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[YT Edit] Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Added 2024-10-24 23:07:36 +0000 UTCHey guys! Here is the YT edit for "Arsenic and Old Lace" which will premiere shortly.
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Yeah, it's even got Kevin Costner in it....if you look closely.
crazyivan
2024-11-16 22:11:32 +0000 UTCI'm curious about whether you noticed the actor who played Dr. Einstein as Peter Lorre. He was the man in "Casablanca", who gave the stolen travel paper's to Humphry Bogarts character, Rick. Lorre was a regular in many of the old horror film's. The "Bug Eye's" get me!!! Please try and do more classic film's.. My favorite comedy of the Golden Age was W.C Fields in "It's A Gift". My favorite recent comedy is "Death to Smoochy". A film that you both would love. Thanks for the great reaction!!!!
Chris Baldwin
2024-11-08 05:45:41 +0000 UTCThis is often the case with movies that are adapted from stage plays, like Arsenic and Old Lace. Another example we've seen with Cassie is Twelve Angry Men. That whole movie (just like the stage play) took place almost entirely in the jury room.
Silver Machine
2024-11-02 18:40:07 +0000 UTCI thought Cassie and Carly could get me through this movie but no I ended up fast forwarding to the end. I’ve tried to get through reactions with two different reactors now with no luck. I just find this movie boring and/or irritating. But I did give it a try, it just isn’t for me.
Richard Maurer
2024-11-02 13:52:59 +0000 UTCSomething about this movie I have not seen anyone comment on, with only two exceptions the entire movie takes place in the living room of the family house. This is a huge budget savings that a few directors like to make use of because it saves a huge amount on the movie budget they could use to get the actor or actors to be in the production with higher pay. Modern movies with Green Screen can have a different setting for every bit of dialog but before about 1990 green screen or blue screen was very limited and generally used for small special effects.
Allen W. McDonnell
2024-10-30 14:54:42 +0000 UTCI remember watching "Houseboat" as a kid.
bgb1975
2024-10-29 18:59:02 +0000 UTCSince we're talking Cary Grant movies I'd also throw in Operation Petticoat and Charade.
Peter Dillard
2024-10-29 15:43:42 +0000 UTCDon’t forget Jack Lemmon!
Marc Peterson
2024-10-29 14:39:03 +0000 UTCThrow in the Royal Australian Navy and 7 adorable school girls and madcap mayhem ensues! Father Goose.
Marc Peterson
2024-10-29 14:37:49 +0000 UTCIf you love Cary Grant, please react to Father Goose (1964) where you see Cary as you rarely see him. Not sauve and debonair, but a cranky old drunken hermit. The lovely Leslie Caron is his antagonist and eventual love interest. Leslie is one of the last living actresses of Hollywood's Golden Era. She was discovered by Gene Kelly and made her film debut in American in Paris. Father Goose is one of those 60's romantic comedies, but has plenty of WW2 action as well. Think a cross between Roman Holiday, African Queen and The Pacific. Can't recommend this one highly enough.
Marc Peterson
2024-10-28 14:20:34 +0000 UTCCassie already has a girl-crush on Grace Kelly. She'll love watching Marilyn too.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-27 10:03:23 +0000 UTCClarence, YES!!! to all of the above, “annoying flaws” and all. Marilyn Monroe was the most classically sexy woman I’ve ever seen, just like Grace Kelly was the most classically beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.
Just Plain Bob
2024-10-27 07:21:41 +0000 UTCOhh pleeeeeeease watch The Big Chill. I'm sure you'll both love it 😀
GomezAddams
2024-10-27 01:39:44 +0000 UTCI frequently find that “dated” films are often better written than recent ones.
Catherine LW
2024-10-26 21:26:36 +0000 UTCJust noticed that Cassie's reaction to Arsenic has topped 40k views in the first 24 hours. That strikes me as HUGE for a film this old and relatively obscure.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-26 20:54:13 +0000 UTCPyewacket!
Catherine LW
2024-10-26 19:17:39 +0000 UTCHappy Hanukkah, Agreed and well said.
Just Plain Bob
2024-10-26 19:02:04 +0000 UTCGiven that the younger generations are supposedly more receptive to diversity and multiculturalism, this chronological snobbery is ironic.
Happy Hanukkah
2024-10-26 19:01:28 +0000 UTCClarence, I definitely saw recency bias when I was younger and was guilty of it myself. For example, if I saw that two movies were on offer on tv, in the same genre, and knew nothing about them, I was more likely to choose the one that came out a couple of years earlier as opposed to the one that came out in the 50s. But, that didn’t mean I was averse to older movies. Before I left home for college, I had watched almost every major film noir of the 40s and 50s, for instance, and LOVED them. I had watched ALL the Universal monster classics. And so on. It didn’t bother me that a film was in black and white (in the case of noir, it’s preferable). And that was also true of my contemporaries. In the decades since, as the quality of Hollywood’s output has diminished (IMO), I’ve actually come to prefer older movies. But, for most of those in today’s younger generations, the idea of voluntarily watching an older movie is anathema.
Just Plain Bob
2024-10-26 15:06:00 +0000 UTCI don't remember recency bias when we were younger, Bob. In the 70s, we watched Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Flash Gordon, The Three Stooges, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, plus all the old movies like King Kong, It's A Wonderful Life and Wizard of Oz. Oh, and John Wayne westerns. Lots and lots of John Wayne westerns. I think that's because there were no video recorders or DVDs back then and only 3 channels. We pretty much watched what was on.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-26 13:52:20 +0000 UTCStrangely enough, Catherine, I've never particularly liked "Some Like It Hot". I would never argue against it because I know it's a traditional favourite of many. I'd also expect it to win a poll of Monroe movies. For me though, there are several films ahead of it. "Don't Bother To Knock" (1952). Very good drama with a pre-Mega-Fame Marilyn playing an unhinged babysitter. Not a comedy, nor does it showcase her legendary beauty. Instead, it shows her acting ability. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) Marilyn at the peak of her powers - THE film I would show people if they asked me "What was special about Marilyn Monroe?" Jane Russell is also good in this movie, but it's hard to notice her when she's standing next to Marilyn. Easily my favourite MM movie. "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) The movie that spawned one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. I watched it recently and was reminded of how funny and fun it is. Cassie would love it. That's all I would recommend personally. "Niagara" (1953) and "Bus Stop" (1956) would be honourable mentions, but both suffer from annoying flaws. Niagara concentrates *too much* on Monroe's physical motion, and "Bus Stop" might well contain the most annoying leading man in the history of cinema. There is not a second of that film where I don't want to punch Don Murray in the mouth.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-26 13:44:02 +0000 UTCI will always be happy to see any Cary Grant movies here.
Ria Grix
2024-10-25 23:46:33 +0000 UTCTo be fair, they are old, and many are dated. None of that is necessarily a negative, though.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 22:45:47 +0000 UTCSo true, and it seems that it always has been: one of my favorite examples is an article from 1849, written by the novelist and biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell, known to every English major as Mrs. Gaskell. A charismatic, charming writer, she can pull you in and make you enchanted to "listen" to whatever she wants to relate. This article, called "The Last Generation in England", includes this description of an older lady: "Although an only child, she had never sat down in her parents' presence without leave until she was married; and spoke with infinite disgust of the modem familiarity with which children treated their parents. 'In my days,' said she, 'when we wrote to our fathers and mothers, we began "Honoured Sir," or "Honoured Madam," none of your "Dear Mamas," or "Dear Papas" would have been permitted; and we ruled off our margin before beginning our letters, instead of cramming writing into every corner of the paper; and when we ended our letters we asked our parents' blessing if we were writing to them; and if we wrote to a friend we were content to "remain your affectionate friend," instead of hunting up some newfangled expression, such as "your attached, your loving," &c. Fanny, my dear! I got a letter to-day signed "Yours cordially," like a dram-shop! what will this world come to?' " (http://victorian-studies.net/EG-Generation.html) Well, I never! So, things change but they never really do.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 22:43:51 +0000 UTCIt truly is: I like to say the world is a tiny place! All thanks to people like Popcorn and Mia: wonderful, intelligent, feeling watchers of movies.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 22:36:02 +0000 UTCI’m well, thanks! Nice to see a familiar face! 😃
Catherine LW
2024-10-25 22:31:27 +0000 UTCSome Like it Hot should be on Cassie and Carly’s list. Rated the greatest comedy of all time. Never fails to make me laugh!
Catherine LW
2024-10-25 22:30:15 +0000 UTCHi Catherine, yes, I'm part of Mia's "family". Some lovely chats there! Looking forward to more here, with all these great people. Hope you're doing well!
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 22:27:13 +0000 UTCMaria, you subscribe to Mia’s channel, right? We’ve had some good chats on some watch alongs with Mia, I believe.
Catherine LW
2024-10-25 22:04:40 +0000 UTCPhiladelphia Story too!
Catherine LW
2024-10-25 21:54:17 +0000 UTCGrant donated all of his salary for this film and others to the war effort. He was too old to serve, so he donated money and volunteered at many events to raise funds for the USO. He also donated funds to women and children in Britain who were homeless because of the bombings.
Catherine LW
2024-10-25 21:51:34 +0000 UTCWe also need some Marilyn Monroe, Dave. I'm not saying Marilyn was the greatest actress ever, but her comic timing was superb.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-25 19:54:45 +0000 UTCThat was just like Cary Grant’s rom-com with Shirley Temple, “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer”. Btw. Actors in those days only did two movies per year, because of the tax code. If they did a third movie their income tax would go up so high they would be effectively working for free on that third movie.
Uncle Phoenix
2024-10-25 15:58:08 +0000 UTCYES TO THE YES OF ALL YESES! (i.e. agree wholeheartedly)
Above Average Dave
2024-10-25 15:35:18 +0000 UTCPerhaps the apotheosis of these kinds of movies was HIS GIRL FRIDAY, where Rosalind Russell, no one's fool ever, not only holds her own with Cary Grant, she wins several rounds. I wish we could get that one on Cassie's radar. Just a mad (in a good way) comedy and a great dance of love between the two leads.
Above Average Dave
2024-10-25 15:33:43 +0000 UTC30s & 40s films are just too dated for my taste, and I saw many back in the 70s growing up. They seemed old even then, lol.
Joe
2024-10-25 15:16:28 +0000 UTCGreat to see a reaction to a classic. They get too little love from the younger generations, which I don’t understand. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. We also suffered from recency bias, but nothing like what I see from millennials and Gen Z’ers. Time and again I’ve heard them denigrate movies because they didn’t have CGI (even to the point of wanting a remake of “Jaws” because “it would be so much better with a CGI shark”) or were filmed in black and white. I grew up in the age of color, but neither I nor anyone else that I knew in my generation were averse to watching a black and white film. I also hear a lot of criticism of the acting and storytelling tropes of older movies. This just in: stylized acting and tropes are infused in today’s filmmaking as well. It just goes unnoticed because we’re used to it. How often have you seen action stars walk calmly away as an explosion rips apart the world behind them? How often have you seen two actors press their foreheads together in a moment of profound sadness or introspection? I’ve never seen two actual human beings do that in my life and, if I did, I’d think that they watch too many melodramas. What about the guy that is seen fixing bacon and eggs in the kitchen for the kids? Message: this is the good guy; he nurtures his family and eschews traditional gender roles. Whether you agree/sympathize with such tropes is beside the point. The point is that they are part of our current cinematic language. A language that will continue to evolve until, thirty years from now, the next couple of generations will be laughing derisively at the films that today’s modern audiences cherish. The bottom line is that we need a greater appreciation of the cinematic classics. Because, one day, the movies we’re watching today will be “old” and “dated.”
Just Plain Bob
2024-10-25 15:14:24 +0000 UTCThis movie seemed so dated even back in the 70s when I first saw it.
Joe
2024-10-25 14:48:50 +0000 UTCI like that Carly said in the YouTube premiere chat last night that she wanted to see more Cary Grant movies! I hope she is reading these recs also!
Mike LL
2024-10-25 12:43:34 +0000 UTCYes to all. And there is more!
Mike LL
2024-10-25 12:38:06 +0000 UTCI love BB&C. It's Christmas movie too. And it has a Siamese cat as well as Elsa Lanchester and Hermione Gingold providing support to a great leading cast. Can't go wrong.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 10:00:39 +0000 UTCAgreed on all.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 09:59:32 +0000 UTCThat's so fun!
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 09:58:06 +0000 UTCJust so you know......Once the stresses of October are behind you, and you stagger out of your movie room frazzled to a crisp with hair like Jennifer Aniston's in Bruce Almighty, there will be a nice bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans waiting for you (I'm not going to pretend Officer and a Gentleman is all chuckles - there's a couple of ear wax flavour in there, but they are vastly outnumbered by caramel, peanut butter cup and bacon). You can follow that with the 2 hour foot massage that is Four Weddings and a Funeral, which is a promise you've already made to yourself. If that's not enough to dissipate your funk, there's plenty more treats waiting for you in the cuddly koala bear that is November. The Way We Were can be your shopping spree, The Graduate can be your glass of wine, Star Trek can be the loyal friend who loves you in spite of your inability to master the Vulcan salute, and just for something different, The Full Monty can be your snow angel while buried in a pile of playful puppies. The choice, as always, is yours. Feeling better yet?
Clarence Newman
2024-10-25 09:48:09 +0000 UTCIt's always fun to see one of these old classics, but only if the leads in it are really good at what they do. Otherwise it's too hammy. Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in Its A Wonderful Life are a perfect example. Cary Grant is perfect for this kind of thing too - charming, athletic, great timing, not too over the top with his slapstick, while Priscilla Lane is a delight as Elaine (ie not just a hood ornament. She holds her own as an actor.) Others have mentioned it already, but Philadelphia Story with Jimmy Stewart is also a must-see - maybe the best film of the three I've just mentioned. Let me just say, I appreciate the little chat the two of you had in the intro, about why Carly makes herself scarce in October. Cassie mentioned that Carly had "backtracked" since the first year in the kind of movies she exposes herself to, and that's true. But it's important to remember that Carly didn't start this channel and only watched Jaws (her first) because her sister asked her to. It might have ended there, but she was so popular, everybody kept asking for her to come back. Beyond that, it's her choice which movies she watches, just as much as it's our choice which reactions we watch. Don't get me wrong, I love the double jumpscares Cassie and Carly have given us, and I'd like to see more, but Carly's explanation, "It makes me more scared in my real life and I don't like that feeling" is pretty much all she needs to say. I'm delighted to see her whenever she turns up, but I don't expect to see her for scary movies and I expect her to be scarce in October. The young lady has a life and we want her to enjoy it. As for Cassie, who DID start this channel and HAS chosen to batter her tender soul with the prickly side of a hairbrush every October, I have one thing to say to you before the month ends..... Bzzzz bzzz.
Clarence Newman
2024-10-25 09:20:19 +0000 UTCGreat reaction. These films are rare. I think Billy Chrystal and Danny DeVito did it better with Throw Momma from the Train.
Author Travis Adams Irish
2024-10-25 09:03:47 +0000 UTCExcept for World War 2...
ShazD
2024-10-25 07:45:31 +0000 UTCCassie, This is one of Grant's great comedies. You need to do "The Awful Truth", "Bringing Up Baby", "Holiday", and "His Girl Friday", too!
Rick Moreno
2024-10-25 07:37:28 +0000 UTCAnother 'halloweenisque' movie that you both would LOVE is 'Bell, Book and Candle'.
Peter Dillard
2024-10-25 05:43:48 +0000 UTCOh I hadn't seen this yet. That was a gentle one. Simpler time in the 40's. lol
Chris Thom
2024-10-25 04:49:16 +0000 UTC22:50 You're welcome. :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2024-10-25 04:37:11 +0000 UTCNice to see Carly again in October. Not gonna lie, though...kind of wish it was for another movie. The joint jump-scares are too priceless.
Chris Thom
2024-10-25 04:15:39 +0000 UTCAwww I saw this at a community theater when I was younger also. And we kids loved watching this movie.
Red Dwarf
2024-10-25 04:10:20 +0000 UTCIn the original 1940s Broadway run, during the final Curtain Call, 12 actors playing the dead bodies emerged from the cellar to take a bow. They were never seen during the play either, until the curtain call.
Larry Darrell
2024-10-25 03:54:31 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jOWk9oI14M&t=837s
Happy Hanukkah
2024-10-25 03:49:28 +0000 UTC+++++1 for The Bishop’s Wife (1947)… a beautiful Christmas movie. Also, Frank Capra’s, Meet John Doe (1941)… for another of James Gleason’s roles, that will draw a tear. It’s another amazing Christmas movie as well. I never let a Christmas go by without watching either of these films.
Larry Darrell
2024-10-25 03:40:42 +0000 UTCI saw a live production of this show when I was a tween and also thought it was silly and fun. About ten years ago, I auditioned for another stage production of the show, hoping that I'd get to play Teddy, but was cast as the lieutenant instead. It was still fun. Cary Grant's last movie was "Walk, Don't Run," which I remember also being silly and fun, although I haven't seen it in years.
Stephen Dias
2024-10-25 02:50:28 +0000 UTCThe editing of this film is very good. There is no break in the action. I saw the play as a teenager in a dinner theatre and it takes a lot to act this out on stage. Nonstop go go go.
JULIE
2024-10-25 01:34:36 +0000 UTCWhich should be on the list of must-sees!
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 00:32:02 +0000 UTCJoy of joys! I think this is your introduction to James Gleason as Rooney - truly one of the best supporting players around! Adept at comedy, also able to draw a tear. He is charming in a Judy Garland movie, "The Clock" and partners Grant once again in a small, lovely role in "The Bishop's Wife". I kind of just love watching James Gleason.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 00:25:16 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite old slapstick movies! I discovered it as a kid and haven’t watched in so long 😂
Mss Lee
2024-10-25 00:20:57 +0000 UTCJosephine Hull also won the Oscar for Harvey 1950 ( with James Stewart)
William Burnham
2024-10-25 00:10:02 +0000 UTCThe joke about Jonathan looking like horror specialist Boris Karloff is that Karloff himself was playing the role on Broadway. This happened while the movie was being made, and so Karloff couldn't take time away to repeat the role here. Instead, we have classically trained Canadian actor Raymond Massey, who is superb. His sidekick is Peter Lorre. You saw him as Ugarte in "Casablanca", but you must treat yourself to know him better: he is a sheer delight. Incidentally, both aunts and the actor playing Teddy all originated their roles on Broadway along with Karloff. As they weren't "names" like he was, they could take the time.
Maria Torres
2024-10-25 00:01:07 +0000 UTCCary Grant was an acrobat of sorts when he was starting out, so falling over chairs is old hat to him. He does some fancy somersaults in "Holiday", which also features the actor who played Mr. Witherspoon, the lovely supporting player Edward Everett Horton (a Brooklynite, too, go figure!). I grew up watching the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, which featured a segment narrated by Mr. Horton. I knew his voice ages before I knew his face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFtcnD8kOmA
Maria Torres
2024-10-24 23:56:11 +0000 UTCCharade is such a great movie!
Tony Tenser
2024-10-24 23:40:51 +0000 UTCYankees???! In Brooklyn?? Heavens no - these are the Brooklyn Dodgers, aka Dem Bums.
Maria Torres
2024-10-24 23:34:01 +0000 UTCThe one, the only, the unique, Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca".
Maria Torres
2024-10-24 23:31:15 +0000 UTCAs a native Brooklynite, I'm obliged to love this movie, and I do! Oh, fun note: in a movie filled with bodies, we really only get a shadowed glimpse of one.
Maria Torres
2024-10-24 23:28:59 +0000 UTCLike old Classics, growing up in the 70s only had 12 Channels. He in Charade another good movie with the Beautifull Audrey Hepburn, similar to North by Northwest.
Tim C
2024-10-24 23:26:40 +0000 UTCCary Grant,Katherine Hepburn & Jimmy Stewart in 'The Philadelphia Story' the battle of the 'Mid-Atlantic' accents! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Celeste McAllister
2024-10-24 23:17:39 +0000 UTCThis movie is great! Enjoy.
edgecenter
2024-10-24 23:14:03 +0000 UTCCHARGE!!!!!
T.J. Gengler
2024-10-24 23:13:57 +0000 UTC
