The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: 1942
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Every time I watch Casablanca–and I think it’s been a while since the last time, over ten years ago, when I saw it at Radio City–I marvel at the pacing. The film runs an hour and forty minutes and it doesn’t even seem like any time has passed until Bergman is in Bogart’s apartment. I…
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Thunder Birds runs just under eighty minutes and if one were to subtract the propaganda, both narrated and in lengthy monologues–not to mention the flashback to the stoic Brits–he or she would have a fifty-five minute love triangle set at an Army flight training base. The whole reason one leg of the triangle is British…
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Kind of dumb but well-paced Fox propaganda picture has Nazis out to trap American newsman Dana Andrews in, you guessed it, Berlin. Andrews is great, Virginia Gilmore’s good as his girlfriend (who the Nazis have snooping on him). Martin Kosleck’s awesome as the villain. DVD.Continue reading →
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