Old Movies · Dec 26, 07:22 PM by Dave Polaschek
Monday was a very lazy day. Woke up early, and did the usual reading of the email and surfing of the web, but didn’t have anything to say. Ate a little breakfast, and said to heck with it and went back to bed.
When I woke up again after noon, I ran out to drop things at the cleaners and grab some lunch. Did a little grocery shopping and then home again.
At home, I decided to watch some movies. There’s things I probably should have been doing, but after hanging with the cousins on Christmas Eve, and visiting mom on Christmas Day, I felt like taking a day off.
The movies? Pillow Talk, then An Affair to Remember, then The Enemy Below.
I like these old movies. Rock Hudson and Cary Grant are manly leading men, and Doris Day and Deborah Kerr are both portrayed in a way that makes a guy want to fall in love with ‘em. Of the two, I liked Affair better, probably in large part because of the stars. Cary Grant plays smooooove pretty darned well, and while for some reason I’ve never thought Doris Day was all that attractive, Deborah Kerr definitely kept me looking at the screen.
And watching Robert Mitchum duel it out with Curd Jürgens, well, that’s going to purge those misty-eyed feelings right quick. And it’s not just a simple black and white world. This is one of the best war movies I’ve seen, and rivals Red October or Das Boot in the action sequences. The plot’s maybe a little weak, but it was still time well spent escaping to a simpler time, and I call that a darned good day.
curious if you are an old movie “expert”...I saw a movie some 20 years ago and have been looking for it ever since then…I know the story but not who was in it…
— Brenda Jan 5, 09:46 AM #Yes and no. I watch a lot of old movies, but I watch a lot of them on lazy Sunday afternoons and fall asleep partway through ‘em, so I don’t always remember. But hey, give it a shot.
— DaveP Jan 6, 04:32 AM #
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