Brogues Gallery

shoes

Fiona identifies closely with this one.

Which of these would you go and see at your local Malodeon?

smack

I’m actually pretty disappointed there isn’t a movie called THE SMACKHEAD. I looked!

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12 Responses to “Brogues Gallery”

peter Says:
August 11, 2009 at 10:57 am

“Pied-à-terre” would make a good title for a noir.
Guy Budziak Says:
August 11, 2009 at 12:43 pm

NIGHT was shown often in the presidential palace, it being Imelda Marcos’ favorite film.
David Ehrenstein Says:
August 11, 2009 at 2:32 pm
dcairns Says:
August 11, 2009 at 3:58 pm

That’s some number! Busby Berkeley always finds a way to take thing beyond just plain wrong, and into fancy.

The French could use Pied a Terre, but I fear Hollywood would find that too sophisticated. Like they had to anglicize Les Liaisons Dangereuses because it sounded too artsy.

I guess Marcos found out the hard way that you can’t cheat destiny.
David Ehrenstein Says:
August 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm
dcairns Says:
August 11, 2009 at 4:12 pm

The slave market musical number is extraordinary too, with a slave falling to her death. Did any choreographer/director kill as many people during songs as Berkeley? Lullaby of Broadway ends in a defenestration, and there’s a woman murdered in 42nd Street too, I think.

And then there’s the fatality he caused drunk driving offscreen…
David Ehrenstein Says:
August 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm

All of this is copiously noted in the special issue of Motion: Companion to Sadism and Violence in the Cinema.
Christopher Says:
August 11, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Eddie Cantor takes a lump on the head and travels to the 1950s and is greated by Marilyn Monroe..woo hooo come on in ..nothin’s changed..
dcairns Says:
August 11, 2009 at 9:50 pm

Yeah, he’s an ancient Roman slave who materializes in 50s Greenwich Village and discovers the joys of hard drugs. Traveling back in time to his original era, he introduces smack to his masters and brings about the fall of Rome. But Busby Berkeley sticks to his dry martinis.
Christopher Says:
August 12, 2009 at 8:55 pm

throw in guys like Eddie Robinson,Bogart,George Raft who were shady members of the Senate in Roman times with names like Gluteus Maximus,Tendonitis and Commodeus,now familiar in the 1950s as film noir Caesers with names like freddy hog bottom,Heel and Big “John”..
dcairns Says:
August 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Now it’s turning into Carry on Asterix Meets Little Caesar!
Christopher Says:
August 12, 2009 at 11:28 pm

come to think of it..I can’t remember if theres a Carry On in Togas…hmmmmm