That's where I have the edge on you...I'm no gentleman

I'm about 10 minutes out from finishing Biography of a Bachelor Girl. Wasn't as good of a movie as I had wanted, but I'm in the mindset these days that any Bob movie is a good Bob movie. Maybe it was Una Merkel I didn't buy into...or the sometimes wordy scenes. I'll say this, the cabin up at Moose Lake certainly had a great view.

Another growing favorite of mine, Edward Arnold was also in the pic. Had a pretty decent German accent for the part. As someone who took four years of high school German, I know it's hard to fake an accent - I tried!

Bugattis & Booze

As promised, here's some screen shots from Remember Last Night?

Remember Last Night?

Wow, just watched a very *entertaining* film from 1935 called Remember Last Night off TCM. Where do I start?

The plot of the movie is about a bunch of couples going out to celebrate one couple's wedding anniversary. This consists of going from home to home to drink themselves silly. I've never seen a film with so much drinking in it. Anyhow, someone gets murdered and no one remembers anything cause they were all too drunk and still hung over. One scene consists of the drunkards firing a cannon from their mansion porch at a yacht! It's a decent murder mystery once you get past the drinking.

Very cool cast lineup, IMHO:

• Edward Arnold - Love him
• Robert Young - Wow, he's so young (no pun intended) he looks nothing like you'd think of him from TV
• Constance Cummings
• Sally Eilers - Remember her from Made on Broadway...
• Reginald Denny
• Robert Armstrong - Kong!
  
• Arthur Treacher - Holy cow - I thought that was a fake name for a fast food restaurant. I love this guy as butler. The chain is actually named after him!
  

What's really a hoot is the police detective team is the same as from Hide-Out (Edward Arnold & Edward Brophy).

Screen caps to come...I just gotta add some.

Movie Reminder

Go out & support TCM & RM by watching Biography of a Bachelor Girl tomorrow (4/4), 12:15 p.m. CST. Set your Tivo, VCR, or call in sick...

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues psuedo-portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her arrival from Europe after painting (and possibly being involved with) notables all over the continent. He convinces her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. An old "beau" of hers also looks her up in New York; he is running for U.S. Senator from their home state, and is engaged to an influential publisher's daughter. He is fearful that Marion's tales could embarass him, so he tries to persuade her and Kurt to abandon the idea.

Need another reason to watch it? Edward Everett Horton!

Keechie & Bowie

Watched They Live by Night the other night. I guess it's classified as film noir. It's a 1948 flick with Farley Granger & Kathy O'Donnell. I'm going to be lazy here and pull the plot overview from IMDB:

An escaped convict is injured and is helped by a woman with whom he has an ill-fated relationship.

Whoever thought of the names "Keechie" (Kathy O.) and "Bowie" (Farley) should be tarred and feathered. How more annoying can you get?

Anyhow, the movie felt like Gun Crazy to me, except watered down, and with fewer guns. I ended up watching the whole thing, so there was some interest there.

Farley Granger is odd - I can't put my finger on it. I kinda like him though, especially in Strangers on a Train. I think that's the only other film of his I've seen.