Classic Film: Another Two Good Flicks

 

 

A week ago, last Thursday on the 16th of February, I watched a 1952 film called Angel Face with Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchum.

It was a suspenseful type of noir that was entertaining with an ending that I predicted beforehand yet still was intense.

Jean Simmons played a wealthy, conniving, murderous woman named Diane Tremayne who puts on the facade of an Angel (innocent and good mannered) only to cover up for her sophisticated ways of treachery by luring a man away from his girlfriend and getting away with a previous attempted murder.

When two deaths occur later in the film, Jean’s character is put on trial along with her lover.

Diane has a clever, unscrupulous lawyer who helps to exonerate her after being suspected of murder.

From there, all does not turn out well for this wealthy manipulator.

Diane’s romance comes to an end as her lover, Frank Jessup, begins to see her for who she really is. But before he can leave for good, she wants him to take one last ride with her.

The next day, on Friday, I watched the 1956 Eddy Duchin Story.

It starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak.

This was a good biopic film of a man’s rise to fame as a band leader/pianist in New York City.

A heartfelt drama of the life he shared with his wife and her untimely death. The relationship with his young son, new wife- and the illness that eventually took him away from them.

Classic Film: Two Good Flicks

 

 

Yesterday I viewed two very good classics back-to-back that I had never seen before.

The first black and white film titled “The Man Who Cheated Himself” starred Jane Wyatt and Lee J. Cobb- both actors I am well familiar with on television.

This fully entertaining noir centered around a woman during getting a divorce who impulsively shoots and kills her husband while her police lieutenant boyfriend covers up the crime.

Things seem to go along well but the lieutenant has a meddling fellow police officer in the force who also happens to be his brother.

This partner of the lieutenant is determined to put together the missing pieces that involve the murder.

The second film titled “This Woman Is Dangerous” starred Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan and David Brian.

It was a crime drama based on a clever woman with a current and history of breaking the law.

After undergoing a major surgical procedure, she and the doctor who performed the surgery get romantically involved- which sets her insanely jealous boyfriend off into a rage

With the FBI on the trail of her and her boyfriend and two other accomplices (his brother and sister in-law) Joan Crawford’s character is surely in for a dangerous situation!

 

 

Nice Day

 

 

It is still winter but yesterday was a pleasant Spring-like day with refreshing weather.

Spring is in the air- soon to arrive.

I enjoyed my time spent at work to later come home and further enjoy a vegetable meal.

Classic Toons: Animated Nostalgia

 

 

There are a few good cartoons to have arrived onto the scene over the past twenty years.

The majority were not worth watching in my opinion.

The Simpsons were good and entertaining as well as King of the Hill. I cannot speak for a lot of timely ones I have not viewed- yet some that I am aware of sucked

However, nothing compares to the ones that aired in my generation and before.

Mickey Mouse, Charlie Brown, Curious George, The Berenstain Bears, Babar, Popeye, The Jetsons, Flintstones, Smurfs, Inspector Gadget, He-Man/She-Ra, Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Tweety-Bird and the rest of the looney-tune crew!

Of course, there are more great old cartoons from the distant past to name.

Nevertheless, nothing will compare to those childhood mornings and afternoons of racing to the television-set to catch our favorite crazy animated characters.

There were even comic-strip characters who were made into cartoon series.