I remember that scene!
Didn’t see it on the Big Screen.
Think it was when I was a teenager, recovering from a surgery....
There was a lot of interesting history about the Hays code in there. I guess I never really separated the pre-Hays from post-Hays movies so I never noticed the change - just that some "old" movies were much naughtier than others. I'll have to pay more attention to the timing in the future.
So far Hunter has screwed his dead brothers wife, got a young girl pregnant in Arkansas and his father is felly touchy with young girls and smells hair. No domestic violence allegations yet, I guess their still punching at it
At a party a few years ago I told a guy he looked like James Cagney. Freaked me out that no one knew who I was talking about. They were all in their 40s and 50s.
“Jimmy Cagney shoving half-a-grapefruit into the kisser of Mae Clarke in The Public Enemy (1931).”
No one like him. He was the greatest. He could bring you into any character he was portraying.
The Rapes of Graft
“Alas, my cultural references are increasingly incomprehensible to those under, say, 112 years of age”
Mark does have a penchant for obscure references. Reminds me a bit of Dennis Miller.