Summer hits!classic movies on TV caught up to me; I've been using a new method for watching and deleting from the DVR, such that when it filled up about the middle of the month (about 100 movies) I had the oldest thirty-some watched and could be deleted and about
In addition to summer things, which is among the reasons I'm posting this late, there was a lot more than DVDs to watch. Paramount unexpectedly put season one of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds up for free for the month on Youtube, and all the new
Working through my DVD collection, I watched:owner and escaped. This was a rewatch from May, because when we came to the part that tied the two plots together, I was lost. Had I fallen asleep? (I still have 1953's "House of Wax" to rewatch after falling asleep, should have done that closer to
The Ape (1940) A Monogram Picture starring Karloff as a mad scientist -- as he's a kindly old man, let's call him unconventional -- seeking a cure for a paralyzing disease using human spinal fluid. Meanwhile, a carnival ape has killed its abusive
established this. As this is a Public Domain film, it's possible that the parts of the movie that would have made it clearer to me were lost.C being comic relief in "One Night in the Tropics" to it essential being -what?- "plot relief?" to the comedy the audience came to see. Here we take a major part of the running time to get to the tropical island of the theme, as we pause each step for a
Pardon My Sarong (1942) The four boxsets of Universal's Abbott & Costello movies are one line in my inventory, so dealer's choice, and I hadn't seen this before. Someone has doubtless traced the romantic subplots in this series as it atrophied from A&
The Skin Game (1931) Alfred "The Master of Suspense" Hitchcock got his Public Domain movies thrown into a horror megapack. No, the title is not some predecessor to "Psycho." It's not a horror or suspense, or even mystery, although there are somefamily secrets, and a tense auction scene. This is just a note.
And that seems to be it.--
July is shaping up to be much the same, with activities and with cable bringing me movies as fast as I can empty the DVR.
August will be a theme month on TCM, "Summer Under the Stars" with each day devoted to one star. I may have seen a lot of the major motion pictures they might choose.
On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 05:17:00 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn
<jack....@gmail.com> wrote:
family secrets, and a tense auction scene. This is just a note.The Skin Game (1931) Alfred "The Master of Suspense" Hitchcock got his Public Domain movies thrown into a horror megapack. No, the title is not some predecessor to "Psycho." It's not a horror or suspense, or even mystery, although there are some
I've always taken it to be about the decline of the Entitled Classes
and the rise of the Grubby Industrialists. JRRT would have been
rooting for the Entitled Classes.
Which may have made it (or the play it was based on) topical at the
time it was done.
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