Hmmmmm, think I prefer her playing off the men with this type of song.
Monthly Archives: October 2025
Sun Mat
Review:
“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.”
Sunday [9 and 10]
(1303) Afternoon all. (1316)
10. AKH on Lucy Dogwhistle
https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/10/twenty-warnings-for-sir-keir.html
“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.”
9. Steve … two drops today
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.”
TRIPPing
Quick word to Steve … this below was in the delivery chute, saw your Crecy YT, next on the list, ok?
Sunday [5 to 8]
(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.
7. Evil muvvers
6. Ah, here’s the meat we need
5. Quite a few of interest in here
Sunday [4]
(0653 GMT) Main post of the day (0655 GMT)
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.
https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/the-main-reason-we-cannot-combine
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-main-reason-we-cannot-combine.html
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.
Sunday [1 to 3]
(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…
Saturday [17 till close of play]
(1817) Evening all. (Around 1900) Crashed. (2150) Up again, watching football.
19. This is more a Saturday night than Sunday morning item
Steve posed an enigma with this comment:
17b. is…Timothy Mellon. Now, toggle full screen and turn the sound up > this girl can sure play the saxophone..
Bryan Ferry Nuits de Fourviere Live in Lyon – Like a Hurricane HD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOcbONX5rs
First off … 17b … item was about Timothy Mellon. Somehow, Steve connects that to Bryan Ferry … or was it to Neil Young and Like a Hurricane?
a crowded, hazy bar ♫” There’s something hauntingly beautiful about this guitar laced personification of Neil Young’s intense desire for a paramour he longed for but could never attain.
Who also wrote a song about Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell. Anyway, the song is up at UHC-HQ. Was it connected to Jorja Chalmers?
18. Quick summary
a. Saw escalation in events in London:
Seems to have been an organised reaction to a UKIP rally. Battle lines drawn, police as always on the side against the people.
b. New deputy Labour clown, Lucy M. Powell who insulted rape gang survivors. Charming. An Xer called Helen Spirited: “Only 16% of Labour Members bothered to vote. They know it’s all but over for The Labour Party. Can’t wait for Lucy Powell to brag about her “overwhelming mandate”.” Matt Vickers MP: “The same Lucy Powell who smeared those who asked questions about rape gangs as using ‘a dog whistle’.”
c. NYT says Timothy Mellon, a banking heir (is) the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.
d. DON’T FORGET CLOCKS FALL BACK BETWEEN NOW AND MORNING. Night night all.
17. Steve corner
a. War Room:
- Joe Allen: Working-Class Americans See Through The AI Hype. They Know It’s Not A Promise; It’s A Threat To Their Livelihoods, Their Humanity, And Their Faith
- Dr Bradley Thayer: China Just Weaponized Rare Earths, Cutting Off Exports Of The Very Magnets Our Defense And Tech Industries Rely On
- Captain James Fanell: Xi Holds The Leverage, And That Has To Change. China Controls Our Rare Earths, Our Pharmaceuticals, And Even Parts Of Our Food Supply
- Julie Kelly On ‘Artic Frost’ Probe: This Was Run Through Lisa Monaco, This Was Her Idea
b. Anonymous donor:
Saturday [16]
(1655) Almost evening all. (1748)
The demonstrable truth is the opposite
Below are sshots I gathered earlier and what connects them is the concept of “opposite” in that they don’t just misrepresent, don’t just lie by omission, don’t just flat out lie but they actively say or do the diametric, direct opposite. That’s real Goebbels stuff.
For example, Phillips in parliament stated that Fiona Goddard had lied … which receipts showed was a complete lie in itself. When an MP lies to parliament, that was always grounds for resignation. There was a Yes PM episode where Hacker was tricked into lying to parliament because of faulty advice. Meant nothing, the advice as factor weighed to mitigate … Hacker had inadvertently lied. Resignation stuff.
The barefaced gall today with which this lot get away with it can only be from a firm belief, a hardwired view, that there is no longer any comeback … the cabal WEF, whatever, has sent the message out that it’s a done deal, say whatever you wish now … everything’s now in the melting pot.
Whether or not it is it or can still go awry, they are 100% sure it’s over, they cannot be touched. Someone above has assured the clowns of that.
Just who is the target audience below here? What’s going on? By what means do they think that people, knowing the exact opposite to be true from seeing and hearing it … that people will reverse that which they know? 180 degrees, upside down? Maybe there’s no intention to persuade, maybe it’s just what they’ll write into history, so the next civilisation can dig it up and think it’s history?
Next:
The “opposite” there is that the orthodoxy must have reversed.
That one’s simply bizarre. In a national rag, this child comes out and says the diametric opposite of the truth. No comeback on her.
“Directly contradicted” are the key words above. Not a different nor interpretation … it’s contradiction. Openly. At a high level.
Speaks for itself, that one. This below is still an opposite but in action Pritzker somehow thinks is equal and opposite. He was seated at the big desk and, aping DJT, many people stood around behind the desk as he did the Big Signing of the EO, as if it counts for something. Bizarre.
This last one below is obviously Russian in origin, one of the watchers, the lower item of the two shows a major curiosity in the names … and from where … they obviously have something planned.
Sat Mat
The movie with absolutely no Ruth in it.
Review:
“This may be Edgar G. Ulmer’s masterpiece. RUTHLESS is a terrific noir/melodrama – sharply written (by the to-be-blacklisted Alvah Bessie and Gordon Kahn), consistently beautifully photographed (by the underrated Bert Glennon), and truly adventurous in its editing and flash forward-flash backward construction.
Zachary Scott is the “ruthless” title character, but the title is more a cheap shot than anything else; Scott’s Vendig is more an emotionally bankrupt, pathological character than a villain per se. The narrative takes pains to reveal – gradually – the series of events from childhood through adulthood which affected his perverse makeup, making for a fascinating character study.
Subtle revelations and plot twists come about every fifteen minutes, but they’re deliberately ambiguous when they hit the screen, forcing the viewer to pay close attention as the truth of the situation is revealed. This technique alone puts RUTHLESS way ahead of any other Poverty Row melodrama of the period and cements Ulmer’s reputation as a thoughtful stylist.
Louis Hayward plays a sort of Greek chorus, an often acquiescent voice of conscience/best friend/nemesis who keeps the episodic story moving along. Diana Lynn (in two roles), Martha Vickers and Lucille Bremer each give terrific performances as the various women who appear, disappear, and reappear in the lives of both men.
All are sharply drawn, a testament to the determination of Bessie, Kahn and other blacklisted writers to put strong female characters on screen in defiance of the Production Code, which seemed to encourage either submissive or predatory roles for women.
And as if all that isn’t enough, Sidney Greenstreet drops in and sets the screen on fire in every sequence he appears in. A classic coiled spring, his portrayal of a similarly greedy corporate boss is perfectly slimy, and provides a genuine shock when he suddenly grabs Lucille Bremer by the hair and jerks her backwards for a kiss.
Likewise, a later sequence where Bremer drags him in front of the mirror so she can brutally compare him to her new, younger lover is unforgettably painful.”