FredCDobbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYq2OccnlE

I think it was brought up, as much as it could have been in the 1950s, during the entire bedroom scene. That’s where he told her that she was too lustful, and she just went along with whatever he said. She realized that he realized that she had already been thinking about jumping into the sack with him, and now she felt bad because it was so obvious. Remember, this was still a code-era film. A film today would have a different type of scene. Such as him going to bed with her and then killing her and laughing. Frankly, I didn’t think of the impotence thing until after having seen the film many times. Because normally, a lonely-hearts killer in real life takes advantage of the older women, and woos them via sex, so he can get at their money. Similar to Charlie Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux, and Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt. But in this particular case, with the Laughton movie, the villain seems to be impotent but is still interested in the money, and hates the women because of his impotence. (Note the statements of the Santa Barbara killer from yesterday. He blamed the girls for all of his own personal sex problems.) By the time of the death scene, Willa is totally confused, wiped out, and distressed by all that has happened, including the hanging of her first husband and the bad judgment of thinking that her last husband was a nice guy. She didn’t know what to do and she had nowhere else to go, so she just gave up.

Vivien seems much too strong in that screen test. I can imagine her marrying Max and within a few months she would have him opening a department store in Atlanta, running a lumber mill using Southern prisoner labor, and causing Max to go out and get shot and killed while cleaning out Shantytown, while she is chasing after their next door neighbor, Ashley.

The House on Haunted Hill 1959

That looks like Alfred Hitchcock's original THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, 1934

Great Expectations

Two Mules For Sister Sara

Yes it was me.

I just don't pay attention to that stuff. Years ago, for a TV station, I started a series of old history reports about my state, and that's when I began to learn about intermarriages and when I began to find out we are all mixed far more than most people realize. Just going back two, three, or four generations would surprise most people, because of widespread mixing in the 19th Century, in the US, Europe, and South America, and some in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. I also learned that my Grandfather could have registered with his grandmother's tribe and would have then been classified as a Native American, rather than an Anglo Saxon. Then my mother could have registered, and that would have allowed me to register, and today I would be an Indian. Since we didn't bother to register, I am just a plain ol' Anglo Saxon today.

GONE WITH THE WIND ?

I like to read what people think. I like to know what they think, right or wrong.

JET PILOT John Wayne, Janet Leigh This is a weird film. I've seen only part of it. Seems they began filming it in late 1949, but it was not released until 1957, and because of this all the early jets were obsolete by the time the film was released. The plot is silly, but it is fun to watch John Wayne and Janet Leigh together.

This is a strange but fairly common phenomenon among some people who are easily manipulated by a weird mysterious charismatic “leader”, such as Jim Jones, Charlie Manson, David Koresh, Hitler, etc, and many other crackpots.

Cyrano de Bergerac 1950

oops, too late.

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Here is a very interesting technical article about 2-strip and 3-strip Technicolor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

The famous violent scene that was censored from the original CAPE FEAR (1962): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFpu5ljlwuA&

I don't know if I could take a month of Nazis.

I have heard that some good actors like that will actually hurt the actress during the scene, just to frighten them, such as pinching them, squeezing them tight, digging their fingernails into their skin, etc. It helps the actresses act afraid.

Get yourself a piece of paper and make yourself an ancestry chart. Go back with your grandparents and great grandparents until you are 1/32 something or other, let's say Native American. That means you are 31/32 something else, and chances are it is not "white Anglo European". Even if your parents told you that you are 100% Jewish, that probably isn't so, if you go back as far as your 32 great great great, etc. grandparents. People intermarried so much years ago, in the 19th, 18th, 17th Centuries and earlier, so that WE ARE ALL MIXED. Nobody is a PURE anything. We might be more one thing than another, but nobody is pure anything. Go back far enough in a Native American's ancestry and you will find Russians, Manchurians, Chinese, and other East Asians.

jakeem, Had it not been for the threat of Communism and a European take-over by Russia, if it had been up to me after the War, I would have broken Germany up into 4 parts, with no more unified Germany at all, because of what they did and their cause of the deaths of more than 40 million people in Europe during the war PLUS their cause of the deaths of many millions during WW I.

De Niro is so over the top but so weirdly fascinatingthat you put the first characterization a bit to the side and just sit back for the ride. ============== He was over the top enough to frighten me!

436 "The Big Boss is insisting on it. He says that defect in your chin is distracting to the audience. You are scheduled for plastic surgery next Thursday."

Charles Laughton CAPTAIN KIDD