Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Movies I Watched in August

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Usually TCM's Summer Under the Stars is a heavy viewing month but this year's schedule didn't excite me. Of course at this point I've seen a great many of the films they showed already. What about you, did you find the lineup lacking?

*indicates a rewatch

  1. State Fair (1945) - Jeanne Crain & Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes & Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger, Fay Bainter, Donald Meek, Frank McHugh, Percy Kilbride, Henry Morgan
  2. Margie (1946) - Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Alan Young
  3. Young Widow (1946) - Jane Russell & Louis Hayward
  4. *She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - John Wayne (& the John Ford Stock Company)
  5. Ten Tall Men (1951) - Burt Lancaster, Gilbert Roland, George Tobias
  6. *Clash by Night (1952) - Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe
  7. *The Swan (1956) - Grace Kelly, Louis Jordan, Alec Guinness, Jesse Royce Landis, Agnes Moorehead
  8. The Miracle Worker (1962) - Anne Bancroft & Patty Duke
  9. Little Treasure (1985) - Ted Danson, Burt Lancaster
  10. *Ocean's Twelve (2004) - George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, etc.
  11. Love is Blind (2019) - Aidan Turner
And Then There Were None (2015 - Mini-Series) - Aiden Turner
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (2018) - doc
Frank Capra: Mr. America (2023) - doc

Least Favorite Film: Ten Tall Men was a poor imitation of a late 1930s rollicking action/adventure Errol Flynn-type film. The first part of Little Treasure was good but then it was revealed that the female character's occupation was a stripper, so I had to skip some scenes. 

Favorite Movie: I really enjoyed the two Jeanne Crain films.

Favorite Quote: "Fellow sufferers, are you plump? When you walk in the sun, does your shadow look like a crowd following you?"
~ radio commercial in Young Widow

Love the beading on Stanwyck's sweater.