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badmovieihave · 11 months

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Bad movie I have My Favorite Wife 1940

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mariocki · 1 year

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Black Friday (1940)

"Dad... your best friend... oh, you couldn't!"

"I saved his life, didn't I?"

"Well, what's the good of that if you've turned him into a criminal?"

#black friday #american cinema #horror film #1940 #mad doctor cycle #i mean it isn't part of the cycle really‚ they were Columbia films‚ but it might as well be; it has an identical set up and format #arthur lubin #curt siodmak #eric taylor #boris karloff #bela lugosi #stanley ridges #anne nagel #anne gwynne #virginia brissac #edmund macdonald #paul fix #raymond bailey #john kelly #murray alper #joe king #fun little nonsense horror that functions as a step sibling to the Mad Doctor Cycle Columbia were concurrently producing with Karloff #but actually he wasn't meant to play the doctor here; supposedly he was cast as the unfortunate subject of the doctor's brain swapping #experiments‚ with Lugosi as the doc. Karloff for whatever reason wanted to play the Doc (possibly he felt he couldn't transform himself #well enough in a physical sense‚ being so distinctive) so Ridges became the victim and Lugosi instead took a lesser role as a crime boss #the result is slightly unsatisfactory for fans of the gruesome twosome; while Ridges walks away with the film (he's genuinely brilliant)#Lugosi is wasted in a bit part and Karloff goes through the motions a little. still there's fun to be had‚ not least in the novel approach #to brain transplants (here the body holds the personality and the brain is just organ‚ whereas it's usually the opposite in the genre)#still it all backfires as it usually does.. Siodmak seems to have had a thing for brain swaps‚ it was a pet passion subject #that he revisited several times (most successfully with 1942 novel Donovan's Brain and its 50s film adaptation)

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dipnotski · 10 months

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Alper Öztaş – Bookchin Kuramının Marksist Eleştirisi (2023)

“Özgürlükçü sosyalist” bir temelde “ekolojik bir toplum” yaratma iddiasında olan Bookchin kuramı, “diyalektik doğalcılık” olarak adlandırdığı yöntemi üzerinden Marksizmi de eleştirerek düşünce alanımıza girdi. Kürt özgürlük hareketinin sahiplenmesi ile Bookchin kuramı daha da yoğun olarak tartışılır oldu. Bu kısa kitapta, Bookchin kuramının temelleri, Marksizmin bilimsel referansıyla…

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#2023 #Alper Öztaş #Bookchin Kuramının Marksist Eleştirisi #Doruk Yayınları #Murray Bookchin

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byneddiedingo · 9 months

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Brian Donlevy and Glenda Farrell in High Tension (Allan Dwan, 1936)

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Glenda Farrell, Norman Foster, Helen Wood, Robert McWade, Theodore von Eltz, Romaine Callender, Hattie McDaniel, Joe Sawyer, Murray Alper. Screenplay: Lou Breslau, Edward Eliscu, John Patrick, J. Robert Bren, Norman Houston. Cinematography: Barney McGill. Art direction: Duncan Cramer. Film editing: Louis R. Loeffler.

High Tension is a lively little action comedy that comes in at 63 minutes, just right for the bottom half of a double feature. Brian Donlevy has the boisterous role of Steve Reardon, an underwater engineer for a transoceanic cable company who unwinds from his stressful job by getting drunk, telling tall tales of his undersea adventures, getting into fights, and messing around with his girlfriend, Edith McNeil (Glenda Farrell). It's a little hard to see why she puts up with Steve, let alone wants to marry him, except that she makes a good living writing pulp fiction based on those tall tales. Allan Dwan sets a nice pace for the movie, which puts Steve into a couple of knock-down, drag-out fights, one of which involves Steve and his opponent shoving a piano at each other in Edith's apartment. The more important fight, for the sake of the plot, comes when a couple of guys (one of them played by an unbilled Ward Bond) set upon him with the aim of picking his pocket. The movie's second lead, Eddie Mitchell (Norman Foster), manages to save the money that the thugs stole from Steve when he was knocked cold. Steve wakes up the next morning to find himself in bed with Eddie, who took him home for the night. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship, with whatever homoerotic undertones you might want to find in it. Grateful for Eddie's help, and discovering that he has a degree from Caltech, Steve gets him a job with the company he works for and trains him to be his right hand man. Eventually, all this winds up with some romantic complications, with Steve, who has broken up with Edith, putting the moves on Eddie's pretty secretary (Helen Wood), whom the shy Eddie secretly loves. And there's a big underwater rescue scene (done pretty much on the cheap) that sets everything straight again. The whole thing is quite watchable, except for the sexist and racist elements that don't go down as well today as they did in the '30s. Steve has to deal with his boss's prissy assistant, F. Willoughby Tuttle (Romaine Callender in a role probably written with Franklin Pangborn in mind), a prime example of the "pansy" stereotype that afflicted movies of the era. And Hattie McDaniel is cast as Edith's maid, unimaginatively named Hattie, a role that McDaniel plays with more sass and vigor than it deserves -- McDaniel was a true professional, and if you can overlook the stereotyping her performance is a delight.

#High Tension #Allan Dwan #Brian Donlevy #Glenda Farrell

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thepostedia · 1 year

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Songwriter Shirley Eikhart dies at 67

Singer-songwriter Shirley, who performed songs by Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray and Chet Atkins and rose to fame with Bonnie Raitt’s 1991 Grammy-winning hit “Something to Talk About.” Eichhardt died at the age of 67. ToPublisher Eric Alper said Ickhart died Thursday from complications of cancer at Headwaters Health Center in Orangeville, Ontario. In 1985, the blues-rock hit “Something to Talk…

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sachaikiawaz01 · 1 year

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