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.
Cary Grant is a masterful Lite Comedy Actor.
Comes right across the screen.
Few have that ability.
One of the first ‘grown-up’ movies I ever saw and it probably affected my perception of reality from that point on.
Great! But based on a delightful play!
I always get a kick out of how the police officer describes what we consider a low crime rate in Brooklyn.
The first time I saw it I was well under age 10, any time it’s on I’ll still watch it. What a great film! But, that happens with any Cary Grant movie.
Hubba hubba, wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean?
Bkmk
Hilarious movie.
“I’m the son of a sea cook!”
L
Great film directed by Frank Capra.
I've seen it. When I ran across it I wanted to watch it because I had seen the play at my school theater when I was in high school, and it was excellent.
Oddly enough, the movie with Carry Grant playing the lead role was a paler imitation of what I saw produced by a high school theater. A lot of the lines I thought uproariously funny at the play, fell flat in the movie.
It just wasn't as good, and I was shocked and surprised. I thought it would be better than a high school play.
Yessssss!!! Thank you!
I love that movie.
That may have been it. The movie just wasn't as funny as was the play.
The other problem with the movie is that the laughter is forced in many scenes. It's not one of Capra's best.
Yeah, that's what it felt like to me too.
It's been awhile since I saw it, but I remember Cary Grant lines that I felt fell flat, and the crazy guy yelling "Bully" also fell flat.
It was mildly humorous, not uproariously humorous as I remember it.
I would have to rank Capra’s best as “It Happened One Night” for Columbia in 1934.
Too bad Karloff was not allowed to reprise his role as Jonathan Brewster for the movie. Otherwise it is a very fun movie.
A favorite of mine as well.
CHARGE!!!!!!
excellent
I've heard of it, but I don't think i've seen it. I'll have to check it out.
Oddly enough I like a lot of old movies. I just watched "The Day" with Humphrey Bogart last Saturday.
I've taken to watching old movies with my mom, who actually lived through that era. I thought she would get a kick out of seeing this stuff from her lifetime.
Yeah, my Dad and Mom took me with them to see it. Dad had just received his B. Div. fom Colgate-Rochester Divinity School that year, and after the graduation being ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church, the Bishop because of it advanced my Dad to a newer bigger church in Angelica, New York, in the eastern part of the state, a town of population about 500. Wow! Big (for us and for Dad's career)!
The nearest theater was in Belmont, the County Seat, about 10 miles away. I'm guessing that we went as my 8th birthday treat on November 1.
You will recall that we were in the middle of the really hot part of WWII, with battles in the Pacific islands and advances in Europe toward the Rhine--The Battles of the Bulge and Iwo Jima yet to come. Because of the war rationing, We were limited in travel by the "A" gas rationing ticket, that--IIRC--only gave us only five gallons a week, so traveling to and from Belmont, whilst paying the 50 cents each for he movie ticket, was a pretty big thing on a minister's pay and ability to use the car for visiting parishioners.
I remember but little of the movie except the two seemingly "innocent" well-mannered elder ladies, and Cary Grant. He seemed to be always in a fix. It was so hard for me to believe that the nice ladies were actually poisoners with their tea parties. That was not comedy to me, but rather pretty scary, considering from the viewpoint of a preacher's kid that with a lot of the village men going off to war, and the young women starting to behave more worldly, most of our supporting church congregation was nice old ladies and men far too aged (more than age 45) to be drafted.
Maybe I'll try to find this movie in the DVD archives of the Delaware Library system, where I now live. I'm glad to find a few folks on FR as old as us guys. Thinking of this movie brings up a lot of memories from long ago. What an age that we have lived in, and seen the whole culture be changed!
How many people alive today can imagine a very active bustling society, a Radio-soaked society but without the distracting TV option, let alone the overwhelming internet or smartphone involvements that have so mightily consumed peoples' attention away from each other.
Too much for me!
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