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My Sin (1931)
- an American Pre-Code drama film starring Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, and Harry Davenport.
Panama... a drunkard lawyer gains acquittal for a bar girl when she is put on trial for murder. Lots of good things happen as a result - for both of them. This is a very pleasant story which flows nicely and resolves perfectly.
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A very good Pre-Code with my favorites, Claudette and Fredric March. They both turned in stellar performances.
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A House Divided (1931) - an American Pre-Code feature film directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery (billed as Kent Douglass), and Helen Chandler.
A widowed fisherman (Huston) falls in love with and marries a younger woman (Chandler), who falls in love with the man's son (Montgomery).
What a mess. I was attracted to this based on Walter Huston's lead and William Wyler's direction - what could go wrong with those two. Well...
The ending was resolved rather nicely, as far as the overall situation goes, but the closing shot seemed rather abrubt.
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I saw this one awhile ago. I love Pre-/Codes and am a big fan of Helen Chandler and Douglass Montgomery.
I really liked this one and the great acting.
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The other night I finally sat through all of Kings Row which I've never been able to do before. I'm glad I did.
It takes nearly a half-hour to get really into the film. Robert Cummings is not my idea of a lead and I just couldn't find Betty Field that appealing. The whole thing with Cassie's family was not that believable and it's not until they're gone that the movie picks up steam; that's about the time Ann Sheridan's Randy shows up and starts things up with Ronald Reagan's Drake..
This was why I stayed with the movie. I've long heard this was a really great performance by our late POTUS and finally wanted to see for myself. It was. There was chemistry with Sheridan and you kept waiting for him to realize what a break losing Louise was. The ending was a bit abrupt but good.
The second I heard the opening notes of the score I knew it was Korngold. I found it rather much like that of Elizabeth and Essex which I thought was the best thing about that film. This was magnificent and promptly made its way to my YouTube favorites list. Some people likened it to the Star Wars theme; I saw some resemblance.
I don't know if I'll watch it again but this one time was worth it.
Yes, the book illustrates the tragedy of Cassie's family and also Nancy Coleman's family. As the daughter
of the revered Doctor (Charles Coburn) she is not allowed to marry and goes into a depression, as does her
mother who spends her days reading books. Robert Cummings is outstanding as PArris who wants to help his
friends. He had hoped to help Cassie run away, but intervention by her parent precludes this. Her
mother spends her days in a depression because her husband will not recognize her abilities; only those of
their daughter Cassie who is not allowed friends or a boyfriend. He has his plan for her.
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The other night I finally sat through all of Kings Row which I've never been able to do before. I'm glad I did.
It takes nearly a half-hour to get really into the film. Robert Cummings is not my idea of a lead and I just couldn't find Betty Field that appealing. The whole thing with Cassie's family was not that believable and it's not until they're gone that the movie picks up steam; that's about the time Ann Sheridan's Randy shows up and starts things up with Ronald Reagan's Drake..
This was why I stayed with the movie. I've long heard this was a really great performance by our late POTUS and finally wanted to see for myself. It was. There was chemistry with Sheridan and you kept waiting for him to realize what a break losing Louise was. The ending was a bit abrupt but good.
The second I heard the opening notes of the score I knew it was Korngold. I found it rather much like that of Elizabeth and Essex which I thought was the best thing about that film. This was magnificent and promptly made its way to my YouTube favorites list. Some people likened it to the Star Wars theme; I saw some resemblance.
I don't know if I'll watch it again but this one time was worth it.
I agree. Kings Row is well worth watching. I love Maria Ouspenskaya as Robert Cummings's talented grand-
mother and the rest of the cast. My mother had the book, so I have since read it. It seems that the
town was even more sinister than portrayed on screen. The code precluded some of the things, but they
were ably hinted at. Ronald Reagan and Anne Sheridan were exceptional here, as well as CLaude Rains,
Charles Coburn and Betty Field. The sadistic nature of Charles Coburn's performance as the doctor
was brilliantly evident, as well as the frightening behavior of Claude Rains, the strict father of "Cassie"
It was painfully evident that the victims of Kings Row were trapped by fear of their parents and supposed
"pillars of the community". Wonderful to see Robert Cummings in another great serious role. I loved him
in Saboteur and Lost Moment too. Yes, the ending is abrupt here, but but so is the book.
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Topaze (1933) - an American Pre-Code film
Professor Auguste A. Topaze, a naive chemist and recently unemployed schoolteacher in Paris. Coco and the Baron use his talent and good name for their scheme, during which time the good professor becomes well educated in the ways of the world outside his old classroom.
Myrna Loy as Coco is reserved, well dressed, and beautiful as always.
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This is another great film. Love the professor and Coco, the lovely Myrna Loy. Your post reminds
me to re-watch it!
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Ethel Barrymore was one of America’s leading stage actresses. A New York theatre named in her honor proves it. She went to Hollywood in the early 1930s and made a motion picture with her brothers John and Lionel called RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS. Of course, she played the Empress in that production. But she would soon return to the stage where she was a real star. By the mid-1940s, producer David Selznick had lured her back to the movie capital, signing the highly regarded actress to a long-term contract. He persuaded her to give films another chance, and lucky for us she did. She soon earned an Oscar as Cary Grant’s mother in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART. There were additional supporting roles in the 1940s that brought with them more Oscar nominations. She was quickly typecast as the elderly invalid, which she played to great effect in THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, PINKY and KIND LADY, where she has a lead role. In the 1950s, she still took on movie parts, but she also appeared on television. Near the end of her life, she hosted a TV anthology program. And in 1957 she made her last film, JOHNNY TROUBLE, as a den mother of sorts to a group of college fraternity boys. She would pass away two years later, just before her 80th birthday, having outlived both her brothers.
Ethel Barrymore present and accounted for..!
She will live on as a superb actress. I loved everything I had seen her in. Johnny Trouble was (her last
film?) a very good film and had pathos and honor. It was an outstanding performance and different from
anything she had ever played. It was from '57 and was very timely with Ethel hinting that her pregnant
friend (played beautifully by Carolyn Jones) should continue her plan of staying single. After all,
freedom came first. Naturally she was encouraging her friend psychologically from her viewpoint and the
baby's future, as well as the baby's father (Stuart Whitman). She hopes to bring about a change of heart...
At the end was a huge surprise but I nearly saw it coming. IT was a real curve ball! Not to spoil it
for anyone who had not seen it. I think Cecil Kellaway was brilliant as her butler (and friend). Secrets
abound in this story of a proud widow and her college friends.
In short, Ethel was superb. I am going to watch Rasputin and the Empress again this afternoon. Great
and stirring film. Ethel could even play a proud empress! She brings to life the real tragedy. And,
I may just re-watch Johnny TRouble I recently acquired. IT takes me back to my teens - only last year!
(Smile) when I first saw it and was so stirred by it.
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Not to besmirch the Barrymore family reputation, as if I could do it any more damage, but wasn't there controversy about the real reason that Lionel had to be in a wheelchair in films, TB.
I seem to remember, maybe from the Gene Fowler book on John, something about Lionel having a morphine addiction that restricted him to the chair. Some said this morphine was necessary for an extreme case of arthritis or a hip injury, but others discounted it.
John had more problems with liquor while carousing with friends like Fowler, Decker, Flynn, Carradine and such but even that did not stop him from being a good judge of character. As I recall after marrying Dolores Costello he once said something like that the only book she'd ever read was the Butterick dress pattern book.
Whatever is true, Lionel was a true trooper and genius onscreen! Thanks for the synopsis, TB.
I had read about the drinking of both Lionel and John. They were superb actors. I just love Dolores
Costello, and feel that (of course I was not born yet!) Lionel was doing her an injustice about the dress
patterns. Okay, so she was great at being a seamstress, but may have read many fine books her husband
was not aware of. My mother for example. often made great dresses from Butterick patterns in the 50's
and 60's when we were children. She was a very gifted schoolteacher and had won the teacher of the year award here
in Redondo Beach, California twice over the years. Mention of Butterick patterns reminded me of watching
her sew several lovely garments when I was very young. She did engender a love of reading fine books in
my sister and myself, which went hand in hand with her long-tune teaching of 4th and 5th grade...
I have always loved older films and have come to admire Silent films in the last few years. I really like
Dolores and Helene in their Silent films. I just saw Helene in a Special about Silent films, a 3 part series.
Though she was a gifted actress, it does not sound like the Barrymores had a happy marriage. That is sad
about Lionel in the wheelchair. I thought it was only in the films. as Dr. Gillespie. He and his
brother John were really superb actors.
But this is not a measure of their intelligence.
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It's one I haven't seen (yet). TCM has never aired it. And I don't remember it being broadcast on FXM Retro...unless it was and I missed it.
I shall say no more, for I would not want to spoil you seeing it. Suffice it to say that Ethel could play
a scary role or a kindly one like in Portrait of Jennie. One of her stellar performances was in The
Spiral Staircase which I saw as a young child on TV. Today I am still impressed. Whatever the role,
this special actress was unforgettable, as were John and Lionel, her famous brothers.
If you have trouble getting Moss ROse, I have it and would be glad to send it to you.
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Great talent, her most "delicious" role might have been as Victor Mature's possessive mother in "Moss Rose".
You just reminded me of the great FIlm Noir with Peggy Cummins, THe Moss Rose. This fantastic
film was a tour de force from her spectacular role in The Spiral Staircase! In both our Ethel was beyond
superb!
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You will love it.
You know, when I first lost my ability to sing due to acid reflux in 2013 I did not want to live anymore. The only thing I lived for was singing. I could not even listen to Frank Sinatra anymore and I always listen to him. I did not know it was acid reflux. I thought it was a silent heart attack as women are told they can happen. So I spent a lot of time around the ER and got a bit of a reputation as a hypochondriac.
That is the problem with symptoms being similar for several conditions and not having a diagnosis but going to look up medical information on websites. It can make you think you are dying in 2 months when you really are not.
Julie Andrews said something brilliant after she lost her ability to sing following an operation on her throat. She said at least it happened after she had a career.
I did eventually get my singing voice back after 8 months. I sang in the shower only. Today I sang the lead in church. I was the Caller in "I Hear the Prophet Callin'" The choir sang SATB behind me. I had to walk slowly up the aisle and up the steps during the song and turn to the congregation and continue singing. I did.
Sounds like you are a very gifted singer, but for the acid reflux. I have that too, but it is mild
compared to the pain caused from my spine. I felt like it was hard to get the point across to family
members and friends when it all started in 2007. After I had the first spinal surgery it was no better,
but I thank God for medicine for pain. Today I also am very glad to have the help of my hubby who gets
me to appointments and picks up my meds. (He doesn't like old movies, but you can't everything, as they
say). Two years ago I had another surgery which was to help with posture, but it failed. THe third time
I had to have rods replaced.... I appreciate great harmony, both singing and instrumental. I'll bet you
sounded great. Great movies and friends here on the message boards really cheer me up, though I live a
lonely life here at home for the most part. IT is hard to get out and I make the effort when the pain is
best controlled.
I got a lot of compliments and Mom was beaming.
One of the compliments I got was from a woman who told me that she appreciated the fact that I have problems with balance and I sang beautifully. The church rang with my voice. She said that I was the only person who could have done it. A lot of people feel safe when standing in a choir, but ask them to be alone and No.......they would rather be in the background.
Today was a great day.
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Stolen Heaven (1931) Pre-Code drama
A man is fired from his job, then robs his ex employer of $20,000. After a shoot-out with the police, he follows a streetwalker home to her apartment. They make a pact to spend the stolen $20,000 living luxuriously and then commit suicide when the money runs out.
Louis Calhern in, I believe, his first talkie.
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I really love Nancy Carroll films and Phillips Holmes. They played the principal roles. Yes, Louis
Calhern was in his first talkie. I was very touched with the story. I felt kind of conflicted with the
ending. They did get away from the handcuffs, if I remember rightly. It has been a long time since I
had seen it.
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And not forgetting The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, in which Lizabeth plays -uncharacteristically - a comparatively sweet and innocent young woman who falls for Van Heflin. In this film, she's a standup kind of woman. (Hmm, now I have a mental image of one of those life-sized cardboard cut-outs that used to grace the lobbies of movie theatres.)
Also, Dead Reckoning. Now in this one she really is a classic femme fatale.
Yes, Lizabeth Scctt was great in Martha Ivers and Dead Reckoning. She turned in a great performance
whether in a tearjerker like Paid in Full or s femme fatale in Dead Reckoning and Too Late for Tears.
In I Walk Alone she was a sympathetic singer in a nightclub owned by Kirk Douglas's character. Her
kindness and eventual love for Burt Lancaster, a wronged convict who was sent to jail in Kirk's place,
is very touching. The story has ultimate murder and revenge. Wendell Corey is great here too in an
early role. This film is enhanced by a lovely musical background.
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NEVER FEAR - recorded as part of the Ida Lupino day. I watched it last night for the first time.
This was directed by Ida and starred Rita Lupino.
I will not go into the plot much. It is about a dancer who gets polio and wants to give up and meets people in a hospital who do not want to give up.
These are the types of movies I love to watch. As a disabled woman who was born with cerebral palsy and who has days where I feel 500% disabled and days where I feel 0% disabled, watching movies about people who overcome obstacles with the vital willpower gives me strength to carry on whenever I have a setback.
Beautifully said. Will look forward to watching it soon. I was born with a twisted spine from Scoliosis.
I learned to live with it until a few years ago my spine collapsed. I have had three surgeries which
aided me a lot, but I cannot walk without the aid of a walker. Often I have to remind myself to keep on
feeling more positive for a better future. At this point there is only exercise which I endeavor to keep up
I have a great empathy also for others. I realize some people have worse afflictions. I am happy to be
your friend here on the TCM Message Boards.
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I'll have to give it another shot, casa baby. All I could think the whole time I was watching it was, "Oh, for heaven's sake, jump into bed or go into those woods or wherever and have sex and be done with it."
Also, whenever I think of A Summer Place I think of another movie, Diner, and of how Mickey Rourke 's character kind of "pops out" of the popcorn box he's sharing with his date while he's watching Sandra Dee.
Again - second time I've said this tonight - I have not seen A Summer Place for quite a while. And now that I've read your insightful comments on it, I'm willing to give it another chance.
Glad you are giving it another shot. THe movie came out when I was real young, about 8 or 9, so I did not
see it until later. About 20 years ago I taped the film, but footage was missing. At the time I was not
aware of this. Now I have the complete film and it is so touching! Sandra Dee and TRoy Donahue are
wonderful here and I loved Dorothy McGUire's performance as Johnny's mom who has the struggle of wanting
to be with her old sweetheart of years ago. The key thing here is romance. Without being goody-goody,
the story comes through beautifully. Not long ago I happened to find the book in a used book store. It is
well-worth reading and illustrates Johnny's character and Molly's more completely. ALso, the motivations
of Molly's mom, the prim character outstandingly portrayed by Constance Ford.
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Regarding Ella Raines: If you can access it she starred in an early 50's TV series, Janet Dean, Registered Nurse. I remember it because the sponsor was the Blue Cross/Blue Shield medical insurance firm which was headquartered in Jacksonville. As a kid this seemed like a big deal. A couple of family members would later work at their HQ with the food service company that took care of it. The mother of a classmate grew up with her and was very impressed with me when as a teen-ager I knew who she was. I agree, she was very pretty and a good actress.
Hope to see this one. I had almost forgotten that Ella was in The Second Face, Impact, The Web and
Uncle Harry! She reminds me of Catherine McLeod. Both can play gentle and kind characters, but give an
impressive impact to every film.
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Too Late For Tears (1949). I recorded this back in December when TCM did its memorial tribute to people who died in 2015 and this film was shown in honor of Lizabeth Scott. (Kristine Miller, who is also in the movie, died in late 2015, but her death wasn't publicized until February or March.)
Scott plays a bored housewife who apparently has a backstory: her first husband committed suicide. She and second hubby Arthur Kennedy are on their way to a party when somebody throws a satchel in the back seat of their convertible. They open the satchel to find it full of fake Hollywood cash that of course is real to movie characters! And then the car that the satchel was intended for shows up behind them. Wife suggests they keep the cash; hubby isn't so certain but goes along.
And then Dan Duryea shows up looking for the satchel, or more honestly, the cash located within. Lizabeth gets the brilliant idea of double-crossing both Kennedy and Duryea, and running off with the money on her own. Miller, who plays Kennedy's sister living in an apartment across the hall, begins to suspect something, especially when Kennedy's old army buddy (Don DeFore) shows up.
It's a lot of fun, although the Production Code enforced an ending we can see coming. Crime can't possibly pay for Lizabeth, now, can it?
Still, I give it an 8/10.
Me too! I like this one a lot too and would give it an 8 out of 10. This lady was heartless where money
was concerned. She and Dan Duryea were impressive, as well as Kristine Miller and Don DeFore.
I had heard about the loss of Lizabeth Scott, but not Kristine Miller. I like both actresses very much.
Kristine is great in I Walk Alone with Lizabeth Scott and in Shadow on the Wall with Ann Sothern.
I like Lizabeth Scott here as well as in I Walk Alone, Desert Fury and Bad for Each Other. Just recently
I was very touched watching Lizabeth Scott's first film, You Came Along, a tearjerker with Robert Cummings.
I could go on and on, but forgot to mention her marvelous performance in The Stolen Face with Paul Henreid
which I had seen on TV as a young child. I saw it again recently and it seems even better than I recalled!
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I liked Ella Raines very much in Phantom Lady and Time Out of Mind. I
was not familiar with her until just a few years ago, but now really
enjoy her films.
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And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie (This is perhaps her most famous murder mystery novel, but all her other ones starring either the Belgian detective with enormous black mustaches he is particularly proud of, Hercule Poirot, or the English spinster who lives in a small town, Miss Marple, are fantastic as well).
I Owe Russia $1200- Bob Hope
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance- Gyles Brandreth (not the most compelling, but you may like it)
P.D. James wrote murder mysteries, I haven't read any of hers, but I am in the middle of one called "Shroud for a Nightingale" (An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) and it's pretty good so far.
Oh, and also "My Story" by Marilyn Monroe (is tragically too short) but it was simply fascinating to "hear" what she had to say about her life and her success and struggles along the way. It gave me more insight into her life; I was able to learn more about her and her personality and she really was a great woman. One thing that stuck out to me was just how much she wanted to have a child: "I feel different about having a child now. It’s one of the things I dream of. She won’t be any Norma Jean now. And I know how I’ll bring her up-without lies. Nobody will tell her lies about anything. And I’ll answer her questions. If I don’t know the answers I’ll go to an encyclopedia and look them up."
Sorry, I am afraid this response will merge with your text here as well. It is showing up in the
gray area. I was very young when Marilyn Monroe passed away. From the very start I did not believe
she committed suicide, nor did my parents. Despite her many troubles, it seems that she was really
an intellectual and beautiful lady with a lot of talent. Of course, desperation gets in the way
sometimes. We may never know the truth, but I did read that her housekeeper/friend wants to break
a fifty year silence and reveal what really happened. Have not seen an update yet..... The book
My Story sounds very good.
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And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie (This is perhaps her most famous murder mystery novel, but all her other ones starring either the Belgian detective with enormous black mustaches he is particularly proud of, Hercule Poirot, or the English spinster who lives in a small town, Miss Marple, are fantastic as well).
I Owe Russia $1200- Bob Hope
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance- Gyles Brandreth (not the most compelling, but you may like it)
P.D. James wrote murder mysteries, I haven't read any of hers, but I am in the middle of one called "Shroud for a Nightingale" (An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) and it's pretty good so far.
Oh, and also "My Story" by Marilyn Monroe (is tragically too short) but it was simply fascinating to "hear" what she had to say about her life and her success and struggles along the way. It gave me more insight into her life; I was able to learn more about her and her personality and she really was a great woman. One thing that stuck out to me was just how much she wanted to have a child: "I feel different about having a child now. It’s one of the things I dream of. She won’t be any Norma Jean now. And I know how I’ll bring her up-without lies. Nobody will tell her lies about anything. And I’ll answer her questions. If I don’t know the answers I’ll go to an encyclopedia and look them up."
I can't resist responding to this one. I love the film and book (by AGatha Christie) ANd Then There Were
None. If you have not read P.D. James murder mysteries, let me just say that you picked the top notch one.
I was very saddened by her passing not long ago, but her books brilliantly written and televised will live
on indefinitely.
Shroud for a NIghtingale is my very favorite that P.D. James wrote. First I saw the BBC 5 part series
which was superb (made in the 90's). Without giving anything away, P.D. has given us a story that is
fantastic. The murders are very unique - and so is the motive. If you ever view the series you will
know that they slightly altered things. Thought everything i
s on TV today.And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie (This is perhaps her most famous murder mystery novel, but all her other ones starring either the Belgian detective with enormous black mustaches he is particularly proud of, Hercule Poirot, or the English spinster who lives in a small town, Miss Marple, are fantastic as well).
I Owe Russia $1200- Bob Hope
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance- Gyles Brandreth (not the most compelling, but you may like it)
P.D. James wrote murder mysteries, I haven't read any of hers, but I am in the middle of one called "Shroud for a Nightingale" (An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) and it's pretty good so far.
Oh, and also "My Story" by Marilyn Monroe (is tragically too short) but it was simply fascinating to "hear" what she had to say about her life and her success and struggles along the way. It gave me more insight into her life; I was able to learn more about her and her personality and she really was a great woman. One thing that stuck out to me was just how much she wanted to have a child: "I feel different about having a child now. It’s one of the things I dream of. She won’t be any Norma Jean now. And I know how I’ll bring her up-without lies. Nobody will tell her lies about anything. And I’ll answer her questions. If I don’t know the answers I’ll go to an encyclopedia and look them up."
I am sorry. My responses are merging with text just shown! Anyway, just wanted to remark on what a
superb book (and subsequent BBC Series of the 90's) Shroud for a Nightingale is. You are reading a
marvelous book by P.D. James. In my opinion it is shocking and superb! You would never guess the
identity of the killer -- and motive.
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"The House Next Door" by Anne Rivers Siddons--overlooked horror book.
"Doctor Sleep"--Sequel to "The Shining"--in case you haven't read it.
Sara Paretskys' V. I. Warshawski mysteries.
"Treasure of Matecumbe" by Robert Lewis Taylor--is hard to find in TN.
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson.
"Otto Preminger" by Foster Hirsch.
I wanted to add a footnote about a really neat suspense novel. It is by a little-known author of the 60s.
The novel is called MRS. MAITLAND'S AFFAIR by Margaret Lynn. In '70 they made a great tele-film called
The Other Man with Roy Thinnes and Joan Hackett.
It is a unique murder mystery where nothing is as it seems. The other man does not necessarily mean
that altogether. First I saw the movie in the early 70's. Many years went by before I finally acquired
a watchable copy from a kind lady on a message board. Since that time I located the book in a used book
store. It was well-worth the read. (Whether it's a murder mystery, romance, pathos, fear or intrigue
you are looking for, it is all here and beautifully written and later portrayed on screen in a superior
manner).
I miss those great made for TV movies of the 70's. Some were superb with notable actors and actresses.
Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck appeared in two or three.
"Alternate Oscars" by Danny Peary.
Anything by Jeanine Basinger
Cult Movies I, II, & III by Danny Peary.
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My wife and I really enjoy the Perry Mason TV series and frequently watch an episode on DVD. Have never read an Erle Stanley Gardner PM book, but Hamilton has them for about $8.00. The American Bar Association is publishing them and there are a lot available.
I got one and it is entertaining, but nothing like the TV series. As I remember not a lot like the movies (Warren William or is it William Warren?), etc.
The books are somewhat more serious and Perry and Paul Drake are not above breaking the law when they feel it necessary.
Yes, I love the TV show and did as a kid. I love the camaraderie between Perry, Paul, and Della. Yes,
the 30's movies about Perry were with Warren William. Some co-starred Claire Dodd as Della. Though I
really admire Mr. William in his other 30's films, I greatly prefer Perry Mason with Raymond Burr.
In the books it is hinted at Perry and Della marrying eventually. It is never quite clear. I read
two or three a year or so ago. They are entertaining and well-written, but our Raymond and Barbara
Hale top everything, I think. With the show we always feel part of the story.
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I wanted to post this link which has a zillion public domain books. Free download. There are a lot of classics and many authors I've never heard of. I've downloaded the Tarzan series, Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes, etc, etc...
Thanks for the wonderful info.! I just found two novels I had not read by Ruth Rendell, one of my
favorite Mystery writers. Like you were saying, their prices are very reasonable too.
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Good suggestion, I will take you up on it.
Thank you. IT is a
Good suggestion, I will take you up on it.
Thanks! It is quite wonderful when a film can move us spiritually. I wanted to share and see
how my TCM MEssage Board friends feel. Too bad I didn't know about Mr. Green's wonderful novel
when I was still in school. It would have made an inspiring book report. (Though we often don't
approve of everything in a book and subsequent film, we can still see its intrinsic value. You
will see what I mean).
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Since the nearly 80's I have collected Ann Harding films. I read about an
early one, EAST LYNNE 31, that was never available. For a long time it
was tied up at UCLA in a vault.
About ten years ago I located and read the book East Lynne in an old bookstore.
It is a very beautifully written and sad novel.
Yesterday on a message board I discovered that the film is now available
at Loving the Classics. I went ahead and ordered the priceless gem for
$14.95! I hope that the picture quality will be (more than) fair.
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I really like the Charlie Chan films and the humor between Charlie and his son here. I think he (Warner)
did take his role seriously and enjoyed it. Sadly, he died too young as did Sidney Toler, his Charlie
Chan replacement. They are both great in their roles as Charlie Chan and in other performances.
Some years ago I came to enjoy the series. I like Charlie Chan in Shangai which contained an interesting
story as well as comic relief.