Stephen Butler...film buff? Musician? You decide. Say what you like, but when it comes to films and music, he knows his onions. x
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The Verdict 1946
I bet the WB set builders LOVED it when they were told to make another movie set for London, because it meant that they had to get that fog machine out. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are united for the ninth and last time in this murder mystery set, oh, sometime in the 19th Century (not that you would guess it from the advertising).
Don't expect too much from it and you will be perfectly satisfied. x
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The Great Meadow 1931
John(ny) Mack Brown fighting the British in 1777, using Elgar over the title music. I wonder if that was a deliberate reference to the British or just a happy coincidence? Anyway, a good film spoilt a little by Brown's inability to act. This was one of the final films of silent screen siren Eleanor Boardman, though she lived for another sixty years. x
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Bilitis 1977
This is one of those French erotic soft-porn movies with a Francis Lai score that most people watched with one hand down their trousers and the other hand holding a box of wet wipes. I, of course, watched it from the standpoint of film history and appreciation, taking into account its impact on the culture and the socioeconomic policies of the French government at the time. Besides, I was out of wet wipes. x
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