Hey guys! Thanks for all your questions. I will answer more in the May newsletter (sign up here)📰screenspectator.substack.com?sd=pf

Great job CC, congrats on the 10K, here's to the next 10. Well deserved!

I also prefer to watch films alone, I don't want any interruptions! Thanks for the book recommendations, will be checking some of them out.

Yes, effin Jean Arthur! Smokin!!!!!!!!!!!! Great channel. Thank you for being here. And I'm glad to be here.

There is a quality about classic cinema that has “that little something extra” that separates what came after. I’m most interested in it’s beginnings to roughly about the mid sixties. I’ve been fascinated with film since I was a child (I’m 70 now), and own a large library of books, having started my collection when I was in my late teens, supplemented by frequent visits to the library. Having never gone to college, with all the books I’ve read and films I’ve seen, I might have the equivalent of a PHD in film history. It makes me very happy to know there are others like yourself who love and appreciate film as I do.

I discovered this marvellous channel a couple of weeks ago, I’m really enjoying it, thank you for creating the great content. Glad you’re a Joan Fontaine fan, she’s my favourite. In my opinion she was the epitome of both outer and inner beauty. It’s sad to think that it’s been almost 10 years since she left this world.

The Golden Turkey Awards is a great book!

If you love film noir , Dark City by Eddie Muller is a must read. And yes, those Orson welles biographies are wonderful, i keep checking if the 3rd volume has been published. 😖and Barry Lyndon....spot on!👏

Well done! Coincidence (for me) that you ended this with Tyrone Power as your feature on him was the first of your videos I saw. I note and like the "beat" that accompanies your narrative. Keep them coming.

Love, My Man Godfrey and The Young at Heart. Love the themes from Laura and The Uninvited, definitely Joan over Olivia, Bette over Joan, and Tyrone over Errol. Stray Dog and Elevator to the Gallows are both top notch. I will have to read all the books you listed, I am becoming much more interested in the history of Hollywood. Cheers on the most terrific episode.

I first saw Jean Arthur in "You Can't Take It With You" when I was but a young teen. Been a fan ever since. She's so much fun in "Talk of the Town", too. Stealing scenes from Cary Grant is no mean feat yet Rosalind Russell just strolls off with them. "Le Quai des brumes" is a favourite non-US film noir.

1960's Noir B movies directed by Seijun Suzuki or starring Jo Shishido are terrific! We love your videos!

The ending of Cinema Paradiso always brings me to tears

That was enjoyable - Nice to put a personal touch to your channel. Everything I have seen so far of yours has been worthwhile - Thank you

Bette Davis is one of my favorites. I love her in "The Little Foxes" and "Jezebel" and everything else she was in. Tyrone Power! Oh, my! (My mother's favorite actor). I recently bought the soundtrack to "China Town". The music puts me in a trance. 😎

I like watching old movies alone, also. It's easier to immerse myself into the film without anyone around to distract.

Long time movie fan who soaks up KZfaq classic film reviews / essays. I’m new to your channel. Glad I found / subscribed to it.

Loved this so much! Love a good weepy melodrama THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (‘45) and RANDOM HARVEST (‘42) are four handkerchief favorites! 😢😢😢😢

Thanks for answering my question on your site! I’ll have to read that Atlantic article.

This is one of my favorite channels on KZfaq. I'm always looking forward to new content. Congrats! :D Btw, I prefer Bette to Joan Crawford as well, by a mile. But Joan really was one hell of an actress. On the other hand, I'm more of an Olivia de Havilland girl than a Joan Fontaine one, but the more movies I see by Joan the more I like her and I think she was pretty underrated compared to her sister. Same with Errol and Tyrone. Errol starred in several amazing adventure movies that just made my childhood, but Tyrone got to mature more as a dramatic actor.

Thank you so much Sydney! Your channel has filled a void. I have taken as many of your recommendations that Netflix offers. Although it's from 1991, Until the End of the World is a great film with a fantastic soundtrack.

Love your channel and insightful information on the Films and Actors you profile! Agree on Breaking Point and John Garfield, have the Criterion edition beautiful transfer with one of the best film essays I've ever read by Stephanie Zacharek. Keep up the excellent compelling work for one of my new favorite channels!

It never fails to amaze me that the industry back then despite all of its warts and stuff, (like other ethnicities played by white folk) was blessed with some very talented and effective story tellers with compelling stories.

I hope you will review "Phantom Lady." Ella Raines in a high favorite of mine. "Johnny O'Clock" is also an amazing movie right to the end......

Barry Lyndon "meh"???? It's one of my all time faves!

Always liked Jean Arthur in, "The more the merrier." With Joel McCrea & Charles Coburn, what could go wrong?

It's nice to know there are others that love the film noir era.

Recently discovered your channel. Excellent. I'd like to recommend the film The Hitchhiker by director/actress Ida Lupino, and for reading, Sam Fuller's A Third Face or anything by essayist Danny Peary.

Oh yeah, 1978's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is the BEST version: pod-people invade Hippie City, USA. If one loves the 1970s, that movie is the dessert that crowns a paranoid meal, lol. Malle's "Elevator to the Gallows" is an old fave of mine, as well. Congrats on the 10K, Sydney; looking forward to what's next!

So many more things for me to like about you and your channel!: Loving Jean Arthur, the soundtrack of The Best Years of Our Lives (I thought that was just me. The music gets to me every time.), and Diana Lynn in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Bette over Joan. Being 'meh' on Barry Lyndon (actually, I'm 'meh' about everything Stanley Kubrick after Dr. Strangelove, but that's another discussion). The 1994 Little Women is the best version. Your channel is (deservedly) growing so fast. You make this to celebrate 10,000 subs and by the time you post it the number is 13,000. Terrific!

Bernard Herman...Alfred Newman....Max Steiner. I do like Jean Arthur and Roselyn Russel. I watched old movies all the time as growing up. China Town was weird. Leslie Howard my dear. Tyrone Power!

I must say all the videos are really good, it moves and it's enjoyable. Greetings, Tom, Belgium.

Thank you for the video and the book recommendations... but especially thank you for your channel! Not that anyone asked, but my favorite foreign noir is La Bete Humaine (honorable mention to High and Low); my most 'meh' cinematic masterpiece is Battleship Potemkin (honorable mention to Gilda), and my always choke up movie moment is Homer's homecoming in Best Years of Our Lives (honorable mention to the scene that ends with Lillian Gish saying 'It's a hard world for little things' in Night of the Hunter). Really glad to see your channel taking off!

Love the channel, but wow... you could not be more wrong about "Barry Lyndon." So underrated. On the other hand, we are in agreement that Sterling Hayden amazing. Can't wait to read his autobiography.

Very entertaining like how you mentioned count the hours as your introduction to movies it featured MacDonald Carey and Teresa Wright who appeared in my favourite Hitchcock movie shadow of a doubt

Great fun video! I always love learning about the films that made people become passionate about classic films. Teresa Wright is one of my favorite actresses and I always thought that she and Macdonald Carey were great in Shadow of a Doubt. I must watch Count the Hours! I get chocked up with the final scene of E.T., several moments of The Best Years of Our Lives and the final scene between Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On. Thank you for all your wonderful work!

I just picked up an admittedly poor quality copy of My Man Godfrey, IMHO one of the finest examples of dialog captured on film for any era. This was fun! Hoping for the best for you and yours, and of course, do carry on.

My list of films I will watch any place, any time includes: Open City, Imposter, Double Indemnity, Best Years of Our Lives, Treasure of The Sierra Madre, DOA, From Here to Eternity, On The Waterfront, Stalag 17, Blow Up, and by the way, wasn't Jean Arthur in Shane? ...and I probably missed a lot more in my list.

How do you feel about commentary tracks? Is there a film you’d personally like to record a commentary for?

Favorite Female Led Comedy ... well not sure it's considered a comedy per se, but Stage Door always cracks me up - Ginger Rogers and Eve Arden are especially of note in that regard. Movie moment that chokes me up every time, the ending of Umberto D ... although I generally feel "choked up" through most of that movie.

A good place to get classic films is the library. There is also a lot free streaming station on the internet for classic film. Good magazine on film are classic images and films of the golden age

Joseph mcbride also wrote Frank Capra: the catastrophe of success. In which he debunks the dozens of, well let,s say myths the director has told about himself in his autobiography. Pretty devastating for Capra fans , but a great read. And my nomination for Overrated Movie: Novecento by Bertolucci.

I LOVE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE IT.

Ginger Rogers certainly deserves at least an honorable mention for "The Major and the Minor" in the category of old B&W female lead comedies I should think. And Veronica Lake in "Sullivan's Travels". Eww! Eww! And Barbara Stanwyck in "Christmas in Connecticut ".

LOVE YOU! Keep up the good work.

Jean Arthur is the reason why we not only have a Peter Pan musical, but a woman as the lead. Another nice vid, BTW, the movie that did it for me was They Live By Night, saw it as a 15 year old, late at night, long before I ever heard the term film noir. BTW2, I collect film noir lobby cards and full page ads in magazines, posters are so expensive, my favsi are Ride the Pink Horse and Human Desire.

Re; THE COLOR PURPLE. Not a big Spielberg fan, didn't care for TCP at all. But it's interesting that you mention the reunion scene. Like most of the movie it left me cold, BUT the scene where they're separated really got me. When she calls out, "Write!" it started raining on my face...

Great video! But doesn’t “The Third Man” count as non-American noir? Also, I agree, “Bring on the Empty Horses” is one of the great books about Hollywood, told with great self deprecation and humour. What do you think of the Kevin Brownlow books, e.g. “the parade’s gone by”?….

Loved this! I answered the lightning round questions as you did - crazy we liked much the same!

I find B & W movies very relaxing.

I just found your channel and I love it! I am very passionate about good storytelling via film. I’m looking forward to more videos to learn more about obscure movies…which are some of my favorite but obviously hard to find.

So glad I found you!!!!!

Hey, what's that movie at 3:48, where the guy says: "Where is Rosemary?" Can't figure it out. Lovely video, by the way. I especially love that you mention "The Young In Heart", such a gem of a film.

Thank you CC, you answered all of my questions - all two of them (lol). I want to recommend to you the last movie book I read, Hollywood: The Oral History by J, Basinger & S. Wasson. It’s a great book though not really for newcomers to this topic as many of the participants are not really familiar to the general public. Still, a great read for aficionados. Be well !!

I hope one day you’ll tackle Bette Davis in Beyond the Forest. I can’t help it but it’s a guilty pleasure of mine.

Love your videos! You have the perfect narration voice! Very soothing on the ear. Looks like you've left 10,000 for dead 😮 Future ideas - how about doing some videos on the pre code era, 1934-1938 and silent era? The 30's is overlooked i feel - every year except 1939 of course 😂 Ill definitely read some of those books you've referenced. If you're interested, I found Esther Williams book million dollar mermaid and Stewart Grangers sparks fly upwards fascinating! Keeps up the good work 👍

Congrats! Well deserved!

Elevator to the Gallows- yow!

I think your interest in history also helps with enjoyment of classical films. Knowing what was going on in the world that may have influenced those involved in making a film, for me, let’s me see misogyny, views of relationships in general, racism, etc. through my understanding of the attitudes at the time. (This philosophy, however, does not extend to a young viewer! I was introducing my young granddaughter to my favorite Shirley Temple film that I watched as a kid matched, The Littlest Colonel. At the time, knowing virtually nothing about our Civil War, I saw it as a child lovingly helping her family members. I turned it off before the first scene was finished, and opted for Heidi instead! (Which she loved!). Also, I matched everyone of your lightening round choices! If you haven’t seen it, which I highly doubt!; the “screwball” comedy Ball of Fire with Barbara Stanwycke, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews, and a slew of highly skilled character actors, is one a my favorites. Cracks me up everytime! My crying (sobbing?) moments each time are many, but the one that stands out is Tale of Two Cities. That ending. Yikes!

My mother passed onto me her love of Hollywood’s Golden Age, as well as entertaining the idea I was Tyrone Power in my last life, but that’s a story for another day...

How delightful! Enjoyed this peek into you. It's a credit to your content that I've focused on it so intently I hadn't realized how handsomely your hard work and consistency were paying off. Congratulations on hitting 10k subs! You deserve every one. 🏆

#1 I see you included a clip from "The Razor's Edge" ❤ I also the love the remake, starring Bill Murray! #2 Won't you agree that the actual worst movie ever made (especially per $) is Titanic? #3 Thanks so much for your channel!

If I had a vote, which I don't. Foreign noir - Rififi (1955)

Hi I absolutely love your channel!❤ And I so agree with you on the Lightening round, I too love to watch classic films alone.

Love your channel!

I agree about "Barry Lyndon" beautiful to look at, but so slow. Also an exceptionally wooden performance from Marisa Berenson. Personally I don't think Ryan O'Neal was the right choice to play the lead role.

I am new to your channel, so this helps me to understand what you do. I am really enjoying this. Would you ever be interested in discussing the unfair pressures that were put on actresses while filming? Like Bette Davis during Beyond The Forest? She wanted out of her contact, but Warner Bros demanded she finish. She tried to sink the movie with a terrible performance, but WB's said keep filming! They believed she was worthless to them and sought to ruin her image as she went to another studio. The director watched dailies and begged to stop. They continued. The final train depot scene is where we see the first glimpse of her Baby Jane persona. She drags her self through the scene while chewing the scenery. If you know this about the film it becomes like watching a soap opera or reality show. There are many other examples of women being treated badly at that time, too. Thanks again for what you do! P.S. I may be wrong about some details because I am going from memory, thanks!

If you want to cross the pond, have a look at BFI Player. I'm a slow reader so I have 20 unread at least to 1 I have. You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again this was popular. Anything by William Goldman.

Late to the game.. but I'm in!

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Have you ever thought about writing a screenplay?

The best comedies were made in the '30's, before the Hayes Code.

You need to do a piece on Carole Lombard.

I wish i could read that much, i only got Billy Wilder's bio with Helmuth Karasek, a must from "the greatest writer/director of the cinema" Spielberg said during Wilder's birthday..and David Niven indeed is quite a recommandation, it blew me away, and he's been great friend with Gable,Bogey,Flynn and Astaire so we have great insight/tasty anecdotes on those legends(mostly bad boy Flynn..). 50 ans de cinéma américain from Bertrand Tavernier&Coursodon is perfect for new findings,which is the goal right? very well documented, Tavernier french director, huge historian and great person with juggernaut passion,especially for western & film noir, consider him like the french Scorsese, they knew each other well logically. Great channel,but i heard nothing upon Barry Lyndon 🙈🙉🙊..

I'm so happy my questions made the lightening round! Interesting video and some films to add to my list.😊 PS For me: Joan over Bette Olivia over Joan Niven and Howard a tie - Pimpernel Smith is one of my favourite films Power over Flynn kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpxndJipsdWuk6s.html

You made a common error relative to the name of the composer of the "Laura" (1944) soundtrack - it's David Raksin - NOT "Raskin" ;)

Love your channel. But "meh" for Barry Lyndon??? 😞

Sorry, Errol Flynn all the way!!!

I want to be you when I grow up (I’m a 24 year old woman but you are the epitome of cool)

Rosalyn Russell aunt mame

Excuse me, I'm new to your channel can you talk about love from a stranger 1937? Thanks you

Waiting for a mention of Turner Classic Movies. I fear for its future post-Discovery takeover. How about "The Lady Eve" for female-led comedies? It's easy to be "meh" about Kubrick films because of his cold-eyed view of human existence. Barry Lyndon is 45 minutes too long, and Ryan O'Neal was a poor choice for the lead. The risk Kubrick took in using nothing but natural light is one of the reasons I must see it every 3-4 years. Upon viewing it when released in 1976, then learning a couple of years or so later about the natural light decision, that solidified my enjoyment of it. Why wasn't Teresa Wright a bigger star? She was the best thing about "The Best Years Of Our Lives." Love your channel because I love movies from Golden Age of Hollywood, warts and all!

Husband? Sigh...