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Film · MGM · 1933

Dinner at Eight

Name: Dinner at Eight scores 49 — Live Historic
Item: Dinner at Eight
Rating: 49
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49Watch it awake.

A dinner for a lord, famous faces, and the lives below already failing.

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The review

A socialite plans a dinner for a lord, and the dinner is not the point. A shipping man is going broke. An actress is going down. There is a doctor, a vain aging star, and a vulgar couple with new money. Harlow, Dressler, Barrymore, Beery. Adult enough for older kids, not a small child's night. A house can watch it. The party is a lid on lives that are failing.

I have sat at tables where the menu was doing the performing. This all-star crowd doesn't ask you to believe the lord's visit repairs anyone. Keep a tally of who is already slipping. The invitation is the excuse. The failing is what that party was papering over.

Journal

Keep Dinner at Eight in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Bells of St. Mary's

61 instead of 49

The Bells of St. Mary's is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is republic: A school and a building are what the parish owes the children who use them.

The eight

7
Industry
A shipping man going broke still has a business that counts.
5
Household
A hostess and couples fill one dinner while lives fail.
4
Piety
Vanity and the party go on over lives that are failing.
4
Courage
Going broke and going down are losses already underway.
4
Republic
A lord, a shipping line, and new money share a table.
5
Temperance
The dinner is the want, and the film leaves that want bare.
6
Truth
The party pretends the night is fine while the lives fail.
4
Stewardship
The lid stays on, and no one at the table is put right.

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Film · Disney · 1954

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

49Watch it awake.

A boy can watch the ship, but the captain is not a clean hero.

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The review

A boy can watch most of it, which is why the captain needs a sentence before you start. A professor, a harpooner, and a sailor are taken aboard a submarine by a man who has declared war on warships. The ship is a wonder. It is also a weapon. An island and a squid are the adventures people keep.

He is not a clean hero. The men he took did not choose his war. I liked the ship the way a child likes a machine, and I do not want that to be the whole talk. Say the weapon part out loud. The hour is a Disney adventure with a private war sitting in the middle of the dive.

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Keep 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the record.