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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely. What a film, and she's great in it

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 10h

#moviesky #filmsky #filmnoir

It’s that almost-the-weekend look.

Actress Gloria Grahame drinking from a mug and looking at the camera

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 9h

Angela Lansbury, born 100 years ago today. She left us a lot of treasures, but if The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) were the only rhing she ever did she would deserve the status of legend

"Now I shall make an end of dreams."

The same Angela, looking down in sadness

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe! This particular film does strike me as chiefly about the trajectory of the Jean Peters character though, as I say from heroic to romantic to monstrous to tragic. Though that certainly is pressured by the systems and culture she operates in

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, talk about subverting genre. This film turned out to be hauntingly good. Jacques Tourneur directed, but it’s more about the script than the direction. It’s not really clear from the credits who made this story. Or this line…!

“Now I’m making sure that your last thoughts will be of me.”

Jean Peters looks hatefully, defiantly, at a man we only see from behind (it's Louis Jordan)

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 13h

Halfway through, the film turns itself upside down. It’s now painfully concerned with an awakened then frustrated sexuality, with the heroine moving from heroic to romantic to monstrous to tragic. It’s quite a shock. You’re not in Saturday matinee land anymore. This is heavy melodrama. It’s great

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a barrel of hearty brutal amusement, with plank-walkings, floggings, and a man genuinely wrestling a bear. Jean Peters is a natural swashbuckler, who fences like a pro and is a match for any man. A great tomboy turn, but she IS still a woman - and it’s on that point that the fun sort of ends

A fierce young woman, Jean Peters, on a ship in a swordfight with a buccaneer

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 13h

Anne of the Indies (1951). Jean Peters as a pirate captain is a diabolical stroke of casting genius. Also Louis Jordan as “Frenchie”, Herbert Marshall bringing dimension to the rum-soaked doctor role, and James Robertson Justice in an eye-patch. Fun, right? Yes! But there's A LOT more to this pic

Poster for Anne of the Indies. Various pirate scenes, mainly fierce a young woman with long dark hair swinging a sabre

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 22h

An adorable publicity shot of Mitzi Gaynor and Jean Peters on the set of TAKE CARE OF MY LITTLE GIRL (1951). Jean Peters was #BornThisDay in 1926.

Mitzi, left, has on short-shorts and a tube top. Jean, right, has on somehwat longer shorts and a turtleneck. They are both leaning against a door and flashing big come-hither grins.

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 22h

❤️ Jean Peters. I've got Anne of the Indies lined up today

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible thread

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 1d

Rookie numbers 😁

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 1d

I did very poor, think I got two: Claire Denis top middle, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, right middle?

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 1d

This looks great - terrific cast. Gonna watch it tomorrow

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

😆 my first thought there was, maybe they wanted to get away from it all, but if that Ireland tour doc is anything to go by they'd have been mobbed on sight anywhere. Fans were *scary* in them days

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

When they were in school, Genesis P-Orridge met the Rolling Stones. About Brian, they say, “He seemed completely separate from the other people in the room, the whole time. Like a phantom, as if he was not real.” Their song about Brian, Godstar, is really lovely

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sKy...

Psychic TV Godstar Tube

YouTube video by Michael Baxter

www.youtube.com

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Backstage, or in hotels rooms, or on trains, Keith is always either strumming a guitar, sitting at the piano, or singing. He can’t stop doing music. Brian seems to avoid the camera, but there are some short interview clips. He has a wonderful, relaxed English voice. I’d listen to him tell stories

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

The Stones sound AMAZING here. The crowd is very noisy. It's shot in a kinetic way at close quarters, and the editing is dazzlingly chaotic. You do almost feel like you’re there. This show ended in a terrifying stage invasion where it looked like the boys would be pulled apart for saintly relics

Keith, Mick, and Brian lined up onstage, all looking lively. Out front there is an equally lively looking crowd

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Charlie is my Darling (1966). A document of the Rolling Stones tour of Ireland in 1965. The Stones in 1965 were beautiful weren’t they? Golden. That was when Mick wasn’t a cartoon character; when Keith looked about fourteen; when they still had Brian ❤️

Poster for Charlie is my Darling. The five Stones sitting in a row on a long bus seat

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

Bit more Tom Waits love. I saw Cold Feet when it came out and only remember two scenes. Tom doing sit-ups hanging out the window of a speeding car, and Tom walking into a shitkicker bar and yelling YEEEHAAAW. It's a brilliant psycho turn, love to see it again

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

Me too, just once, London on the Frank's Wild Years tour. I forked out for a front row seat and it was the best money I ever spent. Umforgettable

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, nice one, thanks John!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

I've got his book The Hell-Fire Clubs. A scorching read, but thorough and scholarly

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes, there is that

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 4d

I never really picked up on anything very political in it. I'm intrigued though...

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