What Classics Did You See Last Week (March 1–March 7)
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PygmyLion — 4 weeks ago(March 08, 2026 08:54 PM)
To Be or Not to Be
1942 Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. WW2 comedy espionage. Polish acting group lead by Lombard and Benny repeatedly foil the Nazis using their stage skills. ***1/2
Foreign Correspondent
1940 Joel McCrea, Loraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders. Dir: Alfred Hitchock. World War 2 spy. A young reporter sent to be a foreign correspondent in Europe, uncovers a German spy plot. ***
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
1942 Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Pamela Brown, Joyce Redman. Dir: Powell. World War II. Another top-notch Powell and Pressburger film. A British bomber crew has to abandon their plane as they fly over Holland, and are helped by the Dutch citizens to escape from the Nazis. Some strong women characters played by Brown and Redman help them out. ***1/2
Pygmalion
1938 Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Wilfred Lawson, Jean Cadell, David Tree. Dir Anthony Asquith. Outstanding rendition of George Bernard Shaw's play. Howard and Hiller are very strong in the lead roles and have and outstanding supporting cast. ****
Notorious
1946 Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Raines. Dir Alfred Hitchcock. Espionage. Devlin (Grant) places Alicia Huberman (Bergman) undercover with a bunch of Nazis in Rio De Janeiro just after WWII. Hitchcock and his cameramen capture some great shots of Bergman. Has a lot of film noir elements to it. ****
I also tuned in to a couple of episodes of
Lonesome Dove
as many people seem so high on the series.
Leaving
and
On the Trail
1989- Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Ulrich. Western. I found the two shows watchable, but not particularly special. **1/2 -
spiderwort — 4 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 12:52 AM)
What a great week you had, PL. So many films that I love, especially NOTORIOUS, which is my favorite Hitchcock film and one of my all-time favorite films, period!! I also quite enjoy FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, although it's not as good as NOTORIOUS.
And I love PYGMALION and TO BE OR NOT TO BE and agree with your ratings for those.
Haven't seen ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING, but I'm a big Powell-Pressburger fan, so I probably need to see that one. Again, so many films, so little time. . . -
CoriSCapnSkip — 4 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 12:28 AM)
The People
(1972) on March 1
Kidnapped
(1971) on March 2
A Sound of Thunder
(2005) on March 3
The Pagemaster
(1994) on March 4
The Electric Grandmother
(1982) on March 6
It Came from Outer Space
(1953) on March 7 -
CoriSCapnSkip — 3 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 04:44 PM)
I mostly enjoyed
It Came from Outer Space
except that the only free copy I could find was on Tubi. Unfortunately they chose a version which had the worst colorization job I have ever seen. Faces were an unnatural color while hands were often gray, or the face would be colored and one ear not. The car changed color constantly, and this wasn't "The Horse of a Different Color" in
The Wizard of Oz
! Annoying and distracting! Fine otherwise. -
MissMargoChanning — 4 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 01:06 AM)
I just watched The Sadist today. Intense!!!
After that?
Tormented.
Not great, but worth a watch… The ending was actually fitting!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
MissMargoChanning — 3 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 05:52 PM)
It was definitely creepy, but somehow fitting.
I watched it on YouTube. It just popped up after I watched The Sadist.. It looked good. I'm glad I watched it.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!