tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post8972855945810369057..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Every Breath You TakeSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-30526241616752645502018-09-01T20:55:25.136-05:002018-09-01T20:55:25.136-05:00I can only hope it lived up to any goofy expectati...I can only hope it lived up to any goofy expectations you might have had.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-75703045504846865092018-08-14T12:51:10.733-05:002018-08-14T12:51:10.733-05:00Julie was on TCM again, so I DVRed it and I'll...Julie was on TCM again, so I DVRed it and I'll probably watch it tonight. Two and a half years after I first heard about it in this post!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-46991114640201347452016-01-06T13:40:51.235-06:002016-01-06T13:40:51.235-06:00Wikipedia is usually a good place to start but the...Wikipedia is usually a good place to start but the Internet is full of people making absolute statements that are rubbish. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-71632379370070732202016-01-06T12:38:59.090-06:002016-01-06T12:38:59.090-06:00When I go into the history, I'm pretty much li...When I go into the history, I'm pretty much limited by what I can find. The "she has to land the plane" info comes from Wikipedia. It may well reference her being the first to land a jet. Don't really know except what I've read.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-39235016681489391582016-01-06T12:38:03.229-06:002016-01-06T12:38:03.229-06:00That's pretty much what Robert Osborne had to ...That's pretty much what Robert Osborne had to say--the rest of her movies were a lot calmer and easier on her. <br /><br />It's kind of too bad, because Doris Day had some qualities that made her a really good damsel in distress.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-6908817839317783842016-01-06T10:33:10.000-06:002016-01-06T10:33:10.000-06:00Yes I'd read the same thing about Doris and th...Yes I'd read the same thing about Doris and the rigors that drama played on her emotional well being. In her autobiography she said that since she was an instinctual actress she put it all out there and had no technique to compartmentalize her emotions thereby leaving her a worn out rag doll by filming's end. <br /><br />She did one more overblown melodrama-the hysterical, in more ways than one, Midnight Lace which being a Ross Hunter production is dripping in jewels, lush surroundings and a quality cast...Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowell and Myrna Loy wearing at one point what might be the ugliest hat ever put on a woman. Poor Doris is turned into a scream queen having maybe ten minutes tops where she isn't in some state of distress. She looks a million throughout but refused to do anything as exhausting from that point on. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-31287002743200316922016-01-05T22:42:35.717-06:002016-01-05T22:42:35.717-06:00If flight attendants count, there's a 1930s ai...If flight attendants count, there's a 1930s airplane movie called Without Orders where the co-pilot (played by Ward Bond, of all people) goes crazy, knocks out the pilot and jumps out of the passenger plane with the only parachute. Flight attendant Kay (played by one of my screen crushes Sally Eilers) has to land the plane! In a snowstorm! On a frozen lake with the runway area marked out by flares!<br /><br />OMG! I can hardly stand it! It's too suspenseful!<br /><br />Also starring Robert Armstrong, the guy on the radio telling her how to land an airplane on a frozen lake in a snowstorm.<br /><br />I've only seen the ending so I have no idea why Ward Bond went crazy. <br /><br />I've never seen Julie but I REALLY REALLY want to see it now.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-88820065452927877822016-01-05T18:44:45.376-06:002016-01-05T18:44:45.376-06:00If you watched this on TCM within the last couple ...If you watched this on TCM within the last couple of years, you almost certainly watched the showing that I recorded on DVR and watched today. <br /><br />Had this been a movie that stuck to the idea of defenseless women and abusive husbands, it would have ended up being a pretty damn good movie. Unfortunately, it really wants to be lurid even if it also doesn't really allow itself to become too lurid. <br /><br />If I remember Robert Osborne's chat after the movie, this was one of the last times Doris Day did anything like this because <i>Julie</i> required her to be essentially hysterical for the entire running time.<br /><br />It's actually a great idea for a film. It just goes really far off the rails into Crazytown instead of sticking with a smaller and more believable premise.<br /><br />Honey baked ham...man, I'm going to steal that.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-58636416630146458822016-01-05T18:09:08.864-06:002016-01-05T18:09:08.864-06:00Yeesh this movie! I searched for it for years sinc...Yeesh this movie! I searched for it for years since it was the only Doris Day movie I hadn't seen, then the TCM gods helpfully scheduled it and what a honey baked ham to finish up with!<br /><br />It does attempt initially to examine a serious problem, the defenselessness of women against abusive husbands in the fifties when restraining orders weren't available. But that tone is dropped pretty quickly and it becomes the cinematic equivalent to clutching your pearls for the remainder of the film. Doris must have been a wreck by the conclusion of filming since she is rarely anything less than a strung out mess. A mess in immaculate hair and makeup however. The location filming is beautiful, that along with the cars made me really wish it was in color though I think you're right that it was going for some sort of noirish feeling. <br /><br />It is all kinds of soapy goodness, and it's a must for Day fans, but at bottom it's an absurdly overwrought meller. The plane sequence is the perfect topper!joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com