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On 12/8/2021 at 5:11 AM, scsu1975 said:
From December 8-10, 1921, the Poli ran God’s Country and the Law, starring Fred Jones as André, Gladys Leslie as Marie, and William Tooker as Jacques Doré. The film was released in June of 1921 at six reels. The Library of Congress holds a complete copy.
Plot: Jacques Doré, a French-Canadian, is wanted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for selling contraband whiskey.
He escapes, and hides out in a cabin owned by an old violinist named Poleon and his half-breed daughter Oachi. Doré attempts to have his way with Oachi.
Poleon drives him out. Doré then seeks refuge in the cabin of André and Marie, a young married couple.
While André sleeps, Doré turns Marie’s head with tales of the “big city.” Andre wakes up before Doré can make his move. When André goes hunting, Doré makes a play for Marie. André rescues her.
He then beats up Doré. While in hiding, Doré sees André going for a doctor from the Mounted Police, so he kidnaps Marie. When André and the doctor return, they find Marie missing and begin a search. The doctor enters the camp of Poleon and Oachi. Marie fights off Doré, and rather than let him touch her, she jumps off a cliff.
Oachi finds Marie, and with the aid of her father and the doctor, they return the girl to André. Meanwhile, Doré, now delirious, wanders in the woods, pursued by visions of his crimes.
He eventually returns to Andre’s cabin, and upon seeing that Marie is alive, collapses and dies.
The stills below could not be placed in context. The first shows Gladys Leslie. The second shows Hope Sutherland (as Oachi) playing with a bear:
I could only find one review in the trade journals, and it wasn’t good. The reviewer for The Photodramatist emphasized the more lurid aspects of the film, writing “a young married woman – very, very sixteenish and very, very pretty – is seen disporting with wanton abandon through beautiful groves and on the marge of a woodland lake. Her apparel is very abbreviated, displaying to consummate advantage delicately formed bare legs; this little married elf’s flimsy bit of dress is of postage stamp proportions, perhaps covering slightly more of her anatomy than a one-piece bathing suit would have covered.” In discussing the scene where Doré attempts to have his way with Marie, the reviewer adds “we see wifey coquettishly swishing her abbreviated skirt, much to the visible agitation of the stranger. She stands on a chair to reach for something, disclosing much more of her delightfully formed limbs; the stranger’s significant glances at this point leave little doubt as to what he is thinking of.” Finally, the reviewer notes that the film’s appeal is “essentially sensual, especially in the scene where the heroine is poised on the chair. The significant glances of the villain are, and are meant to be, carnal. They are also – ridiculous.” A review like this probably increased attendance.
Scenes were shot in the Sebago Lake region of Maine.
After reading the comments by the reviewer I went back the screen shots looking for spice.
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I am debating with myself watching a Hallmark movie out of sheer curiosity.
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"Fatty" Arbuckle
Uneventful personal life (or seems to have been)
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Jennifer Jones
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Undercurrent ('46)
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The Breaking Point ('50)
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To Serve Them All Our Days is a BBC Miniseries made on 1981 about a wounded and shell-shocked young soldier who as a part of a convalescence became a helper in a boys private school and who later became an accidental schoolmaster. I enjoyed this for the most part but had a couple of stoppages. I ultimately continued on to the end. One of the real pluses that is still with me is the theme music, a modest sounding but magnificent little piano piece which captures the nostalgia and reverence of this beloved old school and celebrating its consecrated purpose to bring a proper education to young boys.
Below is the end of an early episode, which captures a bit of the tone of the whole story, but I mean to highlight the outro music that was the end music to all the episodes. A lovely little piece.
To my disappointment the video is not permitted to be embedded in this forum, the best I can do then would suggest the following ; google To Serve The All of Our Days - Episode i and go to the 48:00 minute mark and watch the final few minutes. Beginning with the schoolmaster sitting at a bench.
Hope you try it.
I may have gotten around it. If this vid plays and is not at 48.00, then please go there.
https://youtube/z3G3L1za05k?t=2886
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
the perfect robbery plan,
Perfect should be in quotes there, firstly because is there such a thing, and secondly and more immediately, was this one perfect? I'm nitpicking but what the heck. The drivers would never have deviated the route, they probably have running orders to return if the usual route was obstructed. Even if not, it is likely they would use the radio for instructions, in which case they would have discovered the radio in the truck was not working. They didn't ask the detour guy for credentials, certainly a common-sense expectation. It's nitpicking for a movie such as this, but also asks to what standards should a movie such as this be held. W T F moments can occur in the worst of films and spoil it, that is if it hasn't spoiled itself already by being so bad.
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18 hours ago, Dargo said:
Did or do the Japanese believe this fatter face look to be desirable or more attractive in some way?
I think it was just to look more menacing, or something that would sell himself at a leading man in a crime movie. Not desirable in the usual sense nor attractive in the usual sense. Why didn't he just put cotton in his cheeks?
22 hours ago, Katie_G said:Hopefully next week will be better but I'm not optimistic at this point.
It will be much better. For me, my favorite crime film of all time. A portrait of a hired killer. I'll say no more, though I'm sure glad that Peter Falk did not do the film. I like Falk, immensely in fact, but the guy who had the role was too good to lose, I don't even know his name as he was not a wwll known and if I remember he might not be a pro actor, per se ; not a great performance in the sense we usually mean, but PERFECT for the role. Try not to miss it.
On 12/12/2021 at 3:44 AM, cigarjoe said:Next weeks Blast of Silence (1961) directed by and starring Alan Baron is a low budget ...
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On 12/12/2021 at 9:49 AM, Thompson said:Loved the hot plate thing that boiled the water for tea.
A Japanese samovar?
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I wish he had got away of the inferno and ready to board the plane to Brazil. He wants to take his sister with him but she has a nervous breakdown at the airport, and he must board the plane without her, or get caught. The plane explodes shortly after takeoff, presumably a bomb. A lingering question could be who set it off (that is if there is any left in the cast still alive.)
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Oh wait! Succession is on HBoMax!
Oops, sorry ... Prime :sheepish grin:
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13 hours ago, shutoo said:
I noticed some time ago that a lot of what was once free with prime has moved to IMDB section...only full of commercials! I've come to the conclusion that life's too short to watch ads, so I usually use other sources now to stream
I got a familiar screen back but it's a bit different. There is no PRIME VIDEO at the top, you have to type in the the search box. I was through 6 of 8 episodes of Succession but that is no longer available, not even for pay.
19 hours ago, SweetSue said:There's some kind of outage and pretty much all Amazon web services are down right now so that may be where your issue is coming from.
..., and yes, you seem to be right here. I couldn't get these screens before. They were down so they could disappear Succession , ha. And other nefarious changes no doubt.
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Anyone know what's going with Amazon Prime Video? I accessed after some time being away and i cannot find ANYTHING. There was usually an array of FREE TO ME stuff but it's all gone. My name is on the page so my account is still good. Can anyone help?
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William Powell was in Life With Father with Elizabeth Taylor
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On 11/17/2021 at 8:52 PM, Katie_G said:
gay subtext could be my imagination, but when Bobo walks into the "men's shower room" at his hotel and his pal Tiny (Mitchell) is whipping a naked Claude Rains with a wet towel, what else could it mean?
It means that Bobo walks into the men's shower room at this hotel and his pal Tiny is whipping a naked Claude Rains with a wet towel.
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The voice sounds (more or less) like her, but i am surprised that she would sound so polished at this early date. Her later songs, at least some of them, was that real breathy voice. No sign of that here. But if IMDB says it is her, then is probably true.
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5 hours ago, lilypond said:
...and comely Ruth Roman. She had an untapped warmth about her, and I'm always surprised she didn't have a splashier career.
Yes, I so agree. I was admiring her throughout. Such a gentle lady, and with an endearing vulnerability. I'm so glad that her character did not have something up her sleeve and turn out a bad girl in some way. Yes, it is too bad that they could not find a better place for her as an actress. Perhaps it's because they wanted splashy, and she had not that, or enough of it.
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Freddie Bartholomew was in DAVID COPPERFIELD with W.C. Fields
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A pretty penny for the costumes ... brilliant stills.
Here on the Board, the world around us here swirling around, not al thatl pleasant at times ... but this quiet, brilliant thread goes on apace, a treasure trove. I, for one (and for others who are surely missing out) thank you, Rich, for the incredibly fine and detailed work you do here. Nothing seems rushed. The research apparent in these postings is impressive. I am absent far too much but I have always admired your work here.