Andrew Bridgen on a Dutch channel – LIGHTHOUSETV – not heard him quite like this before.. ‘ Andrew Bridgen on Satanism, Child Trafficking, Corruption and Abuse’
“Laura Hunt has been murdered in a most grisly way, a shotgun blast to the face as she answered her apartment door. Dana Andrews as Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case and he’s got a good list of suspects to work from in this up close and personal murder.
Laura Hunt hung out with some real characters. Dana Andrews has a good group to choose from. There’s Vincent Price who was to marry Laura, a worthless playboy who spends his life as a permanent party guest. There’s Clifton Webb as the epicene critic and noted wit who was a kind of sponsor for Laura into society. There’s Judith Anderson as Laura’s sophisticated aunt who has a yen for Price. There’s even Dorothy Adams as Bessie, Laura’s lesbian maid who is carrying a titanic torch for her ex-employer.
Andrews very patiently and methodically goes through the suspects. In his way he’s as officious and annoying as Lieutenant Columbo on television. But he does get to the truth. Of course there’s one very big surprise for him during the course of the investigation.
Gene Tierney is Laura and she was a beauty in her day. Man or woman, who wouldn’t be crushing out on her. This film was the first one that got Dana Andrews any real notice from the critics. And of course Clifton Webb made a screen debut in this after a long career on Broadway. Webb got an Oscar nomination for his role of Waldo Lydecker as a Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way.
David Raksin’s musical theme for this film is one of the great ones ever done for the cinema. So popular did it prove that Johnny Mercer wrote a lyric for it after the film came out. At the time people like Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes and a host of others rushed to record it.
I guess you could classify Laura as a kind of sophisticated noir police drama. It’s dialog will leave you begging for more. It’s not much in the way of mystery because about a third of the way through you will realize at the same time Andrews does who the murderer is, maybe even before Andrews does. That doesn’t matter though because Laura is entertaining every step of the way.”
(1144) Elevenses almost over and my delivery is here. Again I must say this blog is only as good as our incoming here on any particular day … today seems a bumper day. (1256)
25. Ethics? Dross?
24. Mr. Ethics
23. It’s just a thought
22. Penseivat is not forgotten
Mortified 😳🥺😔 How many hundred times, how many ways, can I say, prostrated before ye … sorry, sorry, sorry, Penseivat!
21. IYE corner
There’s one item I’ve not signposted, hoping the regular reader would know where.
(0757) Morning all, light’s up and it’s a wonderful horizon to horizon poisoned cloud. (0819)
15. Playing for the other side
14. Organ harvesting in hospitals
13. Getting it right
12. Signal
11. DAD at 1274
a) Just as one thought that French politics could not get more [Insert your own word here. Mine is ‘stupider’ – if such a word exists.] M. Flanby chips in…. Midway through the conversation, François Hollande’s eyes lit up at the mention of the upcoming presidential election….
b) He may wish to reconsider now that yesterday’s election result is declared. In the Haute-Savoie by-election, UDR-RN candidate [right wing] Antoine Valentin came out on top (45.06%)….
c) Ireland’s Leaders grandstand overseas while reality crumbles at home. The country that lectures Europe on compassion can’t keep its own children safe, and the consequences are finally breaking through….
d) President Trump posted a video about vaccines captioned “They’re ALL poison. Every Single One!”
e) Russian FM, Lavrov, Names the “War Six”: European Leaders Plotting Direct Conflict with Russia. (JH: 9 minutes but the bit you need is around 6 mins.)
(0131) I feel the heading is justified for Brit/US readers of our political leaning as they have the same issues down there and this very Australia Day has been the subject of much strife down there. (0149)
10. Moosh corner
9. Treason … no other word for it
8. The (expletives) in Minnesota
7. A sorry situation
6. The Australian “leader” greets her country
She is the equivalent, though over a much longer time period, of Rupert Lowe as British “leader”.
(0003) Had some sleep. Judging by the news, may have been better to pretend I was still asleep. Shall try for more soon. (0034)
5. Alberta
4. The invention of “brain death”
3. Fifteen minute cities
2. Steve at 1274
Tom Basile of Newsmax Reinforces the Critical Message of the Importance of ICE Operations to Protect America from Illegal Alien Criminals
On the Nineveh Plain, Iraq’s Ancient Christian Communities Survived ISIS
Thousands of Anti-ICE Rioters Set Up Autonomous Zone After Minneapolis Police Retreat
O’Keefe and Team Under Attack: Minneapolis Mob Surrounds James O’Keefe, Threatens to Kill Him
Signal Chat Infiltrated by Conservative Journalist Reveals Democrat Politicians and Former Tim Walz Staffer Orchestrating Anti-ICE Protests and Doxxing of Agents
In The Crosshairs of Drones: Russian Army Pushes Ukrainian Forces Away From Border In Kharkiv
Moscow No Concessions US Acting As Conflict Party Abu Dhabi Talks
Amsterdam Keeps Dormitory Open Despite Migrant Violence
Larry Fink Says Public Has Lost Trust In Davos Elites And He Blames “Capitalism” (JH: See Steve’s comment on corporate communism, plus Fink’s speech at Davos on replacing humans with machines)
