[The First Film That Comes to Mind...]

Murder on the Orient Express

 

Next:

 

 

Donkey ride

[Squeaky Wheel Gets Grease Thread]

HARD TO FIND HITCHCOCK MOVIES AS PART OF A TCM SPOTLIGHT.

 

 

MORE UNIVERSAL MOVIES

[Your Favourite Performances from 1929 to present are...]

BEST ACTOR OF 1935:

 

 

Fred Astaire in Top Hat

Fred Astaire in Roberta

Freddie Bartholomew in David Copperfield

George Brent in Special Agent

Jack Benny in The Broadway Melody of 1936

Robert Donat in the 39 Steps

Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty

Clark Gable in China Seas

Errol Flynn in Captain Blood

Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap

Charles laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton in Les Miserables

Peter lorre in Crime and Punishment

Fred MacMarray in Hands Across the Table

Frederic March in The Dark Angel

Frederic March in Les Misterables

Herbert Marshall in The Dark Angel

Joel McCrea in Splendor

Robert Montgomery in No More Ladies

Victor McLaglen in The Informer

Edward G. Robinson in The Whole Town's Talking

 

 

 

Another hard decision;

 

 

WINNER:

 

 

PETER LORRE IN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

 

 

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

Lawrence Olivier was pining for Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights.

[Hitchcock Mania]

Next question:

 

This film has  a sequence in it which makes it relevant to the Art in Movies festival.  Think unique art.

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

Laird Craiger was The Lodger who was suspected by George Sanders.

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Paul Newman

 

 

 

Next:

 

 

Cowboy

[Hitchcock Mania]

Sabatage

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

Paul Newman

[The First Film That Comes to Mind...]

Wild Boys on the Road (1933)

 

 

 

Next:

 

 

Dogs barking

[Who would you rather meet?]

Sir Richard Attenborough

 

 

Next:

 

 

Frank Capra or William Wellman

[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

Vagoda, Abe

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Quills.

[What Do They Have in Common?]

Did they all dance numbers while carrying an umbrella or a cane as  part of their dance routine?

[A to Z of Characters]

Superman - Christopher Reeve

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

Willliam Bendix was in The Glass Key with Alan Ladd.

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Paul Lukas played a lot of Nazis.

 

 

 

Next:

 

 

French

[Canadiana-Trivia About Canadians in Movies]

That is correct, Lawrence.

 

Massey is best remembered today for playing Abe Lincoln, although he usually was not the lead.

 

His daughter was Anna Massey and she recently died.

 

 

 

Your thread.

[ClassiCategories]

Some of my favourites, regardless of where they were made:

 

 

Finian's Rainbow

Sweet Rosie o Grady

Odd Man Out

Evelyn

 

 

And yes, I love The Quiet Man as well.

 

[The first actor/actress that comes to mind..]

Eve Arden

 

 

 

Next:

 

 

Grey beard

[*A to Z of Movies*]

My Pal Gus

[12 ANGRY MEN? Movies/Performances That Are So Compelling You Become Angry Too]

I cannot watch documentaries made in recent history.  If a documentary was made, for example, on my friend who was killed last year by her father who then killed his wife, sister and then himself in a house surrounded by police, you could not PAY Me to see it.

 

The coroner's report was just released and they could not conclusively say that Emily's migraines and the total inability of anyone in the medical profession to take this disability seriously was the motive of the crime because her father was mentally ill.

 

 

I get angry at the fact that the serial killer Willie Pickton was worked into the show Criminal Minds just a couple of years after it happened.  One of the women who was killed was the sister of Chief Ernie Crey who is someone well known in our community.

 

 

[Recently watched Noir]

Sadly, Cigarjoe, it was not just the make up with Hayworth.

 

Something happened to her between the time she married the Prince and the divorce.  She was very nervous and her acting ability had started to leave her.  It had been five years since she was on the screen that she and Ford reunited for Affair in Trinidad which is a rehash of Gilda.  She was perfectly natural in her dancing but when she was not dancing, she was stilted.  Even working with Ford did not help this.

 

Of course, in retrospect we know now that she had early onset Alzeimer's (can't spell that without looking it up), but at the time no one knew about dementia in general, LET ALONE IN ONE SO YOUNG.

 

She would have panic attacks in public and people thought she was drinking again.

 

 

 

Check out SEPARATE TABLES.  I believe it was her last  -perhaps second last appearance.

[Canadiana-Trivia About Canadians in Movies]

Next:

 

 

This Canadian actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood had a long career in movies as a character actor, but he is likely best remembered for playing the title role in a movie about a famous American.  His daughter who died in the last decade was also an actress who never knew him that well. 

[I Just Watched...]

WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD: 1933

 

I recorded this as part of the Legion of Decency festival and had never seen the movie before.  Because it aired in the wee hours of the morning there was no introduction or conclusion.

 

 

I won't relate the plot line here as I don't want to spoil anything and I am too tired to type too much.

 

However, this is an interesting contrast from Becky Sharp from 1935 which I also watched for the first time tonight.

 

Both were made during the depression and both involved people who had debts and had threats of being turned out.

 

But the films could not have been more different.

 

Becky Sharp (Vanity Fair) is opulent and full of splendor.

 

This other movie is realistic in its portrayal of poverty and homelessness.

 

 

I enjoyed both films.