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Film · Paramount · 1933

She Done Him Wrong

Name: She Done Him Wrong scores 29 — Live Historic
Item: She Done Him Wrong
Rating: 29
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29Leave it.

Not for a family: she collects men, and the mission worker is not what he seems.

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The review

A very large gross on a small cost, which tells you the country wanted it. Mae West, from her stage hit, plays a Bowery singer who runs a saloon in the 1890s and collects men. Cary Grant is the mission worker, and he is not what he seems. Adult. I'm not describing the sex. Not a family film. I don't need a speech to know it doesn't belong on a weeknight with children awake.

The code that came after was partly aimed at this kind of picture. That's the fact worth keeping. She runs the business, the mission man is not what he seems, and neither of them is a household. If adults watch, know the laugh had a bill later. Collecting men is not a marriage. Don't put it on and hope the kids will miss the point.

Journal

Keep She Done Him Wrong in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

His Girl Friday

41 instead of 29

His Girl Friday is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is household: A quiet marriage is a life he treats as the thing to wreck.

The eight

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Industry
She runs a Bowery saloon in the 1890s, and that room is the job.
1
Household
She collects men, and there is no marriage, parent, or child to keep.
2
Piety
The mission worker is not what he seems, so the mission is not a conscience.
3
Courage
The saloon already runs on want; she risks little she would be sorry to lose.
4
Republic
The code that came after was partly aimed at this kind of picture.
2
Temperance
Collecting men is the pleasure, and the picture never asks her to want less.
3
Truth
Grant's mission man is not what he seems, so the good errand is false.
2
Stewardship
A huge gross on a small cost, then a code partly aimed at pictures like this.

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Film · De Laurentiis · 1986

Blue Velvet

29Leave it.

He finds an ear and then wants the night more than he wants an exit.

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The review

He finds an ear in a field and follows it, a college boy treating a crime as a personal door. By day the town is lawns and robins. By night there's a singer, a criminal, and a detective's daughter. I'm not describing the cruelty. The detail that decides whether you should leave it on is simpler: he wants the mystery more than he wants to leave.

Not for teenagers, and not as a style to borrow. The neat lawn isn't proof the place is sound, and his curiosity isn't a favor to the neighbors. He could stop. He doesn't want to. If your house already flatters people for poking into the dark, this will flatter them again. You can admit the film is skilled and still keep it off this week. He wants the mystery more than a way out. That is the warning.

Journal

Keep Blue Velvet in the record.