches Boyer's Pepe Le-Moko ("Come Wiz me to the Casbah"). The Public Domain copies are pretty awful, sadly.
Check the french version, the 1936 "P?pe-Le-Moko" with Jean Gabin and Mireille Ballin, good film!
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