[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Back to back action epics. The review for this one is more favorable than for yesterday’s Beau Geste. I don’t know that posterity agrees. Maybe this is the summer blockbuster we were discussing a few weeks ago.

[Bringbackthedraft]

1939 has to be the Golden Year of the Golden Age for Hollywood movies, bar none. Great movies and not one “F” word. Today they try to duplicate acting with special effects, and basically feeding us crap. Only one or 2 movies a year stand out compared to over a dozen in 1939.

[Malesherbes]

Some years ago I was staying with English friends in Hove on the south coast. Walking through the streets of the town I saw a plaque on a house. It had been the home of C. Aubrey Smith, famed as much for his prowess at cricket as for his film career. (My English friends had never heard of him and had no idea that he had lived in their town.)

I’ve always thought of him as a wonderful Englishman, slightly blimpish but a man of character. So was A. E. W. Mason, the author of the novel on which the film “Four Feathers” was based. Mason declined the offer of a knighthood, saying that - being childless - honors were meaningless to him.

[Condor51]

The 'Four Feathers' is one of my all time fave movies.

And C. Aubrey Smith was one of the best Character Actors - the 'typical' stiff-upper-lip British ex Military Officer. He was good in 'Rebecca' too. (I like the old Brit made movies like The 39 Steps)

I read he was also the model for the Commander McBragg cartoons.

[GeronL]

1939

a remake??

music fees?

some things never change!