FredCDobbs

The most important thing I got out of the movie over the years is "BUY LAND.... IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT LASTS." Thus, as more people are always being born every year, there will always be less and less land per person every year, and its value will always go up.

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No, it doesn't really matter. We are just having fun. The Knights of the White Camelia sounds a little silly to me.

The South became a "strong woman"??

I wonder why they didn't tell the audience that the poison was some kind of radioactive material?

I think gagman66's photo is BETTY BRONSON.

Jake, I changed my post from Delta Queen to Mississippi Queen. They were both carrying passengers and docking at Natchez in the 1990s. I was on the Mississippi Queen. Every now and then, when crossing one of the many bridges across the River, such as at Natchez, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, we could look out and see some big steamboat on the river. At one time in the 1980s I think there might have been 6 or more of them that carried passengers up and down the river. I think there are fewer of them now. Oh, and I went out into the river on the Admiral at Memphis way back in the late 1950s. So I've been on three steamboats. .

Have you ever been to Natchez? There are places there in and around town where all you can see was there before the War. Last time I was there, Under the Hill, I went on the large Mississippi Queen steamboat that was docked there. It's similar in Vicksburg, except the river has changed course since the war and it by-passes the downtown area now. However, back in the 60s, I was on the Steamboat Sprague, docked on a branch of the River at Vicksburg, several years before it caught fire and sank about ten years later. I was also at Windsor several times, and Port Gibson.

Selznick dressed Belle’s girls in prostitute’s clothing. But in one of his famous memos he specifically said he didn’t want any klansmen or K-l-a-n robes in his movie. He said: http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/film/Selznick_memos.pdf P. 37: Here we come to a very touching point and I am hopeful that you share my feelings on it. I have already discussed it with George and he agrees-but then, our feelings are prejudiced. I refer to the Ku Klux K-l-a-n. I personally feel quite strongly that we should cut out the K-l-a-n entirely. ------ The revenge for the attempted attack can very easily be identical with what it is without their being members of the K-l-a-n. A group of men can go out to "get" the perpetrators of an attempted rape without having long white sheets over them and without having their membership in a society as a motive. I do hope that you will agree with me on this omission of what might come out as an unintentional advertisement for intolerant societies in these fascist-ridden times.

I would vote for SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES I had not seen this film in many many years, until it was shown on the Disney Channel a few years ago, and I was again amazed at how life-like the characters are. So are the birds, the trees, and all of the scenes involving water. I think this is still the best animated film.

Hi, I know what you are talking about, but the Klan is not in the movie because Selznick didn’t want it in the movie. Nor is the term “Vigilantee” in the movie, or other classical terms for such citizen activities. And keep in mind that the guy who attacked Scarlett was white and the man who saved her was black and she helped him get out of that Shantytown. That’s the movie, which is what we are discussing. If you want to re-make the movie and change it around, then you have to produce it yourself and come up with the financing. That particular sequence is included in the film mainly as a device designed to further show how selfish Scarlett was, since she was more concerned about her own embarrassment and the wounding of Ashley, than she was about the fate of her husband, who she didn’t even ask about. I spent a few years of my childhood growing up in the northwest, in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, and I didn’t hear the word “Klan” for many years. However, I did hear the word Vigilante often when I was a kid, and also in Western Movies, such as THE OXBOW INCIDENT. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante "Vigilante justice" is rationalized by the idea that adequate legal mechanisms for criminal punishment are either nonexistent or insufficient. Vigilantes typically see the government as ineffective in enforcing the law; such individuals often claim to justify their actions as a fulfilment of the wishes of the community. Persons alleged to be escaping the law or above the law are sometimes the victims of vigilantism. -------- Vigilantism and the vigilante ethos existed long before the word vigilante was introduced into the English language. There are conceptual and psychological parallels between the Dark Age and medieval aristocratic custom of private war or vendetta and the modern vigilante philosophy. (Hollywood area lynchings): Los Angeles and the surrounding counties had outbursts of vigilantism from the early 1850s as many of the criminals driven out of San Francisco and the Gold Country came into the less populated Southern California making the city and surrounding countryside a dangerous place for many years.

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Ok, ok, ok, it's DISHONORED LADY.

The first one looks like THE CONSPIRATORS.

i often suspect that many slang terms were invented by movie screenwriters, but they were slang terms that never existed in real life or among the general population. I started believing this after watching movies like BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, THE WILD ONES, and HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL when I was a teen. Some of the terms attributed to 1940s and 50s teenagers seemed to me to be terms invented in those eras by 50-60 year old guys who lived in Hollywood and wrote scripts for the movies. Just as I suspected that about 90% of the "teens" in those teen movies were all over the age of 30.

I covered the Watts riot in 65. Lots of shooting. The police and national guard killed about 50+ rioters and looters. I don't know of any movies about the Watts riot. And no "California Burning" movies.

What are you guys talking about??

Hey, Jake, I've been to Windsor Ruins many times. Years ago. It's a beautiful place, and a sad story about its end. During the War, the river was close enough so ships on it could be observed from the top observation tower. The river has since changed course a little. When you drive around in that part of the state, there are many small old towns that were there during and before the War, and some were right on the river in the old days.

Hi Holdenishere, I am correct, because I’m talking only about the movie. I haven’t read the book and I’m not interested in reading a long draw-out fictional novel about anything. I'm a movie buff, this is a movie forum, and I'm talking about the movies here. And by the way, the first Mrs. De Winter died by accident in the movie. I've never read that book and I don't want to. Fred