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Posted - 11/03/2021 : 21:14:36
Lemmy in for #1403.
Before Midnight--Ralph Bellamy�s Inspector Trent solves a double murder case quickly in a movie that clocks in at just over an hour. He bears no relation to English amateur sleuth Philip Trent who first appeared in 1913 in E.C. Bentley�s book Trent�s Last Case, filmed several times.
Edward Everett Horton is a Broadway Producer who is forced by a smitten gangster to attend a rehearsal of an amateur play with a hilarious ZaSu Pitts incompetently singing the lead. I figured that one of my few Dr. Seuss reviews was appropriate this round.
The Review of the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives works on two levels since the film bears very little resemblance to Ira Levin�s novel.
Touki-Bouki is a remarkable 1973 Nigerian film that has similarities, both stylistic and thematic, to Godard�s Pierrot le Fou,
The Wet Parade looks at how alcohol abuse and the resultant Prohibition in the U.S. ruins two families, one from the North and one from the South. Griffith structured The Birth of a Nation around two geographically similar families.
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