daddysprimadonna Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 ...TCM is FINALLY going to show "Chance At Heaven"!!! I've wanted to see this movie again forEVer, I first saw it many many years ago on that OTHER "classic" movie channel(which is classic no more), and I loved it-I've begged TCM to show it for the longest, and they're going to in march!!! Yeeaaayyy!!!! I'll be waiting with bated(but minty fresh,LOL) breath! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellabluegrl Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Thanks for sharing daddysprimadonna. It's nice to get a "heads-up" when a good movie is going to be airing on TCM. Next time you want to recommend a good movie, why don't ya swing over to the "Your Favorites" area and post it in the "A Great Movie Alert" thread. That way a lot of people will be sure to notice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 OOps, Ok, I'll do so:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 I also saw this one a few years ago on THAT OTHER CHANNEL, and loved it! It's one of the few films during the pre-Code period that actually hints at abortion. I can't believe it slipped past the censors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemetal Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 Was it Night Nurse that dealt with the same topic? I'm a bit rusty at some of my pre-Code dramas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 No, it wasn't NIGHT NURSE. That wonderful pre-Code starred Barbara Stanwyck & Joan Blondell as "night nurses" on private duty, who are called to nurse two little girls being starved to death by "Nick the chauffeur" (played excellently by Clark Gable) so he can marry their dipsomanic mother & get their large trust fund. Two movies that I know hint (because the censors certainly didn't allow any more than a hint) at abortion were DR. MONICA AND MEN IN WHITE, both from the early 1930's. Dr. Monica's husband gets her friend pregnant, and the friend, in true 1930's fashion, faints at a party where Monica is. Monica rushes to the rescues, makes a diagnosis of pregnancy, and the friend says something in a desperate voice, "You've got to help me." Monica says angrily, "Don't you ever speak of that again!!" Veiled reference, to be sure, but it's there. Another reference to this is made in MEN IN WHITE with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, & Jean Hersholdt. Clark sleeps with a student nurse at the hospital, gets her pregnant, and she seeks a backstreet abortion without telling him because she knows he has a fiancee. While waiting for surgery afterwards (botched abortion)the nurses question her about "the man." Called into duty is Clark Gable--to operate on his lover! When he realizes what has happened, he makes a comment like, "Why didn't she come to me??" Perhaps it is one of those pre-Codes that you were thinking of. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 I THOUGHT I caught that when I watched "Men In White". "Animal Kingdom" was a VERY frank movie also-no abortion, but premarital sex and the wife "using" sex to get her way with the husband-the seduction scene with the champagne was very modern-I was surprised to see this frankness, even in a pre-Code,because it was played with complete seriousness and sincerity,and even in the free and easy pre-Codes,these things were often done with a wink and a chuckle, which could soften the impact. "Animal Kingdom" played it completely straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemetal Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thanks so much, Men in White was what I was thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 As you can tell, I'm a HUGE pre-Code fan! I am constantly amazed at the mature themes that were presented. I also like ANIMAL KINGDOM. Another one sort of along those lines are WHEN LADIES MEET (the early 30's version). If one watches a pre-Code VERY carefully, you won't beleive what you're seeing & hearing! But you have to be on the lookout, or it will slip past you, just like the studios hoped it would the censors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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