Friday, August 13, 2010

Cinema Betty

I think I deserve massive points for not recommending a Star Wars film for Heaven is Gentle--as Darth Vader is a serious asthma sufferer if there ever was one. (Coooh--Gaaah.) Maybe like the beta-asthmatics, it's even caused because of emotional reasons--the Emperor brings it on, perhaps? I just don't see him willingly being marched around a Scotland in damp weather. Anyway, I tried to make a better choice and so it's:
Stardust (2007)Are you a moron?

Not only was it filmed in Scotland but also has a bit about a fairy-land king with 7 sons named for their place in the family (Primus, Secundus, ect.) just like that pregnant cat that Eliza adopts. There's a great love-story about two people who don't hit it off at all initially--one of whom has pledged himself to another (not named Estelle).
I stumbled across this movie a couple of years ago when my family was out of town and just loved it. The pacing and focus can be criticized but it's got a great heart.

Never While the Grass Grows has that lovely ship's infirmary. The hands-down best ship's hospital in the entire world of film is in:
Operation Petticoat (1959)
Permission to come aboard!

Beleaguered and inexpressibly hot submarine captain (Cary Grant) must keep a rag-tag crew, a felonious supply clerk, a pink sub and five stacked (in the classical sense...as in built, shapely and curvaceous) nurses in order. Every crewman develops a reason to visit the infirmary and pass the ladies in the tight quarters.
The well-endowed nature of the nurses isn't a accidental. It's positively a plot point and a matter of life and death.

2 comments:

  1. Stardust is possitively the most overlooked great movie out there except maybe North and South. I couldn't believe how many stars were in it and I hadn't heard of it until you.

    Permission to come aboard? Someone was up late writing that one. (lol)

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  2. "Stardust" grand fun.

    "Operation Petticoat"--one of the all-time greats. We watched the movie with the kids then toured the U.S.S. Cod moored at the Cleveland Harbor (the deck guns even move)--a ball!--then they wanted to see the movie again--laughed even more the second time.

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