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diana-andraste · 4 months
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This is the Night, 1932
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every 1940s movie watched (30 - ∞)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor
The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.
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lesbiancolumbo · 4 months
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This is the Night (1932, Frank Tuttle)
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citizenscreen · 10 months
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Sam Wood directing Loretta Young and Roland Young in THE UNGUARDED HOUR (1936)
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letterboxd-loggd · 3 months
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Topper Returns (1941) Roy Del Ruth
December 18th 2023
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badmovieihave · 9 months
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Bad movie I have Topper Returns 1941
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scholarofgloom · 2 months
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Round 1, match 29
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Roland Young vs John Carradine
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gatutor · 4 months
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Thelma Todd-Cary Grant-Roland Young "Esta es la noche" (This is the night) 1932, de Frank Tuttle.
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byneddiedingo · 1 year
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Frank Lawton, W.C. Fields, and Roland Young in David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935)
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Jessie Ralph, Basil Rathbone, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Lionel Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Lewis Stone, Madge Evans, Hugh Williams, Maureen O’Sullivan. Screenplay: Howard Estabrook, Hugh Walpole, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Oliver T. Marsh. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: Herbert Stothart. 
As long as there are novels and movies, there will be people trying to turn novels into movies. Which is a task usually doomed to some degree of failure, given that the two art forms have significantly different aims and techniques. Novels are interior: They reveal what people think and feel. Movies are exterior: Thoughts and feelings have to be depicted, not reported. Novels breed reflection; movies breed reaction. Novel-based movies usually succeed only when the genius of the filmmakers exceeds that of the novelist, as in the case, for example, of Alfred Hitchcock's transformation (1960) of Robert Bloch's Psycho, or Francis Ford Coppola's extrapolation (1972) from Mario Puzo's The Godfather. We mostly settle for, at best, a satisfying skim along the surface of the novel, which is what we get in Cukor's version of Dickens's novel. I'm not claiming, of course, that Cukor or the film's producer, David O. Selznick, was a greater genius than Dickens, but together -- and with the help of Hugh Walpole, who adapted the book, and Howard Estabrook, the credited screenwriter -- they produced something of a parallel masterpiece. They did so by sticking to the visuals of the novel, not just Dickens's descriptions but also the illustrations for the original edition by "Phiz," Hablot Knight Brown. The result is that it's hard to read the novel today without seeing and hearing W.C. Fields as Micawber, Edna May Oliver as Betsey Trotwood, or Roland Young as Uriah Heep. The weaknesses of the film are also the weaknesses of the book: women like David's mother (Elizabeth Allan) and Agnes Wickfield (Madge Evans) are pallid and angelic, and David himself becomes less interesting as he grows older, or in terms of the movie, as he ceases to be the engaging Freddie Bartholomew and becomes instead the vapid Frank Lawton. But as compensation we have the full employment of MGM's set design and costume departments, along with a tremendous storm at sea -- the special effects are credited to Slavko Vorkapich.
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movieassholes · 6 months
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Master Copperfield. We've lost our tempers, perhaps. Eh, no need of that. I'm a very humble person, Master Copperfield, I've no wish to rise above my place.
Uriah Heep - David Copperfield (1935)
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blondecrazydame · 1 year
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Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
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ad-j · 11 months
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WATCHLIST 2022: Topper
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citizenscreen · 10 months
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Roland Young (November 11, 1887 – June 5, 1953)
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