`` Liar and a Dreamer''

  I really liked this one. I can understand why the BBC used to show this on Sunday afternoons- It is a good old fashioned adventure story. Even a war film, and you can just enjoy the romance between Hepburn and Bogart. Most of this film is a two hander between the two  I can see a lot of Katherine Hepburn- in Captain Janeway I noticed that the Kasiermarine ship is crewed by Africans I didn't know the Germans did that Bogart having terrible gas at his introduction is not something I think would be repeated The horror of the mosquito or possibly the  testse is demonstrated well. Bogart talking about seeing cattle being driven insane by insects gives you a sense of the horror of the tropics.  We see Bogart mocking stock footage Bogart seems to have the use of duct tape which surprised me. 

  (December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025) Batman, Jim Morrison, Doc Holiday, Nick Rivers Father, Christian Scientist, Actor, Rancher All the girls in UNC loved him,

  We have Thomas Sullivan  Magnum to thank for recommending this film How did Animal- stand the cold dressed only in long johns He is soaked in mud a few times too. The film is set in that horrible winter of 1944 offscreen Patton is about to relive the Americans at Bastogne   I wonder if Animal is the blueprint for Belushi's character in Animal House - This film is also the inspiration for Hogans's Heroes  I liked the ping pong balls- smoke bomb sequence- Thank you Towering Inferno There is an extended scene of men dancing together-even some cutting in and such. One character dresses up as Betty Grable. It was a more innocent time. One character has been cuckolded and is trying to talk himself into it  The narrator Cookie also seems quite a mild mannered man to be a Sgt  Even in World War Two soldiers could not keep up with their car payments There is a character with shell shock-or battle fatigue  Though this is sometimes played for laughs. It gets de...

  Llosa  plays it straight This is a retelling of the story of Rodger Casement and his work in the Belgian Congo and Peru and finally his time in Germany trying to raise an Irish Brigade and failing- returning to Ireland to call off the Easter Rising and his trial and death in London There was according to Llosa a counter protest to Casement outside Pentonville  This was much more readable then Death in the Andes I thought about purchasing it for my mother for mothers day  llosa has clearly read the black diaries, he states later that he believes these are private fantasies. Though it strikes me Casement could easily have molested the boys he described doing . I think this is lamp shaded with Casement getting stabbed in the Canary Islands by a sailor- who has rebuffed his advance.   I do know an Irish Peruvian called O'Donnell I wonder if he a descendent of the person mentioned in the book llhosa rifts on colonialism and anti colonialism as well as post col...

  I had to concentrate to understand the dialogue which I did not have to do with Casablanca and High Noon  Johnson and Howard speak very quickly and are very verbose It was made in 1945 and it is an England which looks to have a escaped the war.  The book is an adaptation of a play There is a scene with two soldiers who are causing a scene at the bar. The England we see is carefree, tidy and very middle class. The children debate over whether to attend the pantomime or the circus. One does see a model toy of a spitfire Celia Howard and I say this without malice looks older than her current counterparts She looks rather like Keely Hawes I think. I note that Howard has drawn on eyebrows. Which is a current fashion I do not care for  The story is simple a married woman and married man- meet by chance and have an affair. At least of the heart. They are stopped  from consummating the relationship by happenstance and swear themselves off to fidelity Coward's wit shin...

  I didn't know Grace Kelly was so beautiful I did not know Lee Van Cleef and Jeff Bridges were in this. Bridges is great Like my review for Butch and Sundance the modern world is intruding on mythic time. We see a fire engine there is also talk of people wanting to build factories in the town. Motor cars are not quite there, but the clock is ticking and the train is coming.  I enjoyed the Cooper v Bridges Fist fight it was rough and messy- two big men rolling on the floor Grace Kelly's role in the final fight suprised me.  Katy Juarz looks like the late Claudia Christian  I learn with amusement that our old friend Lee Majors made a sequel