I've added "Rain In The Doorway" to the spare, lonely blog roll over on the right.
He's commented over in the "Smartest Show Ever" entry and managed to create a post that combines Theodore Sturgeon and Dave Allen.
All we need now is to get him hooked on Thorne Smith.
Also, Kelly has a new book giveaway at Loaded Questions. Check it out!
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Wow, thanks! That's an august list to be on, and here /I//a/m/ it is only February. (Nasty, brutish, and short.) I realize I have been reading you pretty regularly since coming here a couple of months ago through the profile link from a particularly astute comment at Althouse (alas, I can't remember which one) so now you're on my list, too. So there. Speaking of Thorne Smith, I suppose I ought to watch the Night Life of the Gods movie again, and try to review it. I'd rather read your review, though. You are a lot more knowledgeable about movies than I am.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right! You actually have a copy of NLOTG.
ReplyDeleteI haven't even found one on Ebay.
As for February, it's been both pleasantly warm and occasionally rainy.
ReplyDelete'course, the rain is rare, the pleasant warmth is every month....
I could make a copy of NLOTG for you, and mail it to you; or you could get it the same way I did, from Nostalgia Family Video. Did you see that I mentioned it here? Mini-review: I love the book so much, and have read it so many times, that I have my own mental movie; this falls short. Well, that's no surprise. Alan Mowbray, as Hunter Hawk, hams up every line, while the rest of the cast are excessively deadpan: they seem to be in two different universes. There's not nearly enough booze (poor Hebe!) ("Pour, Hebe!"), and the "it was all a dream" ending isn't nearly as poignant as the ending in the book, though it's happier. Hunter and Meg are not locked in stone forever, that is. A fair amount of the book's dialogue makes it into the film verbatim, which of course tickled me, and yes! they did include the scene where Neptune gets into it with the fishmonger. But that scene could have used some some more hamminess; it sounded more like a read-through than like a god laying some smack on a mortal. But as Mr. Larkin would say, I'm veering.
ReplyDeleteI did notice that.
ReplyDeleteI would buy from these guys but--are they legit? How come they're the only people in the world with copies of NLOTG?
Also, I don't have a VCR any more. Though I may get one to digitize my video collection.
Are they legit? How come they're the only people in the world ...
ReplyDeleteDamfino. Maybe they're the only people in the world who think somebody might be interested in a 73-year old movie that hardly anyone has heard of? But they're listed in this book called "The Public Domain" as a "well-known commercial supplier" of PD films. Which would imply that the film is out of copyright. Maybe we should take this to email.
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ReplyDeleteScratch the mini-review. I just watched it again, under much better viewing conditions, and it was a lot better than I remembered. My daughter pronounced it "awesome" and "possibly the best movie I've ever seen." She's in her thirties and has seen a lot of movies. Though she likes the ones with giant spiders in them, Sci-Fi channel originals, MST3K, that type of thing. But she's also seen all the LOTR movies.
ReplyDeleteAll right, ya sold me!
ReplyDeleteI eagerly await your review. BTW: "I am not employed by, or otherwise affilated with Nostalgia Family Videos, nor is anyone I am related to, nor is anyone I know, at all; and indeed I did not even know of their existence prior to Google-hunting my way to that particular movie." They have a heck of a catalogue, though.
ReplyDeleteSomething I liked about watching it with the daughter was that she had no preconceptions. I gave her a copy of the book years ago, but I don't think she ever got around to reading it, so she was able to see the film without having her own mental movie already in place. Isn't this always a problem with films made from books.
That's kind of a scandalous book to give your daughter.
ReplyDeleteWell, okay, 70 years ago it was....
She was 25 and on her second marriage at the time. I feel no guilt.
ReplyDeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteSo much for my preconceived notions....
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ReplyDeleteI see you deleted your comment.
ReplyDeleteI'll just refer to it without clarifying the source: Nice. I prefer the production on the hymn; it favors her voice, I think, more than the synthetic tone of the first.
That was up long enough for you to see it; I didn't want to leave it up forever.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the music. Thanks!