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I noticed that too. I thought it was the result of a faulty digital transfer. It was very slight. I hardly noticed it after awhile. The thought occurred to me also that it was somehow commensurate with such a film as this.

Espionage movies are better IMO without a lot of action. They are better when they are exactly how you describe them. To be a spy and finding themselves in the situations they must occupy is suspenseful enough not to require action. You imply that le Carre (how did you make that accent mark?) are action movies and maybe in the long run they are. There was a fair dearth of action in both The Spy Who Came in the Cold and the more recent A Most Wanted Man and much to my delight. I am not an experienced espionage movie watcher so I may only have a partial understanding of same. But your remarks about the The Courier makes me want to have a look. Thanks.

I don't blame you for falling asleep. Not that he is boring, but he just seems to go on and on and often the later part of the segment involves minutia that I am not particularly interested in. I don't think about this in advance but I usually end up fast forwarding to the movie; on with it, already. Re Eddie, I made a similar comment a few weeks ago. He certainly looked alright during the segments with Mank recently but they might have been taped awhile back. But I agree, he doesn't appear to be quite in the pink. But I certainly hope that he is. Isn't that something that sometimes appears in comedies?

Lauren Bacall next : C.M.

no x Yang Yang

Frederico Fellini next : L.B.

Dodes-Ka-Den ('72)

Irving, Amy

Kier Dullea next : long and modest career

On The Town next : clueless husband (or wife)

Harriet Craig ('53)

Dick Van Dyke next : greasy

John Ireland was in Gunfight at O.K. Corral with Whit Bissell

Bonnie and Clyde

Pickup on South Street ('53)

Vince Vaughn

Everett, Rupert

Henry Fonda next : F.H.

Gidget next : steamship

The movie gets it's title from the audience who is hell bound while watching. Actually I don't really mean that. Eddie gave us as choice, it is either "awful trash" or it is "really fun trash." Definitely the latter. At least we get all that funky music and exaggerated sound effects. And the exterior location shots were cool, though certainly not beautiful. John Russell has an extraordinarily powerful screen presence, a big guy with chiseled face a cartoon-y aspect. A cross between Dick Tracy and Joe Palooka (although use your imagination a little with the latter). I winced heavily at the nasty scene when the girl got slapped around. I was actually disturbed with that. Showing a huge lug like that kicking a dame around. Stanley Adams as Herbert Fay is breathtakingly unprepossessing but I sort of like his acting though it was anything but great. I'm not sure I was paying attention at full throttle since I don't seem to have much to say about the girls. They were both pretty good. I loved the scene where one of them was trying to fit into her dress and someone knocks on the door. That was very funny.. Hey, this movie gets better and better just talking about it. ///

Correct. But something of a spoiler. Excerpt from a review of mine some time ago ; "Street's angst is purged at least in part through the help of a mentor and good friend who he calls Uncle Bill, wonderfully played by Leo G Carroll. The latter has several short scenes with Street. and has an especially entertaining one with a woman (Hildegard Knef, who's pretty good and wonderfully entertaining in a small role), who becomes Street's fiance. Carroll is strong in this role. He speaks with a wry, bemused air and dominates all his scenes. Gregory Peck passes muster but at time he seems unconvincing. Spontaneous reactions are not always free. He's a bit stiff and his attempts at buoyancy, which his character needs to be I guess, seems forced. Susan Hayward is excellent in a relatively unspectacular role. But it is an important one as she has to carry the load in the waning moments. Her commitment to character is extraordinary." Ava Gardner doesn't even make the radar. I don't remember her at all. It's been awhile though.

Alan Ladd was in SHANE with Jean Arthur

Sissy Spacek next : E.E.

Johnny Eager

HELENA ; played by Helen Mirren in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM ('69)