The Silver Screen Oasis

skimpole wrote: ↑May 5th, 2023, 6:42 pm

KayFrancis wrote: ↑May 5th, 2023, 6:34 pm Costa Gravas film The Confession ? Simone Signoret and Yves Montand ??

At last! Your turn now.

Yeah, it certainly took HER long enough, didn't it skimpole!!! LOL

Thanks, it wasn't so much the Signoret , Montand clue, more the film made in France made me think of Costa Gravas .Dargo, I was going to pass to you but you said you didnt want to do the next one.

Next: A man who's reunited with his son, has fallen in love and is content with his life finds out he has an incurable disease

Sorry, not the film I'm thinking about.

Clue- as a young man, he comes to NY expecting to have a job
He doesnt get it but a young woman intervenes on his behalf , he's hired.

They fall in love and marry and because of his great talent he becomes a great success

His wife was a socialite with diplomat relations. She dies after
giving birth to their son

skimpole wrote: ↑May 8th, 2023, 3:09 pm The Eddy Duchin Story?

Yes, The Eddy Duchin Story, Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. Such a good film, beautifully photographed and the location shots of NYC and music were so great. Love this biopic. Your thread Skimpole

skimpole wrote: ↑May 8th, 2023, 5:59 pm The movie climaxes in the Caribbean, and then is dedicated to the inventor of the sowing machine.

Excuse me here skimpole, but kind'a like Fred Gwynne asks in that one coutroom comedy about "youts", what exactly is a "sowing machine"?

Would it be something I wouldn't know about because I was never a farmer?

(...although as a kid, I DO once remember one spring day planting some corn stalks in the backyard of our suburban Los Angeles home...that's when my mom told be I couldn't harvest until it grew "as high as an elephant's eye"!)

LOL

Help! (1965)

skimpole wrote: ↑May 8th, 2023, 7:06 pm

Swithin wrote: ↑May 8th, 2023, 6:44 pm Help! (1965)

Correct. And it didn't take at least half a dozen clues.

I know! That was very impressive on Swithin's part, I must say.

But still I ask: What's a "sowing machine", skimpole???

Yeah yeah, I know. It was just a typo, wasn't it.

(...okay Swithin...you're up, ol' boy!)

Four people admire the Crown Jewels.

Swithin wrote: ↑May 8th, 2023, 9:11 pm Four people admire the Crown Jewels.

That’s easy. Pearls of the Crown with Sacha Guitry.