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Out of the Fog will be on TCM --Tuesday, May 07, 2013 @ 11:45 AM (EST)
shareHmm. 10:45 PM, not AM, here (PST)....
Seen it a few times on TCM; this movie always makes me so angry! I just seethe. And I love John Garfield, so it just shows how capable an actor he was -- albeit with a tragically short life and career. I've always been a fan of Thomas Mitchell, as well (could do without Lupino, actually...something about her just doesn't wash with me). Mitchell, to me, was just so under-rated as an actor; likely because most any actor back then that wasn't physically beautiful, was.
7/10...not a 'great movie', but the acting is definitely effective, and it's a story all too familiar in the days of the filthy racketeering business....hooray for the little guy! Too few times did they come out ahead; I love it when accountability comes into play, though Ida should have been beaten black and blue for her shallow stupidity...can't win 'em all, I suppose.
Funny - Humphrey Bogart had the same impression of Ida Lapino.
Your instincts match his.
I did not know that! I'm kind of tickled about it.
I do love Bogart, however. He was an AMAZING actor. Right out the gate, too, since he'd played Duke Mantee (thank you, Leslie Howard! Another favourite of mine, along with Bette Davis) in The Petrified Forest; ah, he was bloody fantastic. Even more so, once Warners' stopped typecasting him.
Oddly, though, I've yet to see The African Queen ---- the one film the Academy/his peers actually rewarded him for. I do believe I've seen pretty much everything else he's done. Excellent body of work; the antithesis of the 'dashing' leading man of early Hollywood, and the dames still loved him! ;-)
It's always shocking when I'm going about my business on the internet and reading something that seems perfectly unobjectionable, when all of a sudden out comes something disturbing and hateful. Such was the case when I read the post above and came across the poster's vicious call for violence against Id Lupino's character. Ugh! In the future, please keep your ugly, misogynist comments to yourself.
shareHahahaha!! I'm sorry, but when I'd finally gotten around to seeing your response to my post, I burst out laughing!
Since misogyny is a hatred of women, I'd have to be a militant chauvinist! Since I'm female, it's unlikely.
Anyway. I really did loathe Idas' character in this movie; even after she found out Garfields' character had been violently beating her old father and his old friend, to force him to give up his life savings (which she'd told him about--unwittingly, at the time) which he was saving for a boat but wanted to send her on vacation instead to get her away from the awful influence.....she just shrugged, and decided she would go with the creep anyway! Even though the trip he was taking her on was financed by her own, poor father. Gross. No redemption there, AT ALL. I had high hopes, but nope.
It wasn't a dig at Ida personally. Just the superficial ass character she'd portrayed. In the movie. Not her own character. I laud any woman who became a director during Hollywoods' Golden Age. I just didn't LOVE her as an actor.
I will say this: the fact that you feel so strongly about her character in this movie --- it really shrieks volumes about your own character, really.