Post by Mary Ellen Byrne on Mar 6, 2011 23:38:19 GMT -5
I now own this! I purchased it last Friday as a download from the Warner Brothers Store website.
Good film but I do wish they had featured Connie's character more. I like how for the last role of his life, he was cast as a good guy.
I really liked this character. This is the first time I have every seen Connie playing a role that had a kind of comical humor to it. It's like he is subtly screwing things up for the Nazi's and he is having a ball doing it!
There were a couple of eerie moments of irony for any Connie fan though, knowing this role would be the last in his life. Connie always played his roles so seriously and with such intensity that it is refreshing to see his character treating the danger he's in so lightheartedly.
First of all in the beginning, when the newlyweds are on their wedding night Joan Crawford lets Fred MacMurry read her diary and he turns to the earlier papers and reads the entry from April 2nd. It's almost as if the strains of haunted music suddenly begin to play as the background to a strike of thunder and lightning.
Then at the end when they realize their friend, Thornley has died and Professor Myers is covering Thornley up with a blanket, Connie's character says "Well, he finished his job." and Fred MacMurry's character replies "That's about as much as any of us can ask nowadays." that sent a cold chill up my spine!
It was like 'Got in Himmel! Do you two know what it is your saying?! Do you have any idea who you're saying it about!
I was glad for the happy ending though. Once the Myers were safe, I expected to hear Hassert giving this morale boasting speech about how he must go back to Germany and continue the fight. He would like nothing better than to go with the Myers to the American Embassy and and go back to Oxford with them but he must stay and help his people fight back this evil man Hitler and drive back the black cloud of terror he and the Nazis are trying to impose on the world. Then, to inspirational music, they shake hands and the Myers go off to safety and Hassie would bravely turn and march back across the boarder to continue the noble fight.
- NNNAAAWWW. They ditched the car and all went out for spaghetti and everyone is left to assume that Hassie will end up going back to England with the Myers.
A happy ending but also bittersweet because once Connie steps off screen he is never seen again.
Good film but I do wish they had featured Connie's character more. I like how for the last role of his life, he was cast as a good guy.
I really liked this character. This is the first time I have every seen Connie playing a role that had a kind of comical humor to it. It's like he is subtly screwing things up for the Nazi's and he is having a ball doing it!
There were a couple of eerie moments of irony for any Connie fan though, knowing this role would be the last in his life. Connie always played his roles so seriously and with such intensity that it is refreshing to see his character treating the danger he's in so lightheartedly.
First of all in the beginning, when the newlyweds are on their wedding night Joan Crawford lets Fred MacMurry read her diary and he turns to the earlier papers and reads the entry from April 2nd. It's almost as if the strains of haunted music suddenly begin to play as the background to a strike of thunder and lightning.
Then at the end when they realize their friend, Thornley has died and Professor Myers is covering Thornley up with a blanket, Connie's character says "Well, he finished his job." and Fred MacMurry's character replies "That's about as much as any of us can ask nowadays." that sent a cold chill up my spine!
It was like 'Got in Himmel! Do you two know what it is your saying?! Do you have any idea who you're saying it about!
I was glad for the happy ending though. Once the Myers were safe, I expected to hear Hassert giving this morale boasting speech about how he must go back to Germany and continue the fight. He would like nothing better than to go with the Myers to the American Embassy and and go back to Oxford with them but he must stay and help his people fight back this evil man Hitler and drive back the black cloud of terror he and the Nazis are trying to impose on the world. Then, to inspirational music, they shake hands and the Myers go off to safety and Hassie would bravely turn and march back across the boarder to continue the noble fight.
- NNNAAAWWW. They ditched the car and all went out for spaghetti and everyone is left to assume that Hassie will end up going back to England with the Myers.A happy ending but also bittersweet because once Connie steps off screen he is never seen again.
