Oldies but Goodies
Happy Fourth of July readers! I hope you're having a great day with lots of hotdogs, hamburgs and beer...oh and who could forget the fireworks? Just don't blow any fingers off! On a complete side note my Mom, brother and sister are coming home for the next month and a half tonight! I can't wait to see them! Ok, now on to the oldies! I wasn't too crazy about the movies I saw this month, which is why I only picked a favorite movie and no runner up. They weren't bad, but they weren't the best either. I did, however reallllllly loveee It Happened One Night. Regardless you should watch them and see for yourself. Enjoy!
Jezebel (1938)
Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, and George Brent
Julie Marsden is determined to live life the way she wants,
even if it’s not how women act in New
Orleans in the early 1850s. Her fiancé, Preston
Dillard fell in love with her wild-child behavior, so long as it wasn’t too out
of line. But when she wanted to wear a red dress to an annual ball where young,
unmarried women only wear white. After an awkward night and a big fight,
Preston decides to go back to New
York, without Julie. After a year of not speaking, he
comes back to New Orleans
for work. When Julie hears the news she thinks he is coming back so they can
make up and get married, but when he shows up with his surprise, it’s a wife,
not a proposal. Julie comes up with a plan to try and get him back, but a
strange turn of events makes it difficult for her to ever win him back.
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| Julie and Preston at the ball (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Giant (1956)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean
Bick Benedict is the owner of a very large ranch in Texas. On a trip to Maryland to buy a prize
horse, he falls in love with the owner’s daughter. The two get married and she
goes back to Texas
with him. Leslie Benedict (Bick’s new wife) quickly learns how different life
in Texas is
when Luz, Bick’s sister, treats her like a feeble girl. Despite everyone’s
reservations to let Leslie help on the ranch, she fights her way to earn their
respect. She quickly meets everyone on the ranch and all of the help, including
Jett Rink who falls in love with her, but always keeps a respectful distance.
Bick and Jett do not get along and when Bick’s sister passes away, Jett quits
the ranch. Soon there after, they both find out that Luz left a small bit of
land to Jett, where he quickly builds a home. One day after Leslie leaves
Jett’s new place, he discovers that her footprint was left in oil, not mud.
After doing some digging, he finds lots of oil, which makes him rich. The rest
of the movie follows both Jett’s life and the Benedict family as they deal with
the changes society and life brings them.
Side Note: This was a really long movie; it was about 3
hours and 20 minutes long!
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| Leslie, Bick and Jett (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Starring: Warren
Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, and Gene Wilder
If you don’t know your history and don’t know much about
Bonnie and Clyde, this movie will give you a
descent description of their background. That being said, I also had higher
hopes for the movie and def think it could have been better…a lot better. But
in case you don’t know them (or about the movie) here’s my description:
Nineteen year old Bonnie Parker was absolutely bored with
life in Texas.
When she caught Clyde Barrow trying to steal her mother’s car, she thought
something interesting might start to happen. The two talked as she walked to
work and he told her he had spent some time in jail for armed robbery. She
didn’t believe him until he told her he’d prove it to her by robbing the convenient
store. From there on out the two robbed banks and other small stores, and it
didn’t take long until the asked C.W. Moss if he was brave enough to join. A
few days later they met up with Clyde’s
brother and his wife. From there the “Barrow Gang”, as they were called, robbed
banks and small stores and even killed a few police men and citizens. After a
few short years of barely escaping the law, Bonnie and Clyde
were stopped only by an ambush set up by the police that ended both of their
lives.
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| Bank robbery (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
It Happened On Night (1934)
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Walter Connolly
Socialite Ellie Andrews secretly married society pilot, King
Westley, against he father’s wishes. Once he finds out he takes her on his
yacht off the coast of Miami
to try and convince her it was a bad idea and to annul the marriage. Ellie ends
up jumping off the yacht and swimming to shore where she buys a bus ticket to New York to be with her
husband. Terrified because he can’t find his daughter, her father hires
detectives to find her and offers a reward of $10,000. On the bus Ellie ends up
sitting next to reporter Peter Warne, who ends up helping her out along the
long trip. One night when the bus has to stop due to heavy rain, he pretends
they are married in order to get a motel room for both of them. Once in the
room he reveals that he wants the real story with what’s going on or else he’ll
call her father! Will he get his big story? Does she ever make it to New York to be with her
husband? Will her father ever find her?
*Winner this month!*
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| Trying to catch a ride (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
What have you watched this month?
Quote of the Week: “Ellie Andrews: I'll stop a car, and I
won't use my thumb!
Peter Warne: What're you gonna do?
Ellie Andrews: It's a system all my own.”
Last Week’s Answer: Alexander McQueen
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