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🎬 In a former life, when I had TCM, I capped movies with my phone. I made many hundreds of raw shots.

I saw ran across a set last night from "Summer and Smoke" (1961), the film based on the #TennesseeWilliams play.

#GeraldinePage also played sexually-repressed Alma in an off-Brodways revival. #LaurenceHarvey plays young doctor, John Buchanan, Jr. It's set in a small Mississippi town just before World War I.

A brilliant movie starring two of the best actors the US and Britain have produced.

61 years ago:
Walk on the Wild Side (US)
At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the tru...
1962-03-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/60792
#WalkontheWildSide #LaurenceHarvey #Capucine #JaneFonda #Columbia #Movies

69 years ago:
The Good Die Young (UK)
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
1954-03-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47312
#TheGoodDieYoung #LewisGilbert #LaurenceHarvey #GloriaGrahame #RichardBasehart #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

62 years ago:
The Long and the Short and the Tall (UK)
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp ...
1961-02-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68198
#TheLongandtheShortandtheTall #LaurenceHarvey #RichardHarris #DavidMcCallum #ClassicFilm

surprising #vegan message from the always compelling laurence harvey in a 1959 episode of 'alfred hitchcock presents' when, as he (off-camera) acts out a life-ending manoeuvre on a chicken, says, 'i am a murderer'. #speciesism #hitchcock #television #laurenceHarvey #film

Butterfield 8 is a much more interesting and much better movie than its reputation would suggest.

One of the problems is that Butterfield 8 really is trashy. It’s an overheated sweaty sex melodrama. I happen to like overheated sweaty sex melodramas.

It dates from a period when Hollywood was tentatively exploring the idea of making movies for grown-ups.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/12/butterfield-8-1960.html

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On November 25, 1973 Laurence Harvey died in London.
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(R.I.P. 1928 - 1973)
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