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How did the star shoot the moon?
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: What are you cooking?
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 11:55:22 AMMade a pot roast and salt potatoes. Pretty successful, forgot to take pictures.
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Television / Re: Tv episodes which made you...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 11:29:26 AMNCIS CALL OF SILENCE.
As the son of a veteran, this one hit hard.
As the son of a veteran, this one hit hard.
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How do you kill a werewolf?
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:10:13 AMCannibals in a 1930s movie = peak representation! 
LILLY TURNER (1933):
I think I need to wrap up my Ruth Chesterton side-quest. She's a really good actress but hers is a shallow filmography in the literal and figurative sense. There are no less than three, possibly even four or more movies where she gives up her infant child for adoption and it ruins her life but then she refuses to ever admit her parentage under even the most dire of circumstances under the assumption that it will ruin the adult child's fabulous life. If you made that movie twice in your career, it would be a rather notable or curious choice. How do you make that same movie three or more times??? That seems like paranormal phenomena of some kind!
Fortunately that isn't the plot of LILLY TURNER, but Ruth still gets a bad end of every stick in this movie. Abandoned as a newlywed by Hubby #1, she's forced to join a traveling sideshow, gets relentlessly stalked and harassed by the psychotic strongman, shackles herself to a well-meaning but rudderless and sexless alcoholic, then finally meets the man of her dreams (played by Ruth's real-life husband George Brent), but of course in the film's final moments must make a noble sacrifice which involves turning her back on true love indefinitely or forever, because - well, because "Ruth Chatterton movie", one must conclude.
By and large, Ruth Chatterton movies are thankless slogs - excepting her remarkable comedy/satire FEMALE, which is unlike any of her other films I've endured lately. Ruth herself is an admirable talent but I can't think of another actress who got stuck w/ worse or more strident projects than her in the 30s. At least she looks happy to be onscreen w/ her real husband, with whom I think she had a good/lasting marriage. There's also some surprising violence at the end which livened things up slightly.
2.5/5 Hereby re-dedicating "Ruth Chatterton" lines in my time budget to "Virginia O'Brien".
LILLY TURNER (1933):
I think I need to wrap up my Ruth Chesterton side-quest. She's a really good actress but hers is a shallow filmography in the literal and figurative sense. There are no less than three, possibly even four or more movies where she gives up her infant child for adoption and it ruins her life but then she refuses to ever admit her parentage under even the most dire of circumstances under the assumption that it will ruin the adult child's fabulous life. If you made that movie twice in your career, it would be a rather notable or curious choice. How do you make that same movie three or more times??? That seems like paranormal phenomena of some kind!
Fortunately that isn't the plot of LILLY TURNER, but Ruth still gets a bad end of every stick in this movie. Abandoned as a newlywed by Hubby #1, she's forced to join a traveling sideshow, gets relentlessly stalked and harassed by the psychotic strongman, shackles herself to a well-meaning but rudderless and sexless alcoholic, then finally meets the man of her dreams (played by Ruth's real-life husband George Brent), but of course in the film's final moments must make a noble sacrifice which involves turning her back on true love indefinitely or forever, because - well, because "Ruth Chatterton movie", one must conclude.
By and large, Ruth Chatterton movies are thankless slogs - excepting her remarkable comedy/satire FEMALE, which is unlike any of her other films I've endured lately. Ruth herself is an admirable talent but I can't think of another actress who got stuck w/ worse or more strident projects than her in the 30s. At least she looks happy to be onscreen w/ her real husband, with whom I think she had a good/lasting marriage. There's also some surprising violence at the end which livened things up slightly.
2.5/5 Hereby re-dedicating "Ruth Chatterton" lines in my time budget to "Virginia O'Brien".
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