“Yes, it gets a bit confusing here and there, and even with a small cast, figuring out who is who, what’s going on and the timeline can be perplexing. The fabulous opening shows a young woman being kept chained to a wall, appearing as if she is about to be shot in cold blood. This gives a sense of Gothic horror to the film, but then it switches to the domestic setting of the home of Sonia Dresdel and Colin Gordon, a middle aged couple having a discussion, and interrupted by phone calls and visitors.

Then there’s an apparent violent murder in an oddly shaped country home, involving Karel Stepanek whom we see about to be bludgeoned. News of his murder gets around, and the frequent appearance of a strange old man (Michael Martin-Harvey) creates more questions than answers.

The audience gets to meet other suspects which include Dresdel’s friend (Eleanor Summerfield) and her husband Hubert Gregg, adding a bit more confusion but a lot of suspense. This is worth putting up with 75 minutes of little detail, but within that detail, there are the hidden details which are revealed in the very suspenseful last 15 minutes.

That is when everything comes together so neatly, and you realize how clever this really was in keeping you wondering what type of mystery you were watching and if it would ever go anywhere. Technically excellent, this feature is terrific black and white photography and superb editing, and a musical score that adds to the suspense.

(You) have to go in with a patient mood because otherwise, you could be frustrated quickly and move on to something else.”

(1023) Back again, this is live, not scheduled. Morning all. A bit gloomy outside but not cold. (1044)

 

15. Precisely

14. DID

13. Anticomm

12. Aye

11. Utah

 

We had one of the models once … Goliath.

Curious thing, this, but every subject, every history has some curious details but it’s only when the curious details of one are combined with the curious details of another that a third truth emerges, of curiosity value.

My dad fought in the war … as far as I can gather, with two armies, and so did I years later, but in peacetime. Those two, my parents, were of an era when gollywogs were fine to have, Noddy and Big Ears was the reading and my parents warned me to have nothing to do with credit cards, as it was giving money to the Js. I have no credit card today.

Now that’s interesting, given that my father was in active combat against the Germans and Japs. He never told me his views on the commies but I noticed that when they (parents) went to Australia, he used to watch some man called B.A. Santamaria on the box, part of a party called DLP. Third party of the right in other words. So what he made of my youthful, student Fabianism I have no idea … we did not talk much.

Another thing was he bought a series of German cars, feeling, as many people did, that German engineering was superior. I had this attitude in Russia. As for myself? Always anti-communist … just how I reconciled that with my student leftism I’m not sure. My dad went back to Austins, then onto Hondas … think he was always after workable tech.

There’s one story which must have dashed dad’s confidence in German engineering. When I was 14 and at that time in Oz, we went for a trip Melb to Gold Coast and the car broke down halfway … was it the Goliath or VW? Can’t remember. We took an overnight coach back to Melb and that’s this other tale some know of where I spent the night on the back seat with two nineteen year old lasses, discovering the joys of female proximity, which set my mind forever.

B.A. Santamaria was a curiosity, as he was very pro-Catholic and we were nominally CofE, mother going Methodist as that church was nearer, geographically. Father was a Mason for awhile.

Just been looking up Goliath. Seems likely that my father was looking at VWs and/or smaller Beemas in Britain and Oz and I’d say the dealer, who may have been German, might have persuaded him. Just guessing. Curious parents, my parents. No wonder I’m a curiosity.

Father was at one stage a carpenter, a good one, saw him in operation, old style tools, never a toolmaker though, so my boat some years back was not entirely amateur … I’ve built fences, sheds but not a house yet. I did build a large pyramid once.

(0534) Curious time, 5 to 7 a.m. as it’s rush hour on the Oz east coast, bedtime for North America, whilst Brits and Irish are just waking up and getting ready for the big commute. France is really the only news in these hours. (0649)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Inside terrorist organisation Antifa?

8. Now the good stuff is starting to trickle in at 0638

I don’t mean my own below here, I mean n9 above.

7. Money laundering

6. DAD at 1155

a) For the second time in eight days, the French have voiced their discontent with their leaders with a day of strikes and demonstrations following on from the Bloquons tout! (“Let’s block everything!”) movement launched on Wednesday, September 10th.

b) September 18th demonstrations: a “clear” message to the government, unions to be received “in the coming days”. “Today, France vibrated [in] a single impulse to say ‘No to injustices’,” wrote Fabien Roussel (PCF) on X.

c) The European Commission has admitted that it channeled more than €600,000 of taxpayer money to the U.S.-founded Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), sparking outrage among critics who accuse Brussels of financing leftist, biased journalism designed to discredit Eurosceptic and conservative voices.

d) UK PM Keir Starmer, Canadian PM Mark Carney & Australian PM Anthony Albanese. The new Script just dropped for the Western WEF Owned Political Puppet Leaders.

(0418) To readers and/or contributors … there’s a certain amount of govt visitation this morning from about 0900, which means of course that I have from now till then to do various domestic chores. Going to divide the time as blogging and Xing until 0700, then a mix till nine, at which point who knows how long the hiatus will be. Just hoping nothing happens to the connection during the time. (0449)

 

5. Eternal victims

4. Plod again

3. Antifa

2. This is in the light of Johnson trashing Reform

… not sure if at the conference or at some special event.

In the light of all that … it’s clear that Farage has no real differences from the Uniparty … why can members not see how they are betrayed? On the other hand, with the best will in the world … Advance? Sadly, “the right” are split, being a cattery of unherdable cats … it’s in our nature. And we’re not “the right”, we’re just anti Woke, anti Globopsychos “above”.

1. Steve at 1154

• Links Found Between Charlie Kirk Killer, Armed Queers SLC, Anti-ICE Shooter, BLM, and Radical Gun Club
• Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Named New CEO and Board Chair of TPUSA
• Mark Halperin on How Charlie Kirk Became an American Icon Without Receiving the Establishment Recognition He Deserved
• Russian Strikes on Gas Storage Will Force Ukraine to Spend $1 Billion to Avoid Winter Crisis
• Gerasimov Breaks Cover: Russia Pushes On All Fronts Amid Western Turmoil
• Sweden Overhauls Welfare Policies To Push Immigrants To Work
• CEOs Of Discord, Steam, Twitch, Reddit Summoned To Washington Over Online Radicalization
• The Hamptons showdown: How billionaire Bill Ackman’s Israel ‘intervention’ pushed Charlie Kirk to the edge of a Catholic conversion
• Much more.

JH: A reminder that this is not a summary of all points above … it’s just a signpost to NOWP. With DAD, each point is usually abridged, again as a signpost, not a complete post.

(1547) Not quite night. (1759) Getting closer though.

 

21. As I take my bath

… I think about y’all in yer wild animal luxury … and I break out in piles song:

Mercurial, eh?

20. First of Steve’s

19. Yes

18. IYE

Mathis finally got round to this one. 🤔

https://mileswmathis.com/amanda.pdf

JH: Ah yes (rubs hands in anticipation of the seven pages).

17. Corrosion from corruption

16. Rolf at Now and Next

“The German tripartite school system was abolished only a few years agobut it’s worth noting that the historian Correlli Barnett says Britain’s economic decline is partly attributable to the failure to modify its education system to train people who could turn scientific and technological discoveries into profitable commercial enterprises. Too many classical scholars, not enough engineers. Even now, in Britain engineering is a white-collar job, whereas in Germany it’s a profession and you put letters before (not after) your name, e.g. “Dr.-Ing”.”

HERE

 

“Richard Basehart has moved on from his womanizing days in the US to steadier waters in the UK with wife Faith Brooke and now works as a successful producer for his wife’s father Roger Livesey. During the production of his latest project, which stars one of his former flames Constance Cummings, he receives several letters from a person he doesn’t know, claiming they had an affair. Initially thinking it’s an attempt at blackmail, he shrugs it off.

But when his wife also receives a letter, they decide enough is enough, and they visit the woman, Mary Murphy. When she persists in her story, even in front of the police, Basehart starts to have doubts. Could he really have forgotten?! Soon things start to fall apart for him, as Murphy’s story, fabricated or not, starts to threaten his marriage as well as his career.

Released in the UK as ‘The Intimate Stranger’ and ‘Finger Of Guilt’ in the US, this movie starts off as a marital drama (told in flashback by Basehart), and slowly moves into thriller territories before culminating in a pretty exciting final 20 minutes inside a studio set. Written and directed by 2 men blacklisted by Hollywood, Joseph Losey (‘The Prowler’) and Howard Koch (‘Casablanca’), the story can be easily seen as a metaphor for what they endured.

But the movie never becomes self-righteous or preachy. Most of the movie is filmed in a matter-of-fact type of way, focusing squarely on Basehart (‘He Walked By Night’), leaving the viewer guessing about Murphy (‘The Desperate Hours’) and the truth. Basehart is solid as a man who’s confronted with a past he’s forgotten about, or has he?

Murphy however is great, she manages to come off as both lying and telling the truth at the same time, shrugging of his questions with ease, which in turn confuses him even more. The rest of the cast are also good, thankfully, as the movie is dialogue-heavy and has a pretty slow pace, especially in the first half.

Visually the movie combines 2 opposites. The opening scene as well as the climax are shot imaginatively, appealing to noir heads. The rest of the movie however is shot in a mostly shadow-less, almost TV-like, manner. Having said that, DoP Gerald Gibbs (‘No Orchids For Miss Blandish’) does a nice job.

The climax inside a studio set is beautifully shot, with some creative shots and angles, including a fist fight that moves in and out of a light illuminating a projection screen used for dailies, projecting a shadow fistfight. It stands in stark contrast with the rest of the movie but it also makes the climax more effective. All in all, it’s a good drama/thriller that skirts into noir territories.”

(1240) Afternoon all. Cunning plan is run some more politics, then a filum after that … not the second Bplus (tomorrow) but straightB. Then who knows? Medical things, plus house issues.

Incidentally, tomorrow morning, must finish blogging by 0900 as there’s a house issue involving outsiders after that … no idea how long it will be, so short blogging hiatus then. (1338)

 

15. Kate and Melania

On Melania’s site:

Kate is 5’9″ in stockinged feet but here has heels of what … three inches? Melania is about lvel with Donny in some pics but slightly shorter in others. I thought Donny was over 6 feet. Some reports had him at five-eight, five-nine. Anomaly here.

14. Free speech in Britain

13. In lockstep across the west

12. Diplomatically put

11. TV host tells straight out porkies

(1014) Dull sky, low Gates cloud … I know of three of our number with throat, cough, the usual … I do believe we are being slow-poisoned. (1035)

 

10. Now obviously someone called Olga is biased

… however, it’s still interesting and remember … it’s pre-Starmer:

9. Some Brit news

8. Xer Brunt reported

7. LibLabConBetrayYou posts

This is what you get when you allow 100,000+totally unvetted young men into the UK. Those who allowed this open door immigration are partly to blame for this and the other crimes that the illegals have committed, including murder. They literally have blood on their hands. https://migrationwatchuk.org/news/2023/01/26/horrific-murder-in-bournemouth-shows-how-illegal-asylum-abuse-threatens-your-safety/

6. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/choose-your-terrorist-organisation-of.html

 

No, not what Khan’s doing to it, something different: