David in TN graces these pages just about every week with his exclusive preview of crime pictures, I post the occasional review, and much movie music.
A couple of days ago, I stumbled onto some fulsome praise by an anonymous reader:
“See Frank Sinatra’s Virtuoso Performance as a Presidential Assassin in Suddenly (1954) Saturday/Sunday at Midnight on TCM!”
Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 6:20:00 P.M. EDTN.S.: Thank you for your kind words, wherever and whoever you are.
This critique is stunning in its degree of information and analysis: like a one-post mini-course of the history of this film genre, set not just against the US political zeitgeist at the time, but the European fascist cataclysm that changed the world forever.
This has to be read a few times to really appreciate the thinking that went into it.
It would be safe to say that there isn’t a damn academic currently on staff at any university in the US - from one coast to the other - that could produce something like this.
Not only could you (and do, daily) give tutorials in basic journalism skills to these people - add cinema history to the list.
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I thank you, and your posterity will, too.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Stix
2 comments:
I especially like the scene where the bad guy is electrocuted when he touches the metal folding table that has been connected to the high voltage of the TV set.
jerry pdx
Remember Scott Hapgood the man vacationing with his family in the Caribbean who were attacked in his hotel room by a hotel worker who demanded money? He killed the worker in a struggle, managed to leave the country by posting bond and is now considered a "fugitive". His family is white and the hotel worker is black. Basically, he is guilty of refusing to allow himself to be robbed and his family possibly sexually assaulted and/or murdered while white. Now the criminal's family is outraged that their little angel got himself killed and suing Hapgood (see below for their legal reasoning). Mitchell had been charged with rape only 3 weeks before attacking the family. While I seriously question the Hapgood's common sense in bringing his young daughters to the Caribbean he had every right to defend his family. Mr. Hapgood is suing the hotel for negligence. Relevant excerpts from the article are below:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24200494&postID=4596182599281334107
The Connecticut man accused of killing an Anguilla hotel worker while vacationing with his family on the Caribbean island last April is now suing the resort for negligence, claiming it “failed to ensure the safety and protection of its hotel guests” by employing Kenny Mitchel in the first place.
Scott Hapgood, a 44-year-old banker from Darien, filed a lawsuit against Auberge Resorts in Califonia Monday, accusing the Mill Valley-based company of negligence in the hiring and supervision of the 27-year-old worker who died on April 13 after a violent encounter with Hapgood.
The lawsuit alleges that the company continued to employ Mitchel at the upscale Malliouhana resort even thought he had been arrested on a rape charge three weeks prior to his death. The arrest should have made him ineligible to continue to work on Anguilla, a British territory.
Hapgood was freed on a $74,000 bond and returned to Connecticut. He has since refused to return to the British territory for additional court hearings over concerns for his safety. He is considered a fugitive there.
The Estate of the dead man filed suit against the fugitive in CT last month and claim ...
“At that time, a physical struggle between them ensued,” the lawsuit claims. “Soon after the struggle began, the defendant completely and thoroughly restrained [Mitchel], who was substantially smaller than the defendant. [Hapgood] then pinned [Mitchel] to the floor, straddled him, and applied force and pressure to [Mitchel’s] neck.”
Fearing ‘indefinite’ incarceration, Darien banker charged with manslaughter decides against returning to Anguilla for court date »
The lawsuit claims Mitchel posed no risk to Hapgood and that as a result of Hapgood’s actions, Mitchel died.
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