Love Your Library

[mayamaia]

The night's entertainment, provided by my local library:

The Thin Man (I want his wife's wardrobe)
Strangers on a Train (any excuse to see Leo G Carroll, however brief)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone variant)

Comments

[animate-mush.livejournal.com]

I have seen none of these. Do tell us how they went!

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

The Thin Man is one I've seen a few times since childhood. A very fun detective story, with a drunken detective with a rich and beautiful wife and a penchant for making friends with the men he puts away. You should indeed see it.

I'm only partway through Strangers on a Train. It's a Hitchcock story in which Bruno (one of the main characters) thinks Guy (the other main character) has made an agreement with him to murder one another's nemesis: his father, Guy's wife. When the wife has been murdered and Guy realizes that Bruno was serious, he is trapped by police investigation and Bruno trying to force him to "keep his side of the bargain". It is famous, one of Hitchcock's best, and I understand that there's strong evidence of intentional subtext regarding the Lavender Scare (the part of congressional investigations of the 50's which targeted homosexuals and "promiscuous" women) with Guy as an unassuming man victimized by circumstances. Liking it so far.

Haven't gotten around to the Hound yet, but I understand Rathbone is the Sherlock that Gatiss and Moffat grew up with and loved. And Basil Rathbone IS brilliant.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I love thin man's

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Always good fun.

[tristissima.livejournal.com]

I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
By RKO, oh-oh, at the late night double feature picture show.
In the back row at the late night double feature picture show.

:-D