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  Jet Pilot 1957

  ★½ Rewatched 15 Aug 2020

  The film equivalent of a ludicrous Tom Clancy blockbuster novel where he spends 125 pages erotically describing submarine parts.

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  Salon Mexico 1949

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2020

  Mexican actor Marga Lopez brings a Crawford-like intensity to Salon Mexico, a blend of Film Noir and Women's Picture suffused with the cultural norms of Mexico. In this well-photographed drama, Lopez's Mercedes is a taxi dancer plying her wares in a sleazy urban setting, scraping together every last peso to keep her young sister, Beatriz, enrolled in a fancy boarding school. The goal is to get Beatriz respectability, and a husband—ideals which Mercedes have nobly sacrificed for herself. Along the…

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  Lydia 1941

  ★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2015

  Merle Oberon as a worldly, flirtatious Boston blue blood reminiscing over the past loves in her life. Lushly produced and nicely acted romantic melodrama is neither here nor there. I enjoyed it, despite the story and mood having a vague similarity to other, superior films like Mr. Skeffington, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Magnificent Ambersons, even Citizen Kane (maybe it was Joseph Cotten's presence).

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  Strange New World 1975

  ★ Watched 27 Oct 2014

  At least John Saxon looked good in a toga.

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