Good on ya, edarsenal, for watching Dinner at Eight and My Man Godfrey and giving them good reviews. You must be watching Turner Classic Movies lately because that's exactly where I recorded and watched these exact two from last week.
Yes, Marie Dressler is dynamite in DAE, with her little dog, "Tarzan," and her dialogue, especially her final shot at Jean Harlow. Great movie and one the few movies I've seen with John Barrymore that wasn't a silent. Just saying. For those who only know his brother, Lionel Barrymore, from It's a Wonderful Life as a bad guy, check this one out or one of his many, many roles as a good guy. He could play anything.
My gosh, My Man Godfrey, I thought was just a great movie. It's a comedy but it didn't have me falling down laughing but just smiling in awe at how great everybody was. William Powell, one of my favorites from The Thin Man movies, was excellent in this but I was blown away by Carole Lombard as the ditsy youngest daughter of the family. The fact that she was beautiful was a plus, also. Did you happen to hear the opening by Robert Osbourne, where he talked about the past relationship between Powell and Lombard? Fascinating trivia.
absolutely, we've seen both multiple times and my roommate LOOVES powell, so we've seen countless movies of his ( he does love to wear his pajamas and his drinks in many of them lol). And yes, we always check TCM for all our classics and love listening to Osborne, and we did catch the fact that they had been divorced for 3 years when they did this.
I remember seeing one with Osborne and Drew Barrymore talking about her grandfather John, the movie Dinner at Eight and others.
And very true about Lionel, loved him in another Capra film
You Can't Take it With You which had several side actors that would eventually play in
It's A Wonderful Life
And I agree, Dressler's side remarks and the looks she makes are the delightful definition of sheer droll!
Morituri / Saboteur: Code Name Morituri (1965)
A very impressive "spy" flick set during WWII with marlon brando as a german demolition expert who is forced to discreetly search out and dismantle an unknown amount of bombs on a german ship carrying 7000 lbs of rubber and captained by yul brynner, so that the allied forces can take it without the ship being destroyed by the captain.
I've never heard of this one and it was an incredible find. It is tense, unflinching and it does not tread gently when it comes to those aboard this ship; which you find out with the opening placard: "Morituri te salutant is Latin for the salute gladiators gave at the beginning to every fight in the arena. Those who are about to die, salute you."
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