These Things I Know… July 23, 2006
Posted by John Hodson in : Film General , add a comment- …I know that in a film, if anyone produces a photograph of a wife / girlfriend / mother / kids / that little farm that they’re going to buy ‘when this is all over’; yup, they’re doomed….
- …I know that whatever befalls the heroine - childbirth, a fatal illness, swimming, being dragged through a hedge (backwards) - her make-up will always look just spiffy…
- …I know that if the good guy has two love interests - a ‘good’ girl, and a ‘bad’ girl - one of ‘em is in for a sticky end. No prizes for guessing…
- …I know that if Gale Sondergaard, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Dumbrille, George Zucco or Henry Daniell are in the cast, chances are, there’s your villain…
- …I know that if Dimitri Tiomkin, Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklos Rosza, or Bernard Herrmann are credited, the worst I can do is enjoy the score…
- …I know that, sooner or later, everybody comes to Rick’s; that the cheaper the hood, the gaudier the patter; that say, mister, will you stake a fellow American to a meal? That I don’t like my manners, I grieve over them on long winter evenings; and that we’ll always have Paris…
- …I know that I couldn’t love anyone who doesn’t love The Searchers…
- …I know that when someone doesn’t ‘like it’ because it’s ‘too quiet’, it won’t be in a minute or three…
- …I know that my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you; that that’s the kind of a hairpin I am; that we should go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn’t run as fast as I could; and that I’ve made it ma, top of the world…
- …I know that a good cast is always worth repeating.