What are you watching?

[Rivendell_librarian]

Continuing Noirvember

Hmm why didn't she kick him as well like at the toll booth in The Godfather?

One of my favorite scenes from The Big Sleep, 1946.

Now that's my kind of bookshop!

How did this get past the censors?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tonight for Noirvember

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tonight’s movie

 

[Erurávennë]

You got me wanting to watch something with Lauren Bacall @Rivendell_librarian. I'm watching How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

 

[Deimos]

Hmm why didn't she kick him as well like at the toll booth in The Godfather?


Now that's my kind of bookshop!

How did this get past the censors?

A lot of discussion on exactly this topic. AI explains how directors would get around the Hays Code.
For some really funny discussions, read up on how Alfred Hitchcock handled the Hays code.
Since there wasn't anything he could do about it, he decided to treat it as a game of Cat and Mouse.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

An early Hitchcock

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Fun movie. I read the novel in high school.

There have been three later adaptations.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tonight’s movie, first of the trilogy

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

A lot of discussion on exactly this topic. AI explains how directors would get around the Hays Code.
For some really funny discussions, read up on how Alfred Hitchcock handled the Hays code.
Since there wasn't anything he could do about it, he decided to treat it as a game of Cat and Mouse.

Ah yes there was the train speeding into the tunnel at the end of N by NW and the San Francisco Coit Tower in Vertigo and probably many others

 

[Deimos]

Ah yes there was the train speeding into the tunnel at the end of N by NW and the San Francisco Coit Tower in Vertigo and probably many others

In To Catch a Thief Cary Grand and Grace Kelly slowly drop down onto the [off-frame] sofa as the room darkens.
Then framed in the penthouse picture window above the sofa fireworks start exploding. 😆