WOODY ALLEN AND MIA FARROW IN 'BROADWAY DANNY ROSE'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRrmmAjA9v7-MnjS-DPK3K2Rpuav-jFYuYWub-jVJfm385K7tOdMMS_IO0zj8SZtRIbCuy3VKuXNHaKRlWNHj0UY7EQQjofyvNWO3CYUPDIqe6NDXYRwM-yWLWrk_rhos4xp-AqX45_ESap6GOjiwkFQOeGmysW0YI3EwLuo2Sguuf6MhfJcEJptsMaLw/s1756/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-23%20at%208.24.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1756" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRrmmAjA9v7-MnjS-DPK3K2Rpuav-jFYuYWub-jVJfm385K7tOdMMS_IO0zj8SZtRIbCuy3VKuXNHaKRlWNHj0UY7EQQjofyvNWO3CYUPDIqe6NDXYRwM-yWLWrk_rhos4xp-AqX45_ESap6GOjiwkFQOeGmysW0YI3EwLuo2Sguuf6MhfJcEJptsMaLw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-23%20at%208.24.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mia Farrow and Woody Allen in Broadway Danny Rose Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Not only one of Woody Allen’s best and most stylish films, but his performance goes outside the box: While the hardworking but low-rent New York talent agent Danny Rose... whose quirky clients range from a lady playing music on wine glasses to a blind xylophone player to a parrot pecking songs on a piano... embodies the usual Woody Allen nervousness and quick release of one-liners, they don't seem meant as punchlines...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there’s a kindhearted, fervently optimistic side you won't see in other Allen protagonists: He really cares about humanity; especially the ones in his stable of industry rejects. <br> </p><span></span>

comedy, eighties, mia farrow, nick appolo forte, paul greco, race against time, woody allen

WOODY ALLEN AND MIA FARROW IN 'BROADWAY DANNY ROSE'

Mia Farrow and Woody Allen in Broadway Danny Rose Year: 1984 Rating: ****1/2 Not only one of Woody Allen’s best and most stylish films, b...

ROCK HUDSON, MIA FARROW AND ROBERT FORSTER IN 'AVALANCHE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPmIrMQngAqyqXtq3ExnHtdsRqOOT5ImDvKHD2V5fe7pJsGLTDAHlP6f74WF9eU22ZSe8jaoKSW6Fs21wy6sArOWgS6OaBdKYsUjrqxkciHQjiLGsm1v5YXPMhj2QLO3m5jP29gwJyj4Ulvv91pMBHizPQ8sM0aT27gTJqXzCplwSZrpn4hoTYO8fPA/s2035/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-17%20at%205.40.42%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="2035" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPmIrMQngAqyqXtq3ExnHtdsRqOOT5ImDvKHD2V5fe7pJsGLTDAHlP6f74WF9eU22ZSe8jaoKSW6Fs21wy6sArOWgS6OaBdKYsUjrqxkciHQjiLGsm1v5YXPMhj2QLO3m5jP29gwJyj4Ulvv91pMBHizPQ8sM0aT27gTJqXzCplwSZrpn4hoTYO8fPA/w400-h274/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-17%20at%205.40.42%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rock Hudson in Avalanche YEAR: 1978 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Yes it's another of many 1970's JAWS clones, even though AVALANCHE is a wannabe Irwin Allen disaster flick with the disastrous situation named after exactly that. Rock Hudson stars as both the JAWS Murray Hamilton greedy mayor and Roy Scheider's central, intrepid Sheriff...<br> <br> First he wants to keep his expensive resort open while putting his tourists in jeopardy after ignoring repeated advice from Robert Forster's Nick Thorne, basically the Richard Dreyfuss science-minded harbinger (more a non-preachy conservationist like Sam Elliott in FROGS) warning the millionaire industrialist not to mess with nature. Then Hudson becomes the suddenly guilt-free chief-rescuer once Forster's character is all but forgotten later on...  <br>

anthony carbone, barry primus, corey allen, disaster, ensemble, jaws-clone, mia farrow, rick moses, robert forster, rock hudson, roger corman, seventies, suspense

ROCK HUDSON, MIA FARROW AND ROBERT FORSTER IN 'AVALANCHE'

Rock Hudson in Avalanche YEAR: 1978 Rates: ***1/2 Yes it's another of many 1970's JAWS clones, even though AVALANCHE is a wannabe I...

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s1440/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGM9oLlSyXQbD_Hhp0y_loEsy_xBFRxbnuPCGaLbdM8FyxqB-QjxgeXx0u5rrwYqMv9sv0h0eDvxjaFkJu_39Z92dM01Dpl7dIAku8dGcgy6jEXQuF5aNjmyhoz7YI1FnAo0UZbFOLrDJTNHFlWQZdrWIlSQMhOsKMAcDA43mct9KyUN5YmpVDd0T4g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-22%20at%2012.15.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a stuffy, cautious and paranoid, cold-blooded British agent named Gaitiss tells Mia Farrow's flaky model Caroline after she beds Laurence Harvey, a far more sympathetic agent that <i>we</i> think is named Alexander Eberlin. "You haven't got a past, and <i>he</i> hasn't got a future."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sadly, either did veteran director Anthony Mann, who started with Film Noir using creative camera angles before turning to traditional Westerns, making A DANDY IN ASPIC a kind of halfway visual comeback...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony mann, barbara murray, british neo noir, british new wave, espionage, laurence harvey, lionel stander, mia farrow, sixties, spy, suspense, thriller, tom courtenay

LAURENCE HARVEY VS TOM COURTENAY FOR 'A DANDY IN ASPIC'

Title: A DANDY IN ASPIC Year: 1968 Rates: ***1/2 "I do believe that you two would have got on well together," Tom Courtenay as a s...

FIRST PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY OF 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Xi2x1ZFXa5Pm1ko9Aj8OAdTnrTp2BKr6Hhwdt26C4GNhfSkfaWhV0ex11NSRoPH2_j2DuIIDRQInJShKiWarw3w-OkizSI7vbZjQ8R43vPVk_7x-NVNz8ShiFl5IA9rkb0gRzh00jb3U0Bv4JOxpWp7cETgPXvZBhwoRWbz5PpAmH2Xo9w0qste-gQ=s1875" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1875" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Xi2x1ZFXa5Pm1ko9Aj8OAdTnrTp2BKr6Hhwdt26C4GNhfSkfaWhV0ex11NSRoPH2_j2DuIIDRQInJShKiWarw3w-OkizSI7vbZjQ8R43vPVk_7x-NVNz8ShiFl5IA9rkb0gRzh00jb3U0Bv4JOxpWp7cETgPXvZBhwoRWbz5PpAmH2Xo9w0qste-gQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DEATH ON THE NILE Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director John Guillermin's DEATH ON THE NILE with a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer adapted from Agatha Christie's most celebrated novel featuring the affable Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is far from a perfect "whodunit" since this group of suspects, all passengers on a fancy boat down the titular Egyptian river, have very little motive/motivation to kill who's the best thing about the picture, and not just the prettiest...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thankfully Lois Chiles as super-rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway lasts over the one-hour mark; although she returns sporadically during the most uninteresting sequences where Poirot discusses with token constable-type David Niven what could have happened, providing flashbacks that aren't flashbacks being the first time we're seeing them...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, agatha christie, british, ensemble, i.s. johar, jack warden, john guillermin, jon finch, lois chiles, maggie smith, mia farrow, mystery, peter ustinov, simon maccorkindale, suspense

FIRST PETER USTINOV POIROT MYSTERY OF 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

Title: DEATH ON THE NILE Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Director John Guillermin's DEATH ON THE NILE with a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer ada...

WOODY ALLEN'S CINEMATIC FANTASY 'THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBT1XF-tff2RyAeT2DOB7GvsIH4moCQ52nKxfJECA1NeoBm15JpFb671-jHUjaYzfsp2dHbfG3UWTUXpEtpB52XRhgtECUu_0ceOlrClRGw1ElmwnIwmbEzdLOKBHFWaHAK9AVG2ojulQIvSuLMXyghL3qTyfXamkex3WwexUyNtgIT74_0Af60je8Iu3/s1942/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%207.24.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBT1XF-tff2RyAeT2DOB7GvsIH4moCQ52nKxfJECA1NeoBm15JpFb671-jHUjaYzfsp2dHbfG3UWTUXpEtpB52XRhgtECUu_0ceOlrClRGw1ElmwnIwmbEzdLOKBHFWaHAK9AVG2ojulQIvSuLMXyghL3qTyfXamkex3WwexUyNtgIT74_0Af60je8Iu3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%207.24.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Juliana Donald plays a theater worker who's very cute in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Year: 1985 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As creative as PLAY IT AGAIN SAM is, with Humphrey Bogart appearing to Woody Allen's movie-buff character with advice on dames, the Depression-era PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO goes much further, deeper, with Jeff Daniels as both the actor, Gil Shepard, who brought a character, Tom Baxter, to life, literally... </p><p></p><p><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Written for the screen and having walked right through it, not only tired of being stuck in the celluloid purgatory and wanting to delve into the real world, he's smitten with Farrow's underdog cinefile, who he'd noticed in the audience during matinee screenings, again and again: Farrow's Cecelia lost her job  after her husband cheats right in front of her face: the theater is her only place to remain safe, and sane...</span></p><span></span>

danny aiello, deborah rush, dianne wiest, edward hermann, eighties, fantasy, jeff daniels, juliana donald, mia farrow, romantic comedy, woody allen

WOODY ALLEN'S CINEMATIC FANTASY 'THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO'

Juliana Donald plays a theater worker who's very cute in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Year: 1985 Rates: **** As creative as PLAY IT AGAIN SA...

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHXK2gWdzw-G6HFEjTkfsZ6gXpRFqW6pDFGe1Wmjy3t5wJhW1lNccWwvdkUAGuyBstXNFDxU-XLemBx87VgN44QfSAck2qfQDGBe2WwFGLblhtyP4sML0gF52v27au89oHxAYovmao-MH9qf_65qXUveQqG5tqPhAHqTKy8VBzeSsKwO91VfKfC_WSjCL/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-12-20+at+2.41.05+PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="1600" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHXK2gWdzw-G6HFEjTkfsZ6gXpRFqW6pDFGe1Wmjy3t5wJhW1lNccWwvdkUAGuyBstXNFDxU-XLemBx87VgN44QfSAck2qfQDGBe2WwFGLblhtyP4sML0gF52v27au89oHxAYovmao-MH9qf_65qXUveQqG5tqPhAHqTKy8VBzeSsKwO91VfKfC_WSjCL/w400-h321/Screen+Shot+2018-12-20+at+2.41.05+PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Year: 1982 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (from Shakespeare to Bergman) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY was a case of The Emperor's New Clothes: For critics who adored Allen's work, Allen could do practically no wrong... until this underrated and underappreciated, and unfairly maligned gem...<br> <br> An intentionally breezy and quirky, fun and jovial countryside-romp through creature-filled nature and bright daydream sunlight that, after recommended multiple viewings, alters from The Emperor being naked to those new clothes clashing with his otherwise signature wardrobe. And there <i>are</i> similar traits of SLEEPER, using a futuristic contraption to fly and here, set during the 1900's, Woody's stock broker/inventor Andrew hits the skies again on a bicycle helicopter, after crashing with a pair of makeshift wings...<br>

adaptation, comedy, eighties, ensemble, gordon willis, jose ferrer, julie hagerty, kate mcgregor-stewart, mary steenburgen, mia farrow, nature, supernatural, time period, tony roberts, woody allen

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

 Year: 1982 Rates: **** Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (from Shakespeare to Bergman) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY was a...

LOIS CHILES DEADLINES AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNWN1k9gnHI6QoGZNLTIcLX9XYGlDzmShAzHJUJNvwNDE1p580uBXTBndz7D9eQcOKh0tXdKlsXMuI-2SPe6eq9tHV1mCAnLgZv_uBmO3p3zk9SAmXt0VJXxyT-YWvBlH3Vf1KRx8QUHA/s1600/23316388_392434494519066_7191763929913503507_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="960" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNWN1k9gnHI6QoGZNLTIcLX9XYGlDzmShAzHJUJNvwNDE1p580uBXTBndz7D9eQcOKh0tXdKlsXMuI-2SPe6eq9tHV1mCAnLgZv_uBmO3p3zk9SAmXt0VJXxyT-YWvBlH3Vf1KRx8QUHA/s400/23316388_392434494519066_7191763929913503507_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lois Chiles must die for a DEATH ON THE NILE Year: 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> DEATH ON THE NILE, directed by the underrated John Guillermin, who surprisingly exceeds the often-brilliant MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS auteur, Sidney Lumet, chugging across the ORIENT...<br> <br> While on the NILE, the opening scenery in England, as a doomed and ridiculously gorgeous Lois Chiles rolls through the landscape of jealous laborers, sets a beautifully shot stage that spreads out to good if subtle eclectic ensemble performances. The only awful acting belongs to Mia Farrow as the spurned lover of Lois's brand new husband, Simon MacCorkindale. Mia speaks each line so loud and, while fitfully angered and borderline crazy, her voice, weighted-down with a noticeably faux British accent, strokes the proverbial cat backwards. Yet she's made up for by the likes of, for starters, David Niven as a... get this... sophisticated, classy, dapper and charming gentleman aiding Poirot...<br>

adventure, agatha christie, i.s. johar, jack warden, john guillermin, jon finch, lois chiles, maggie smith, mia farrow, mystery, peter ustinov, simon maccorkindale, suspense

LOIS CHILES DEADLINES AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

Lois Chiles must die for a DEATH ON THE NILE Year: 1978 DEATH ON THE NILE, directed by the underrated John Guillermin, who surprisingly ...

ROAMING WOODY ALLEN'S SHADOWS AND FOG

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWD16ykKvqiTo5_1wtym3_Z0lgiyuEPxDji8VDh0zqvY93nrfneY3QGsPSkvbjSCTygRjO0ovp7EMsaXNBVp6UiEWPC188Uad_-Y7guQxkvR2hXFw0AJJbO-Jc5G6TTXEwVNmsJpCgxFE/s1600/13178569_10209591871096031_4498858937156463185_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWD16ykKvqiTo5_1wtym3_Z0lgiyuEPxDji8VDh0zqvY93nrfneY3QGsPSkvbjSCTygRjO0ovp7EMsaXNBVp6UiEWPC188Uad_-Y7guQxkvR2hXFw0AJJbO-Jc5G6TTXEwVNmsJpCgxFE/s1600/13178569_10209591871096031_4498858937156463185_n.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Inside the Twilight Time Limited Edition Blu Ray after Removing Disc and Booklet MOVIE YEAR: 1993</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "Nothing is more terrifying than attempting to make people laugh, and failing," says John Malkovich as Clown, his name being his job at a traveling circus, one that happened to stop at a fog shrouded town with a killer on the loose, resembling London's famous Baker Street while the entire SHADOWS AND FOG is a combination of Film Noir, which includes the Wrong Man aspect catapulting the plot-line halfway through, and a general homage to the notorious Jack the Ripper legend...<br>

jodie foster, john cusack, kathy bates, lily tomlin, mia farrow, neo noir, nineties, suspense, woody allen

ROAMING WOODY ALLEN'S SHADOWS AND FOG

Inside the Twilight Time Limited Edition Blu Ray after Removing Disc and Booklet MOVIE YEAR: 1993 "Nothing is more terrifying than ...

A MYSTERIOUS MILITARY HELICOPTER IN ROSEMARY'S BABY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-5wpMXTmOMBrK_pu_OJrzV-i_Xa5_8kcf3SFAYNWM4PiDJhF5qlMBmgVKR0ZJg9lOXfMz8OZQGpPF4fRrvz1NbSMhVdMhIl1lEqbdq0mRPOGSVwmwn_5Dsev_F0oFmzXELr3SLaxjms/s1600/Picture2-20-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-5wpMXTmOMBrK_pu_OJrzV-i_Xa5_8kcf3SFAYNWM4PiDJhF5qlMBmgVKR0ZJg9lOXfMz8OZQGpPF4fRrvz1NbSMhVdMhIl1lEqbdq0mRPOGSVwmwn_5Dsev_F0oFmzXELr3SLaxjms/s1600/Picture2-20-1.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemary (Mia Farrow) notices something above the buildings</td></tr> </tbody></table> Roman Polanski’s classic horror/thriller ROSEMARY’S BABY is full of eerie/intriguing moments – here’s one that might have slipped under the radar…While Rosemary’s suffering pains of pregnancy, not knowing the reasons why, she has a feeling her elderly neighbors aren’t exactly normal…<br /> <br /> Kept like a prisoner in her apartment, Rosemary gets a chance for freedom: to meet with her friend, who had promised information that can back up her suspicions…Waiting for her friend to arrive, Rosemary stands on the New York City street as the creepy doll house soundtrack chimes, and, grimacing with discomfort, she tells herself: “Pain be gone, I will have no more of thee.”<br /> <br /> Then, she suddenly smiles, and as the music intensifies (just a bit) she looks up and notices a helicopter with two large propellers, meant for carrying troops and/or supplies, flying overhead: not quite fitting with the sleek building landscape and the propeller noise audible above the street commotion... <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NuJ1_L0wDq1_4XWX-Rsp2Qv04NW_btVB-5KWN3BVohmjWRhIkLlkOLzZfetc3FZjBwAfr1YUM8Z_0UYUjW5du9Ybz4NcPm98mwue8Qpgui9XJlSbeOvSNG3RhLb-yX-JYv12_-yGMtA/s1600/Picture+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NuJ1_L0wDq1_4XWX-Rsp2Qv04NW_btVB-5KWN3BVohmjWRhIkLlkOLzZfetc3FZjBwAfr1YUM8Z_0UYUjW5du9Ybz4NcPm98mwue8Qpgui9XJlSbeOvSNG3RhLb-yX-JYv12_-yGMtA/s1600/Picture+3.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemary's random view of a helicopter in the city skyline</td></tr> </tbody></table> Noticing the copter, the expression changes on Rosemary’s face, from an eerie smile to that of brief concern, or curiosity… Could it be she’s thinking of the girl she met in the laundry room – who was staying with her pesky neighbors and winded up leaping from a window? Her brother was in the military... Or is this a subliminal message about Vietnam, the very controversial war escalating at the time? <br /> <br /> Film historians would probably say the latter, being that no theme with political connections are missed in films (or books or music) of this era – but it’s always been an image that perplexed, and intrigued, this particular ROSEMARY'S BABY fanatic... The fact the copter is shown, even for a short period of time, means that it had to mean <i>something</i>...  <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGx6bam3VShDG_IP_On0CMXcMlP7vEfDvvhqFI-F98C7v645pRh7aKDxcpEmGsDwdpOp7rl0qTudRE-YZLMg2xUcTH5tN9Ba5SLVNkYvFlOVkNdpBYL087-EDIZijKPYQ0TduPDmzqO4/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGx6bam3VShDG_IP_On0CMXcMlP7vEfDvvhqFI-F98C7v645pRh7aKDxcpEmGsDwdpOp7rl0qTudRE-YZLMg2xUcTH5tN9Ba5SLVNkYvFlOVkNdpBYL087-EDIZijKPYQ0TduPDmzqO4/s1600/Picture+1.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pain be gone, I will have no more of thee."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis3FoJXnyTGVW_GJq0EzYSToJrTT2YpUybABrA_ZemQtWVDRCf4dTFnPoeJI8bmIIzHY1HroZe2FMPUtLZkoLnZjE22kaDVoECYg7cM_We4CQcjuo9PxO0_nVx0SuSz24zvWvcZ9wRoMQ/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis3FoJXnyTGVW_GJq0EzYSToJrTT2YpUybABrA_ZemQtWVDRCf4dTFnPoeJI8bmIIzHY1HroZe2FMPUtLZkoLnZjE22kaDVoECYg7cM_We4CQcjuo9PxO0_nVx0SuSz24zvWvcZ9wRoMQ/s1600/Picture+4.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosemarys-Baby-Criterion-Collection-Farrow/dp/B008MPQ112/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1354758076&sr=8-2&keywords=rosemary%27s+baby+dvd">BUY CRITERION COLLECTION ROSEMARY'S BABY</a></td></tr> </tbody></table>

horror, mia farrow, scenecap, sixties

A MYSTERIOUS MILITARY HELICOPTER IN ROSEMARY'S BABY

Rosemary (Mia Farrow) notices something above the buildings Roman Polanski’s classic horror/thriller ROSEMARY’S BABY is full of eerie/in...

SEE NO EVIL

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fcCyyBXPCJS544U0NqSgyXJ4tOPjOUOyLBTF6SjfZ0VOoDqpsvDy0F3tVg-smj09-b0nk_SKel2saQHAkvAG0zYgPO5MfiS2Ytnkow6u4SauMmZw3BX7f_A_vj3s9Qkq7RH1Ylsouo2y/s1600/seenoevil.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fcCyyBXPCJS544U0NqSgyXJ4tOPjOUOyLBTF6SjfZ0VOoDqpsvDy0F3tVg-smj09-b0nk_SKel2saQHAkvAG0zYgPO5MfiS2Ytnkow6u4SauMmZw3BX7f_A_vj3s9Qkq7RH1Ylsouo2y/s200/seenoevil.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>title:</b> SEE NO EVIL<br /> <div><b>year:</b> 1971</div><div><b>cast:</b> Mia Farrow</div><div><b>rating:</b> **1/2</div><br /> <div>Terrific build-up has a blind woman, played wonderfully by Mia Farrow, being reintroduced to her childhood home, literally feeling out the location where her entire family will be murdered, bodies strewn here and there, and she doesn't even know it. The peak of Richard Fleischer's direction are the scenes in which Mia's <i>in the dark</i>, but when she realizes the situation and runs for her life, hunted by the mysterious, faceless, boot-clad killer across a not-so-barren landscape, it becomes a tediously exhausting chase leading to a bland, anti-climactic conclusion. </div>

mia farrow, richard fleischer, seventies, suspense

SEE NO EVIL

title: SEE NO EVIL year: 1971 cast: Mia Farrow rating: **1/2 Terrific build-up has a blind woman, played wonderfully by Mia Farrow, b...