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It Started with Eve (1941)
Incredibly good movie
This movie was not just worth watching, but worth BUYING to watch every so often to pick up one's spirit when down. Charles Laughton performance was amazing. I had never seen him in such a role. He played it perfectly. Bob Cummings played the honest, but "a little weak" (as described in the movie by his onscreen father Charles Laughton), to a T. Deanna Durbin was as usual, exceptional I'm her persona and her musical work in the movie. The supporting cast was superb, especially the butler who has played in MANY excellent movies AS a butler. The sets they had in the movie were beautiful and appropriately detailed. This movie ranks among my very favorite.
Gunsmoke: Kiowa (1970)
WOW
The writers and actors and direction and production of gunsmoke is always awesome but this one really was a great episode. Second only to my favorite episode, "The Noose". Quality shows like gunsmoke are extremely rare. EXTREMELY rare. Perhaps a young person, say born after the sixties would find it hard to enjoy and see the good in this episode or any of gunsmoke. Their minds have been affected by really sick ideologies and influences pervading the time of their youth. Not that perverseness didn't exist in my youth. But in general, what was taught and portrayed was not leading us to be so rotten in our ways. And now the shows have such glorified filth in them, the minds are spoiled in a way that can make a show like gunsmoke seem stupid. But for those of you youthful people who DO appreciate gunsmoke (and maybe more.older shows from the era), you are a refreshing change of what I often see out there these days. Excellent episode.