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.
Nov 17, 2024
Speaking of Murder(1957): Annie Girardot caught my eye in this gangster flick. Straight forward crime story in which the bad guys were not sympathetic and did not survive.
Nov 24, 2024
Alain Delon(Commissaire Edouard Coleman ) was dating Catherine Deneuve (Cathy) who was working with a gang of thieves in the movie The Cop(1972). Coleman solved the cases, and let Cathy walk away.
Plenty of action. Deion continues to impress me. Deneuve was so damn beautiful in her youth.
Jan 2, 2025
I watched a A Spy Story yesterday. The lead actress ,Petra Schmidt-Schaller did, did a great job. Her character Saskia Starke, a double agent, worked at a CIA office in West Germany , and frantically worked during the start of the Wall coming down, to erase a paper and microfilm trail inside the Stasi files that showed she was a mole for East Germany/Russia.
She wanted out of being a mole. A happy ending in the movie with the usual twists but watching the machinations she went through was interesting.
Feb 2, 2025
"The Woman with one shoe" is one of the flicks in the Austrian TV series “Backwoods Crime” . Nina Proll plays one of the cops in a small town in the Alps. Quirky twists and turns in the plot and a reminder of how you sometimes know too much about your neighbors when you live in a smalltown.
While trying to solve a murder, they find an escape female convict ( Edita Malovcic), who has married a car mechanic and assumed his dead wife(suicide) identity. The mechanic cut up the body parts which eventually surfaced.
Feb 23, 2025
Stromboli is more than a turnover. It's the name of an island in Italy with one of world's most active volcanoes.
Today it's dealing with heavy rainfall and mudslides.
I was amused watching Year 1 of I married Jane, an NBC TV series(1952-55) starring Joan Davis who was quite an entertainer.
Jim Backus played her husband.
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