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Film · Gaumont · 1935

The 39 Steps

Name: The 39 Steps scores 48 — Live Historic
Item: The 39 Steps
Rating: 48
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48Watch it awake.

The running is fun, and there is a real threat under the game.

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The review

File this with the chases, not with the war pictures. A man in a music hall picks up a spy's secret and spends the film running, handcuffed for a stretch to a woman who does not believe him. Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll. Hitchcock. A British hit that traveled, and not Mutiny's gross. A missing finger is the clue.

A house can watch it. The chase is the pleasure, and I felt that, and it is still a game with a real threat under it. She does not believe him for a stretch, which kept the night from being only fun. I would tell the kids the running is the good time and the secret is why someone is actually in danger.

Journal

Keep The 39 Steps in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance 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.

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Notorious

59 instead of 48

Notorious is still a thriller film, and it scores 59 instead of 48. What you gain is industry: Spy work is the job, and the uranium in the cellar is why the job exists.

The eight

5
Industry
A spy's secret is the job that puts him on the run.
3
Household
He is handcuffed to a woman, and that is not a marriage.
4
Piety
She does not believe him, so trust is not given free.
7
Courage
He keeps running with a secret he could have dropped.
5
Republic
There is a real threat, and the film is still not a war story.
4
Temperance
The chase is the pleasure, and the picture trains you to want it.
6
Truth
She doubts him, and a missing finger is the clue that matters.
4
Stewardship
A traveling hit is left: a game, with a threat underneath.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1954

A Star Is Born

48Watch it awake.

She rises, he drinks, the marriage cannot pay it, and the sea is not a love scene.

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The review

She starts as a band singer. A star who is already drinking his career away hears her. She rises. He falls. They marry. The songs are the work, and if you treat the numbers as the whole film you will miss the point. The alcohol is the bill. The marriage cannot pay it. He walks into the sea. Adult.

I have seen a gift and a bottle in the same house, and this one does not pretend the gift wins. That is why I will not call it a love story and stop. The walk into the sea is not a finish you admire. It is the drink finished with him. She is left with the career. Not for children. Do not clap through the numbers as if the sea were just the next cue.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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

My Fair Lady

58 instead of 48

My Fair Lady is still a musical film, and it scores 58 instead of 48. What you gain is stewardship: What a house can keep is her refusal, not his satisfaction at the experiment.