June 12th: Invitation

Now, in today's T.V. and movies and books, Women fighting over men makes a 'great' story. Women are devious, everyone knows, but it's no new fact that they go crazy for a man and won't stop at anything. Apparently the same was true in the 1950's where our film takes place.

Invitation came out in 1952 starring a Dorothy McGuire as Ellen, a sick housewife who's just so happy to have her perfect husband. The man who plays her husband we know from The Last Time I Saw Paris, A Mr. Van Johnson. He's Dan, Ellen's perfect husband who does everything he can for her in her frail state.

Well, Ellen goes out to visit her rich father one day, she also stop by an old friend, Maud. Well, we find out in a flashback that the two were once great friends, and that Maud had her eyes on Dan, who randomly married Ellen and made her so happy. Well, now Ellen knows that Maud is still after Dan, ad that she's more ready than ever to start up the fighting again. But wait! Dan gets an invitation to some super private medical shindig that Maud just so happens to also be going to? (And I though I was a manipulative..... witch).

While looking into everything to protect her man, she actually finds out that the only reason Dan married her is because her rich daddy bought him for her because she's going to die in a few months. The rest of the movie is all the drama in figuring this out, but with an actually happy ending.

YouTubes got nothing, but the movie is on TCM every now and then guys. Its only like, 2 hours long and a quick paced drama. Kids would get bored, but if your into any mild soap on ABC Family You'll get a kick out of this one



The Flick Chick, Signing off

June 5th: A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

Sorry for the late posting again guys; internet sucks if you live in the middle of nowhere.

While I was at Sam's club with my awesome Hitchcock collection buying, I also picked up a collection of 11 movies ($5!!!) entitled "Great Cinema" which I was very excited about, one, because it had The last Time I Saw Paris, and mine is all scratched, but also because every movie in the collection fit my project's criteria!

So, I watched A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. The movie came out in 1932 starring Eddie Albert as a regular man who, after getting a good whack in the head (This is what happens when you are mean to prison guards, Pally
) he finds himself In King Arthur's court (If you had no clue from the title). Anyways, after a quick plan to get the kingdom to believe him all powerful, he stats creating technology for their society to make himself a great man (Because you're really able to make a telephone pop out of a tree in a day in the movies......)The townsfolk give him the name Sir Boss through most of the movie after he claims to be 'the new boss around here'. Meanwhile, A plan to murder Arthur, Sir Boss's new buddy, is underway, and boss must wok to stop it.
Now, this film is extremely short, a little less than an hour because it was made for T.V. but was later shown in formal theaters. (random trivia pours from my brain!!!). Though perfectly fine for kids, its kinda corny, but in a rather charming way. In fact, this movie will probably serve kids minds more than adults, but was cute and an easy family movie either way.

Sadly, Nobody has anything on this original version of the film, but I found it at Sam's Club of all places, so best of luck to you finding it.

The Chick of Flick, Signing off.