FredCDobbs

Yes, the film starts out slow, but it gradually begins to speed up, then by about half-way through it, it had me on the edge of my seat, and it turned into a very exciting film by the time of the big confrontation/fight scene. I really like this film.

FRANK SINATRA

There is an old movie, I think it is YOUNG TOM EDISON, in which a telegraph man says it is an abbreviation meaning "I received your message" or "alright" or "every thing is OK here".

I think it has something to do with giving up the hectic big-city life and buying a little farm to raise chickens or small crops. This was a popular thing to do among some New Yorkers in the 1930s and 40s. I think "bought the farm" mean he "retired, quit the business, got out of the rat race, hit the road, etc" I know two old commie type guys who got fed up with all the political fights and hassles of the 1940s and they bought chicken farms. Whittaker Chambers did too. This was more common of a term in the New York area since a short train ride North out of Grand Central Station took city dwellers out into rural New York State and Connecticut. So, "he bought the farm" means "he's gone and will never be back", i.e., in a gangster context, "he's dead".

Maybe you need to post another clue. I'm not very good with faces, so I have to use all kinds of search methods to try to find who belongs to what faces. So, for people like me, clues are very helpful. No response does not mean no one is paying attention. It means about half a dozen or more people are working madly, using different keyword search terms, trying to find a face match-up before someone else finds it.

I think Scarlett (in the movie) is one of those film characters that seems so real, I do think of her as a real person. The same way I think of Ethan Edwards as a real person in THE SEARCHERS.

Ok, I have identified the little boy.. But I’ll give some others a chance to identify him.. I’m saving the URL of the photo I found, in case you want proof that I found it. The photo I have is a cropped close-up of the face.

By the way, here is a website that has a lot of old photos of European film stars: http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.nl/search/label/Walter%20Slezak

If you don't mind, someone else can do the next one. I go to bed early and wake up late, so I can't monitor the thread much if I post one.

That one was difficult. I had to go through dozens of different search terms to track this guy down. Then I began to realize that his hair style back then was European, and, in fact, common in Germany, and I judged the photo to be from the 1920s, so I searched for silent German film stars. Eventually his name popped up and I looked around for photos of him. He started out as a very handsome young male lead in silent films, but by the time he got into his late 20s, he began to get fat and he couldn't stay slim, so he lost his leading man roles and decided to become a character actor early in the sound era. A similar thing happened to American actor John Mack Brown, and when he got fat, he became a cowboy star and changed his name to Johnny Mack Brown. As a kid, I always thought of him as the fat cowboy.

WALTER SLEZAK

WIKI: Enid (/ˈiːnɪd/ EE-nid; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛnɨ̞d]) is a feminine given name, the origin of which is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning "purity", literally "soul" (from Proto-Celtic *ana-ti̯o-, compare Gaulish anatia "souls (?)" attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁- "to breathe, blow"; cf. the modern Welsh anadl, "breath" or "wind").[1]Enid was a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the Mabinogi tale of Geraint and Enid; according to The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (1983),

Dang! How did you get that one?? The old photo is him in a stage play in 1919. (I didn't know that until you gave your answer, and I looked it up.) So, you are correct!

http://www.history.com/news/londons-world-war-i-zeppelin-terror

LONE STAR (1996) is a very good murder-mystery film that needs more attention and TV airings. It is extremely intersting and filled with startling stuff, especially at the very end. This should be a big "cult" film.

I missed the very beginning of the film this time, but several years ago I saw it and I studied what they said at the beginning. I got the impression that Mae Clark’s character and her friend were professional dancers but I think one of them made a comment that led me to believe that many chorus girls could augment their salary by doing some street walking, and could always fall back on that line of work if they couldn’t find any dancing jobs. That suggested to me that she, in the past, might have done some streetwalking too and had had some experience with it, although it was an unpleasant type of “job” Also, let’s say they could do both, make their main income with the dancing job, and go streetwalking just one day a week for some extra income. This is one thing that made the film seem more realistic to me than the 1940 version, since Vivien Leigh went right from the high-class ballet job to full-time streetwalking, which seemed too drastic of a change for her, especially since she was beautiful and educated and surely could have gotten some kind of decent professional job in London, such as working in a store or as a secretary, while Mae Clark wasn't as beautiful and didn't seem to be very educated.

I like the 1931 version much better than the re-make of 1940. The 31 version seems much more realistic.

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GONE WITH THE WIND tests:

I think this was the best movie-related documentary ever made. I've seen it on TNT and later on TCM several times. See TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION WIKI: Beginnings See also: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer § MGM/UA, Turner, and Parretti Turner Network Television launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 3, 1988; its inaugural telecast was the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind, to which TNT founder Ted Turner had acquired the rights. The movie was chosen as the channel's first program because, it was said that Gone with the Wind was Turner's favorite movie (it would also serve as the first program aired on sister channel Turner Classic Movies, when it debuted in April 1994). Incidentally, Gone With the Wind had its premiere held in Atlanta, Georgia – Turner's hometown and the headquarters of the network's corporate parent, Turner Broadcasting System – and the city served as the setting for the film.

Looks a little like John Gilbert too.

Looks a little like Charlie Chase in a WWI comedy.

Florence Eldridge as Ruby Lemarr in THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE: Here she is as Ruby Lemarr, the white trash lady, she starts about 1:25 into this clip and has a major part here..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBlKU5m_HWo

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-11-06/ed-1/seq-74/#date1=1836&index=3&rows=20&words=ELDRIDGE+FLORENCE&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Florence+Eldridge&y=9&x=15&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 See lower right photo.

Florence Eldridge