Wacky Wednesdays with Jenbiff

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.

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!

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.

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!*

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