FredCDobbs

?Why did she "confess" to Roy's mother before they had even become engaged? In the remake it makes sense because they are engaged and she feels it's gone too far so she panicks. But in the original she was not committed to him, had only just met the family, and could still just take off without owing any explanations to anyone.? She ?confessed? because she was already falling in love with the guy but she didn?t want it to go any further. Telling the mother would have been just the right thing to do to stop any continued development of the loving romantic relationship and the respect and approval of the family. This technique was to help add to the overall tragedy of the story, to make the audience respect the girl, and to show that she was essentially honest.

Moria, excellent review! The film showed that the girl had been a decent honest girl earlier in life, and her refusal to marry Douglass Montgomery was proof of that. That made her a very sympathetic character. The boy's age, only 19, clearly explained why he didn't suspect anything about her past in the beginning.

The second version didn't make any sense because of the movie code. The girl was a prostitute to start with. I never understood why Vivien Leigh would become a prostitute when she thought her boyfriend was killed in the war, since she wasn't one at the start of the film. It didn't make any sense. This original version made sense.

Ha! This 1931 Waterloo Bridge makes a lot more sense than the later version.

Light in the Piazza http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056183/

My introduction to Walter Houston was in Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Of course he was an old man in that film. I later saw him with Joan Crawford in "Rain", which was a film that was banned by the Hollywood code in 1934 and wasn't shown again until it was revived in some theaters in the 1970s. It's still quite rare.

Giannini is famous in San Francisco. The story goes.... he was head of the Bank of Italy in 1906 when the fire and earthquake hit the city. His bank building was in danger of burning down, so he is supposed to have taken all the gold and cash out of his vault and he put it in a wagon which he drove down to South San Francisco, thereby saving the entire bank and all its money.

The Ten Commandments is not an Easter story. It's an Old Testament Passover story.

Yes, that was a great scene. It was well acted, directed, filmed, and edited. For those who haven't seen it, a bunch of French soldiers in a pub start harassing a young German girl, trying to get her to sing some kind of bar song. She finally got up in front of them and shyly started singing some kind of old folk tune in German. None of the French could understand the words, but the way the girl sang was as if she suddenly became like the French soldiers' sweethearts or sisters back home. The rowdy boys finally settled down, and some of them began to cry as others tried to sing along with the girl.

The actors are speaking their lines in a complicated murder mystery. Their facial features give clues as to who the killer is or isn't. While that is happening, long titles at the bottom of the screen are saying, "The actors are in their cars now chasing each along Highway 1 on the California Coast. Note that the drivers are weaving in and out of traffic. They almost had several accidents during the filming of this scene. Blah, blah, blah." Well, heck, we can see that on the screen in the movie! During the love scenes and the complicated dialogue, the captions read, "The head actor (blah blah) didn't want to say these lines. He felt he had better lines to say in the film. He argued with the director and script writer about these lines." What Lines?? I can't hear the lines if I'm reading this drivel at the bottom of the screen. I have to hold my hand up in front of my face to cover up the stupid titles.

I am not interested in watching a 2 hour movie twice in a row, and I'm not interested in reading how the movie was filmed and where and when and at what street addresses in what cities or what the actors had for lunch. If I want to read that kind of stuff, AMC could put that information on their website and people who want to, could read along while watching the movie, but I don't want to. These crazy ideas are thought up by fast-paced people who live in big cities, who fight traffic every day, living in tiny apartments, and who have lost all contact with reality.

All during the movie, down in the black space at the bottom of the screen, they run subtitles telling about how the movie was made. They run throughout the whole movie. I can't stand them. I can't watch a movie and read the subtitles at the same time. The titles are very distracting and could be simply added to AMC's website as a background story, rather than to the bottom of the movie as it shows on the air on TV. I also can't stand the during-the-movie commercials, where characters from other TV shows are shown walking around at the bottom of the screen while another movie is playing. This is the latest thing in during-the-movie commercials. That is, commercials shown WHILE THE MOVIE IS PLAYING.

Sounds good to me Izzy. Good idea.

I think this question is like the one: ?I saw this movie about a boy (or girl) who had a horse that nobody thought could ever make it to the Kentucky Derby. What?s the movie?? Or like this one: ?B&W, ?30s or ?40s, about a nice guy who falls in love with a gangster?s girlfriend.? I think a lot of skaters in love fell into snow banks while skating in old movies.

Looks like a good list of movies to me: Shane (?Come back Shane.... come back.?) Algiers (?Come with me to the Kasba.?) Sweet Bird of Youth The Barefoot Contessa Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932) (Fredric Marsh version) Lilies of the Field The Spiral Staircase Witness for the Prosecution Harvey Love Letters Coquette (1929) (Mary Pickford?s first sound film.) Lost Horizon Green Dolphin Street Mutiny on the Bounty (Gable version) All Quiet on the Western Front Wuthering Heights Johnny Belinda And many others.

It's a fast paced murder mystery with a dozen suspects.

There is a scene like that in TCM's December Christmas Movie promo. Looks like the people are in early 19th Century costumes.

"Sunset Boulevard" is filled with so many golden moments.

The swimming pool sequence in "Cat People." One of the greatest sequences ever filmed.

Brenda Marshall http://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1154/Mptv/1154/0971_0585.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Marshall,%20Brenda http://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1154/0971_0800.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Marshall,%20Brenda&seq=2

Ok, I think I found the problem in my computer. Something about cookies and Temp file settings. I'm now seeing all the latest posts on the main Forum Home index. Fred

Help, I'm lost in time! I signed on this morning but the main Forum Home index showed only the last posts of yesterday. I clicked back and forth between Forum Home and specific forum topics and I finally got a list of today's posts, then I lost them again and I'm still receiving a list on Forum Home that is updated only to yesterday's posts, and I can't respond to any of today's posts because the Forum Home doesn't show them. Fred

I keep clicking "Forum Home" and I keep getting different indexes of posts, mainly ones for earlier today. If I sign off I can sometimes see the latests posts on the main index, but when I sign on again the main index and sub-indexes go back to list the top posts that where made 4 or 5 hours ago.

I had trouble understanding my Radio Shack Model III.

There is a good 1945 book about the Code, which can be found here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=MOLEY&ph=2&tn=thehaysoffice or look here and use the title "The Hays Office" and the author "Moley". Then search AbeBooks. http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm This book tells the true story about why so many Americans began to protest certain movies back as early as the 19-teens, not long after the movie industry moved to Hollywood. And the book goes through the history of earlier codes. But it ends around 1945 so it doesn't tell about the gradual abolishment of the Code in the 1950s and '60s.