Not sure what to expect here … we’ve never had it run here, it’s been sitting there but the title’s been offputting. 1937 eh? All right, let’s try it.
“I hold with what seems to be the majority opinion here, i.e. that this early Hitchcock effort is a neglected gem.
Though certainly not as well-done as some of his more noteworthy movies, I found it to be thoroughly captivating and entertaining, with the blend of suspense and humor that one finds in, say, “To Catch a Thief” or “Family Plot”. Derrick deMarney as the romantic lead does a particularly fine job; sort of a foreshadowing of the kind of thing Cary Grant later did so well.
One thought is that the title is perhaps a bit of a double entendre; we always associate the phrase “Young and Innocent” with a female, but the story is really about the attempt of the lead character – a young man – to prove his innocence. Then again, is he really the lead, or is the story about the girl after all? I’m sure Hitch intended this touch of ambiguity.
Once again I have to thank American Movie Classics for bringing us another worthy movie from the past. Hitchcock fans should not miss this one (come to think of it, the only dog that I have seen from Hitch is “The Paradine Case”).”
(1050) I am reminded that if I say to a bro … take the mote from your eye, I must first remove the beam from my own. (Matthew 7:3-5). Indeed, I am myself a great sinner, pointing out the doings of this globopsycho or that, this wokeratchik or that … when my own sin must seem many times worse. (1140)
10. There are many things we’re being either railroaded into
… or prevented from doing. It’s getting worse, it’s being deliberately ratched from above.
Think many of us have personal missions later in life, as we see what lies ahead … mine was never planned … it just happened, possibly as a result of this Generations thing, trying to determine if there really are any … conclusion?
Yes there are, esp. post-war.
I got as far back with generations as 1929 to 46, 1912 to 29, 1895 to 1912. 1912 seemed a fair division as certain things were building, including Jeckyl Island and the Fed, World War but it was also clear that “half generations” also came into it.
For example, 1920/21 was highly significant … immediately post war, the great pandemic fading, couples marrying.
Look at a boy born in 1921, golden age ahead, up tempo living, all good. What age was that boy in 1939? You get my drift? After the 1929 crash and depression too …
“Half generations” make a lot of sense to me in this exploration. Look at a lad born post WW2 until maybe 1954/5 … rises out of austerity, into hope of a golden future, stability … but grounded, plus free.
1955 to 1963 though had no real world trauma, quite different to 1963 onwards … the latter were grouchy, cynical Gen X with resentment of Boomers.
Coming back a half generation before 1946 … born 1937/8 … depression, war, rationing … that must have affected them.
And we have one here we know of at Unherdables … I’m going to write to him ask if he’d write something about those years 1937 to 1946.
Then there’s 1929 to 1937 birthdate. What did they face? For someone loving the 1920s jazz, the history of eras … all this is fascinating. And part of that was my parents’ music. I don’t mean the vinyl LP collection … Sound of Music, James Last, Oklahoma …
I mean earlier … such as these two songs in this post. My father loved Richard Tauber, so he said. I was aware that Welsh male choirs were the rage too at one time. Before Vera Lynn.
What music did my da enjoy? I know he whistled Cock of the North ad infinitum. He wore cuffed hems, had a watch on a chain which went back in the vest pocket, trilby hat, carried a Gladstone bag … the one giveaway as to his origins. Worked in Bradford … commuted. Supported Bradford Park Avenue.
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Much more.
3. The new presidential library
As against:
Stacey is Right pic
2. DAD at 1338
a) Twenty-two people went on trial in France on Monday on charges of murder and other serious crimes centred on members of a Masonic lodge accused of running hit squads.
b) This is Paris 2026. The fact that Paris went from the “City of Love” to this is nothing short of a tragedy.
c) In Moncontour, Mayor Olivier Pellan, elected on March 15, resigned less than two weeks later. His home was vandalized with graffiti, and then his car was damaged.
There is the 1940 Raft and Bogie vehicle … but this came earlier, a British film, almost as well received … interesting place for a trucker movie:
“”They Drive By Night” (not to be confused with the Bogart) had a rare showing in a New York theater in 2009, as part of a series on British film noir. The only reason the theater screening matters is because of crowd reaction. And the reaction to this film, especially the final sequences, was absolutely joyous.
The movie is at least 2/3rds over before one of the main characters appears, the former schoolmaster Walter Hoover, played by the unbelievably urbane, stick-figure-thin Ernest Thesiger. The camera starts on his hands, so you only see what he’s doing– pasting newspaper clippings about lurid murders into a scrapbook– but when his face is finally revealed, the whole audience seemed to sit a bit straighter, and we stayed that way through the end, reacting with open delight to this character’s every movement, his every phrase.
I mean to take nothing away from the star of the film, Emlyn Williams (who wrote almost as many films as he starred in), but Ernest Thesiger was capable of turning a lousy movie into a watchable one, and a good movie into an unforgettable one. This is definitely the latter.”
(1051) Coming up to elevenses … very rough out there, even white caps on the sheltered water. Have to go out just before midday and might be some time. (1136)
15. My question
… who’s more trustworthy today … the Met office, Met plod or the NHS?
14. Leaving no doubt of her view on the matter, ha ha
13. Moo corner
12. IYE corner
Matt Walsh on Doomerism “. By Miles Mathis
”By the way, although Walsh doesn’t mention it here, Meta and Google have recently lost huge lawsuits on this “doomscrolling”, being found liable for creating addiction, depression, and even suicide. So it isn’t just me and Walsh who are claiming this. Multiple juries have ruled that Big Tech is doing this on purpose, and found that some levels of malevolence are involved. Plaintiffs weren’t required to explain exactly WHY Big Tech would wish to make its consumers miserable, only that it had done so withmalice—the cause of the malice being beyond the scope of the trial. But I have told you why:
Big Tech is an arm of the government, and the government needs you to be confused and powerless. Operation Chaos. The bludgeoning of your sanity by a full-spectrum attack, to prevent revolution…..”
Interwebs playing up over here. Doesn’t matter which devices. (JH: DAD too today.)
11. Some housekeeping
Nothing particularly technical this time, more about what we’re offering. I say “we” because of reader offerings, which are appreciated, natch.
Thing is this … certain types of offerings almost run themselves from my position here … but some are more problematic. Now that Dearieme has lost interest in the jazz on Sundays … yes, even if only one person still likes it … AKH for example, then I’d keep it going in that slot.
However, AKH also likes the films, as does Toodles, plus they keep appearing, unlike the jazz. This coming Sunday is Easter Sunday or Resurrection Day, so maybe I’ll do something other than jazz on the 5th.
Another problematic offering is the “serious” music. Now it just so happens we have some rippers coming up, suddenly having appeared … first tomorrow around 0800. So they’re all right for two weeks.
Another is the Ruairidh or Jago type … they’ve slowed down but are still occasional.
One which has almost disappeared is my own music from the past (quiet at the back there, enough of this “thank goodness” business) and my attitude now is not to run it unless it connects to a time and topic, e.g. as the Don MacLean did. I have three right now which very much related to past events.
Of all the above, the most problematic, as it’s been before, is the jazz.
We know about the Buddy Holly crash in Feb, 59 and Don McLean’s song of 1971. Yes, that was the death of innocence, but not of creativity, clever playing and untainted singing.
The second and more permanent death though was in 1997. As many Gen Zee (1997 to 2014) reactors admit … music after the mid 90s became total autotuned drivel, adenoidal, soulless and untalented, just as with film … satanic and dripping with Woke. Sad Gen Zee and Alpha.
