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I thought Virginia was a hoot and very easy on the eyes to boot. Some of her lines were good too. When she goes with Teresa Wright to the restroom she says something like The sign on the door says Ladies. but I go in anyway. And when Fred Derry is talking about new job opportunities, she says Yeah, they have drug stores everywhere. What a dame. Maybe after leaving Fred she found some rich old guy to marry.

Yvette doesn't look overly concerned.

Oh, I really didn't mind it very much, but it did seem a bit separate from the rest of the movie. I can certainly understand why Foreman put it in there.

They sure wrapped up the ending quickly. They met after the war in Japan and had counterfeit money or something. It blew by so fast I never caught the details. A pretty good flick. The Japaneses war widow thing was pretty heavy handed, however appropriate. I recall another noir with a similar plot . A vet in a hospital gets out and meets a girl who works in a Chinese restaurant and some kind of mayhem ensues. I'll have to go back and see if I can find the name of the movie.

It was Wilmer practicing his ventriloquism skills just before he slipped out the back door.

The Miracle of the Bells. One of the best underrated comedies of all time. Ding dong, ding dong.

Hey, they both had dark hair. Good enough. At the time, I didn't really know who John Garfield was. Funny the minor things one remembers from years ago.

Yeah, they're really going at it. Not only did Leo lose the fight, but he destroyed quite a lot of his property too. I don't think I've seen Cheyenne since I was a kid, so I don't recall the episodes very well. I do seem to recall they were sponsored by a cig company with a trail of smoke coming from the coffin nail.

Of course it wasn't a big screen flat TV, but perfectly acceptable for the time. In defense of dear old mom, from certain angles and not watching too closely, I can see a slight resemblance. I never thought that Falk looked like Garfield, but next time I see him on screen I'll check it out.

I remember as a kid watching Cheyenne with my dad. The only episode I can recall was one where he had to fight a big bear in a cave, or maybe it was a big Indian in a cave or maybe both in a cave. Yeah, pretty catchy theme song too.

For a minute there I thought Doc, the "brains" of the outfit, was going to rob the bank with that cig holder still in his mouth. Fun to see the coppers gun the old fool down. I noticed when the crooks were synchronizing their watches, they all had Hamiltons. Coincidence or an early example of product placement? Timothy Carey was very effective, but I don't know if I paid that much attention to him as a lot of these movie heist gangs have one member who has some rather noticeable mental problems. I usually think of Dub Taylor as playing a slightly shady character with a pronounced southern accent, at least when he appears on TV shows. And Hayden played the kind of dumb cop that almost makes you root for the crooks, even with his kindness at the end. The best part of this flick was the on location shooting which made it more entertaining than the typical robbery movie.

I remember as a kid watching Master of the World starring Vincent Price and Bronson was in it. My mother walked past and mistook Bronson for John Garfield. She wasn't much of a movie buff.

My experience is that people usual follow their personal values and views in their political life. Of course there are exceptions and not every liberal or conservative is completely in agreement with every liberal or conservative principle, but most tend toward one direction or the other.

Of course you have to use your own experience and judgment when assessing things on the internet. Wikipedia is a good source, not perfect, no source is, but it usually gets things right and also provides notes and further references. I would think that most people's long held personal views play a large part in their political affiliations.

My Son John. A laugh a minute anti-commie flick. Okay, maybe a laugh every three minutes. I love it.

True, but that didn't look good later on in the late forties and early fifties. Apparently her grandfather was a socialist, NTTAWWT.

Most of the time, HUAC already knew the names. So "friendly" witnesses did not really supply new information, they just had to go through the ritual of ratting out their former friends. There will always be dirty rats who will do just about anything to save their own skins.

Beside the red hair, I remember reading that one of Lucy's relatives supported or was at least registered as a left wing party member. For whatever reason Lucy also registered with this party, perhaps just as a matter of convenience or she wanted to go along with her relative. This caused her a bit of a problem later on. I'm sure the details can be found on the internet.

Yep. Mank and Muller are subtly but still pretty obviously trolling for the little 'uns. Just because they use adult language fools nobody. Mank even has that little pop up thing for the movie club. Right. Soon they'll be co-hosting Little Rascals festivals at midnight in their basements. Parents, get on YT and watch some of those old 1950s shorts about the weird guy riding around or sitting on a park bench. Nothing much has changed, they've just moved from the park bench to the TV studio. Sad. (In an emergency a quick application of black shoe polish will hide that grey. Just sayin')

"If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me." Holden Caulfield didn't like movies, maybe Salinger felt the same way.

With Trump's disregard for the truth and being prone to fall for any idiotic idea that comes along, he likely would have been an excellent red baiter. He just happened to be born too late.

Now that the Russians have shed communism, even if not some of communism's ways, and are no longer reds, they are welcomed to the party. If that hadn't happened, they wouldn't be. One can just imagine how hysterical an anti-communist Donny would have been back in the day.

Maybe the OP also has a different vantage point on the Holocaust, one as clueless as his vantage point on the blacklist. The Hollywood Ten were, just like some others, victims of the anti-Communist fanaticism that overtook the U.S. after WWII. Once these things start, they're hard to end quickly. The Ten posed as much of a danger to the U.S. as a pack of Boy Scouts. But the hysterics were temporarily in charge and so they did what hysterics usually do.

One of my favorite pics from the HUAC hearings. Dalton Trumbo and his wife. Pretty well dressed for a communist. Even better is Bertolt Brecht seated behind Trumbo and puffing on a cigar. If you want a good laugh read Brecht's testimony before HUAC. He had those dumb pols so confused they didn't whether they were coming or going.

The idea that a small group of red writers and directors could turn the average moviegoer into a devoted commie has always been absurd and proves that HUAC was nothing more than a bad joke. Thank goodness it is dead and buried. Not to be a nitpicker, but the Communist Party is usually abbreviated as CPUSA not ACP.