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Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Fantastic little WW2 womens comedy
This is a great little movie with plenty of laughs and tears. Lana Turner is in stunning form as Val, for some reason she really reminds me of Marylin Munroe a lot in this movie. The rest of the cast is great too, especially Laraine Day and Susan Peters. The story is based around the idea of three women from different social circumstances joining the WAC. The combination of Laraine Day with her army family background and Lana Turner as a model, creates for some incredible tension and electric scenes between the two. These two actresses really spark off each other wonderfully and they have some really dynamic exchanges. All the while with Susan Peters trying to play peace maker and remain neutral. A really heartbreaking ending really adds good balance to this movie also. I feel some of the other reviews were a little harsh on this film, treating it rather whimsically, this film has great dialogue and some very whitty exchanges, the likes of which you won't find on celluloid these days. I find it so hard to believe people can pass off a great little gem like this as boring and uninteresting. Anyway at least it has me here to champion it. :)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Great Movie,Bette Davis in top form again
This is a really polished movie, hardly a hair out of place. Almost too stiff, could have used a little more flexibility and physical contact in the relationship between Bette Davis and Charles Boyer - would have loved to see at least one tortured kiss between the two, at the end. It was kind weird seeing Bette in a role of this nature, almost totally submissive not unlike the dominating roles she's most famous for. But having said that she pulls it off with style and grace. I loved the performance by Barbara O'Neil, really very good, and a well deserved academy award nomination for best supporting actress. The scene when Boyer kills her is really very haunting, his face fills the screen ala hopkins in silence of the lambs. Also I loved the girl at the beginning who played the cheeky school girl who confronted bette in the classroom, i'd love to know who she was and what became of her? All in all a good movie, a top effort all round, if somewhat constrained. Good bunch of child actors, i'll admit i'm quite a fan of Virgina Weidlers, loved her in the philadelphia story too. In finishing i'd rate it an 8 out of 10