markbeckuaf Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I absolutely grooved to this 1935 mystery/comedy!!! I'd seen it a LONG time ago on TCM and haven't seen it show up again in ages, and really dug it the second time around! The interplay between my main man Edward Brophy as a police investigator and Constance Collier is priceless!!! Both are awesome throughout!! Always a sucker for old school mysteries, this is a fun one from MGM!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundie Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I had it on but admittedly didn't pay a lot of attention to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I enjoyed it. But, I figured out whodunnit well before the end. Still, lots of fun. I did enjoy seeing Ed Brophy as a principal, not an underling, as he usually is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 That night last week was a great night and early morning. I was lucky enough to record SON OF FURY, SHADOW OF DOUBT, THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE, and SINGAPORE WOMAN. SHADOW OF DOUBT was an MPPDA Code film, #586, meaning it was probably made in late 1934 and released in early 1935. The MPPDA logo was a very large full-screen title at the beginning of the film. They used big titles like that for about a year, while promoting the publicity about the new Decency Code for major Hollywood films. THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE was a pre-code film from 1933. Otto Kruger was great in this one. Very interesting plot and last-minute ending. Brenda Marshall was really great in SINGAPORE WOMAN (1941), and it is a very unusual and interesting film. She plays both a bad girl and a good girl in this film, which was some fine acting. Sort of a two-faces-of-Eve type film. She married William Holden shortly after finishing this film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominiEarl Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 my main man Edward Brophy as a police investigator and Constance Collier is priceless!!! Both are awesome throughout!! Always a sucker for old school mysteries, this is a fun one from MGM!! ------------------------------ New Star Rising for TV shows ---Once Upon a Time Season 1 DVD，Seize the present, Seize it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbeckuaf Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Fred, glad you had a chance to see this flick, as well as THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE and SINGAPORE WOMAN, both of which also totally rocked!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > SHADOW OF DOUBT was an MPPDA Code film, #586, meaning it was probably made in late 1934 and released in early 1935. Good figuring, Fred! SHADOW OF DOUBT was filmed between December 22, 1934 and January 11, 1935. The MPPDA Number (586) was assigned on January 28, 1935. The movie was copyrighted on February 12, 1935. It was released on February 15, 1935. Additional fact: The novel upon which the movie was based was published as a serial in Collier's Magazine between October 13, 1934 and January 5, 1935. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 > {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote: > Anyone else dig on SHADOW OF DOUBT? > > }{quote} Yes, very much! I definitely enjoy these minor "B" MGM flicks much more than their overblown famous hit movies with the "Big Stars"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I enjoyed it in spite of my dissapointment of tuning in thinking I was going to see *Shadow of A Doubt* , the '40's Hitchcock thriller. I should have read slower. DAMN that Evelyn Wood! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I was not familiar with the older lady who was in SHADOW OF DOUBT. She is Constance Collier. I looked her up and I found out she was a famous stage actress in the 1890s and early 20th Century. She played Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, and many other famous roles: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote: > }{quote}I was not familiar with the older lady who was in SHADOW OF DOUBT. She is Constance Collier. I looked her up and I found out she was a famous stage actress in the 1890s and early 20th Century. > > She played Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, and many other famous roles: > > > > That's one serious-looking lady! I think I'll stay out of her way when she's holding a long sharp spear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Yeah, wow, what a woman, huh? Her face looks a little like the ?Miss Liberty? figures on some of our 19th Century coins, also the Statue of Liberty. More great theatrical photos of her here. Click on them to enlarge: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=506028&word= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Constance Collier was a great friend of Kate Hepburn's. I've read many of Collier's letters to Kate, which are housed in an archive in NYC. Collier was also a great acting coach. One of her famous film roles was as the older woman in Stage Door. I believe that, when Ms. Collier died, her personal assistant -- the famous "Phyllis," went to work for Ms. Hepburn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Fred - SHADOW OF DOUBT and SINGAPORE WOMAN were two of the great ones this week. These are exactly the kind of movies that absolutely make TCM for me. I can really get into a breezy hour long B picture. Usually the stories are very entertaining with pretty good writing. Even when the scripts are lacking the casts are peppered with great character actors that still make the whole thing really enjoyable for me. The relationship between Constance Collier and Edward Brophy in SHADOW OF DOUBT was marvelous. I consider these movies the hidden gems of the TCM library. Maybe one month TCM could pick a night where they salute B pictures. No film longer than 65 minutes! Yancey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbeckuaf Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 Yancey, I'm totally with you!!! I love these little 65 min B's!!! They are way cool! Constance Collier, along with Edward Brophy, stole the flick for me! Wow, what an out of sight performance!!! I dug these flicks mucho!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanceycravat Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Just goes to show sometimes you don't need 200 million to entertain people. Here's to a good story, well told! Yancey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 I think THREE ON A MATCH is one of the best short films ever made, at 63 minutes. It is a B picture, I suppose, but it has Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Anne Shirley, Warren William, Edward Arnold, and Humphrey Bogart. Not only is the cast great, but the script is very good too. It's about 3 girls in junior high school who have different personalities, and we see them grow up and they all turn out differently from what we would expect. It is a very interesting story. I've seen it many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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