What the Beck???
Bucket List Update
Academy Award Nominated Movies
2016 Lion
starring: Sunny Pawar, Dev
Patel, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval
plot – A
five year old boy falls asleep on the train playform while waiting for his older brother. He learns to
survive and is finally adopted by an Australian
couple. After he is grown and 25, he sets
off to locate his birth brother, Mom, and sister.
This was a fabulous movie. The acting by Sunny Pawar was
outstanding for such a young boy. The movie eventually brought me to tears and
really made me wonder about all of the orphans across the world.
1931-32 Shanghai
Express
starring: Marlene
Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May
Wong, Warner Oland, and Eugene Pallett
plot – During the Chinese
Civil War, British Capt. Harvey meets
his ex-girlfriend, Magdalen aka Shanghia Lily,
and discovers that she is now a prostitute. They
are traveling on the Shanghai Express train.
A spy/army leader is also incognito on the
train. The enemy attacks the train.
This was a pretty good old movie. I have not seen many pictures
that starred Marlene Dietrich, but enjoyed her performance. She was pretty
young in this movie.
1935 Broadway
Melody of 1936
starring: Eleanor Powell, Judy
Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Jack Benny, Robert Taylor, Francis Langford, June Knight,
Una Merkel…
plot – A producer, Taylor,
has trouble getting backers for his
show until a woman offers to give him the money
if he lets her join the cast. A newspaperman,
Benny, finds out and writes about
it. Because of the columnist, a talented friend
of Taylors (Powell), can’t get a part she deserves.
This was a great old movie with a lot of fabulous singing and
dancing. There were many songs that I actually knew and could sing along with
the actors. I loved that I got to see the older actors from my childhood. I really liked it.
1937 100
Men and a Girl
starring: Deanna Durbin,
Leopold Stokowski, Adolphe Menjou,
Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Micha Auer,
Billy Gilbert, Alms Kruger
plot – Leopold Stokowski
leads a group of unemployed musicians in a symphony. The orchestra is created
by the daughter of a down-on-his luck musician.
The orchestra ends up getting a radio
contract. Hard work and persistence pay off
in the end.
This was a really cute movie! Deanna Durbin has a great voice. I
do not normally like opera-like singing, but she was fabulous. I am more into country or blue grass and have been since I was 19
years old. I smiled through most of this film, so it was a thumbs up for me.
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