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If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. Tennessee Williams
Become who you are. Pindar
Everything grows old, all beauty fades, all heat cools, all brightness dims, every truth becomes stale and trite. For all these things have taken on shape and all shapes are worn thin by the workings of time, they age, sicken and crumble to dust - unless they change.
C. G. Jung
Human beings are the only animals that make love face to face. The Professionals
America is addicted to speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed. Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm Dale. But you have to call me Dragon. Step Brothers
Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre
Reviews
My Three Sons: Small Adventure (1961)
Script for The Twilight Zone?
This is a weird, weird episode. It should have been for The Twilight Zone. Tramp brings home a stick of supposedly live dynamite from a construction site and nobody notices it. They all think it's just a wooden stick. Adding to the suspense, Steve is on a business trip during a storm and is trying to call home but can't reach them. It ends with Tramp dropping the dynamite stick in a puddle of water. I hope water disables dynamite or else we'll be losing the Douglas family!
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Random compilation with few laughs
MGM's Big Parade of Comedy is just a random compilation of comedy clips with no point that don't do their stars any justice. They've all appeared in funnier films at other studios. They serve up probably the worst clip from the worst Marx Bros. film (Go West). Couldn't they have used A Night At The Opera instead (that was an MGM film)? They just dredge out any comedy star who just happened to appear in an MGM film - they even dish up a silent Joan Crawford film (now there's a comedienne). The only moments of levity for me were when they showed a compilation of Pete Smith comedy shorts (with Dave O'Brien). It also ends abruptly. I'm thankful someone had the good judgement to put it out of its' misery.
The Sitter Downers (1937)
Stooges' Best
This is, in my humble opinion, the best short the 3 Stooges ever made. The boys go on a strike inside their fiancees' home until their father relents and lets them marry his 3 daughters. Due to all their new found notoriety, a construction company donates a do-it-yourself pre-fabricated home which the boys set out to build after they do get married. Needless to say everything turns out wrong - the bathtub is on the side of the wall and the stairs lead to nowhere. The house collapses when one of the wives unintentionally pulls out a beam. This short was based on a silent by Buster Keaton called One Week. It also contains my all time favorite quote by Moe after Curly's feet get stuck in cement and he decides to use explosives to free him and Curly protests he'll get blown up - "Don't you know that dynamite always blows down?".
Il ladro di Bagdad (1961)
Reeves' best film.
This is Reeves' best film. It's got it all - a love story, humor, adventure and last but not least a pretty good musical score. Reeves plays Karim a thief who falls in love with a princess. When the princess Amina has a sleeping curse placed on her, Karim must find the only cure - a blue rose. A party sets out from the palace to find the blue rose with the winner getting the hand of the princess in marriage.
The special effects are nothing by today's standards but Reeves and Moll exude a considerable rapport, due in no small part to Arthur Lubin's direction.