Daily Archives: October 5, 2025

Sunday [7 onwards]

(1403) Afternoon all. Just going to pretend everything was as usual and I didn’t have another three hour sleep … I’d hardly say fully refreshed but at least more refreshed than many Saturday nighters out there. 🙂

7. Steve B’s chart quiz … usual ask

Early Sunday movie

 

As in I’m going back to bed.

“Richard Greene, David Niven, George Sanders and William Henry are the four men part of “Four Men and a Prayer,” a 1938 John Ford film also starring Loretta Young.

Frankly I felt as if I came in at the middle of this film, though I saw the whole thing – but I never actually did figure out the plot. The boys’ father (C. Aubrey Smith) has been dishonorably discharged from the army and telegraphs each son that he wants to meet them at the family manse.

The discharge was unfair – he was set up – now, I’m guessing here but it had something to do with illegal arms. His sons want to help him, but moments later, he is murdered in his study and his papers stolen.

Taking what info they have, they split up and travel to India, South America and Egypt to find the people their father mentioned who can help clear his name. Loretta Young, who plays Greene’s madcap girlfriend, chases him shamelessly in a variety of outfits.

I still can’t decide if there was too little or too much fooling around by the brothers. For me the comic stuff never does come off, Niven being the exception.

The acting, however, is good. Richard Greene might have been Tyrone Power’s only rival at 20th Century Fox, except that he returned to England in 1940 to enter the service. This was his first film under contract to Fox. He was very handsome with a nice screen persona; baby boomers may remember him as television’s “Robin Hood.”

Loretta Young is dazzlingly beautiful – I actually didn’t find her annoying as she seemed to fit right into the frenetic energy of the film. Sanders and Niven turned in their usual fine performances.

There’s a nice turn by Lina Basquette, too, as a foreign woman with information. For those who don’t know Lina, well, she was a silent screen star and half-sister of dancer Marge Champion.

Lina was married to Sam Warner; after his death, the Warners took her child from her and made sure she never worked again. She eventually went to the dogs – literally – by becoming a breeder and judge at the Westminster Dog Show.

In a New Yorker Profile done in the 1990s, she claimed to have been propositioned by Hitler and said she had done work as a spy during World War II. She also declared Eric Braeden of “The Young and the Restless” her favorite actor and ended up meeting him.

Lina appeared at Cinecom when she was in her late 80s, and the audience, used to seeing elderly actresses in wheelchairs, was shocked at the end of “The Younger Generation,” one of her early films, when she didn’t walk – but ran onto the stage, looking incredible, to answer questions.

For me, Lina’s appearance as Ahnee is actually the high point of “Four Men and a Prayer,” featuring some very attractive people in a half-comedy/half-drama and a confusing plot. Thankfully, Ford didn’t stick with this genre.”

Sunday [2 to 5]

(0947) That took far longer than expected. Back now, have a good Sunday, chaps and chapesses. (1001)

 

5. An Elonism


4. Ms Shah


3. DAD at 1168

a) Macron deflects. During a trip to Saarbrücken, Germany, Emmanuel Macron delivered a blistering speech on Friday, October 3, on the responsibility of social media in the weakening of Western democracies.

b) How Slovak conservatives amended the country’s constitution by banning surrogacy, upholding parental rights, and establishing two biological sexes: male and female.

c) The rape of Europe: When civilisation surrenders to barbarism.

d) This Friday, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (Entso-E) published the long-awaited technical report on the blackout that left millions of citizens in Spain and Portugal without power on April 28.

2. Steve at 1168

  • Treasury Announces Plans to Mint Special ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ Trump Coin for America’s 250th Anniversary
  • Assaults on Officers in Illinois Follow Democrat Governor’s Anti-ICE Rhetoric
  • Apple and Google Remove ICE Agent Tracking Apps That Help Illegal Aliens Evade Arrest
  • Church of England Appoints Pro-Abortion Feminist as Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Japan Welcomes First Female Prime Minister — a Former Heavy Metal Drummer
  • Russian Troops Strangle Kiev Forces In Kupyansk
  • Anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying
  • Soros-Backed Tides Foundation Funding Wikipedia
  • Much more.

Sunday [1]

(0902) Morning all. My main post of the day this morning is currently proliferating at OoL, UHC-WP, Jstack and on X.

Incidentally, there are also some quotable comments at Jstack which I’ll be quoting. The worthy Steve and DAD start to the day is coming up once I get this seven parter up on X.

Have a good one. (0907)