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The Gang come together for a special episode to discuss which best picture lead the 1940's decade. And to be honest, it wasn't much of a debate. Enjoy the folks around Dan's dinner table as they discuss the decade amid World War 2, before and after!
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Right. We're on. Okay, you're sure. I'm sure. I'd like to welcome all our dear listeners to this another special edition of General Stan. Tonight we are not having dinner, but now Eddie is taking care of us. Yes. Kate started with saltwater taffy. And Sam brought a whole bunch of wine as did poll. So now the second bottle of uh red wine has been opened. And we've uh Eddie uh has now brought out uh Grippos uh pretzel loops. They're the most salt. Oh man, they're amazing. They're so good. Grippos. I think it's a Cincinnati company. And now Eddie has cut up sausage and uh Ritz crackers, and he's bringing out some cheese. So we are living along.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, great.
SPEAKER_06Tonight we're going to do a special on the movies of the 40s. Uh those that uh listen every week know that we did the 30s a couple weeks ago. And so now we're going to venture into the decade of the 40s. 40s started with the Rebecca in 1940. Uh 41, How Green Was My Valley? 42, Mrs. Miniver, 43, Casablanca, 44, Going My Way, 45, The Lost Weekend, 46, Best Years of Our Lives. 47, Gentleman's Agreement, 48, everybody at the table's favorite. And 49, all the kings in it. Yeah. So with that, we're going to go around and say what our favorite movie was of the 40s. And I will start it by saying if I was going to Mars, it was never going to be able to come back to America.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Even though I love Star Wars. And even though I love Indiana Jennings. And there's other movies I really love. If I could only take one movie. Well, I mean, if I could only take one record, it would be MacArthur Park. Oh my God. If I could only take one movie with that one record, it would be Casablanca. So that was uh Virginia and I danced at our running to As Time Goes By. That was our first time. Uh my boss at that time played it on a grand piano at Kennedy Union. We danced to As Time Goes By. Uh it's still the same old story that came out so many years ago, and it is Agel's movie. So I am voting Casablanca.
SPEAKER_07Dan, if you were going to Mars, we might have you on Must as your uh shipmate there. So you might think, you know, oh God, that'd be scary. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06That'd be a terrible trip. Uh Dan, your favorite?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think, I mean, I agree. Casablanca is Timeless, best movie. So many great lines. Play it again, Sam.
SPEAKER_03Uh you played it for her. I know he never said it. You played it, play it, Sam.
SPEAKER_05Play it, Sam. Uh of all the gin joints in all the world. She had to walk into mine. We'll always have Paris.
SPEAKER_06Always have Paris.
SPEAKER_05Which I actually I think Dan made me a um bucket that has you'll always have Paris with stickers that I keep my gym shoes in in my workout room. Because my my workout room is Paris. Um so yeah, just just timeless. And also telling it's never been redone. Never been redone.
SPEAKER_06Not as a not as a theatre. I think they've redone it on TV. They tried to make it. But it's never been.
SPEAKER_03There was like a spoofy movie, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But it's never been.
SPEAKER_03Well, maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's never, but it's never been. No, no. No. I mean, it's just so great. And like I want to say, we'll get into the decade. Pretty ex uh, except for Hamlet, pretty excellent movies in this decade. Like really excellent themes. I really like coming back on this decade. I really enjoyed this decade. Thanks, Eddie. Um, I know Eddie loved Rebecca, could not get enough of it. Um, but really good decade. Uh and so yeah, Casablanca, though. I mean, might be the best movie we see of all a hundred that we see. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. I mean, it's Casablanca. It's it's a perfect movie. There's there's a I tried to find a way to be contrarian, I just can't do it. Um it's um yeah, probably the best of all time. Or you know, if you're doing a top five all time, there's no way it's not in there. Yeah. If if not number one.
SPEAKER_03The acting, the pace of it, the you know, it's it's like a great there's you know what's going on in this astounding. The the famous lines in it, and everybody is pitch perfect, every actor in it is like perfect.
SPEAKER_08And I mean it's meaningful too, as as we're heading into World War II, and we're the country's getting prepared for that. It's it's just a beautiful movie in in every way. I think it's probably also I think the best scene of the decade as well. Uh where the end where they're walking off into the fog. Yeah, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Yeah, it's it, and I want to say the decade is excellent, too. I mean, there's a lot of really, really good movies here. Yeah, really good. The only one I did not enjoy was Hamlet. All all the others I I thought were really strong. Yeah, really enjoyed them. Uh a lot of different merits, but it's Casablanca.
SPEAKER_02Eddie. All the Kings Men.
SPEAKER_06Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_02That's a great movie. That's a very good movie. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm the resident pessimist, I guess. Uh, you guys all believe in vom comms and happy, happy la la land movies. Yeah. I think it's living in the real world. I'm not, I've lived in uh Trump's world. And that's uh vote of all quiet on the Western Front and Paul the King's.
SPEAKER_04Go ahead. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh Paul. Okay, my thought process was um, I'm surprised Dan didn't mention that the controversy was how green was my valley year, 1941.
SPEAKER_08Oh, we'll get to that.
SPEAKER_07Okay, alright, alright. It's still a very good movie, but it shouldn't have been Citizen Kang. There we go. So that so I I considered that um because I did like the uh just the the moving progression, the plot progression, even though it's it's not a fast movie. Um, you know, seeing like a version of life, you know, the Welsh coal miners that we don't you know really see a lot. Um, I also like going my way. Bean Crosby, I think, was really good. Um playing father, to be honest. I can't remember.
SPEAKER_03Oh Malley. O'Malley. Just dial O for O'Malley.
SPEAKER_07I really like I like the interaction that he had with the Christianers and also the other, the father.
SPEAKER_05Um also it's a musical. Yeah, yeah, I know. Paul Paul chose a musical.
SPEAKER_07Nope, nope, that's not my winner. It's my oh oh, oh. I have to, not unfortunately, yeah. I have to agree uh that Casablanca, um, and I have to agree with our special guest, Krista King, from that night.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, we went from DC.
SPEAKER_07Um Casablanca, uh, you know, the history part of me likes Casablanca, the acting, Humphrey Bogart. I mean, it's it's of course a classic. I almost like Sam said, I almost want to take something else just because that is like the acknowledged, like you can, it's got everything. It's got it all, yeah. Yeah, so Casablanca.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Uh cake. Oh, for me too. It's kind of it's definitely Casablanca. All time, it's on the Mount Rushmore for me. Like, I love that movie. Um I can always watch it, it's always something I will like get sucked into. I I think I've said it before on our podcast, like I love Humphrey Bogart so much, like as a like one of my very favorites, if not my favorite actor from like that golden era. Um, yeah, he's just he's really amazing. And Ingrid Bergman's so good. Like everybody is cast so well.
SPEAKER_05Um can we also talk about how's like Ingrid Bergman's hair is just beautiful. Well, she yeah, she's got great hair.
SPEAKER_03She's got great hair, but it I mean, just truly, like everybody in it. Um, Paul Henry as Victor Laszlo, like everybody's so good. Um it's hard to beat.
SPEAKER_06You know, uh so many of the people that are in that movie were actually refugees from uh Hill of Europe. Conrad Vight, uh Peter Laurie, yeah, uh, and a number of the people that worked in the bar that had speaking parts, you know, the the chubby uh matron.
SPEAKER_03Bubbles Sakal or whatever his name is. I think he's been another thing was great as well.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah, so good. So it is it is, you know, and and it's interesting, you know, when you when you read about uh movies and stuff, how close things came to being Oh Hell No. Yeah. They wanted Ronald Reagan to be Rick Blaine. Jesus Christ. Oh god. Oh hell. Yeah, I like seriously, no.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't think we'd be having the same conversation right now.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it would be a different movie.
SPEAKER_03It would have been very, very different. And there were other stars of the day who I love, but like I it's hard to imagine it the character of Rick needed to be someone with an edge. Yeah, who'd been worn down, but who'd been worn down, and like it had to be somebody who could like portray that sort of world weary, yeah, you know. I like I've been beaten down, I'm I'm just eking out uh, you know, a pretty good life here in Casablanca, but like I I've seen a lot and had a lot of heartbreak.
SPEAKER_02Wagon's not the walking class, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_03I know. I just I it's hard to imagine, and some of that's just because we've seen it so many times, right? But it's hard to imagine anyone but Humphrey Bogart in the role.
SPEAKER_08And is the also the we've watched 32 movies, I believe is the only one with a positive portrayal of an African American.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think you're right.
SPEAKER_0832.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07You don't count the extra and on the waterfront? I'm not counting that he doesn't have a name.
SPEAKER_06He doesn't have a name. You know, Sam, I understand what you're gonna what you're saying, but I don't think Hattie McDaniel from Gone with the Wind would, because she is smart and strong, and she smacks Scarlet.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't, yeah, that's a good point. It's a good point.
SPEAKER_08Those are good points. They still portray her in a kind of stereotypical childlike way.
SPEAKER_06Well, you know, I mean, she was an enslaved person, but she smacked Scarlet in line. She keeps that house running. So I'm fairly, you know, uh Butterfly McQueen, her character.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, you know. That's fair. Yeah, I think that's that's a good point, Dan.
SPEAKER_06Anyhow, okay. That's fair. Uh I'll go backwards like I did uh the last time on the other movies. Uh in 1949, I did love All the King's Men, you know. I've I've read the book, I love the book, you know, I'm a lifelong politician. It was up against Battleground, uh, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, and Twelve O'Clock High.
SPEAKER_03Which is a really good movie.
SPEAKER_06Twin is 12 o'clock high. It is a three pack. Uh Dean Jansen got the uh best supporting actor. It's about a bomber group at World War II.
SPEAKER_03It's really gripping.
SPEAKER_06One of the most riveting World War II movies. War movies, period, you'll ever see. Uh 1948, everybody's favorite Hamlet. It was up against Johnny Belinda, the Red Shoes, Snake Pit, and Treasure of the Sierra Mad Rap.
SPEAKER_03I know, which I can't believe didn't win. So would be better than Hamlet. I know.
SPEAKER_06The only thing I'm thinking is it was a it was a shout out to Shakespeare.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's wrong in the year that um Lawrence Olivier did Henry V. I think it was a makeup. A makeup my criticism of that, I mean, I know we all criticized it, was that we're not criticizing the story of Hamlet because it's kind of that's kind of off the table. And I think the cinematography, they didn't make the best. It was terrible.
SPEAKER_05It was weird. Yeah. It was like what you hate about movies when it's just like a theater. Yeah. Right? Isn't that your like big similar comment? Yeah, yeah. So something Paul does not like, as I've learned watching the movie, we now know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I I do get the uh Sunday New York Times delivered, and I cut this article out. It is somewhere on my page. Oh, if you guys remember back when we did Hamlet, Eddie didn't watch it, but he read the play. Yeah, I remember the play.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, I knew you well.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yep. Uh and this article uh was from the Sunday New York Times Book Review, and it was about a book that had just come out. It was about like, you know, if you write the Shakespeare story with current language, everybody loves it.
SPEAKER_03I believe it. Yeah, that's true. Sure, rhythm and the words are just like Chaucer. Yeah. In Canterbury's hands.
SPEAKER_06You know, I think that's something. And then the other thing I will say about Pamlet when uh I go back to uh when I did the uh the review of Denver and I watched it listening to Carl Pessen where he said he believed the best actors in the world were English because they did Shakespeare. And so yeah, you know, I can see why he wanted to.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I mean Shakespeare's timeless, it seems like kind of like the revisionings of the very Shakespeare plays, whether on stage or in the movies, actually isn't about changing language, it's about updating um the setting, right? Like the Brian Denahim uh Romeo and Juliet was like in Los Angeles circle 1980s. They've done Macbeth on stage where it's like more the uh the Nazi era. Right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there's like a really acclaimed Othello that takes place like during the Iraq War, I think. Like, yeah.
SPEAKER_01The language was also not familial. Talking about a bunch of illiterate peasants, and he's literally making new walls. So it's not like it's ever going to be familial to anyone.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, some strange words in there. Eddie read it, I didn't it, so I'm going with Eddie. Uh 1947, Gentlemen's Agreement was up against the bishop's wife.
SPEAKER_03Which you love, Kate. I do. I do love that.
SPEAKER_06It's one of my favorite Christmas movies. Great expectations and miracle on 34th Street.
SPEAKER_05Some great movies, two Christmas movies nominated. They probably split the vote. Uh but I love I loved Gentleman's Agreement. I thought it was really good. Powerful. I liked it a lot.
SPEAKER_08Very powerful movie. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. 1946, uh, Best Years of Our Lives was up against Henry V that Paul just mentioned. Uh It's a Wonderful Life. Razor's Edge and The Yearling. Yeah. Tear Jerker. Tear Jerker.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I mean, I loved Best Years of Our Lives. I've enjoyed it, but I think It's a Wonderful Life's a better movie. I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_07I I think Best Years of Our Lives may have won mainly because of the immediate post-war and that's kind of subject matter.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_08A lot of people could identify with coming home from the war and trying to fit back into civilian life. Yeah. That struck a chord is the timing.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Well, and you know, uh, It's a Wonderful Life is one of those movies that aged so well. It is timely popular at the time. It was panned. Yeah. Yeah. But it has aged very, very well. So we do run into those kind of movies that are just they weren't acclaimed when they came out, but then boom. Yeah. Okay. That's fair.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I I love It's a Wonderful Life. I went to Seneca Falls to see. I mean, I just love that movie.
SPEAKER_06So uh 1945 Lost Weekend was up against Anchors Away, The Bells of St. Mary, Mildred Pierce and Spellbound.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Yeah. Um I did not like Lost Weekend. It was a tough movie. It was a tough movie. It was painful to watch. I didn't feel like I learned much any in besides the pain of alcoholism, which is terrible. And like um I've seen two of those movies, The Bells of St. Mary's and what was the other one? Uh Spellbell? No. What did you say? I think it was the first thing you said.
SPEAKER_06Uh Anchors Away. Anchors Away. Anchors Away.
SPEAKER_05Of course, because it was a musical. Um that might be way better than Last Weekend. I last weekend, you know, while it might is it Billy Wilder?
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SPEAKER_05Is Ink is Last Weekend, I think it is, right? Wrote it at least. Yeah, he wrote it. I mean, and you can see like some of that like New York kind of fear with with ink with uh last weekend now that I've seen the apartment, like I can see how they but just awful to watch like not in not entertaining in a good or bad way.
SPEAKER_07So it does show New York in a way. I mean, we've talked about this before in even last week where we talk about New York being kind of a secondary actor.
SPEAKER_05Another character in it, yeah. That's how I knew it was Wilder because like that's he does that a lot in his movies as he makes New York a character.
SPEAKER_01Bat symbol looks like the bat symbol.
SPEAKER_05Oh man, that bat scene. I mean, it's just it's just a painful, painful, painful movie. No, it looks like the bat symbol.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah. I think it's interesting, 44 and 45, none of the movies were World War II related. Right. And I wonder if we were just sick of it by that time and we wanted something to escape.
SPEAKER_03Well, what was after the last weekend? We had and were you done with 45?
SPEAKER_06Um I met 43. Okay. Uh 43 when Casablanca won.
SPEAKER_03Uh what is what else was not uh nominated for 44, the year of Going My Way?
SPEAKER_0644. Okay, going my way. Double indemnity. Great movie.
SPEAKER_03Amazing, amazing. Amazing. Made a word. Yeah. Yeah. Coined a term.
SPEAKER_06Since you went away.
SPEAKER_03That's a war movie. It's a it's a war movie.
SPEAKER_06And Wilson.
SPEAKER_03And what? Wilson. I don't even know what that is.
SPEAKER_06I think it's uh Hanks Wilson. King don't know. I don't know that movie. And it's really not memorable if Kate doesn't know. You know, Double Indemnity and Gaslight, two great movies.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. But going my way, I mean, this was a movie I saw decades ago. Uh musical. Um, but yeah, I could see where Gaslight, you could make the argument that Gaslight and Double Indemnity were better. You could, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_06Okay, 43 Casablanca, and now we're back to more than five to being nominated. Oh. For Whom the Bell Stole.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_06Great movie. Seven Can Wait. Uh, The Human Comedy, in which we serve, Madame Curie, The Oxbow Incident, another great movie, The Song of Bernadette, and Watch on the Run. So that was the movie.
SPEAKER_05Oh, Casablanca's way better than Bob Bar.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah. Uh 42 when Mrs. Metaver won. It was The Invaders, King's Row. Which was Wild Roger's best movie. Bobar. No, no, he was good. He was good in King's Row. He really was. He was good in it. That's the movie where he plays the guy who's like to get cut off on a train accident. And he says, Where's the rest of me? And wasn't that one of his books he wrote, Where's the Rust of me?
SPEAKER_04Maybe. I thought it was the one. I thought it was something about the Kimmer.
SPEAKER_06I gotta give the guy to do he was good in that movie. Uh The Magnificent Ambersons, which was to this day remains very controversial. Uh it uh Orson Wells wanted it to be his Maximopus, not Citizen King. Uh, but it went on for too long. And the suits, either MGM or wherever, chopped it all up and released the movie not the way he wanted it. He was living about it his entire life. I've read articles about how they think that uh there's reels of it that exist in Cuba.
SPEAKER_03Oh goodness.
SPEAKER_06Uh that they, you know, back when Cuba was still, you know, when Hemingway was there and Weld was there and stuff, that somewhere in Cuba there's these the the the The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees?
SPEAKER_05I love that. Is that the one about Lou Gehring? Yeah. Oh, I like Carrie the Emperor.
SPEAKER_03Uh Random Harvest. Which I is a great like movie. That's a really lovely little movie. Random Harvest. Yeah. Uh Talk of the Town. It's very sweet. Which is Talk of the Town is a good movie too. Really? Cary Grant, isn't it? And Gene Arthur.
SPEAKER_06That's really good. Wake Island and uh Yankee Doodle Dandy.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I've seen Yankee Doodle Dandy. George Cohen. That was what year was that? Miniver? I have to say about Miniver. Like, you know, this has been about you know 15-20 weeks since we've watched it, right? And she's hot. She's hot. Thank you, Eddie. Thank you, Eddie. I I that movie comes stays with you. That movie was that movie stayed with me. Like since being, I wouldn't have seen it if I had done this project. Yeah, I I think you know it's one of the one of the few like in this that we have a true feminist lead, a woman lead in it that is like leading in a school state.
SPEAKER_06I had never seen that movie. Yeah. And it's a very, very good movie. I did watch it with Eddie.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's really good. I I like she's very good looking. She's good looking and like she has agency.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And I think that was I think that's why it sticks with me because it's one of the first where the woman has agency.
SPEAKER_03She's in random harvest and a few of the other movies you've talked about. So you can read that. She's very attractive.
SPEAKER_05You can go see more of her, Eddie. Uh in 1941. Learn a little something too.
SPEAKER_06How green was my valley. Um Blossoms in the Dust. That's also Grouperson. Citizen Kane. Here comes uh Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York, and Suspicion.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Suspicion's good too. Um I do love the Maltese Falcon.
SPEAKER_03It's it's good. It's good, but explain to me. It is a bizarre, the plot is bizarre. No, it's not. It's the Maltese Falcon. Sure. It's the MacGuffin. You I know you can, it is a MacGuffin, but it it is like it's a bizarre little movie. It's good. It's good. It's fun to watch. It's bizarre.
SPEAKER_06One more.
SPEAKER_03But I would we're missing uh guns up.
SPEAKER_05We're missing the point here. I know Kate loves how Green Washington My Valley. No, Citizen Kane better movie. Huh?
SPEAKER_08As the deal. Just as there's no list. In the top five.
SPEAKER_03I agree. For me, it is not a movie I enjoy.
SPEAKER_05Citizen Kane? Oh, I love it.
SPEAKER_03I don't enjoy it.
SPEAKER_05I enjoy it. I think because I have political nature. It's very real.
SPEAKER_08It is very I mean, it's based on Handoff Parts.
SPEAKER_03No, it's I I it is a very important movie. For me, it is not like a movie I want to revisit over and over.
SPEAKER_06That's fair. Uh Citizen Kane, uh, when you listen to the great directors we have now, like Spielberger and Lucas and those guys, always say it. Always put Citizen Kane up there. And for years on the New York Times uh every year they do that, it was always up there. It's now starting to fall off a little bit. It is. But since I have become a fan of Marion Davies, you do not like it because I do not like it because he tried Marion Davies a woman who was the most successful silent actress in 1926 and 1927, and he turned her career upside down and basically, in my opinion, uh destroyed her. Yes, he's a terrible human Hollywood. So for that, sorry, Orson, you sold wine before your time on that one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So that decided me on uh Sam kind of alluded to it, I think in our last uh podcast where Hungry My Was My Valley is non-American within Wales, right? And so like we're and sometimes the Academy seems like But they filmed it in America because the war was on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I we're seeing like a different story. We're seeing something that doesn't, you know, none of us can relate to in a way um in terms of just being foreign. And sometimes that's what did it let's remember too.
SPEAKER_03I mean, this was when there were 10 nominees.
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SPEAKER_03And you just rattled off the list, and there are at least five movies that you know were probably fiercely competitive, if not more than that, in that list. And again, I think like you know, I think a movie like How Green Was My Valley, I mean, it has a pedigree, right? It's John Ford, it's yeah, it's it's sweeping in its way. The cast is strong, and you know, it probably edged out, you know, and and Orson Wells was a controversial figure in Hollywood, and a lot of people didn't like him. And you know, that matters too.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, and uh my praise of Susan King, I'm in no way trashing how green was my value. I think it was a very good film.
SPEAKER_03I'm not taking it personally. I am taking it. I just think you.
SPEAKER_08You you're like the demon on this podcast. I'm taking it personally. I like that. No.
SPEAKER_06Is that one the Antichrist? I hope not. Oh, that was a smackdown for sure. Well, and uh as we move on past Dose and Pain, I will say that uh I believe Steven Spielberg bought one of the two remaining from the scene or from the used in the movie. Redbutt. Rosebud. Rosebud. Three of them, and uh one of them just got thrown. And I think I think this was like 15, 20 years ago. He paid like uh half a million dollars for the water.
SPEAKER_03Go step in for him.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, he's got the money. So finally we're back to 1940 with Rebecca. Yeah. Uh and I have to say this I've never seen Rebecca before. It's a great guy.
SPEAKER_05I really like Rebecca. Keddy's like boo!
SPEAKER_06Okay, yeah. It was up against all this and having two foreign correspondents, which I've seen. That's a good one. Uh The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, which I've seen, uh Kitty Foyle. Foley.
SPEAKER_03Foyle.
SPEAKER_06The letter. It's ginger. That's ginger, uh, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, and The Philadelphia story.
SPEAKER_03Which is one of the best. Oh, I love the Philadelphia. It was up against some really good movies.
SPEAKER_05Um Rebecca is I'm still on the way. Uh after watching this movie, I decided that I wanted to read the Daphne Demora book.
SPEAKER_03Did you not read it when we did it before?
SPEAKER_05No, I I think it was on the on the trail. Um and um I'm still on the waiting list. It the whole is forever. It takes yeah, it takes forever. It's still like, it's still, I can't get I'm like in line at still. It's so popular.
SPEAKER_03Popular. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Somewhere in this house.
SPEAKER_03Somewhere in this house. Like, somewhere in this house. There might be a copy of Rebecca.
SPEAKER_06I'm sure maybe just buy the thing.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, uh still waiting. This was a pretty amazing decade for movies. And I made a little list, I'm just gonna say, of other movies made in this decade that weren't even nominated that I think are like important and I really enjoy. Key Largo, which is a great movie. Um, Lionel Barrymore's in it, and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It's a John Houston movie, it's so good. Edward G. Robinson, it's like gangsters and key largo, and it's so good. Me in St. Louis. Oh, I love Meet Me and St. Louis. I watch it every Christmas. It's so good. His Girl Friday, which is like one of like I think maybe the most girlfrida screwball comedy. Love His Girl Friday. So good. Out of the Past, which is I think one of what largely considered one of the best film noirs ever done with Robert Mitchum. Shadow of a Doubt and Notorious, which are Hitchcock's. And like I just that was the one thing that I, as I was looking at the 40s, something that kind of goes, I think, you know, under the radar here is Alfred Hitchcock had a tremendous decade in the 40s. There is so much good stuff here that's Hitchcock and like really had a lot in the 40s that like it's easy to forget about, but like really impressive. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05He made it, he made the decade for sure. You know, Wiston Wells probably did. They're pretty strong. Great decade of movies. Hollywood's coming into its own. Yeah. Um, it's pretty terrific. Oh, Sam, do you Sam has something to say?
SPEAKER_08Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Well, great fucking decade.
SPEAKER_08So mark it down. Mark it. Mark it down. I didn't get one in uh when we talked about the 30s. So I really feel like I'm I'm pulling all the weight on this cursing. I don't know what's happening. You're making the most I don't know what's happened to my wife. I'm keeping it friendly for the kids.
SPEAKER_06She was driving the train earlier. Well, you both had five dollars on this past Sunday, so good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Anything else? Uh yeah, the other thing I want to mention, I I like how you talk about us, we're coming into our own.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_08Because I think a lot, you know, up to up to this point, so many of the movies were based on books, but we're gonna start to get more that are based on screenplays. And I mentioned uh when we talked about the 30s, how so many of the early movies were based in Europe, but starting in 1944, we're gonna get a string where almost half the movies are based in New York City. Yeah, like eight of the next 17 are New York City, and up to that point it had only been three. And so I think that, yeah. So I think that is yeah, and I think some of that is like it's more it's more American now. We're finding our footing. People are writing out of the war, people are writing screenplays and not just doing books, yeah. And a lot of people, a lot of writers are living in New York, and so you write about what you know, and so New York becomes the scene for so many more of these movies. Yeah, good point.
SPEAKER_05I like it.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_05What a great point.
SPEAKER_06I I think we have uh pretty much done the 40s.
SPEAKER_03Wait, wait, wait. Was there a musical? Oh did any musicals when in the 40s? Well, you could you could say going my way.
SPEAKER_05Only going my way, sort of and we liked it. You could be swinging on a star.
SPEAKER_07I I will say that the 1940s gives us an opportunity to be uh a patent about as it came up earlier about play it again, Sam never happened in Casablanca. So if you want to be that person at a table conversation or a party, you can point that out.
SPEAKER_05Play it, Sam. It's not play it again, Sam.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_06You played it for her, you know. Play it for me. Okay, with that, uh, I'm going to say uh the next time uh we'll be here uh clanging uh uh silverware. The next time we'll be eating, uh, we will be talking about the uh movie Tom Jones.
SPEAKER_04Oh, exciting! Wow, yeah, okay. I bet I'm not gonna like it. I have a bad feeling about it. I have a feeling too much. I've not seen it.
SPEAKER_06I know nothing about it. I've seen it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you're gonna have a bad feeling about it.
SPEAKER_03I've seen enough to know that I the only time I turned it on and tried to watch it, I turned it off.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna have to watch it all the way through. Don't be deterred, listener. I have to watch it.
SPEAKER_06I have to watch it all the way through. At least the women are of age.
SPEAKER_05Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_06Well, that is something going back to the UK for now. Oh, yeah. So with that, I'm gonna say farewells for God's feet and farewells until we meet again.