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Film · MGM · 1936

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Libeled Lady

39Leave it.

The newspaper's lie is the scheme, and the real attachments barely survive it.

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The review

An editor's paper libels an heiress, and his way out of the lawsuit is to lend his fiancée to another man as a pretend wife. Harlow, Powell, Loy, Tracy, a big comic cast and a solid hit. A house can watch it. I tracked the tangle because those four are easy to sit with. The plan itself is cheap.

The lie is the scheme. Real attachments survive it, barely, and the joke is the tangle. Barely is the honest word, so I won't decorate it. A fiancée is not something you lend out to beat a suit, even when the room is laughing. The paper built a false marriage instead of eating what it printed. I can watch the scramble. I won't call it clever at our table.

Journal

Keep Libeled Lady in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Hubie Halloween

51 instead of 39

Hubie Halloween is still a comedy film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is republic: Salem is a town, and the joke is that everyone knows everyone, including the boy who never left.

The eight

6
Industry
A newspaper's job starts the mess by libeling an heiress.
5
Household
He lends his fiancée as a pretend wife, and the real ties barely hold.
2
Piety
Nobody stops the scheme; beating the suit matters more than the lie.
4
Courage
They risk the real attachments to dodge what the paper already printed.
4
Republic
A libel suit is the public debt, and the editor schemes to get around it.
3
Temperance
The joke is the tangle, so the next lie is there to keep you in it.
3
Truth
The lie is the scheme, and the attachments survive it only barely.
4
Stewardship
The couples remain, barely, which is all the scheme leaves standing.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 39

The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The army and the campaign are work, shown as institutions that can be used.