“For those who think of Dame May Witty as the kindly, slightly batty, old lady from Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, this movie requires an adjustment. Here, she’s anything but kindly or batty. Instead, her son, George Macready is the loony one. Just don’t give him a knife, otherwise his eyes light up and no furniture cushion in the house is safe. Now we know what he has in mind for the trapped Nina Foch if he can just get out from under Mother’s domineering hand.
Really tight little woman-in-danger film that keeps the suspense on high throughout. The script never strays from Foch’s dilemma. She’s held prisoner in a big old Gothic house on the edge of an angry sea. They’re going to kill her, but why. Her predicament makes no sense. The tension mounts as she tries one escape ploy after another, but even strangers seem against her. We begin to feel her helplessness and mounting paranoia as the world turns away from her.
Director Joseph H. Lewis took a big step toward cult status with this film and understandably so. Then too, watch Foch run subtly through a gamut of emotions without once going over the top. Witty too shines as a really intimidating matriarch who knows what she wants and how to get it if she can just keep her wacko son in line. My one reservation is the climax which seems too contrived considering the timing of the events. Nonetheless, it’s a good, nerve-wracking way to spend a little over an hour, courtesy Columbia studios.”
“All we learn from this is that Lucy Powell’s approach is to be more assertive and hard-nosed when pressing ahead with changes which won’t work, never have worked in the past and aren’t going to work in the future. More of the same but louder seems to be the message.”
This is how far the sickness has gripped public and private life:
“The wind-instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded and posted a comment that said, “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”
Brünisholz then received a knock on his door from the Burgdorf police and then a prosecution letter for engaging in “hate speech” and “publicly belittling” comments based on sexual orientation under the Swiss Criminal Code. He was convicted and fined 500 Swiss Francs.”
“As well as being associated with initiatives such as the World Goodwill, the Lucis Trust has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (“ECOSOC”).
In 2011, Walter Veith gave a lecture on the United Nations’ (“UN’s”) agenda during which he exposed the real motives behind the UN’s New World Order: the creation of a global religio-political system.”
(1042) Back on track, chaps and chapesses, time to find out what’s in the queue. Zero actually, TDS just came through. Need to explore again. (1200)
8. Housekeeping
Broadening that heading to mean more than cyber issues … in fact encompassing anything not strictly politics of the day … I’ve just looked around and not even the Americans have much of note … that New York monster standing for mayor, shutdown still on, the Russian sounding lady being attacked by the demonrats and deep state trolls, Starmer and Khan … I’ve a few items, not much, will post later.
No film, no jazz, yet, quite a few features though … we roll with what we have, rather than trying to make something out of a thin day so far. Might play some chantoosies in the afternoon for jazz.
Commentary on one or two of Steve’s overnight drops … these will open the afternoon’s politics just past 1300.
Dearest readers, rough night for sleep, am grabbing some now if possible till around 1000 GMT, all right? Also switching buzzer and phone off for now Don’t forget to change your clocks too.
Will there be all in violence, conflagration and slaughter in the streets, in our homes? Well, it’s started in tester form, hasn’t it? Or will the population meekly succumb to the digital ID and all the other tools of enslavement?
Or will we end up as the Eloi in the time machine, suspended from cliff face communities or from Morlock meathooks?
Over at OoL is a two screenshot idea of how to get around the agenda of the savages … it’s by a chap calling himself Paleo on Gab. It’s followed by one of our readers, Lord T who had just read that Paleo piece.
(0515) Question is … is it GMT or GMT +1? Ah, it’s GMT, as my wall clock plus mobile both say 0615, which is actually a pretty good sleep for me, from about 1130 GMT+1, no aches and pains, no bad dreams. Going to run the main post of the day at Jstack around 0630 GMT, not here. (0556 GMT)
3. Steve at 1183
Walmart Suspends H-1B Visas Hires
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Uncovers Over $1 Billion in Fraudulent Healthcare Spending for Illegal Aliens
Democrat Establishment Finally Rallies Behind Communist Zohran Mamdani — House Leader Hakeem Jeffries Gives Full Endorsement
Ukrainian Reserves Shortage: Russian Forces Press Offensive On Seven Fronts
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Reform Effort: Inside the Battle Over Transparency, Trust, and Public Health
Switzerland Goes To War Against Free Speech: Man Jailed For Claiming That Skeletons Reflect Gender
Much more.
2. This, like DAD’s 1c, is a precursor to my upcoming post
1. DAD at 1183
Did you change your clocks?
a) How Macron became the anti-de Gaulle. The French president desired to be Jupiter; instead, he became Icarus.
b) Faith in the French political system has completely collapsed according to an annual survey: a stunning 96 per cent of the public are either “dissatisfied or angry” about the current state of France.
c) Union of the French Right: what are they waiting for? It is torture to see the country falling apart and the right wing unable to come up with a common winning strategy. (JH: My post coming up on this.)
d) The [US] teachers unions, who are rioting, have badly failed the kiddos they recruit to riot…
