Protest news-free Saturday part 3

 Lured(1947) is an entertaining flick filled with fun banter between Lucille Ball and George Sanders. The segment which features Boris Karloff as a fashion designer trying to re-live or re-create his glory days from the past is interesting.

The main theme about the danger in answering personal want ads remains with us.

Sept 30, 2024

Kim Novak , wearing that green dress  while playing a sales  clerk in Vertigo. Also, liked  the green car

October 6, 2024

I watched Blood on the Moon, a 1948 flick featuring Robert Mitchum and Robert Preston.  No good guys in this tale about cattle rustlers. 

Walter Brennan's character Kris Barden stole some scenes.  

Phyllis Thaxter's character Carol Lufton nabbed my attention in a few scenes.

October 21, 2024

I watched a  documentary,  The Village Detective: a song cycle, about the recovery  and restoration of  a Soviet film  "Derevensky Detektiv", a 1969 Russian film found off the coast off the coast of Iceland. The film was a copy that had fallen or been dumped from a Russian ship. Better versions exist. 

It then went into the acting career of Mikhail Zharov (1899-1981) which started in the days of  Tsar Nicholas II.     

October 27, 2024

I watched  the 1985 movie Colonel Redl, the head of the Austro- Hungarian secret police before Archduke Franz Ferdinand  was assassinated in 1914.  Redl was a double agent living high on Russian funds.

It's a movie  ,not a documentary ,and the implication in the movie is that the Archduke knew Redl was gay when he said he's so sensual. He was pressured into committing suicide. No one wanted a messy trial.

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