I keep having the same thought.

Of course I meant WWII. Damn you Bluesky, give us an "edit" feature already.

I did love this.

End the series with OHMSS. For one thing, the 2 subsequent novels suck. For another, this gives Bond an arc: from losing Vesper Lynd and developing a cynical misogynst shell, to letting himself fall for Tracy di Vicenzo and being shattered. He pays the price. The end.

I showed GILDA to a younger friend of mine once, and told him: every time you see or hear something in this movie and ask yourself "could they actually have meant THAT?" the answer is, "yes, that's exactly what they meant."

"There's no paint."

So we're supposed to believe that shit on the walls is solid gold? Nice try, Trumplethinskin.

Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you

Rathbone and Bruce were such a huge hit that everybody wanted a piece of them, but then the Arthur Conan Doyle estate got greedy and bollixed up several promising deals. Very sad.

OMG yes. I could watch it on a loop.

By the way, HPG, it seems William Cameron Menzies was in talks to direct a new Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce after Fox dropped the idea in 1939. THAT would have been something... one of the great might-have-beens of film history.

This came on TV (in b/w) when I was about five, and it scared the bejeezus out of me... I think my inconsolable wailing seriously freaked out the babysitter. The recently remastered blu ray was a real thrill, and the movie is still pretty unsettling.

A lot of them seem to seriously misread the public mood... or else, and I'm just spitballing here, they're so accustomed to the soft cushy corridors of power that they can't hear us hammering up the guillotines.