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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Robert (Robert Donat), a mousy accountant, and timid, sickly Cathy (Deborah Kerr) have settled into a dull marriage in their drab London flat. Robert joins the Royal Navy in 1940, and Cathy thereafter joins the Wrens, leading to a separation of three years. During their military service, Robert and Cathy each blossom into new people thanks to this VACATION FROM MARRIAGE. This film is a wonderful mood...
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps The film that launched Hitchcock's career Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, John Buchan Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie Funny, thrilling, and sexy, Hitchcock’s prototypical wrong-man thriller - in which a Canadian, living and working in London, is wrongly implicated in the murder of a secret...
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Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
John Buchan introduced Richard Hannay to the world in his 1915 bestseller, The Thirty-Nine Steps . Buchan had no idea that the short novel would both launch his own literary career, and blaze a trail for other thriller writers to follow. Ninety-four years later, The Thirty-Nine Steps is still appearing at the theatre and on the small screen, and Hannay – the prototype secret agent – is...
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The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Since Alistair Cooke's death in March 2004, his legacy has passed from the airwaves to the printed page. Reprints of 'Alistair Cooke's America' and 'Six Men' have appeared, as well as a comprehensive single-volume selection of his 'Letters from America', the long presumed lost manuscript 'American Journey', and themed volumes of his writing which chronicle his political commentary and his love of golf....
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Ken's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Sometimes it comes as a surprise to realize that things we’d been thinking of as completely different are actually quite similar. In films we are used to this sort of revelation. After all, students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock have realized for years that most of his thrillers are actually somewhat disguised [...]
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Redtree Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
A few weeks back I came across the old film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the one from 1939 with Robert Donat, not the later awful musical version with Peter O’Toole. It’s a very sweet chronicle of a schoolmaster’s life at a British upper crust boarding school, the type of film that would never be made today. [...]
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Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Today in 1939, a sleeper flick opened in U.S. movie theaters that would teach those "Gone With the Wind" hotshots a lesson. Make that an Oscar lesson — with Robert Donat at the head of the best-actor class. At the 1939 Academy Awards, "Gone With the Wind" (13 nominations) seemed like a shoo-in to sweep most races, including best actor for Clark Gable, but he lost to Donat,...
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paperpools (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
There has been some discussion in the blogosphere about the cover of the US Advance Reading Copy of Justine Larbalestier's Liar, which shows a white girl with glossy straight hair (in the book the narrator is "black with nappy hair, which she wears natural and short"). JL's comments (via Jenny Davidson ) here . This made me laugh. When I wrote The Last Samurai, I wanted Ludo to be someone...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Tonight is the series finale of Christina Applegate's "Samantha Who?" with two back-to-back episodes beginning at 8pm on ABC OK, so we've had the re-launch of "90210" and now the CW is about to pepper us with sultry, "Gossip Girl" style ads hyping the September 8th premiere of the new "Melrose Place". How do you, the residents of LA, feel about the "return"...
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