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Esther Williams
Dutch postcard by Takken, no. A.X. 528. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (Dir: Frank Lloyd, 1935).
A lavish Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of the bestselling historic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Mutiny on the Bounty recounts the now famous events of the 1789 mutiny when, on a mission to Tahiti to collect breadfruit, the crew of the HMS Bounty, lead by First Officer Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) revolt against the tyrannical Captain William Bligh (Charles Laughton). Putting him to sea in a rowboat, the crew pilot the ship to the lush paradise of the Pitcairn Islands.
Read the full review on my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME! Link below.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Dir: Edwin L Marin, 1938).
Produced by MGM at the height of Hollywood’s golden age, A Christmas Carol is a lively, albeit scrubbed up, adaptation of Charles Dickens ever popular 1843 novella. The familiar story is more or less faithful to Dickens' text, as miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge accepts a ghostly hand in relocating his Christmas spirit, much to the relief of his put-upon employee Bob Cratchit, as well as the half of London who are indebted to him.
Read the full review on my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME! Link below.
Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) by Tod Browning.
Based on elements from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins.
Step right up and be horrified! Or be sympathetic, that works too. This is a unique film. Believe me, there has never been and will never be a film like this again.
Get this: After the success of Universal's original "Dracula" in 1931, MGM approached its director Tod Browning to make "the scariest film ever made". So what did Browning do? He gathered real circus sideshow performers from all over the country and made the movie "Freaks". The movie's so shocking that MGM was sued by one audience member who claimed that seeing the movie gave her a miscarriage. This movie is so controversial that there are still cities in the United States where it's illegal to even show it!
Just a word of warning before you decide to go see this, some of the people in this movie do look very disturbing. If you'd rather not subject yourself to that kind of imagery, then it would probably be best to not see it. Regardless, this film is full of iconic moments of pure cinema, pulpy horror, carny noir, and perverse melodrama. Freaks is still unclassifiable after many decades. It's still sick, twisted, perverse and profoundly human. It contains Tod Browning's view of the world at its purest.