Actors – AirBeagle

06-Jan-20 Actors, Around the World, Cinemagic, Clark Gable, Classic Cinema, Entertain Me, Gene Raymond, Jean Harlow, LGBT, Mary Astor, Movie Night, Movies, Quotable, Society, TCM, United States, Vietnam

Movie Night: Red Dust

“The attraction here isn’t really the cultural relic/curiousity value, it’s the variation of the old man meets woman, they hate each other, they clash with sparkling dialogue and then end up together ’til death they do part. This bit has been done to death in Hollywood’s 100+ year run, but it can be freshened and redeemed if the scriptwriter is up to the job.”

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24-Aug-19 Actors, Around the World, California, Cinemagic, Classic Cinema, Entertain Me, Joan Crawford, Movie Night, Movies, Quotable, Society, United States

Movie Night: Strait Jacket

“The bonuses here are George Kennedy as a farmhand foreshadowing by 22 years Billy Bob Thornton in 1996’s Swing Blade (“I like them French fried potaters.”), all the Pepsi placement, and Lee Majors in pre-Six Million Dollar Man mode, along with his very hairy chest, fluffily rising and falling just before the axe falls.”

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