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Who pays attention to it? Or, paying attention to it is done by whom?
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D'0h! I asked for that, didn't I? Well...don't ask for whom the bell tolls. They toll for theeee.[u]ChiO[/u] wrote:New York? New York City?
Who pays attention to it? Or, paying attention to it is done by whom?
That would be: It tolls for theeee.Well...don't ask for whom the bell tolls. They toll for theeee.
MikeBSG wrote:Today I watched "Invisible Ghost" (1941) directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Bela Lugosi.
It was an interesting, if unsuccessful, film. The first two minutes are terrific, as Lugosi comes down the stairs, looks at the painting of his dead wife, and then goes to sit at dinner, insisting that the servant serve the empty place where the wife is supposed to sit. This established a very creepy atmosphere, which the rest of the film never lived up to.
Part of the problem was Lugosi. He was in a dual role, that of a nice-guy widower who becomes a raging maniac every three months or so. He had a lot of dialogue that just didn't come out well, lines like "Apple pie? How wonderful!" This was a role that cried out for Boris Karloff (someone very much at home in the language). Also, Lugosi seemed almost feeble here, and I don't think it was acting. (He seemed far healthier in "Black Friday" and "Dark Eyes of London" in 1940 and '39.)
Clarence Muse played the family servant, and he gave the movie much of its charm. Muse would be the wonderful servant in Lubitsch's "Heaven Can Wait" in 1943.
Lewis clearly was using every stylistic trick to pump life into the material, including the "Santa Claus shot" (the camera is in the fireplace, with flames leaping up in front of the lens, to add tension and excitement to a scene of mundane dialogue.)
This Monogram film just showed how much more polished Universal's B films, like "Night Monster," were.