TV and Movies

[GingerPeach]

Just by chance, I happened to catch parts of a couple of good movies this morning on FXM (Dragonwyck and 23 Paces to Baker Street).  I don't want to leave anyone hanging so I was hoping for timely repeats.  (I checked TCM and neither film is currently scheduled to air.)

However, here are links to @Oznell 's earlier posts for more detail (clearly I missed the heads-up - darn!:

https://community.qvc.com/t5/TV-and-Movies/quot-DRAGONWYCK-quot-VINCENT-PRICE-GENE-TIERNEY-MONDAY-FO...

https://community.qvc.com/t5/TV-and-Movies/quot-23-PACES-TO-BAKER-STREET-quot-VAN-JOHNSON-VERA-MILES...

Below are links to Youtube so you can watch these movies in full.

23 Paces to Baker Street: (1956) Van Johnson, Vera Miles

Van is a blind playwright trying to solve a murder/kidnapping in London.

I found it more appealing than the slightly similar Audrey Hepburn movie, Wait Until Dark, since it had lots of noir touches using London's fog to its best capabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgx-EaY-SU0

View from Van Johnson's London apartment in the movie:

Dragonwyck: (1946) Gene Tierney, Vincent Price

Gene is an astute girl raised by religious parents on their Connecticut farm.  The family receives a letter from a distant cousin (Price) asking one of the farm's daughters to become a companion to his own young child.  Based on the Anya Seton novel, it features some of the time's tenant farm practices and resistance to those practices woven in nicely.  Harry Morgan (of M.A.S.H, etc.) plays one of the stand-up tenant farmers.

Gene plays a woman named Miranda.  Watch for her being called "Randy" by her mother.  I had no idea that nickname would be used for a young woman during that time period.  Who knew!

I also found it fascinating that Price's overweight wife was described by the doctor as eating because she was trying to fill an emotional void (not those words but the concept was similar).  It seemed very modern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxAk9gU_Ws

The lovely Gene Tierney: