tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post250103915569743153..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Forgotten Films: A Place in the SunAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-31517650377209739492011-05-18T03:18:57.617-05:002011-05-18T03:18:57.617-05:00Todd: He was the same Keefe Brazelle. Protege of &...Todd: He was the same Keefe Brazelle. Protege of "The Smiling Cobra," James Aubrey.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-4264460199032797832011-05-17T23:56:38.437-05:002011-05-17T23:56:38.437-05:00I knew this was based on AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, but ...I knew this was based on AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, but something tells me that the movie ending was changed substantially - but my memory could be failing me. I love this movie both for Monty's performance and for Liz's beauty. Their kiss on the balcony has got to be one of the most romantic of all film scenes. And wasn't Shelly Winters a whiner? I wanted to kill her too.Laurie Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429604692700662254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-65771791533613126312011-05-17T20:29:54.597-05:002011-05-17T20:29:54.597-05:00Dreiser based AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY on a real murder...Dreiser based AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY on a real murder case from the early 1900s: Chester Gillette murdered his pregnant girlfriend (who was several rungs below him on the social ladder) when his prospects with a richer woman seemed likely. Much of Gillette's life (including his religious family, his socially-prominent relatives, and the murder by drowning) were all used in Dreiser's fictionalized account.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-32097818139513295142011-05-17T12:59:42.453-05:002011-05-17T12:59:42.453-05:00I think Keefe Brasselle here might well be the guy...I think Keefe Brasselle here might well be the guy Harlan Ellison writes about in THE GLASS TEAT, who kept getting one failed tv show after another for awhile out of what amounted to a Returned Favor of an unsavory sort.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-6705733184389392652011-05-17T12:55:35.485-05:002011-05-17T12:55:35.485-05:00You know, I never knew this was based on AN AMERIC...You know, I never knew this was based on AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY...I imagine it had to be cut to the bone to fit in the time allotted? But still effective.<br /><br />Interesting how noir and soap opera, certainly in the Grace Metallious literary sort, run along similar paths when one thinks about it.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-54704298144923587842011-05-17T12:00:19.490-05:002011-05-17T12:00:19.490-05:00Bill - that's a great idea. Rewrite this book ...Bill - that's a great idea. Rewrite this book with Zombies!!! It will be an instant best seller.<br /><br />Hey, if Scalzi can redo Little Fuzzy, Abe Lincoln can hunt vampires, and Jane Austen hunted the undead . . .Marsdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14621539653942879264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-12590934536243490292011-05-17T11:40:26.055-05:002011-05-17T11:40:26.055-05:00To be honest I've never been much of a Monty C...To be honest I've never been much of a Monty Clift fan, and this didn't change that.<br /><br />But that's just me.<br /><br />JeffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-85320995164627565962011-05-17T09:43:40.375-05:002011-05-17T09:43:40.375-05:00True. Supposedly his turn here won him the Perry ...True. Supposedly his turn here won him the Perry Mason role.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-51377767075733758712011-05-17T09:20:25.655-05:002011-05-17T09:20:25.655-05:00Raymond Burr played a great DA in this one, a role...Raymond Burr played a great DA in this one, a role that Erle Stanley Gardner remembered when they were casting Perry Mason.<br /><br />John DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-82912931064647227252011-05-17T08:06:06.699-05:002011-05-17T08:06:06.699-05:00Great book and great movie. Poor Montgomery Cliff....Great book and great movie. Poor Montgomery Cliff.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-85976455749920300852011-05-17T07:42:54.635-05:002011-05-17T07:42:54.635-05:00I've never seen this one. I have to remedy th...I've never seen this one. I have to remedy that.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-3766843219001393292011-05-17T07:10:01.796-05:002011-05-17T07:10:01.796-05:00One of the most enduring opening shots for this ol...One of the most enduring opening shots for this old movie buff.David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-23985512480765167172011-05-17T06:42:11.572-05:002011-05-17T06:42:11.572-05:00Fixed. Thanks, Todd.Fixed. Thanks, Todd.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-10644981644481331732011-05-17T06:36:22.245-05:002011-05-17T06:36:22.245-05:00You had my tired puzzler working overtime there wi...You had my tired puzzler working overtime there with "porto-noir" (Brazilian? sweet wine? leftist/nautical?), till I realized "proto-noir' was probably what was meant...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com