FredCDobbs

Yeah, and that's what makes this pre-code very "hot" in many ways. I thought both Jack and Miriam AND the director did a very good job in this film.

I saw SWORD IN THE DESERT on TCM about 15 years ago, and it is a very interesting movie. It is the only one I know of that shows Jewish immigrants and British Soldiers as bitter enemies, and there are some gun battles between them. This was a rare time in Palestine when there were several international humanitarian groups sending European Jews (concentration camp survivors) to Palestine. Shortly after WW II ended, even the US government was helping do this (see the movie THE SEARCH). But just a couple of years later, the British decided to cut off the Jewish immigration. The British had ruled Palestine as a colony for many years, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire (see LAWRENCE OF ARABIA). There were the old-time Jewish Palestinians and the Arabic Palestinians who had lived in Palestine for hundreds of years and had gotten along together for generations. Many of the immigrants were European Jews and many didn't want to go back home because the Russians and Communists had taken over their East European countries and also the Jews had a lot of bad feelings for non-Jewish Europeans who had aided the Nazis (in order to survive) during WW II. So it is an exciting movie with a lot of new and interesting stuff in it. Years ago I had a Jewish friend to managed to Escape from Germany with his family, around 1937 or 38, when he was about 12 years old, and they moved to Argentina. They later moved to Shanghai, and then later to Chicago. I knew the guy in San Francisco. He spoke English with a Chinese accent, since he had learned English from a Chinese teacher in Shanghai in the early 1940s.

You can watch the movie on YouTube. She was with Trigger weeks, maybe months. Back then, bad and good were very separate, so she liked the xx with Trigger and she stayed with him, and that, to her, made her a "bad" girl who could not return home. But eventually seeing her old boyfriend Benbow again, who was in Memphis investigating the murder case, reminded her of all the good people she had left behind for the sordid world of the bordello hotel and life with Trigger.

The situation doesn't arise so much today, because we have the birth control pill today and abortion clinics. Back in the old days when a lot more girls were "good", it was so much easier to be be "good" because of the great fear of pregnancy. I remember girls like Temple Drake from my high school and college years in the 1950s and into the early 60s. But by the 1970s a lot had changed, with the birth control pill and abortion clinics being available, and girls like Temple no longer had to keep saying "No, No" because of the big fear. Within a couple of decades, even modern girls' parents began to learn they were living with some boyfriend, and the issue of "good girl" "bad girl" was no longer so important anymore. Trigger told Temple in the hotel room that he knew she would like it if it was forced upon her, which was somewhat of an old myth of the old era. What she didn't like was the lifestyle with all the "bad" people and criminals, and that's why she ultimately left Trigger. If he had been a much nicer guy after his attack and had lived among decent people, she might not have left him at all.

Our stolen past and suppressed American heritage comes alive again, thanks to Black Historians: Donald Griffin - The Wonderful Tar Baby Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjnkKEZ5ZE

See this: Akbar Imhotep Performs “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” http://vimeo.com/10765411

No, he was quite a square when he was born.

Well.... years ago I met one who was parabolic.

Yes Master. I am.

Thank you very much.

When I was searching for the legs today, I thought I remembered someone mentioning Joan Blondell but I thought you rejected that name, so I didn't search for it on Google, and I didn't search for the post on this thread. I finally hit upon some keywords that might work, since the license plate is dated 1930, so I used this search term on Google Images today: 1930 actress legs in car Since it was Joan Blondell, and I thought someone had already mentioned her, I decided to post the actual photo I found to show how I found it and that I wasn't copying someone else's answer.

I didn't really think you would.

LOL. Yes sir. And I'll go back and un-watch the movie so I'll be just like you.

That POV is what you just said, not what I said. You are arguing just to argue.

I don't know what you are talking about. I told you what I meant, and see my post about the dollar scale. Also, see the movie so this discussion will become more clear to you..

I think it would help you if you would actually see the movie, so you can talk about it.

You misunderstood my post. I was talking about the last part of your statement, about people not liking the film. This: "a criticism that they are attempting to propagandize children to unacceptable racial stereotypes." Regarding the blowback, you must have missed my post about Disney using the money scales to make their decision about whether or not to release a DVD.

I grew up in the South in an era that still had Plantations and plantation houses and worker's shacks, and mostly-black workers. Some of the foremen were white with some white kids. Lots of both white and black families still lived in old shacks in the 1940s when I was a kid. My grandparents in Mississippi didn't have electricity until about 1950, and eventually gas heat and running water by the late 50s or early 60s. This was common in rural areas. So, I saw the film not so much as "slaves" but poor plantation workers and the rich plantation owners.. We black and white kids didn't associate with one another very much, since we had different languages, literally, and we usually couldn't understand each other. Lots of slang expressions in each language. They couldn't understand us much either. In my childhood, I went to school with one black kid (in Montana) and I briefly had one black playmate my age (in the South) whose father worked on a dairy farm where my grandparents lived. And of course our schools were segregated back in those days. Black people saw the same films I saw, because if the theater was large enough to have a balcony, blacks had their seating in the balcony. We could hear them laughing up there at the same jokes we laughed at. In real life, many black people spoke clearly like Uncle Remus, but others spoke with a lot of fast talking slang like Br'er Rabbit and Br'er fox. As a kid, when I saw the film, I saw all the "poor" kids in the movie as being equal (except for the "low class" bad white boys), and I saw Bobby Driscoll as being equal too (equal to the blacks and other poor kids in the movie, because he fit in with them), but I saw his mother as being somewhat bad and "uppity". Originally, my parents saw this film with me and they liked it too. Back in those days, lots and lots of white people in the South were poor and we were sometimes treated with disrespect by the rich whites, since we weren't rich and we weren't as educated as they were. Uncle Remus was similar to my two grandfathers who used to tell us kids stories about the old days. Every time I watch the film, after a while, the races gradually disappear and I just see people.

I posted a link to the full movie on Friday Sept 12, on the OLD MOVIES ON YOUTUBE thread. I've watched it twice again already.

http://vimeo.com/10765411

Thank you.

No it's not. I know why some don't like the movie. Other people also know why. You see, about 90-95% of people who are said to "not like" such and such, are being spoken for by only 5-10% of the troublemakers who claim to speak for everyone. I've never heard anyone in real life complain about the movie, The complaints only turn up on the internet and are written by the people who want to claim that they know what "everyone else" thinks and they claim to know how "everyone else" SHOULD think.

There is a hidden factor that I learned about in the news business. There are small groups of people who can threaten big-time boycotts of companies, and the leaders of these people are excellent scam artists. If they claim to be "offended", they can threaten to organize big boycotts which, in reality, they can not actually organize because they can't get enough people to join it, But they claim they will not organize such a boycott if the offending company gives them a lot of money. They can get millions of dollars in "donations" like this, for various kinds of mass "sensitivity" projects, classes, education projects, etc. So, while a DVD of SONG OF THE SOUTH might not actually generate a real massive boycott today, there are these "organizations" that could threaten Disney and squeeze millions of dollars out of them, by threatening a big boycott. This would cut down on the profitability of a commercial release of the DVD.

I don't understand how anyone could think this way. A kind gentle old black man who tells funny and interesting stories to black and white children gathered around the fireplace at his house. A hero. A wonderful man. A problem solver. A man who has good advice for kids and helps them when they are in trouble. A Santa Claus in person. Black and white kids playing together and don't notice they are black or white. I just don't get it. I think that people who don't want this film released today are people who don't want to admit that we can all socialize together and get along together.

Yes... for film buffs, "Blandish" is a GREAT film! Lots of fun to watch.