Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Comrade X"(1940)

You Tube ^ | 1940 | King Vidor

[ReformationFan]

The Olympics in Russia provide the inspiration for today's feature, a hilarious satire of Soviet communism. Republican he-man movie legend Clark Gable plays an American foreign correspondent who outwits the U.S.S.R.'s news censorship rules while the gorgeous Hedy Lamarr plays the stone-faced street car conductor he gets involved with. Good fun and a comedy that deserves to be better known.

[ReformationFan]

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[DoodleDawg]

“A Lion In Winter” is on TCM in 21 minutes. That’s my movie for a Sunday afternoon.

[Bobalu]

This is one of my favorite films!

The scene where the lady’s bed is stolen at the hotel is classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWdphkYk080
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmFKMsPOwg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6IVOjWYPuI

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you very much!

[Dr. Sivana]

My family JUST finished watching this movie on your recommendation. Thank you. There is no shortage of good anti-Nazi movies. Nice to see a decent anti-Soviet movie to fill out my children’s movie list.

[ReformationFan]

You’re welcome!

“There is no shortage of good anti-Nazi movies. Nice to see a decent anti-Soviet movie to fill out my children’s movie list.”

Completely agree. I love the tank sequence where they end up invading Rumania.

[GeronL]

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[ReformationFan]

P.S.

Another good one is Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three”(1961)
with James Cagney and Arlene Francis. I picked it for a mfasa title a while back-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3048330/posts

Sadly, it’s not available to watch online at the moment but well worth a rental.

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17693/One-Two-Three/

[Dr. Sivana]

Neither Billy Wilder nor James Cagney work so well for Mrs. Sivana. Stalag 17 was a downer compared to “The Great Escape”.

Also, many of Wilder’s moies may be a bit on the risque side for our kids. We’ve also learned to stay away from Tony Curtis and Blake Edwards.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Well, there was a Shirley Temple marathon on the “Movie!” channel including some of her best like “Wee Willie Winkie” and “The Littlest Rebel” - I started to watch but the sweetness rolling from the screen was making my blood sugar level spike out of control, so I switched over to “Picnic” on TCM....