Peg and I ended up loving it!
Edward Everett Horton enhances anything he's in...and he's used to perfection here.
We were both a bit surprised how Hepburn and Grant don't finally get together until the last few seconds of the movie. Of course, you see it coming as soon as Hepburn's character...
Josh's review is from a year-and-a-half ago. My local Barnes & Noble puts this disc in their Christmas movie section every year and I have dismissed it as something akin to a low-level, public domain title that must not have much going for it...outside of Grant, Hepburn and Cukor. I'm aware...
Congrats, Josh! Have a great party--and lifetime together!
Easy music pick for my wife and I: Moonlight in Vermont. She's a native of VT and we were married there.
In my signature below you'll find a link (Father of the Bride) to the story about the music selection for the father-daughter...
I know you fellas have been discussing the various Cary Grant collections that exist on DVD and such throughout this thread.
Just this heads up that this particular collection is on sale now at Target stores for $10. I happened to see it last night. Sorry if it has been noted before:
I was a latecomer to the Thin Man films and picked them up not-all-that-long-ago on DVD.
Still haven't watched them all...but they are, indeed, delightful.
And then there's Asta! Yeah, the chemistry between Powell and Loy have have been great...but mix in Skippy and then you've got movie...
Couldn't help myself.
Pulled...trigger.
The film has always been an enigma for me...having, amazingly, never seen it. But having heard so much about it (both good and bad).
I want to see it. And I can't see beating a price of $12.99 to experience the Blu-ray at home.
And then Robin...
I guess this means I should pull the trigger on what will be a blind buy for me???
It seems so hard to think I can go wrong with Grant/Loren/Sinatra...
I had an LP once of movie music that included a track "sung" by Cary Grant of Cole Porter's You'd Be So Easy to Love.
Unfortunately, I can't find it anywhere on the interwebz.
My introduction to Well, Did You Evah? was when I took my mother to see That's Enertainment during it's original run before our grand local movie theater (the Hellman Theater in Albany) was "twinned." I was probably about 15 years old.
I had never seen High Society. But I was immediately...
Well Did You Evah? is one of my favorite songs ever performed in a movie---EVAH!!!
The interplay between Sinatra & Crosby in that song makes the entire movie for me. I watch that scene over and over and over...
Okay.
Here it comes.
I hang my head in shame...but I have never seen Gunga Din. I really don't know much of anything about it. I have seen it referenced about a million times in various TV shows, articles, etc. It has just never crossed my path and I've never sought it out.
Sounds like fun...
Josh:
Congratulations on getting the thread underway. I'll be reading with great interest along with the rest who have already chimed in.
I really liked that quote in the OP, too! :thumbsup:
I'd lean towards Bringing Up Baby. But the Blu I'd snatch up on release date is The Philadelphia...