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I thought it was: The larch. . . .the. . .larch.

It certainly was. The unstated judgement of rape victims at that time was that they asked for it. If they had been acting like good girls, they wouldn't have invited the attack. Sadly, a viewpoint which still exists to a large extent around the world today, and even in the United States. One hardly needs to reference recent events.

There is nothing patronizing about my statement. The practice is a well recognized policy of the time. As was the racsim.

Films had to be shown all through the country. That means they had to be acceptable to southern white populations. While northern audiences would tolerate and pay to see movies with depictions of blacks amenable to slavery, southern audiences would boycott movies that showed the evils of slavery and slaves yearning for freedom, or fighting the plantation system. Thus, along with the expression of racism within the movie-making community, you get the message sent that slavery wasn't all that bad, and the slaves weren't all that unhappy with it. The corollaries are that the Union army, and particularly soldiers, are shown in a negative light (remember when Scarlet shoots the rouge soldier in Gone With the Wind), and in post-bellum movies, the former Confederate officer is the hero.

Last time I looked, no one was strapping you to your recliner and fixing the cable box on TCM.

This may not be it, but give it a try: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75728/The-Frogmen/ click on "Read the Full Synopsis"

Niiice.

Funny. It looked like it was an Indian movie.

Would those be the Gods of Political Correctness in favor of racially stereotyped depictions, or the Gods of Political Correctness against racially stereotyped depictions?

The difference being that, notwithstanding the aping, his characters were intellegent, capable, and in the case of Teahouse, got the better of the whites, not shufflin' shuck-and-jive homeboys.

Until that day when someone comes along and gives me money for nothing, I'll have to keep working. As for the identity of the lady, I'll have to leave that to you. Is this who I think she is?: /post.gif]

Nnnnn. . . . thought so. Now don't say she's too easy:

Is this too easy?:

You get a point! It is indeed Ned Sparks.

I wasn't clear enough. I meant the actor smoking the cigar. He was a prominent character actor known for his laconic and acerbic comments on the action of the movie. Oh, I think I've said too much.

Many films have what is called Descriptive Audio Service. It's like closed captions, and is an optional feature. You can turn it off, but I don't know how to tell you, not knowing even how to turn it on, myself.

I think it is Wife For a NIght, starring Gina Lolabrigida: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044913/

I think it happened in the first season of the show. It was the cliffhanger for the season, and people were left wondering all summer (yes, there were real seasons back then) what the hell would happen to the poor guy.

So for this I would Google "man wearing beret?"

Looking forward to a month of heist movies. A lot of 'em we've seen, but there are some new ones to look forward to. The best is Bob le Flambeur, by Melville (a director whose work I'd like to see more of). Next to Wages of Fear, it's the best of the noir-emulations by the French. Like all great heist movies, the heist is the least important part. I'm also looking forward to How to Steal a Million, just to see what it's like, what the chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole is like, and what my favorite American director, William Wyler can do with a comedy heist movie. There's also the Italian Job, but, you know, I don't like it so much. The ending's good (We are the self preservation society. . . ). One can always complain. Missing are Duffy, The Killing, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Lady Killers (but TCM has shown the last two a lot).

>joefilmore posts: > Do they really expect an audience to sit for three hours? Evidently they do.

But. . . .but. . . .don't you discover the identity from a vast knowlege of film and familliarity with the varying looks of the performers? No wonder I get so few of the pics!

Aren't we all?

Thank you for providing the clues. Now I will provide another face:

Lina Basquette