63. Boudu Sauve des eaux/Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Running Time: 83 minutes
Directed By: Jean Renoir
Written By: Jean Renoir, Albert Valentin, from the play Boudu Sauve des eaux by Rene Fauchois
Main Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczinska

BOUDU SAVES ME FROM HAVING TO WATCH A BAD FILM

With eighty-three minutes to kill this evening, I decided to watch my next film in the "1001" book and Jean Renoir's eleventh film, "Boudu Saved from Drowning". I was actually quite surprised by how good this film was, as I really didn't have high hopes for it after seeing the first five minutes and despite the grainy quality of the picture and the hard to read subtitles, it was actually very good.

Boudu is a homeless man, or a tramp, as he is referred to in the film, who keeps to himself and enjoys spending his days playing with his dog. One day when his dog goes off by himself, and Boudu cannot find him, Boudu becomes very distraught and after walking around the town, decides to throw himself into the river. When a nearby bourgeois apartment dweller and bookstore owner sees him plunging into the river, he immediately races down his steps, out the door and into the river to save Boudu. We learn that the bourgeois man is named Edouard Lestingois and has a heart of gold.

Lestingois revives Boudu and invites him into his home, where he quickly provides him with a meal, some new clothes and giving him one of two lottery tickets that belonged to a recently deceased friend of Lestingois. Boudu, however, is not grateful. He wishes that Lestingois had never pulled him from the river and let him die, as he planned to do.

We quickly learn that Boudu's character is not an intelligent man, nor is he a man of manners, as he shows this by totally wrecking the kitchen, just by trying to shine his shoes. Lestingois eventually gets fed up with Boudu's behavior of spitting on the floor, and hitting on the women of the house, and decides that he must go. But will the man with the heart of gold have the heart to kick the man that he gave life to, back out on to the streets and what about the lottery ticket, will that come into play at all?

Really not a bad film at all, as the dialogue flows together really well and the characters are very easy to connect with, Lestingois most all, in my opinion. However, the subtitles were very difficult to read and the picture was very grainy and old looking. even for a 1932 film. The plot is very simple and not a whole lot happens, but sometimes that's just how I like my films and sometimes, just sometimes, less is definitely more, as is the case with "Boudu Saved from Drowning". Michel Simon does a fantastic job portraying the unintelligent Boudu and Granval turns out a good performance as the good hearted Lestingois.

RATING: 6.5/10 Jean Renoir's second of six films in the "1001" book and this one was quite pleasurable.

NEXT UP: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang...Not expecting anything else from Netflix until Thursday, so look for the review then.

January 5, 2010 11:11pm

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62. Love Me Tonight (1932)

Running Time: 89 minutes
Directed By: Rouben Mamoulian
Written By: Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young, George Marion Jr. from the play Tailor In the Chateau by Paul Armont and Lepold Marchand
Main Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith

MY FIRST MUSICAL...ON THIS JOURNEY

Despite not being able to come up with any examples at the moment, I'm sure the basic premise of "Love Me Tonight" would go on to be imitated and parodied for years to come, following it's release in 1932. A common man meets and falls in love with a princess. It's as simple as that and "Love Me Tonight" was not a bad flick...not a bad flick at all.

Maurice Chevalier plays Maurice Courtelin, your average common man, who makes his living as a tailor in the city of love, Paris, France. He is the self proclaimed "best at what he does", however business is down. That is, until Viscount Gilbert de Vareze comes to him with an outraegous order of nearly a dozen suits. Promising to pay Maurice when he returns to town the following day, the Viscount exits Maurice's shop, with no intention of returning. When Maurice is tipped off by another bill collector who's looking to collect from the snake-like Viscount, Courtelin goes after his money directly.

In the meanwhile, at the chateau, where the Viscount's uncle, the Duke, takes up residency, Princess Jeanette (MacDonald) desperately seeks and wants a groom and despite the best efforts of Count de Savignac, a suitor who would like nothing more than to wed her, The Princess goes unmarried.

On his way to the chateau, Maurice the tailor breaks down and while waiting for his driver to fix the problem with car, he spots the Princess while out for a stroll on her horse drawn carriage. As she nearly wrecks the carriage and falls into a ditch on the side of the road, Maurice quickly rushes to the rescue, helping her out of the ditch and almost immediately falling in love with her, as he serenades her with a song called "Mimi". Eventually the Princess writes off Maurice as utterly mad, and speeds away from the "lunatic". Eventually Maurice finds his way to the chateau, finds the Viscount and demands his payment for the suits. The Viscount, however, needs time to retrieve the cash, so he offers the tailor a place to stay for a few days and tells him that he will eventually be paid. Once Maurice realizes that he's in the chateau of the Princess and the new love of his life, he quickly accepts the invitation. But, so he'll fit in and be welcome, he is introduced as Baron Courtelin and thus our tale is in full motion for a raging climax.

While nothing stood out as absolutely brilliant about "Love Me Tonight", nothing stood out as absolutely terrible either. If I were to sum up "Love Me Tonight" with one word it would simply be...average. Despite a couple of very memorable scenes, for instance, the opening of the film and the rendition of "Isn't It Romantic?", which stretches from Maurice's shop, into the streets and eventually all over the city of Paris. Perhaps it's the performances that I liked the most. Maurice Chevalier plays the lead role very effectively, as the very charming, dapper and loveable Maurice Courtelin. One of the performances that stood out for me, and probably the thing I'll most remember about this picture as time goes by, is the role of Count de Savignac played brilliantly by Charles Butterworth. One of my very favorite lines from the film, right after Count de Savignac tries to serenade the Princess with his flute:

Savignac: (After falling off of a ladder) "Oh I'll never use it again!"
Princess: (Yelling down from the balcony) "Is it your leg?!"
Savignac: "NO...I fell flat on my flute!"

RATING: 5.5/10 Nothing great, nothing terrible, so a "5.5" seemed the right way to go. Butterworth and Chevalier were brilliant and I'll be on the look out for them in the films to come.

NEXT UP: Boudu Saved from Drowning...It's available instantly on Netflix, so the review should be up sometime tomorrow.

January 5, 2010 5:00am

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61. Vampyr/The Vampire (1932)

Running Time: 72 minutes
Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written By: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul, from the short story Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Main Cast: Julian West, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko

THIS MOVIE SUCKED...IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE...

"If you've never seen a Dreyer film and wonder why many critics regard him as possibly the greatest of all filmmakers, this chilling horror fantasy is the perfect place to begin to understand."

The above is a quote taken directly from the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" book and one of the most absurd comments that I've taken away from Mr. Schneider's text. Suffice it to say, that I did not like "Vampyr" and thought it was very boring, very pointless drivel. If I had to make a recommedation based on the two Dreyer films I've seen, to a person who has never seen a Dreyer flick, then it would take me all of about three seconds to reccomend "The Passion of Joan of Arc", which I didn't love, but compared to "Vampyr", it was a sheer masterpiece.

To explain the plot of "Vampyr" would be really tedious and boring for me to do, as their isn't really a whole lot of plot to review. The film tries it's best to be a horror film and fails miserably. I can say, however, that I kind of see the world that Dreyer was trying to capture on film. The atmosphere that he was striving towards was a very murky, creepy, spooky one and one that he may pull off, but with the lack of story, the atmosphere falls flat on it's face with nothing to support it.

"Vampyr" was certainly not my favorite film thus far, and may very well be my least favorite. Despite a very nice POV scene, in which we're shown the point of view of a corpse looking out of a casket, as it's being carried down the road, "Vampyr" failed to bring me any closer to realizing the greatness that many proclaim, Carl Th. Dreyer possesses. I don't know, maybe I'm just missing something. Maybe the artist that is Carl Th. Dreyer is somewhere, somehow being lost as I view his pictures, but if that is the case, then that's fine...I'll go on and live the rest of my life not realizing the greatness that is Carl Theodor Dreyer, if it means I'll never have to watch this terrible movie again. Sorry Carl, you and I just aren't connecting somewhere.

RATING: 1/10 I nearly went with a ".5/10" but we'll call one the lowest of the low and leave it at that.

NEXT UP: Love Me Tonight...Rouben Mamoulian directs and while I've certainly heard the name before, I've yet to see one of his films. This one should be up Monday, as I'm not expecting any Netflix delivery until then.

January 2, 2010 1:41am

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59. M (1931)

Running Time: 109 minutes
Directed By: Fritz Lang
Written By: Egon Jacobson, Fritz Lang
Main Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens

M IS FOR MARVELOUS

This actually isn't the first time I've seen M, as I actually saw it for the first time about a year or so ago and remember liking it very much, eventhough at the time, it was one of the oldest movies I had ever seen. My reaction didn't change much upon another viewing, in fact it really didn't change at all, as I still think this is a really great film.

When little Elsie Beckmann doesn't return home from school at her expected time, her mother begins to worry and rightfully so. You see, the particular German town that we're focussed on for this movie is crippled with fear as a murderer looms in the shadows, preying on the children of the city. And little Elsie Beckmann is no exception, as we, the viewer, soon see that she is just the latest in a string of child victims to be picked up by this killing monster. Upon buying her a balloon and some chocolates, we're then shown that very balloon floating through the air and the ball that Elsie Beckmann was playing with, rolling around, unclaimed.

Of course, this newest murder swings the city into full on hysteria, as the police plaster talk of a reward for his capture, all over the newspapers and we get a very well constructed montage telling all of the details and the investigation proceedings of the case. While watching this film, you're quickly transported to a city where a murderer is on the loose and this montage does a fantastic job of really hammering that point home and making you realize just how out of hand this killer has become.

The police go so far, as to hassle the petty crooks in the town, the thiefs and pickpockets and what not. The crooks get so tired of being harassed and so tired of not being able to pull of their own jobs, that they get together and decide that they must be the ones to catch this murderer, not to mention the fact, that they are no fans of a murdering man themselves. They want him locked up and executed just as badly as the parents of the deceased young. So the crooks enlist the help of the beggars to help them catch the predator, offering a $15,000 reward of their own for the beggar that can bring him in.

In my opinion "M" deals with some very sensitive subject matter, especially for the year 1931. But that's kind of the thing that makes it really stand out. While many of us are not used to hearing talk of murderers, who abduct, seemingly molest and murder young girls, in the old movies we watch, you get a real surprise when you pop in "M" and start to hear and see the violence that is being alluded to. While nothing is ever actually shown, your imagination really takes hold of you and it's probably a worse picture that you create in your own head, than anything that could've been shown on camera. In my opinion, it's not the acting (eventhough Peter Lorre does a good job), the sets, the cinematography or anything like that, that makes "M" a great picture, but rather the plot. The plot for this flick is so great that you can't helped but be sucked into the heart of a city paralyzed by fear over this gruesome killer.

RATING: 8/10 I deducted a few points, just for some little odds and ends, and mainly because, eventhough this film was great, it still didn't give me that "10" feeling. Still a great watch though!

NEXT UP: La Chienne...or The Bitch, which I currently cannot find, so look for the "Unfound Files" post momentarily.

January 1, 2010 2:54pm

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Top 25 Films of the Decade (2000 - 2009)

So here we are on the eve of the New Year and it's not just any New Year's Eve, it's the eve when we say "Goodbye" to another decade and make our way into another one. So it only seemed fitting that on this New Years Eve 2009, since I am now the author of a blog about films, that I post a quick list of the Top 25 films of the past ten years. I know, I know, this blog is supposed to be about the movies that I watch for the "1001" book, but it's not everyday you get a chance to take a look at a decade in retrospect. So after a brief post on the "Top 25 Films of the Decade" it will be back to business as usual here on "1001 Movies I (Apparently) Must See Before I Die.

A quick note about the list before I get into it: I didn't put a WHOLE lot of thought into this list. I just took a quick look at my DVD shelf and some message board posts over at IMDB, concerning the best movies of the decade, so it is possible that I'm forgetting something. But, actually I think I covered all the bases here and what I'm left with is a nice list of my favorite movies from the past ten years.

Here we go...

25. Signs (2002) M. Night Shyamalan - One of my favorite horror flicks, not only of the past ten years, but ever. Now that's not really saying a whole lot, as horror really isn't my genre of specialty, but still a fantastic film that provides lots of thrills and even some drama, with some great performances from Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, pre-nutjob...that goes for both of them.

24. Monster's Ball (2001) Marc Forster - One that I really fell in love with the first time I saw it and thought that Billy Bob Thornton and even Halle Berry turned in some excellent performances as the racist prison guard and poor black woman respectively.

23. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) David Fincher - An absolutely heartbreaking love story and yet another fantastic film from David Fincher. Pitt and Blanchett are great and provide us with plenty of memorable scenes.

22. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) Niels Mueller - A little known flick, that if memory serves me correctly, went straight to DVD. Sean Penn plays Sam Bicke a man who has been pushed around all of his life and finally snaps under the pressures of his own life. Great flick and a fantastic performance from Penn.

21. Match Point (2005) Woody Allen - Without a doubt, the best Woody Allen film of the past ten years. Woody Allen takes a complete 360 and delivers a film unlike any of his predecessors and does it to perfection!

20. The Wrestler (2008) Darren Aronofsky - Being a fan of professional wrestling myself, this one is kind of a given for the list. Absoultely loved the rebirth of Mickey Rourke, as he totally delivers and rebuilds his career in as long as it took him to portray Randy "The Ram" Robinson.

19. Cinderella Man (2005) Ron Howard - Not really a huge Ron Howard fan, but he did produce two really good films this decade in Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind. The latter didn't quite make the cut for my list of flicks, but I couldn't deny the sadness and triumph of Cinderella Man.

18. The Weather Man (2005) Gore Verbinski - Another obscure flick for the list, but one that I absolutely loved. I actually remember seeing the trailer and KNOWING that I'd love this film and man, was I right.

17. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003) Peter Jackson - Since the "1001" book groups these three films into one entry, I figured I'd follow suit. I didn't go 100% bat shit over this group of films like some people did, but they grabbed my attention and excitement enough to be included on this list.

16. Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2 (2003, 2004) Quentin Tarantino - My former favorite director chimes in with his best of the past ten years with the release of the Kill Bill double feature. Really who doesn't love these films, as they have a little bit of everything for the movie-goer in you.

15. High Fidelity (2000) Stephen Frears - Another one that I fell in love with almost immediately. High Fidelity provides great laughs and follows Rob Gordon as he muddles through his love life and talks directly to you...the viewer.

14. Vanilla Sky (2001) Cameron Crowe - I know this one gets dissed by a lot of people, but I'm really not sure why, as it provides some fantastic scenes and camera work and gives you a little bit to think about as well. Can't wait to see the original "Open Your Eyes", which is included in the "1001" book.

13. Cast Away (2000) Robert Zemeckis - Cast Away was the movie that got me into movies...I mean really into movies. I went from casual movie watches and floored it into high gear after seeing Hanks alone on a deserted island. So for that reason, it's hard to deny it a decent spot on my Top 25 of the Decade.

12. Mystic River (2003) Clint Eastwood - The past ten years was the decade for Mr. Eastwood as he really stepped into his own as a director and produced some of the decade's most memorable flicks, with Mystic River being, in my opinion, his best.

11. About Schmidt (2002) Alexander Payne - I always tear up at the end of this film, as Warren Schmidt reads a letter from the child that he sponsors and cries his eyes out, letting all of the troubles that have accumulated over the course of this flick, pour out of him. Great, great movie!

10. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Edgar Wright - Not only the best "romantic comedy about zombies" but one of the best comedies and films that I've seen, especially of the last ten years. Thumbs up to Edgar Wright and his cast of funny people for breaking out over the past decade.

09. Lost In Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola - Bill Murray, the comedic legend, stars as Bob Harris and absolutely tears the freakin' house down with his performance. And the kicker is...Lost In Translation isn't even really a comedy. Scarlett does a great job too in this Coppola directed flick.

08. Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan - One that probably made the majority of us, who saw it, go "HUH!??" Memento takes the standard movie formula and completely turns it inside out...literally. Great flick and one that will always be a favorite.

07. Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (2003) Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - English translation of the title: Last Life in the Universe. Caught this one on television near the end of 2006 and totally fell in love with it. The only foreign flick to make my Top 25 Films of the Decade and what a foreign film it is. If you haven't seen it...go see it.

06. Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch - If Memento made you go "HUH!?", then Mulholland Dr. made you go "........", or in other words, it left you speechless as you ran to the internet to get an explanation of the plot. Love this film and love movies that really make you think. Possibly Lynch's best flick ever...possibly.

05. Almost Famous (2000) Cameron Crowe - Wow, Cameron Crowe grabs two of the twenty-five slots this decade and totally knocks out a home-run with Almost Famous, the story of a boy who wants nothing more than to be a music journalist...and gets his wish when he's given the opportunity to tour with Stillwater.

04. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry - One of the most romantic movies ever made, in my opinion as two people fall in love twice, after having their memories erased. Great, great film with a great script by Charles Kaufman.

03. Little Miss Sunchine (2006) Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Dayton and Faris came out of nowhere and haven't been heard from since with this absolutely heartwarming flick, with an absolutely crazy cast. Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Abigail Breslin.

02. Punch Drunk Love (2002) Paul Thomas Anderson - Adam Sandler steps out of his comedy shoes and steps into a great role as Barry Egan, a social outcast who wants to keep it that way. This could easily be number one on any given day, but on this day I had to go with another choice...

01. Sideways (2004) Alexander Payne - My favorite flick of the decade and what a movie it is, as Thomas Haden Church and Paul Giamatti turn in outstanding performances as Jack and Miles, and the ladies (Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh) don't do a bad job themselves. Great flick and one that will ALWAYS have a top spot on my "Favorite All-Time Movies".

So there you go, my "Top 25 Films of the Decade". This has really been a great ten years in film and I'm glad I lived through it and was able to take in a lot of the cinema that was produced. Of course, now it's back to business as usual here on the blog and my review of "M" should be up later tonight. Hope you enjoyed this temporary break from the normal. Have a safe and happy New Year.

December 31, 2009 9:05pm

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58. The Public Enemy (1931)

Running Time: 83 minutes
Directed By: William A. Wellman
Written By: Harvey F. Thew, from story by John Bright & Kubec Glasmon
Main Cast: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Jean Harlow, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Leslie Fenton, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook

ON MY JOURNEY I MET A MAN NAMED 'CAGNEY'

I remember when I was younger, watching the film "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and loving James Cagney's portrayl as George M. Cohan, even at that young age. I won't harp about "YDD" because it's a movie that we'll soon be covered on my journey, but I was very excited to see "The Public Enemy" and get another glance at Cagney captivating me on the big sceen...and that's just what he did!

Cagney plays Tom Powers, who starts out at a young age in 1909 robbing department stores with his buddy Matt Doyle and selling the hot goods to Putty Nose, a famous gangster and getting next to nothing in return. Tom is a troubled young kid who doesn't get along with a whole lot of people outside of Matt, especially his brother and recieves lashes from his father with a belt on a seemingly regular basis.

Soon Tom grows up and is still acquainted with Putty Nose and with his friend Matt. When Putty puts the boys onto a scheme to snatch some furs from the local fur warehouse, he promises them that they'll be safe and that if trouble brews, he'll take care of them. Well trouble does brew, and when the boys go looking for Putty he's nowhere to be found. Putty Nose leaves the boys high and dry and Tom, still a young man, is left with the bloodshed of a cop on his hands. Following that mess, they fall in with another famous gangster, Paddy Ryan, owner of a local pub, he's an old gentleman with manners, but who still knows how to get what he wants. Paddy turns the boys into an overnight success as they begin bootlegging beer during prohibition times.

Throughout his bootlegging success Tom still has problems at home as his brother and mother urge him to get out of the crime business and go straight. Tom and his brother fight constantly when put together in the same room and their mother, a sweet old woman who wants nothing but peace in the household, plays the mediator between them. Tom also plays his hand at love, meeting and falling for Kitty. When he grows sick of Kitty, he smashes a grapefruit in her face and sends her packing, only to meet up with the vivacious Gwen.

"The Public Enemy" is just what I was looking for in a 30's gangster flick. "Little Caesar" was good, but this gangster movie knocked it out of the park and after a little bit of research you find out that it set the tone for gangster films from that point on and it's not hard to see why. James Cagney is fantastic and could easily become a favorite actor of mine, as he takes charge of the screen whenever he's on it and you know instantly who the star is. The ending of "The Public Enemy" is very simple, yet very effective and I honestly wouldn't have changed a thing about it. While it wasn't the ending that I was expecting, it was still a great one and one that definitely worked for me. The rest of the acting was also great, as I kind of had a fondness for the character of Paddy Ryan played very well by Robert Emmett O'Connor. "The Public Enemy" is a fantastic film that definitely deserved inclusion in this book and I would easily recommend it to anyone looking to check out some older flicks.

RATING: 10/10 Gotta' go the full monty for this one, it was nothing less of fantastic and I can't wait to buy it and watch it again someday when my journey is through.

NEXT UP: M...Which I've actually seen before and loved it, so I can't wait to take another gander at it and give a fresh opinion. Review will probably come later tonight or early tomorrow.

December 30, 2009 5:14pm

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57. City Lights (1931)

Running Time: 87 minutes
Directed By: Charles Chaplin
Written By: Charles Chaplin
Main Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers

CHARLIE CHAPLIN STICKS TO HIS SILENT GUNS

With the emergence of talking pictures, it is said that Charlie Chaplin agonized over the production of "City Lights", a film that could've have been his first talking film, but one that ultimately stayed in line with other Chaplin works and remained silent and still fantastic!

Charlie returns to the big screen as the Little Tramp, and doesn't waste too much time running into a beautiful, blind flower-seller on the street corner. The Tramp is captivated by her beauty and stunned when he realizes that she's blind. He buys a flower and moves on, not quite sure if he'll ever see her again.

A little later in the film The Tramp runs into a man on the verge of suicide because his wife has just left him. While he is intoxicated, the man tries to tether himself to a boulder and hurl himself into the river, only to be stopped by The Tramp. With a new zest for life, thanks to the little fellow, he declares the Tramp his new best friend and immediately takes him out for a night on the town, where the Tramp soon finds out he's a millionaire. The next morning when the man awakes, and the Tramp comes calling at his door, the millionaire cannot remember the previous night and therefore cannot remember the Tramp. This is a running plot point throughout the picture, as everytime the man is drunk he knows and loves the Tramp, but as soon as he sobers up, the kind little fellow is a stranger to him.

After numerous further meetings with the blind girl, the Tramp learns that she is very poor and on the cusp of being kicked from her home by her landlord. The Tramp tells her not to worry and promises to return with the funds to save her home. The Tramp takes on a few jobs, including that of a boxer, which provided me with my favorite moment of the entire film, as Chaplin participates in a very well choreographed and hilarious boxing match, with a much bigger and much stronger fellow. As always I certainly won't spoil the ending, but this flick is certainly worth a rent to check out the fantastic open ending and all the rest for that matter.

Along with the boxing sequence, this film provides countless other hilarious and memorable moments: Charlie getting a piece of streamer caught up in his plate of spaghetti and not realizing it as he slurps up his noodles, Charlie swallowing a whistle right as an important party goer is about to give a speech and Charlie final encounter with the blind girl, which provides us, not with a funny moment, but a very romantic and heartwarming one. I liked this movie more than I liked "The Gold Rush" and while I would call them both great films, I still felt myself missing Buster Keaton, as I watched "City Lights". Although, Charlie Chaplin was his own man and did his own things, which were much different than Keaton.

RATING: 8/10 First instinct of a rating was to go with an '8', and as always that's what I went with.

NEXT UP: The Public Enemy...James Cagney enters the stage!! Not expecting anymore films from Netflix until Wednesday, so I'll see 'ya then.

December 27, 2009 10:49pm

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