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1 posted on 04/10/2010 1:53:53 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

Any idea of the price tag? I’m going to have to buy it.


2 posted on 04/10/2010 2:04:01 AM PDT by Tony in Hawaii (NUTS!)
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To: RogerFGay

H.G. WELLS’ globalist quotes are available in my tagline link.

He may also have been clued in on the UFO research and events PRE-ROSWELL.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81


3 posted on 04/10/2010 2:10:02 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: RogerFGay

Rented it years ago. Great flick.


6 posted on 04/10/2010 2:26:47 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Is the difference between "anticipating" and "just waiting" the same as between "when" and "if"?)
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To: RogerFGay

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_HG-wells.html

The Godfather of American Liberalism
H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist . . .


7 posted on 04/10/2010 2:30:17 AM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: RogerFGay

Doubtlessly one of the great films of the 20th Century, and one of my favorite sci-fi pieces.

HG Wells had knowledge of Roswell before it happened? Did he get that telepathically from the Illuminatti or some secret Thule Society code?

You guys need to get some sleep.


12 posted on 04/10/2010 4:56:37 AM PDT by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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To: RogerFGay

Here is a site discussing lost and deleted scenes. This is some years old and may not cover newly discovered material. The deletions discussed don’t seem majorly important. One interesting one though:

6). Cabal and Gordon are repairing a tattered biplane at the airfield. A jagged cut leads straight to Roxana leaning out of Dr. Harding’s lab, shouting, ‘Look! It’s your Gordon!” to Mary.

What is missing in between is an entire dialog scene (24 lines) to explain why Everytown’s First Lady is visiting commoner Mary in the first place. Roxana acknowledges that The Boss has set his eye on Mary, and asks Mary to explain the meaning of this new Wings Over The World aviator and his scientific socialism.

There’s some startling feminist talk in the description of the ‘new world’. When Mary says women will work like the men do, Roxana denies that women want a part in this quest for “knowledge, civilization, and the good of mankind”, preferring the glory of “being loved and desired, the glory of feeling and looking splendid”. The world as Mary has described it would have no lovers, no warriors, no danger, and no adventure.

Instead of helping men build a new world, as Mary proposes, Roxana decides the right thing to do is to let the airmen conquer the world, and then women can conquer them. At this impasse, Roxana notices the airplane flying above.

This is one of the most telling elisions. Roxana’s character is established as the female equivalent of The Boss, the unregenerate primitive unwilling to submit to the dictates of progress. It is interesting, however, that Mary’s alternative still places woman as a servant to male aspirations, ‘helping them,’ instead of their equal. This makes Roxana’s devious mindset to dominate men, as she has The Boss, actually seem a viable choice! Despite his involvement with several feminist icons of the early 20th century, H.G. Wells’ ideas about women had definite limitations.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s65things.html


13 posted on 04/10/2010 5:19:38 AM PDT by tlb
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Be sure to look for the inimitable Ralph Richardson in his bravura performance as “Sir Boss”.


17 posted on 04/10/2010 7:17:07 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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