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  1. #TakingABreakFromFilming
    #BeyondGlory (1948)
    Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.

    #AlanLadd #JohnFarrow (Director) on a break.
    #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

  2. > I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.

    #OnThisDate, August 3*, Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948) is the #FilmDuJour. #USA #FilmNoir #JohnFarrow #EdwardGRobinson #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film #1940s ★★★☆☆

    *a continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4

  3. Directed by #JohnFarrow, the 3D #JohnWayne #Western HONDO (1953) turned out to be one of the biggest box office hits of the 1953–54 season.

    A few notes re: HONDO

    altfg.com/film/hondo-movie-195

    #Broadway import #GeraldinePage, in her first important #movie role, received a Best Supporting #Actress #Oscar nomination.

    Yet her #Hollywood career didn't take off at the time. Page would later say that she was blacklisted during the 1950s.

    #CineMastodon #Movies #film #cinema #films