It’s a sequel to yesterday’s drawing:
Was she forced to say no by her family? Will she change her mind? WHAT AN EXCITING TURN OF EVENTS!
I look forward to developing the CCWU (Crushed Cold Water Universe) into viable IP and developing marketable content across multiple media streams.
After three movies that went from so bad it’s good to competent but built on racism to just plain bad, it was great to see a movie this good. I do wish the score wasn’t “all zither all the time,” though.
Oh, boy! A fake poster!
AI Weirdness is running its annual Botober drawing prompts again, and I’ve been playing along. Here are my incredible first four drawings.
Has there ever been a greater artist? I SAY UNTO THEE NAY!
This movie is terrible, and not in a fun way. Barely an hour long, but it feels like four. It’s biggest claim to fame is that it’s the last film of Marie Provost, who I only knew as the subject of a not quite accurate Nick Lowe song.
Tom Moore (star at 1640 Vine Street) plays Mr. Corbett, father of the leading man’s romantic interest and inventor of something that has to do with car engines, but because the script is incredibly lazy it never gets a name. Come on, just call it the “Ultra Efficient Spark Inducer” or “Frictionless Piston” or something. No one watching cares if it makes sense, they just want to know what to call it.
I picked the source for today’s poster because it was pretty.
It’s really hard to enjoy a lighthearted comedy based entirely on the idea that the Confederacy was actually a great thing, and everybody got along.
Also: I know there’s been some modern takes on Stepin Fetchit that claim his character is more of a joker than a racist caricature, but it sure doesn’t play positively in this movie.
Tom Brown (star at 1648 Vine) started as a child model/actor, then worked his way up to bigger roles. Here he plays Jerome “Rome” Priest, Judge Priest’s nephew fresh out of law school who only wins his case because of his uncle’s meddling.
Today’s poster is completely unrelated to this movie, but I thought it looked cool so I used it. If that bugs you, send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I’ll return what you paid me for this post.
Bert I. Gordon sure loves “Eat and Get Large” movies.
Marjoe Gortner is a football player who confidently makes bad decisions that get people killed. Pamela Martin plays the woman whose type is apparently “guys who look like scared birds who believe they are always right.” Together they fight giant rats that are actually normal-sized mice or cheap rat costumes.
The lesson I learned from this movie: If you find a mysterious puddle of white goo, you probably shouldn’t eat it.
Today’s fake poster is based on a different exploration of the unpredictable effects of deities on mankind.
This is actually five unrelated stories of couples finding out that their marriage licenses are invalid because the Justice of the Peace who signed them started a week early. Everything after that is based on legal nonsense. It never quite works. Lee Marvin shows up for a couple of lines.
Mitzi Gaynor plays a woman who is supposed to be married to a soldier going overseas. They find out they’re not married at the same time that she learns she’s pregnant, and hi-jinks happen when they try to get properly married before he leaves.
Gaynor’s star is at 6288 Hollywood Boulevard. The closest star is Janet Gaynor’s, and it turns out having the same last name is not a coincidence. Mitzi took her stage name from Janet.
Gaynor’s star is also the last on before I turn the corner and head down Vine. I’ve fully completed about a fifteenth of the walk.
Today’s fake poster is inspired by a single word:
Finally, the true meaning of Christmas revealed.
Today’s fake poster comes from a different movie about non-conventional parenting. It perfectly misses the tone of this movie.
This film is beautiful, once you get past the premise that it’s okay to cheat on your wife and plan to kill her as long as you feel really bad about it.
Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her part as The Wife. After this she was the lead in the first version of A Star is Born, and apparently turned down the role of Scarlett O’Hara.
Somewhere in storage I have a promo postcard of the original version of this poster.
This was one of two dozen movies in the Lone Wolf series. They cranked them out pretty quickly. This is the second of three released in 1940. It’s a low budget, shot on the lot, light bit of escapism, the kind where a woman’s supposedly dead husband reappears and gets shot in front of her, and she’s completely fine five minutes later. Goes down easy.
Jean Muir, the titular Lady, was known for being a troublemaker because she would do things like ask questions, or not dress up in public, or (worst of all) “support unions.” She was blacklisted in 1950 for supposed communist activity (though she was never a communist) and couldn’t get acting work for eight years.
The problem with today’s fake poster is that the original is deceptively simple, which means anything off really sticks out.
