feaito
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...Welcome Path...maybe the out-of-print VHS can be available for rental at a Blockbuster near you...It's a must...Hope TCM leases it.
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Cindy...it seems to me that some areas in Florida will be without power for some time, so maybe Mongo won't be able to log-in for a while, I hope he and his family is OK and safe.
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Mongo: I hope you and your family are all right, thank heavens Charley is "over" for you in Florida, but we know it left much damage and many lives lost. All my best to all of you, especially our excellent pal Mongo. Hope everything's OK by now. Our prayers are with you all.
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Well...hope that "Charley" didn't hurt any of our pals from the boards who live in the affected Zone (mainly Florida) nor any friend or relative of anyone of the boards. To those who lost their loved ones my condolences...to those who lost their homes, my sympathy and my wishes that everything returns to normality as soon as possible.
Here we go,
Clue # 1: Two brothers
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As I promised, watched the movie...and the scene you describe does not belong to "They Drive By Night".
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That is the famous "bolero" "Perfidia"...one of the greatest love songs of all time...BTW, love "Mambo Kings" Soundtrack, especially "Cuban Pete" and "Ran Kan Kan".
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Natalie Wood, as a girl, in the 1947, one and only classic "Miracle on 34th Street"....Edmung Gwenn, was born to play Santa!!
Hope everything's OK in Florida Mongo... If only "Charley" could change its course and go away towards the Atlantic Ocean...I have relatives in N. Carolina, and they're concerned too, 'cos supposedly it'd arrive there tomorrow...
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Thanks for your feedback Mary Lou. I agree about Ophuls' films.
Would love to watch "La Ronde" and "Madame de...", for example.
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Pals, I want to share with you, a new fave (in my top list), I posted this review on another site last week; I really hope TCM can lease/borrow and show it, because the movie is a "piece of art". I bought the out-of-print VHS, second-hand, and it's originally a Universal Pictures release, but the copy has the Republic Pictures Logo at the beginning; here is the review:
I must say that there have been few movies (dramas) which have emotioned me so much as this work of art by master director Max Oph?ls (credited as Opuls here)...only films like "Portrait of Jennie" or "Dodsworth"...this was another one-of-a-kind experience for me.
I had read so much about it, that I had to SEE it...so I bought this VHS.
Joan Fontaine gives what one can easily be, the most wondrous, poetic, performance, she ever gave, including "Rebecca" and "Suspicion"...Here she simply is at her very best, close to perfection...just as Jennifer Jones, gave (IMHO) THE performance of her career in the aforementioned "Portrait of Jennie". She convicingly grows from an "innocent" adolescent who falls deeply in love with an artist (Louis Jourdan), looking him, following him, listening to him, "in hiding", "in the shadows", quietly, living her life only "for/because of him"... although he's unaware of that. This obsession of hers with this man, reaches to a point where nothing makes sense to her without him. It's platonic love & adoration, taken to extreme limits, almost to the boundaries of insanity, yet so disarmingly naive and true!
Louis Jourdan is equally effective, as the debonair, devil-make-care, playboy, man of the world, pianist, who realizes too late, what has been going on.
Wonderful art direction, sets, mood, atmosphere, cinematography, narration... excellent "raccontos/flashbacks"...great camera work, gowns, period detail...everything is so right...especially the truth in Lisa's (Fontaine) very deep love for this man, who becomes the only reason of her life, of her "breathing", of her "existence".
Max Oph?ls really made a work of art, out of this movie...which by the way, I read somewhere, had a similar plot than the 1933 "Only Yesterday", which marked the debut in the american cinema, of that gorgeous actress, Margaret Sullavan; although Oph?ls' film, is by far superior...'cos it "trascends" the "Tearjerker" status; it has an ethereal quality all of his own.
Not since watching "Shadowlands" in March of this year, I had felt & been so moved by a film. Really, ROMANTIC, unrequited love, at his best. And I tell you, I'm not an "easy" person...in other words, I do not "emote" easily, and at the film's conclussion, I have no shame in admitting that I cried like a baby. It reached my heart & soul.
This film ought to be restored and released on dvd format, since it is one of the landmark films of all time. Although I must say the Republic VHS Edition, is decent indeed
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I bought the dvd some 3 months ago, but haven't watched the movie yet...I'll give it a look, and let you know, ok?
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Love the idea; I have some old 1930's and 1940's mags., and I love to re-read them, from time to time, so this "just for fun" idea is great.
Good Job Mongo!!
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Yeah Sandy..I had heard about it...nothing more "distant" and opposite, in real life, from the most famous character he ever played (Ashley Wilkes)....
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I think "The Bitter Tea of General Yen"??...a Capra pre-code starring th great Babs. Stanwyck & Nils Asther....this gem should be available on DVD!!!
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No idea, wild guess: Dinner at Eight?
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Nope I haven't...it's a John Barrymore film (he made late in his career-1939?)....
Totally stumped....The glass key?
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stumped....The Great man Votes?
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I married a witch?
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All the king's men?
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BTW...your turn pal!
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Yes Path...you nailed it!! Another Fave of mine!!! my next clue was goin' to be "pixilated" (chuckles)
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Sad, sad, sad...."Laura" is one of the most hauntingly & bewitchingly beautiful melodies of all time. To have "created" such a piece of art, he must have been a genius.
May he rest in peace.
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It's so sad to lose such a star!, she was so nice, genteel, beautiful, talented, I loved Fay Wray...besides the already mentioned, she was also very good opposite Joel McCrea in "The Hounds of Zaroff" (aka "The Most Dangerous Game), Richard Arlen in "Sea God", Fredric March and Connie Bennett in "The Affairs of Cellini", Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins in "The Richest Girl in the World", Wally Beery in "Viva Villa!"...and let's not forget 1928 "The Wedding March", a masterpiece made at Paramount under the direction of the genial Erich Von Stroheim...
It always seemed to me that she led a happy, quiet life. She is resting in peace now, I'm sure.
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Hi Mary Lou...No...never seen that one...I've heard it is good (Fredric March, one of my fave actors, is in it, isn't he?)
Clue # 3: An Inheritance
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Thanks Path...Nope, good movie that one...
Clue # 2: "Small Town Guy"
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
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Kimbo's right...in fact I bought it two months ago at Amazon.com marketplace sellers, used...at the price you mention, more or less...
You're right that for some of us it'll be a movie to watch over & over again, just as in my case it has happened with "Dodsworth" and "Portrait of Jennie" too,...but for the people who are just curious, maybe rental is the option; anyhow it's marevlous that a "decent" copy is available.
I've just watched "Love Affair" (1939) (Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer) , and the Public Domain copies of this gorgeous film, which everytime I watch "moves me" pretty much, are rather awkward (I bought a PD (copy) DVD) ...the same happens with "Penny Serenade" (1941) (Irene Dunne & Cary Grant), a film which has been so endearing for me, since I was a kid, and is only available on PD copies.