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The Historical Setting for this romance

posted 10 years ago by grumpy736-1
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Full disclosure -- I only watched the first 20 minutes of it and turned it off. I saw it was a 1934 movie, Hitler had come to power in 1933, and I wasn't ready for a Nazi romance with an American girl. I've seen Otto Kruger play the Nazi for example on SABOTEUR by Hitchcock. He's was a great actor, saw him in many films and he had Robert Osborne job on TV hosting movies. I just had seen Myrna Loy on TCM as a Mata Hari and needed a break from German themed films. Now I'm remorseful, seeing the review here on imdb. I hope to see it again and I love that kind of tension, the ambiguous love story, the community harassment...if only I had known the setting was 1909 or thereabouts and would be the Great War.

I miss Big Band music and talented singers. Leonard Cohen is my idol. Civility, harmony, unity!

[–] jellyree 10 years ago

You weren't watching very carefully during those first 20 minutes, "1909" was on the screen in the first moment after the cast was introduced.

[–] grumpy736-1 10 years ago

Damn !!! Thanks anyway. I truly love Barbara Stanwyck's films. She had a great TV series (like Loretta Young's series) but somehow I never saw her Big Valley series. Loved Ten Cents a Dance and other 30s, pre-code films. The one with Gable as a gangster punk... TCM is awesome. I'm 78.

I miss Big Band music and talented singers. Leonard Cohen is my idol. Civility, harmony, unity!