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Friday, April 7, 2023

Girls, Join Us Tomorrow Night, As "Svengoolie" Prresents A Real Gem, The 1932 Classic, "The Old Dark House!" But There Are Complications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                                    The complication, darlings, is that we will not be able to watch this with you--at least in real time--because the vigil mass usually held on Saturdays at 5PM is now, because of Easter, being held at 8PM.  So, we will have to either watch it later, or another time, as David will record it.



                                         This is one film I have not seen, and have looked forward to viewing.  Why couldn't they have shown this last week.  But I guess "Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy" was thought apt for April Fools Day.  



                                           So, darlings, you may end up seeing this film before me.  And what a cast!  Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Melvin Douglas, Robert Morley, and Gloria Stuart, as the virginal Thirties movie heroine, a staple through that decade, with the gold standard set by Fay Wray as Ann Darrow in "King Kong," back in 1933.  Two years later, Bette Davis shattered it all with her scorching portrayal of the venal waitress Mildred Rogers, in 1935's "Of Human Bondage," and, from then, all bets were off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



                                               If you see the film before I do, let me know what you think.  I will be discussing it sometime next week.



                                                I just don't know when!



                                                Stay tuned, dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Victoria said...

Ole Bud n Lou!!
Comedy seemed so much simpler back then!!

The Raving Queen said...

Victoria,
It was. I still love "The Litte Rascals!"