Watched Man on a Tightrope (1953). About a Czech circus in Russian occupied Czechoslovakia.

Zama: When will you stand up for your rights?

Cernik: I don’t have any rights. None of us do.

I wish I lived in a country with rights and due process, not secret police who can disappear you off the streets.

#USPol #Movies #Cinema #Czech #AdolpheMenjou #FredricMarch #Fascism #Democracy #Antifa #Resist

And were the actors too beautiful for the story

Old Movies
Robert Pinsky

#Poetry #RobertPinsky #OldMovies #TheNewYorker #Mastroianni #JoanFontaine #Ivy #Charles Laughton #TheIslandOfLostSouls #AdolpheMenjou #EdwardGRobinson #MauriceChevalier #ASpecialDay

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/30/old-movies-robert-pinsky-poem

– I'm gonna be happy for a change.

#OnThisDate, #October 4, The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952) is the #FilmDuJour. #EdwardDmytryk #AdolpheMenjou #ArthurFranz #RichardKiley #USA #crime #drama #thriller #SerialKillers #FilmNoir #1950s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film ★★★★☆

A #silentmovie double bill on #TCM tonight:

#NormaShearer is outstanding as 2 very different women in Monta Bell's LADY OF THE NIGHT (1925). Also in the cast: #MalcolmMcGregor

Next, #EdnaPurviance is excellent in the only feature #drama directed by #CharlesChaplin: A WOMAN OF PARIS. Also in the cast: #AdolpheMenjou

Pictured below are the 2 Shearers. Except that the 1 on the right is actually a heavily made up #JoanCrawford (before she became JC).

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