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Sat May 18, 2024 11:10 pm

Would you agree with that description?

Yup, and that stands in line with my opinion on the revised version taking away a lot of personality from the characters!

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That does seem pretty weird. I wonder if this caught on at all.

You say that a lot of personality has been taken from the characters, but that at the same time they have a bigger spotlight. How would both be true? For example, in the book, the housekeeper falls and is laid up for a while. (Fun fact, in the rewrite, it is not specified how she fell, but in the o...

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Password To Larkspur Lane, A Nancy Drew novel.

Improve Your Reading (1947) The actress playing the little girl here looks so familiar. I'm going nuts trying to figure out what other instructional film I've seen her in when she was older. Her eyes and facial expressions are especially distinctive, as at 5:20. The boys looks somewhat familiar, to...

Control Your Emotions (Coronet, 1950) The psychologist looks familiar. (Maybe he’s been in other Coronet films?) This guy reminds me kind of Groucho in certain angles. That seemed like kind of a silly trick, pouring the soda back and forth like that and spilling it all over the place. I didn’t unde...

From 1951 (which seems to have been a golden year for IF's :D): Snap Out of It I wonder why this boy is so extremely upset about the B. If he's that much of a perfectionist as his reaction would indicate, you wouldn't think his grades would run a steady stream of C's. It does seem strange that he'd...

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