The Fastest Indian
I watched The Admirable Crichton last night and I did enjoy it, but the resolution left me feeling a little depressed.The Admirable Crichton (1957) with Kenneth More and Diane Cilento.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, and for the period it was set in, I can’t imagine it ending any other way. I’ve known people and seen interviews given by people who worked for the aristocracy and gentry pre - World War 1, and they were very loyal. A butler’s marriage to a lady would have been a major scandal and would have caused mortification among the masses.I watched The Admirable Crichton last night and I did enjoy it, but the resolution left me feeling a little depressed.
The island gadgets were really cool though, particularly the clamshell razor on a stick and the cuckoo clock with a shrimp instead of a bird. I wonder if Sherwood Schwartz saw this movie and got a bit of inspiration from it.
But he's better than Roland Winters!Shadow Over China Town(1946). Sidney Toler isn't as good a Charlie Chan as Warner Oland but still fun.
two truly great moviesDouble Indemnity (1944) & Detour (1945) - Bad people doing bad things come to a bad end.
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haven't read either book, but found Plague Dogs to be a much more moving storyWatership Down (1978) on Max. I read the book in the mid-70s and saw the film (cartoon) in the theater with my wife, when it came out. IMO, not really a movie for youngins, with rabbits fighting and killing each other, but with cable and internet kids are exposed much earlier to violence than our kids were. As a book, I preferred his Plague Dogs, but can't remember if I saw the film.