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[struth]

Saboteur, 1942. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker. The film stars Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane and Norman Lloyd.






Hitchcock made use of irony on numerous occasions in Saboteur. For example, early in the film, the authorities are seen as menacing, while the well-respected rancher and kind grandfather is an enemy agent. In contrast, only ordinary folks and the down-on-their-luck perceive Kane's innocence and offer trust: a long-haul truck driver, a blind householder and the circus freaks. In New York City, wealthy Mrs. Sutton is secretly funding an enemy group.

Saboteur is an early example of the distrust of authority that is one of Hitchcock's hallmarks.

Driving along the New York waterfront, Kane's car passes by the capsized hulk of the liner SS Normandie, an ominous warning of what could happen if the conspirators succeed in their plans.

The final battle symbolizing tyranny against democracy takes place on the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

[struth]

Classic western today. Shane, 1953. directed by George Stevens based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer(which ive read when a kid). It stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin, and features Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook Jr., and Ben Johnson.





Shane was expensive for a Western movie at the time with a cost of $3.1 million.[10] It was the first film to be projected in "flat" widescreen, a format that Paramount invented in order to offer audiences a wider panorama than television could provide.[11]

Although never explicitly stated, the basic plot elements of Shane were derived from the 1892 Johnson County War in Wyoming, the archetypal cattlemen–homesteaders conflict, which also served as the background for The Virginian and Heaven's Gate.



Bosley Crowther called the film a "rich and dramatic mobile painting of the American frontier scene". He continued:

Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains, drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent, torrential, black-browed rains. It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range. It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code. And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home.

[Marco]

Going to watch this tonight, once darkness has descended...



I have it on good authority that it's suitably sick, brutal and depraved.. Just my thang!

Trailer here:



Love a nice cheery revenge flick!

Marco.

[Roy S]

Going to watch this tonight, once darkness has descended...

That looks good, I like a bloody revenge movie.

[Marco]

Me too, mate, and on this occasion I'll happily put up with the subtitles!

In any case, something was badly needed to alter the vibe here of Granty's never-ending procession of 'feel-good golden oldies'!



Marco.

[Roy S]

Me too, mate, and on this occasion I'll happily put up with the subtitles!

In any case, something was badly needed to alter the vibe here of Granty's never-ending procession of 'feel-good golden oldies'!



Marco.

Watched this a little while back if you fancy good old fashioned shocks (the 1st film in the series is good to).

[Macca]

Watched this a little while back if you fancy good old fashioned shocks (the 1st film in the series is good to).

I just started watching that last night but only got about 20 minutes into it so far as I was falling asleep.

Based on the Enfield Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist which is a fascinating case with a number of unresolved events.

[Roy S]

I just started watching that last night but only got about 20 minutes into it so far as I was falling asleep.

Based on the Enfield Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist which is a fascinating case with a number of unresolved events.

So I gather. The first one actually has more 'jumps' in it

[Macca]

The weirdest thing I've noticed so far in it is that the house appears to be much larger inside than it is outside. Maybe they nicked that from 'The Shining'?

[Roy S]

The weirdest thing I've noticed so far in it is that the house appears to be much larger inside than it is outside. Maybe they nicked that from 'The Shining'?

It wouldn't be as effective if a kid was only thrown across a normal sized council house living room.

All just entertaining hokum after all, first time I've watched these kind of films in years and enjoyed them.