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Film · Universal · 1923

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

58Watch it awake.

A teen can watch him stay faithful, once you say the body is a costume.

The review

Say the costume before the bells get to you. Lon Chaney is the bell-ringer, and the body is a costume on an able-bodied star. A dancer is the person the city wants to use. There is a mob. He is faithful where the officials are not. Universal, 1923, a big popular hit, not a settled winner beside The Covered Wagon. A teen can watch it. Not the 1939 film, and I won't linger on the violence.

That faithfulness is the rare thing in the picture, and it matters because the officials don't have it. The makeup matters the other way: an able man is wearing a body. A teen can hold both facts if you don't skip one. The city still wants to use her. A mob is the public those officials leave behind.

Journal

Keep The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Casablanca

68 instead of 58

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 58. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.

The eight

6
Industry
He rings the bells; she is the dancer the city wants to use.
3
Household
No child or marriage; the bond is a dancer the city would use.
8
Piety
He is faithful where the officials are not.
7
Courage
He stays faithful where officials fail, with a mob in the city.
5
Republic
Officials fail her, and a mob is what the city brings instead.
6
Temperance
The city wants to use her; he will not join that want.
6
Truth
Officials are unfaithful, and Chaney's body is a costume.
5
Stewardship
A teen gets one faithful ringer and a city that wants to use her.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.