FredCDobbs

MEET JOHN DOE

I agree. But I think the screenwriter and director wanted to imply that she did survive, since she was smiling and feeling better at the end, and she was being rescued by an Israeli tank, which was her big dream come true. And the man needed to go back and face the authorities, in an honest noble way, to make up for deserting his girlfriend to the Nazis a few years earlier. But it would have been nice to have an epilogue, with the title 3 YEARS LATER, and showing him going to Israel and running up to hug the girl where she worked on a kibbutz, with some romantic music at the end.

She said she wanted the two movie characters to get married at the end of the movie.

No, she said she wanted the two characters to marry at the end of the movie (and so did I).

Hey, LISA is a great movie!

So how many films have y-o-u recorded from TCM...? Lots and lots of them, even going way back to the early 1980s with old AMC. Ha! But where are they all? I don't know. Here and there, hiding from me. In my garage, my closets, in unlabeled boxes, on book shelves but un-labeled. Some covered with cobwebs. I'm really bad at neglecting to make up a good efficient filing and catalog system.

Oh, I haven't INSULTED you. I have merely disagreed with some of your point of view. I don't even know WHAT you are. Male, female? I don't know. Young, old? I don't know. Gay, straight? I don't know. Race? Unknown to me. Age? I don't know. Nationality? Beats me. Part of the world you live in ? I don't know.

One of my best sales clerks at the local Lowes store was a big masculine-looking lesbian woman. Here where I live, people of various orientations are very friendly. The state I live in has been very multi-cultural for centuries. Nobody cares who or what anyone else is, unless they are bad criminals. Consequently, we are all friendly to each other. The guy who helped me pick out my eyeglasses seemed gay and he was very friendly and professional. I'll use him again next time. A lot of people who can't get good jobs usually have a chip on their shoulder and an attitude of rudeness and anger. I'd rather be served by a nice black female gay FRIENDLY person, than some old RUDE white straight coot.

I recognized Virginia Bruce, but I never can remember her name, so I can't look up her list of films.

What about , "You G.D. White jive a** Cracker M***** F******", which I've been called a number of times. Why does the media not speak out about those insulting terms?

but it's another thing to impose your personal beliefs on everyone else's choices. It wasn't "on everyone else". It was for the majority of movie-goers. I haven't been to a movie in a theater in 15 years because the bad stuff suddenly turns up with no warning or notice. Why would I want to pay to see someone puke, p-e-e, p-o-o-p, or cut someone's head off? At least a warning list should be posted with each film, along with the timeline where I will know when to close my eyes.

I don't like seeing movies in which the crazy mean bad loco killer goes free at the end, after killing a bunch of nice people. I like to see killers either shot by their victims, the police, or maybe fall off a cliff at the end of a movie. In these modern times, if we want to go out to see a movie, we must put up with being forced to see the "views of morality" of all the slasher film producers and directors. No thanks. I didn't go see The Exorcist because I didn't want to be forced to see some actor puking in a color film close-up. No thanks, not for me. I don't want to see anyone puke, p-e-e, or p-o-o-p on film.

Thanks for that story. For young people: Flak shells are filled with shrapnel and are set to explode at the altitude the bombers are flying. These shells are designed to damage aircraft and the men in them. We see the shell smoke in the movies, but we don’t usually see all the shrapnel. Flying through German flak....... An airplane can't dodge the flak because it must stay on its straight bombing run course to the target......

I love this film. PTSD, a bombing run at 9,000 feet. "Hey, what do we do with this arm?" We are so lucky to have not been on any of those bombing runs over Germany.

If I've never heard of a film, I usually check with IMDB or a LEONARD MALTIN review to see if such a film would be suitable for me. If he hates it, I'll usually watch it.

Ha!

Technicolor girl on the right. Drab girl on the left.

I agree. I just loved those bright vivid Technicolor Betty Grable films of the 1940s.

True, true, true, but I would not want to see a dirty, stinky, wrinkled Robin Hood. Back in the 1940s and 50s, some young women would use vivid Technicolor type makeup and brightly colored dresses, and they usually looked fabulous. The other drab girls looked homely to me.

Nice tall hat. Nice Western necktie. Nice black Western clothes. Beautiful Spanish-style gun belts and holsters. Nice shiny six-shooters. A handsome cowboy.

These films need to be restored. Harlem Rides the Range (1939) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyD1dp-ZXJg

Gun violence, car chases and crashes, vulgarity, etc., for the youthful demographics of the audience. Then when there is a mass shooting, they blame the NRA.

Kid, I just thought I would let you know that I worked for two hours straight on that Algerian Café photo yesterday, including searching scenes from THE RAZOR’S EDGE, several Jean Gabin films, and many other early French and North African films. Fred

I think just about all of the anti-War films about WW I and WW II came AFTER the two wars. I think there were some anti-war films made DURING the Vietnam war. Others, such as LITTLE BIG MAN, showed the US Army killing women and children in the Indian-wars days of the 19th Century, as a parable about the ongoing war in Vietnam. The 1957 film, PATHS OF GLORY, might have had an effect on a lot of young American men so that they decided, a few years later, to revolt and NOT be drafted to go off and fight in Vietnam, but that film was one of the main ones and first ones about bad and corrupt military commanders. The great genius of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT was because all the good young men were on the German side, so that the US military was never condemned in that film.