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Originally Posted by Catlady
I'm impressed that you knew I wasn't referring to the Carole Lombard movie with the same title! Stanwyck is wonderful in the film, but it's too bad the movie had kind of a cop-out ending, unlike Woolrich's novel.
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I love them both, but this was clearly Stanwyck. For those who haven't seen her
No Man of Her Own and have Prime, it's free to watch.
As for the cop-out ending, that's the Code for you.
You're all a bunch of whippersnappers! How about the days when in order to see oldies, you had to troll the listings for
Million Dollar Movie and
The Late, Late Show, or haul your carcass to theaters such as
the Thalia?
VHS tapes, pshaw!
Topic! I've finished
Gates of Fire, which is enthralling if not entirely accurate in its depiction of Spartan life, but the battle scenes are unparalleled. Moved on to
The Great Hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith, an account of the Irish famine in the mid-19th century, read by Frederick Davidson. Yet another doorstopper that I gave up on getting the ebook, so I'm listening to the audio.