Thursday, May 22, 2014

Good Morning, Sir

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Who goes there? Now that's the sort of entrance fit for a cheesecake beauty queen - think Rita Hayworth tossing her hair back. That's no Rita Hayworth washing the man out of her hair though...

No indeed. Under that bushiest of beards that's a Sir of the Laurence Olivier sort. Larry was born 107 years ago today, and so let's look at his 1941 flick 49th Parallel... or at least let's look at this one scene.

The entire movie is on YouTube right here - it's a war-time propaganda-ish effort from the fine film-making duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (makers of The Red Shoes, etc) about some Nazis trying to enter the US via Canada. Powell thought he could use the film to pressure the US into the War.

This somehow involves Sir Larry and a giant beard and a bathtub, or something - no I haven't seen the movie yet. Have you? It's on my list, as anything Powell & Pressburger should be. For now let's just glare at Larry, who didn't drop his kit nearly often enough, with a few more shots after the jump...




Noooo! Not the beard!
The Nazis have won.
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1 comment:

BRB said...

This movie is....okay. There's enough weird homo subtext buzzing around to make it watchable, but nothing terribly interesting otherwise. Fascinating really more for the compendium of stereotypes about various Canadian peoples is presents than much else.