therealfuster Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 It's a good night at TCM to stay up late. They will be showing Marcel Carne's "Le Quai des Brumes" at 2:00am this Friday [January 14th] late night [or technically tomorrow, which is Saturday morning, at 2:am] and it is a film well worth watching. The TCM capsule write-up states quite succinctly: Quai des Brumes, Le (1938) An army deserter on the run risks his freedom to protect a beautiful young woman. Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. Director: Marcel Carne. BW-91m "Le Quai des Brumes" won the best foreign film prize accorded by the National Board of Review in 1939. I am looking forward to seeing it, as I've almost bought it a bunch of times, and now TCM is saving me the money by showing it. It is available on a Criterion dvd, and their more elaborate summary of it runs as follows: "An army deserter named Jean (Jean Gabin, Grand Illusion) hitches a ride to the port of Le Havre with the intent of leaving France. Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse/flophouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama (Edouard Delmont, The Baker?s Wife) because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure. The group includes a beautiful girl named Nelly (Mich?le Morgan, La Symphonie Pastorale), and Zabel (Michel Simon, The Passion of Joan of Arc), her lecherous godfather. Zabel, a seller of trinkets, is being hounded by small-time gangster Lucien (Pierre Brasseur, Children of Paradise) about the whereabouts of a fellow hood named Maurice Brevin. Jean obtains a fake passport and means to leave for Venezuela, but fate has something else in mind as the former soldier falls in love with Nelly and makes an enemy of Lucien." Enjoy...all you inveterate late night owls who watch TCM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimbo3200 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I want to see that too! I hear it's good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twtpark Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Michelle Morgan looked like Joan Crawford. Very entertaining film "Port of Shadows." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
path40a Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 I thought she was much more attractive than that;-) Pretty good film too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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