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Free Movie ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
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Posted on 09/18/2023 12:27:16 PM PDT by V K Lee

This is one of the greatest movies ever made. There
isn't a single bad part in the entire thing. The
actors were absolutely fantastic, as was the directing
Cast: Raymond Massey, Cary Grant, Jack Carson,
Edward Everett Horton, Priscilla Lane.


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To: imardmd1

How come no one mentions Peter Lorre?


21 posted on 09/18/2023 2:59:29 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: imardmd1

Hey FRiend! I’m sorry but I didn’t see it in the theater when it was released. I saw it on a local channel, one of the Movie time slots - remember Popcorn Movies? The Late Late Show? Or the Saturday Afternoon Movies? It was one of them or another one, sometime around 1968.

That said, I just loved reading your reply and how descriptive your words are! Rationing during war time must have been difficult, yet Patriotic. “All pull together”. THAT is a nation.

Things I miss from my own childhood include being hot in the summer with the shades all pulled down, and the house dark and mysterious, and the living room fan blowing the only breeze. And at night all the neighbors come out to the front stoops, and everyone’s windows open so you could hear what they were watching on television.


22 posted on 09/18/2023 3:16:47 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( Bring back insane asylums)
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To: Publius

My favorite. Ben Mankiewicz at TCM, in so many words, called IHON the best romantic comedy ever. I agree.


23 posted on 09/18/2023 3:43:50 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Bookshelf
How come no one mentions Peter Lorre?

I don't know. Peter Lorre was still circulating when the war ended, but not long after, I think.

Fact is, we've got so much an accumulation of movie and TV personalities now to remember than we did then, don't we? And most of us that were alive before the Korean War ended have now passed away, I suppose. Or we've entered a stage of forgetting because those age-old details don't appear very much in ordinary conversations anymore.

Or for other reasons that I don't recall . . .

24 posted on 09/18/2023 4:08:55 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: V K Lee

It’s one of my favorite films. I own a copy and watch it every time its on TV I was fortunate when they made a new print to make the Blue Ray disk I got to see it in a the old style theater with a really high quality screen, sound system and the Alex Theater with about 1,500 other people. The audience response made the movie even funnier.


25 posted on 09/18/2023 5:06:24 PM PDT by airedale ( )
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To: V K Lee

The funniest movie I’ve ever seen.


26 posted on 09/19/2023 8:27:59 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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