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It starts off with a guy in his mid thirties to late forties watching TV.
They were wry, droll reflections on British life in the late Forties and early Fifties.
Crossfire is one of those films from the Forties that is crying for a remake, if for no other reason than maybe it's time it should be done as originally written.
As a father of four in his forties I thought this film made compelling viewing - if not edge-of-the-seat stuff.
Now in my forties, I still enjoy it, probably even more.
'Nemesis' was the last book to feature Miss Marple written by Agatha Christie (the official final case 'Sleeping Murder' was written in the forties) and I've always had a very soft spot for it.
SPOILERS Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous character was adapted thousand of times for the screen til one's thirst is quenched, notably during the thirties and the forties by Hollywood.
Find a good classic forties or fifties film noir instead of wasting two hours on this failure.
I love some of the films out now, but rarely are there any that I would put on a "100 best" list.. "Hustle and Flow" was great, so was "Fargo", and "Oh, Brother, where art thou," from a line in Sullivan's travels; another fine film from the forties!
Jenny and Margaret have Chris all to themselves because Kitty believes he is faking and refuses to accept Chris's illness in reverting to his youth in his forties.
Edith had been well off, born a Bouvier, married well, had several wonderful relationships and became a singer when she was in her forties.
Since it was set in the 'simpler' forties, we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era.
Jack Torrance is a man in his forties, married, with one child, and with a past of trouble and alcoholism.
In terms of story and artwork, you can find nods going back to the nineteen forties (or even earlier with the classic views of the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Couer) and movies like Casablanca, as well as looking toward a grim future where our destines are ruled by corporations.
Sadly, Gordon, only in his early forties, died soon after completing this, his only feature film.
By the late forties the era of the screwball comedy was over, as films were moving in a different direction, comedically and otherwise.
Another comedy about a plucky little country struggling through the jungle of the modern (for the forties) global world with only native wit and pluck to guide them, this is a fine entry in the Ealing cannon.
Barry Sullivan, as her husband, was one of a dozen or so leading men who got started in films in the forties who never quite achieved the success many had hoped for him.
If you absolutely insist on knowing, the 'plot' is the one about the guy well into his forties and more than content to be single.
Each of the major studios cranked out jazzy one-reelers throughout the thirties and forties (with Universal taking the lead).
The movies he made in the late Forties through the mid Fifties, however, sometimes give "work" a bad name.
Both are PHDs in their forties.
I saw "Peyton Place" for the first time in my late forties as part of a CineClub presentation.
If men in their thirties and forties sporting Buster Brown haircuts and silver jumpsuits is your idea of a menacing brigade of androids, then this flick is for you.
She's great in playing sexy, strong or serious women, but her attempt to put on a girlish performance while being in her forties, is just pathetic.
I enjoy watching Cary Grant may a fool of himself, he will do what it takes to make a movie funny, but the star of this movie is Myrna Loy, she was in her forties, but she look like she was only in her thirties, and still sexy.
So I'm watching the flick, and I start thinking to myself - Good grief, did people actually pay good money to watch stuff like this back in the Forties?
The Quiet American is not one of the greatest Greene books, coming after the successes of the Thirties and Forties, but it is a very entertaining read.
A Don "Red" Barry movie from the early forties has more intelligence than this tripe.
For example, some of the jokes directed at Verne Troyer's character sound like they were uttered by a 15-year-old classroom bully, not written by an intelligent man in his forties.