Re: Coming Up on TCM
Posted: April 9th, 2012, 12:58 pm
"On Borrowed Time" is very good! One of the re-discovered little gems of the late '30s.
A warning - this is the same film, just the English release and the American release with different titles. This has been pointed out before to TCM, and I believe MGMWBRKO responed to say there are different scenes in each version. I believe there is a few minutes difference on the running times, so perhaps there is some validity in that, but I've seen this film a few times, and wouldn't think there would be any reason to have both versions. Maybe someone won't mind recording both, and then give a run down on any differences they notice.kingrat wrote:
ADVENTURES OF TARTU (1943). A British spy sets out to sabotage a Nazi gas factory in Czechoslovakia. Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla.
SABOTAGE AGENT (1943). An undercover agent battles Nazis to save an aviation plant. Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla.
I really like the movies that Shirley Temple made when she was "over the hill." Considered a box office failure when released in the forties, and receiving several dud reviews on IMDb, I thought that this movie had some surprisingly fresh and painfully real moments depicting a young girl's emotional ties to her rich father (played by the usually enjoyable Herbert Marshall, who is dimly appealing as her distant dad). The movie presented the world--at least for a few moments--from the perspective of a 12-year old girl. An adult viewer can feel a pang for the poor broad who is her rigid governess (Nella Walker) and even for her father's chilly fiancee (played by Gail Patrick as though she was channeling Gale Sondergaard and the Wicked Queen in Snow White). As a child psychologist, Laraine Day radiates a combination of warmth, empathy and intelligence to an unusual degree in this MGM vehicle, presenting a character who is another idealized adult. Fortunately for Shirley's Kathleen, she's not a fantasy. No points if you can predict the inevitable outcome of this formula.KATHLEEN (1941). A neglected daughter tries to find the right wife for her widowed father. Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day.
Moira, you are amazing! That you put together "MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM" AND "DIARY OF A LOST GIRL" WITH SHIRLEY TEMPLE astounds and doubles me over!!!![u]MOIRA FINNIE[/u] wrote:KATHLEEN (1941). A neglected daughter tries to find the right wife for her widowed father. Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day. Kathleen's fantasies of how she would like their life to be are funny and agonizing to see. Before this movie resolves the issues it brings up (and almost goes off the rails completely, turning into Mädchen in Uniform meets Diary of a Lost Girl when Shirley goes to reform school--yes, reform school!), there is another sequence that is heartbreaking in retrospect, though no one ever seems to comment on it. When eluding her adult keepers, Kathleen becomes friends with an African-American boy who brings her to his home, where his mother gives her more love in one evening than she has experienced in a year at home. When she returns the favor by having him to her home for a meal, the predictable outcome is not pretty. Nor is the dream sequence when Shirley appears as a mulatto anything but agonizing to view today.
. :Son of Frankenstein (1939-Rowland V. Lee) is on Monday, April 9 @ 09:30 PM (ET)
The legendary scientist's son is tempted to resume his father's horrible experiments.
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill