"Maybe some day there'll be a law to abolish the blues..."
Socialist #IndianaJones -type goes up against an evil Chinese warlord and pedestrian cloak and dagger stuff ensues. It's OK but it feels like Paramount made this movie several times in the 30s, usually with Marlene Dietrich.
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"If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage..."
MGM putting four of their biggest stars together in a witty comedy with a great premise. Highlights include Powell pratting about in the river, Harlow's sass, Loy's class and Tracy doing what he did best. The aborted fight was great too.
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If you're interested in finding out a little more about #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood, here's something I wrote/delivered in 2024.
And here's something I wrote about #PassageToMarseille in 2021.
If you're interested, here's something I wrote about #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood in 2024.
My friend @curiodik1dik2.bsky.social refers to it as the "What have we learnt?" version.
"You can check the wings and halo at the desk..."
Pre-code naughtiness on a Malaysian rubber plantation with rugged Clark Gable juggling Jean Harlow and Mary Astor as the tropical rains fall. Studio and set-bound but also convincing as being made somewhere other than at MGM's studio.
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"Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them..."
Absolutely wonderful seeing this, the tale of a young writer with a fractitous relationship with his dad but a strong one with his best friends, on the big screen. Brilliant performances from the young leads.
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"Some bastard's nicked me towel!"
Short and sweet, this is Raymondo's other borstal film, although he has a briefer spell here. He's always a compelling actor and I've been a fan since #RobinOfSherwood so this was a must-watch, really. Obviously the location was the real star, though.
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"California has no use for another fool..."
With the odd exception, I think the swashbuckler isn't a genre that's passed through time peacefully, and this boring, flat mess is a perfect example. What looked great in the 1930s and 1940s is embarrassing here. A proper slog of a movie.
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"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
Name-checked in my grandma's eulogy, simultaneously brilliant and unpleasant with the score to end all scores and my favourite shot in any movie ever, it's impossible to not be swept along by its scale.
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Such a fun movie. I assume you know but in case you don’t they remade it as Mogambo (1953) with Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner.
Not as fun or racy (damn production code) but still worth watching if you haven’t seen it.
I know of it but I've never seen so I'll bump it up the list on your recommendation, cheers!
"You can check the wings and halo at the desk..."
Pre-code naughtiness on a Malaysian rubber plantation with rugged Clark Gable juggling Jean Harlow and Mary Astor as the tropical rains fall. Studio and set-bound but also convincing as being made somewhere other than at MGM's studio.
#FilmSky
"Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them..."
Absolutely wonderful seeing this, the tale of a young writer with a fractitous relationship with his dad but a strong one with his best friends, on the big screen. Brilliant performances from the young leads.
#FilmSky
"Some bastard's nicked me towel!"
Short and sweet, this is Raymondo's other borstal film, although he has a briefer spell here. He's always a compelling actor and I've been a fan since #RobinOfSherwood so this was a must-watch, really. Obviously the location was the real star, though.
#FilmSky
"California has no use for another fool..."
With the odd exception, I think the swashbuckler isn't a genre that's passed through time peacefully, and this boring, flat mess is a perfect example. What looked great in the 1930s and 1940s is embarrassing here. A proper slog of a movie.
#FilmSky
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
Name-checked in my grandma's eulogy, simultaneously brilliant and unpleasant with the score to end all scores and my favourite shot in any movie ever, it's impossible to not be swept along by its scale.
#HollywoodsGreatestYear #WFWWW #FilmSky
19 years after I first saw this Humphrey Bogart statue in The Boardwalk in #Sheffield and 10 years after I saw one outside a bar in Bruges, I finally acquired my own.
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"It was cinema itself that became the joke..."
Obviously the clips are the highlight, every bit as dazzling and inventive 100 years on but hearing so many contemporary talking heads showering him with praise reaffirms his timeless appeal and proves that his legacy is in firm hands.
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It's a genuinely sweet, good-hearted tribute to those Elvis films. It was fascinating, funny and I'm glad it exists. Songs are decent too.
Saw it with @johnfeath.bsky.social a few weeks ago, complete with a Tim Vine Q&A. Delighted to announce he's exactly as lovely as you'd imagine him to be.
Amazing, and a million times better than the cheaper, self-assembly IKEA Bŏ-gărt.
19 years after I first saw this Humphrey Bogart statue in The Boardwalk in #Sheffield and 10 years after I saw one outside a bar in Bruges, I finally acquired my own.
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"It was cinema itself that became the joke..."
Obviously the clips are the highlight, every bit as dazzling and inventive 100 years on but hearing so many contemporary talking heads showering him with praise reaffirms his timeless appeal and proves that his legacy is in firm hands.
#FilmSky
Did a virtual watch-a-long of Witness with @johnfeath.bsky.social during lockdown and pointed out that considering McGillis's character's surname, technically Harrison Ford got a Lapp Dance in the barn.
Gag went down about as well as you'd imagine...
"I don't know what keeps me from killing you..."
A fatalistic Pre-Coder with a very noir plot that begins with Eddie G going to the electric chair then shows the misfortunes that led him there. He's brilliant, it's a very lean 66 minutes and the skyscraper death scene is something else.
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