Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Things to Come, Great Art Deco sets courtesy of Vincent Korda - 'For man, no rest and no ending. He must go on - conquest beyond conquest ...And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time - still he will be beginning.' H. G. Wells's vision of the future at its most optimistic
How about 'White Heat' 'On top of the world, ma, on top of the world!' James Cagney's last and classic gangster role.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Fred Astaire and ladies who did all (nearly) that he could do, but backwards.
Top Hat and those Busby Berkeley spectaculars all through the thirties and into the forties...
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just thought of the "blue lamp" gave rise to george dixon the ordinary down to earth policeman that would feel collars by just shouting "stop thief".
if confronted by a young boy scrumping apples he would the defuse the situation with a dismissive clip round the ear and a playful steel toecap to the groin.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Nothing like a steel toe-cap to the groin eh Howard ? (ouch !)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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does anyone remember "the grapes of wrath" story by john steinbeck?
a depressing film about a family of farmers trying to survive in the dust bowl of depression hit america.
henry fonda won an oscar (i think) for playing lead.
I love that film and the book Howard ,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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definitely a masterpiece sarah, steinbeck never wrote anything that did not hit a nerve, much like his american contemporaries hemingway and tenessee williams.
True Howard , Of mice and Men is heartbreaking
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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'Wages of Fear' has held my attention for decades, my parents only had to mention it to me as a child to send me off to bed early.
All that Nitro Glycerine wobbling about and waiting to blow the brave drivers to bits, still gets me now.
'A Matter of Life and Death' and 'Colonel Blimp' are just perfect, also anything with Laurel and Hardy....great stuff filling the boat to find the leak etc, etc....
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Grapes of Wrath, a masterpiece in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, one of Henry Fonda's best. Then there's 'Frankenstein' hardly anyone has seen the full version as they normally cut out a scene that constantly lingers in the mind, Boris Karloff playing the monster, with deadly innocence, throws the friendly little girl into the water just as she has thrown her flowers.
