I have to work by memory, but when I first saw this film in the theatre I remember that the plot had her mind on revenge BECAUSE she took the fall for her husband, then got him back after he finally admitted he loved her (or he said that to placate her, anyway). Then she left, with his credit card.
Am I remembering this right? When I saw the film on one of the movie channels, those moments weren't included. Were they edited out (for time?), or did they ever exist?
She got him drunk, took him back to her sparce little apartment, he went to sleep, she took all his stuff and locked him in on her way out. Last time we see her she's driving down a road with a big smile on her face and lots of pretty new dresses in fancy boxes beside her on the seat!
Yeah!
Great movie - Great music
shelby
Yeah, but this is her final act. I'm speaking about an earlier conversation in the film, where her gullible "taking the fall" is laid out.
Foots - Remember, she set it up to meet him in a bar where they taunted the waiter and drank each ther under the table. That's when the conversation started about the fact that she sill loved him and all that. Then ... (she's not as drunk as he thinks she is)..she takes him up to her cheap cutainless apartment where they talk more about loyalty and love and how she loved him so much that the days went by and the years went by quickly and all that. Then the guy goes to sleep and she rolls him!
That whole part of the movie was a little vague to me too.
Remember the shot of the building at the end where Rudolph puls back the camera? Vague
Moms Mabley's songs were GREAT tho wasn't they? I love the blues!
shelby
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemetary and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fieldsshare
Yeah, but all that you describe happens LATER than the scene I'm referring to. I remember that they were standing in a hallway or something, and she tells him that she took the rap for him, and he would be there for her when she got out.
If you don't remember the scene, maybe it was cut out ...
BTW, the music was great - but it was sung by ALBERTA HUNTER. I have the original soundtrack on LP. Hunter was great in the 1930s, then she left the business for almost 50 years, first to take care of her mom and then worked as a practical nurse (or RN) and finally returned to singing in the late 1970s. I possess four or five of her albums. Super stuff!
Damn! You're right Alberta Hunter. During the Grammy or Oscar awards the year this movie came out, Moms Mabley and Kris Kristofferson came out to give the award away and Moms was flirting with Kris on stage...I got'em mixed up! But maybe it was Albert Hunter who came out with Kris..I forgot..
Tell ya what Foots. I'll get the film out and watch it and come back in here tonite and give you everything you want to know word for word. Okay? I promise.
Is that movie impossible to find? I home taped it off the Movie Channel about 5 years ago. I was surprised they played it tho.
shelby
IF THEY MOVE,KILL'EM
Foots - The mystery scene happened in the Police Station as she was arrested. (she wasn't arrested tho) The wife seen her in the parking lot after she stabbed Alfrie Woodard's cowboy-boyfriend in the leg with a pencil. The wife ran into the store to tell the Mr Nudd and they had her arrested. The charge was not the stabbing, it was the broken window and unlawful entry she pulled on the wife in the afternoon when she took a tour of their house. The wife had a knife and so did the chick. Kind of a meek showdown in the kitchen. The wife was more that ready to send her back to the slammer but Anthony Perkins said "Not until I talk to her." Now what happns next is a "hold me" scene in which Ms Chaplin cons Mr Perkins by giving him this stoy about prison saying that all thru the 4,800,88 days all she could she was see his face and how everyone else's face faded away into te "landscape" she got him all lovie and guilty feelin' and then told him that she'd slipped her address into his pocket when he put his arms around her. This scene leads to the one in the bar that I spoke of earlier
I hope that helped.
shel
IF THEY MOVE,KILL'EM
I just saw this film for the first time, and only b/c the late great Anthony Perkins was in it (I'll see just about anything w/ him in it). It was such an odd movie, yet mesmerizing, and I agree the music was incredible. It seemed to end all of a sudden, and I was caught off guard that it was over. Took me a few moments to realize just what exactly had happened! I liked it that way though. Geraldine Chaplin did an amazing job - there were times when her eyes looked absolutely bat-sh*t crazy!!!
"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl
I just saw the film again - after all these years. You're correct about the plot unfolding.
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