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Having been tagged for the Alphabet Meme by
our friend the Siren ( see the gory details
here ), we interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast for a list of films representing each letter of the alphabet. Most of these films have already been ...
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Ten things I rather like about old movies
(without taking into consideration anything as superfluous as good
acting, writing or cinematography): 1. Screaming newspapers headlines and screaming newsboys screaming the newspaper headlines. 2. Calendar ...
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Silent film director D. W. Griffith enthusiastically announced
of this new art form, "We've gone beyond Babel,
beyond words. We've found a Universal language." Some ten years later, Buster Keaton took a pratfall as his car was demolished by an ...
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found this 12/31/2007 on
anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com
“Holiday Inn” (1942) gives us a brief New
Year’s Eve scene, which though released during the first
year of our involvement in World War II, gives us no indication of any war theme or trouble brewing for the new year. Except for the Independence Day scene where a musical montage shows us fighting men, factory war production, Douglas MacArthur, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, most of ...
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found this 4/10/2008 on
anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com
“Maybe I’m just a dame and didn’t know
it.” Okay, okay, let’s just get that line out
of the way right now so we can discuss “The File on Thelma Jordon” (1950). I recall Walter Matthau’s quoting that line during what I think was the AFI Tribute to Barbara Stanwyck back in 1987 (why don’t they ever show those things again?), to which he said something about being surprised Wendell Corey could ...
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Rover
found this 5/26/2008 on
anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com
On this Memorial Day holiday, a marathon of
World War II movies is the typical fare on
television. But we could note with irony that though Memorial Day was created from the wild bereavement and need for reconciliation over the American Civil War, Hollywood’s classic era has given us few Civil War movies. It does not seem to be a subject they wanted to touch. Four films on the American ...
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found this 7/3/2008 on
anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com
To note Independence Day tomorrow here in the
U.S., here is a repeat entry from last year
on “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942), originally posted in two parts but combined as one today. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” is fast-paced film that captures three American traits: unabashed and sentimental patriotism, a love of nostalgia, and consuming ambition. Perhaps they go hand-in-hand, but much of the ...
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Jo Stafford died last week. A pop singer,
her career extended from the big band era to
the beginning of the Rock n’ Roll era, which left singers like her without much publicity as the record buyers became younger. She sang publicly only rarely ...
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“The Enchanted Cottage” (1945) is today a sentimental
favorite of many old movie buffs, but upon its
release, New York Times critic Bosley Crowther found the film “unreasonable” and “contrived.” Dissenting opinions of this film are perhaps ...
The Alphabet Meme