The Power and the Prize

Question: Does power make man happy?

Question: Does power make man a “man”?,

Question: What is true power?

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What is Power… is it the ability to make people jump when you say jump, Is it the ability to make empires crumble or to be built or is it the aptitude to try and make something broken whole again.

Robert Taylor as Cliff Barton an executive sent to England to strike a deal with a company in a merger. with the instructions to stab them in the back when the deal is being closed. Also to inspect a employment agency there own by Barton’s company.

Elisabeth Muller as Miriam Linka a refugee of World War II working at the employment agency who’s opinion of people that are too free with there money to salve their conscience isn’t very high.

Burle Ives as George Salt the president of the company that Cliff Barton works for.

It Started With Eve

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What does a man do when his dying father asks to meet the son’s fiancee’ before he kicks the bucket?  Go get the fiancee’ of course. Well he tried but with Miss Gloria Pennington whereabouts unknown…

Robert Cummings as Johnathan ‘Johnny’ Reynolds Jr. ,the son of the dying multimillionaire, who finds a quick substitute for a misplaced fiancee’.

Deana Durbin as Anne Terry the hat check girl aka the substitute fiancee’.

Charles Laughton as Jonathan Reynolds the dying multimillionaire who decided to die another day

Quote: I don’t want some nice white toasty! I want a great big steaky!

Question: what does a man do with two “fiancee’s”?

Let’s Live a Little

They say Laughter is the best Medicine. With this in mind I would like to introduce to you the movie “Let’s Live a Little”.

Robert Cummings stars as Duke Crawford; The over worked, over stressed and sleep deprived advertising agent, who “hates” women, is on the verge of a “nervous” breakdown.

 

Hedy Lamarr as J. O. Loring the psychiatrist… in need of advertising for her new book Let’s Live a Little.

Quote: women in all her pulchritude.

Let’s Live a Little – 1948

One Minute To Zero

The ever burning question that is seared into the minds of men by the media: Is it ever just for soldiers to fire upon civilians?!! and the media’s answer NO NO NO! but what of the GI Joe don’t they have mother also?

Robert Mitchum as Col. Steve Janowski a soldier who’s served in World War II and now fighting in the Korean War. He’s seen the carnage of war; the broken bodies, the war scarred countrysides and the innocent civilians turned into refugees. He must decide who’s soul are more important the soldiers or the civilians are the civilians in soldiers clothing just important as the one with out…

Ann Blyth as Mrs. Landa Day a nurse that works for the U.N sent to inspect land to Korea to find out what type of aid to give and to help coordinate the giving of food, immunizations and basic health care. A lady with  heart of Gold. Although she has lost a husband to war she has never personally seen the horror of what war can do or the atrocities the other side is able to do, man at his vile worst.

Is there any justice in war? Can people live again after the experience?

Quote: “War is hell”

One Minute To Zero – 1952

Magnificent Obsession

Can a person who’s wasted their life away change and still make a difference in the World? Can they still have a fulfilled life?

Rock Hudson as Bob Merrick a rich playboy who’s dangerous stunts while drunk costs a revered surgeon his life.

Jane Wyman as Helen Phillips the surgeons wife who wonders if she can forgive the man who “killed” her husband and made her blind.

Is there still hope… Is there really a love the gives and asks for nothing back… can this love cover a multitude of sins?

Magnificent Obsession – 1954