This Is the Night (1932)

This Is the Night by #FrankTuttle starring #CaryGrant and #ThelmaTodd, "The performances are remarkable",

FRANK TUTTLE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB USA, 1932. Paramount Pictures. Screenplay by Benjamin Glazer, George Marion Jr., based on the play by Henry Falk, Avery Hopwood, René Peter. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Produced by Benjamin Glazer. Music by Ralph Rainger, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold. Costume Design by Eugene Joseff. Cary Grant is instantly a matinee idol in his film debut,…

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"A thousand poets dreamed a thousand years, then you were born, my love."

Unfaithfully Yours, 1948.

Dir. & Writ. Preston Sturges | DOP Victor Milner

Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, and Judith Anderson in The Furies (Anthony Mann, 1950)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka. Screenplay: Charles Schnee, based on a book by Niven Busch. Cinematography: Victor Milner. Art direction: Henry Bumstead, Hans Dreier. Film editing: Archie Marshek. Music: Franz Waxman. 

The Furies takes place in a West that never was: Would any real cattleman name his ranch "The Furies"? But that's because the film aims at the mythic, and darn near succeeds. The Furies of myth were goddesses of vengeance, also known as the Eumenides, which means "the gracious ones" -- they were so terrible that humans tried to placate them by calling them by a nice name. In the film, all of the women are to some degree vengeful: Barbara Stanwyck's Vance Jeffords chafes against the notion that because she's a woman, she can't run a ranch; Judith Anderson's Flo Burnett tries to get her hooks into Vance's father and bypass Vance's claim to his estate; Beulah Bondi's Mrs. Anaheim is the real power behind her banker husband; and the most vengeful of them all, Blanche Yurka's Mother Herrera, seeks justice for the hanging of her son. For a Western, it's also awfully talky, with some lines that sound like film noir: "I don't think I like love," says Vance. "It puts a bit in my mouth." Others are obvious attempts to sidestep cliché: Vance's father, T.C. (Walter Huston), tells her she has a "dowry if you pick a man I can favor, one I can sit down at the table with and not dislodge my chow." I suspect that a lot of the dialogue, as well as a lot of the slightly overcomplicated plot, comes from its source, a novel by Niven Busch, adapted by Charles Schnee: Busch knew his way around tough dialogue, having written the screenplay for one of film noir's classics, The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946). Anthony Mann keeps the action from overwhelming the talk and the mythologizing, greatly helped by Stanwyck and Huston (in his final film) as the sparring but inextricably bonded Jeffordses. The movie could have used a stronger love interest than Wendell Corey as Rip Darrow, the man who wants to get the better of T.C., and woos Vance as part of the plot. Corey and Stanwyck don't strike sparks; she's more in tune with Gilbert Roland as Juan Herrera, the squatter on The Furies who has been her friend since childhood -- a subplot that's in some ways more interesting than the financial struggles to get hold of the ranch. Initially a box office failure, the film has grown in stature over the years as a showcase for some of the best work of Stanwyck, Huston, and Mann. 

Two sharp knocks found the face of the Milner Estate door. Upon answering the call, one would find the presence of someone outside lacking, save for a wrapped box left at the front step decorated in a colorful and shiny paper many were known to use for Starlight gifts. A fancy bow and a quaint and decorative notecard were pinned to the top. Within the notecard, a fancy script was scrawled along the festive parchment: "Your tools are being returned to you. Your sins against another have not gone unnoticed; may they no longer see evils to speak of." Upon opening the box, one would find 10 eyes carefully cut out and haphazardly thrown into the box disguised as a starlight gift. If one cared to look hard enough, one would notice that these eyes were five pairs.

The staff of the Milner Estate typically left such packages for the master of the house to open - but on this occasion, and due to the curious nature of one of the maids the box was opened prior to Ricard’s return. (And because the master of the house was due to return rather late, as he was at his parents for their annual Starlight festivities.)

Upon seeing the box’s contents the poor maid was promptly sick, and Victor - being responsible for the house while Ricard and Delywn were aware did the only thing he knew to do…took off running for the Blythe estate. Ricard had to know.

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Holy Simsdom Empire, San Myshuno

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His Lordship, Simon Milner, Earl of Alto

Full Name: Simon Marcus Milner Title(s): Earl of Alto, Chief Petty Officer in Imperial Navy Nickname(s): N/A Birthday: August 7th Residence(s): Alto Heights (San Myshuno) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: Marquess Marcus & Marchioness Corinne Milner Spouse: Countess Viola Milner Children: Viscount Everett & Hon. Elijah Milner

Her Ladyship, Viola Milner, Countess of Alto

Full Name: Viola Hannah Milner Title(s): Countess of Alto Nickname(s): Vi Birthday: February 18th Residence(s): Alto Heights (San Myshuno) Previous Names/Titles: Miss Viola Collins Parents: Mr. Arthur & Mrs. Hannah Collins (divorced) Spouse: Earl Simon Milner Children: Viscount Everett & Hon. Elijah Milner

His Lordship, Everett Milner, Viscount of Spire

Full Name: Everett Simon Milner Title(s): Viscount of Spire Nickname(s): N/A Birthday: July 15th Residence(s): Alto Heights, Spire Estate (San Myshuno) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: Earl Simon & Countess Viola Milner Spouse: N/A Children: N/A

The Right Honorable Mr. Elijah Milner

Full Name: Elijah Victor Milner Title(s): The Right Honorable of Alto Nickname(s): Eli Birthday: July 15th Residence(s): Alto Heights (San Myshuno) Previous Names/Titles: N/A Parents: Earl Simon & Countess Viola Milner Spouse: N/A Children: N/A

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🎥🎼 La Música en el Cine, presenta:

🎬 “EL DESFILE DEL AMOR” [The Love Parade]

🔎 Género: Comedia / Romance / Musical

⌛️ Duración: 107 minutos

✍️ Guión: Guy Bolton y Ernest Vajda

📘 Obra: Jules Chancel y Leon Xanrof

🎶 Música: W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Oscar Potoker y Max Terr

📷 Fotografía: Victor Milner (B&W)

🗯 Argumento: Por sus deshonrosas aventuras en París, el agregado militar, conde Alfred Renard, es devuelto a su país de origen Sylvania, justo en los días en que los miembros del Consejo de Estado andan preocupados porque la reina Louise I no consigue casarse con ninguno de sus pretendientes... pero al ser llevado ante su presencia a la espera de recibir su castigo, Renard conseguirá seducirla y Sylvania va a tener a un príncipe consorte que ha jurado ante la iglesia ser dócil y obediente.

👥 Reparto: Maurice Chevalier (Alfred Renard), Jeanette MacDonald (Queen Louise), Lillian Roth (Lulu), Eugene Pallette (Minister of War), Virginia Bruce, Jean Harlow (Woman in Opera Box), Ben Turpin (Valletto Strabico), Lionel Belmore (Prime Minister), E. H. Calvert (Sylvanian Ambassador) y Edgar Norton (Master of Ceremonies) y Winter Hall.

📢 Dirección: Ernst Lubitsch

© Productora: Paramount Pictures

🌏 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 1929

📽 Proyección:

📆 Sábado 23 de Marzo

🕚 11:00am.

🏪 Sala Azul del Centro Cultural PUCP (av. Camino Real 1075 San Isidro)

⭐ Organiza: Sociedad Filarmonica de Lima

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

The Furies

If all Westerns looked like John Ford’s or Anthony Mann’s, I think I’d be a much bigger fan of the genre. Of course, it’s almost unfair to call Mann’s THE FURIES (1950, Criterion Channel, YouTube) a Western. It’s more of an anti-Western. It features the same conflict as in most of the genre — the frontier vs. civilization — but in this case civilization is represented not by home, family and the feminine but rather by business interests, particularly banks. And as shot by Victor Milner, the wide-open spaces are more oppressive than liberating. These characters don’t need railroads and cities and farms to fence them in. They’re already confined by their own twisted passions. Walter Huston is the tyrannical, mercurial owner of a ranch called The Furies. He’s Lear on horseback. He plans to leave everything to his tough, adoring daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) as long as he can control her life, including whomever she might marry. Then he comes home from a business trip with a wealthy widow (Judith Anderson) out to take Stanwyck’s place, and the fur and the scissors fly. Charles Schnee adapted the script from a Niven Busch novel, and at the start it has the meandering quality of a lot of fiction. You can’t quite tell where the story’s going, but the characters and atmosphere are so rich it doesn’t matter. And when you get to see Huston (in his last film) and Stanwyck interact, who needs a plot. There’s a terrific score by Franz Waxman and wonderful supporting work from Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Blanche Yurka and Beulah Bondi, who’s barely on screen five minutes yet manages to capture her character simply in the way she transfers her fan from one hand to the other. Censorship imposed a certain racism on the film. Where Stanwyck and Roland had an affair in the novel and even married, that was turned into a friendship and Roland’s unrequited love, because his character, a Mexican, couldn’t be intimate with a white woman. And then there’s Wendell Corey. He’s better than in a lot of his leading roles, but he hardly seems magnetic enough to capture Stanwyck’s passions. And the character, as written for the screen, doesn’t make a lot of sense. He uses Stanwyck at first and then suddenly falls in love with her. Nor does it help that he has a misguidedly chauvinistic proposal scene: “And don’t ask me to be your husband. If we marry, remember one thing. You’ll be my wife. Whenever you’re wrong, I’ll tell you so. If I’m ever wrong, you just keep your little mouth shut.” Would anybody ever believe he could exercise that kind of control over a Barbara Stanwyck? Or a Barbara Hale? Or even a Barbara Pepper?

Brewers Avoid Arbitration With Hoby Milner, Victor Caratini

Brewers Avoid Arbitration With Hoby Milner, Victor Caratini

The Brewers have avoided arbitration with a pair of players before tomorrow’s deadline for sides to exchange salary figures. Reliever Hoby Milner and the club have settled at $1.025MM, reports Robert Murray of FanSided (Twitter link). Catcher Víctor Caratini and the team are in agreement on a $2.8MM salary, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com (on Twitter). Milner inked a minor league contract with…

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One of the men filming Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones on the set of Carrier (1952) must be cinematographer Victor Milner. This is Vic's third honorable mention, after Love Me Tonight and Song of Songs.

Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper. Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Monckton Hoffe, based on a story by Hoffe. Cinematography: Victor Milner. Art direction: Ernst Dreier, Hans Fegté. Film editing: Stuart Gilmore. 

Preston Sturges, who was a screenwriter before he became a hyphenated writer-director, has a reputation for verbal wit. It's very much in evidence in The Lady Eve, with lines like "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."  But what distinguishes Sturges from writers who just happen to fall into directing is his gift for pacing the dialogue, for knowing when to cut. What makes the first stateroom scene between Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) and Charles (Henry Fonda) so sexy is that much of it is a single take, relying on the actors' superb timing -- and perhaps on some splendid coaching from Sturges. But he also has a gift for sight gags like Mr. Pike (Eugene Pallette) clanging dish covers like cymbals to demand his breakfast. And his physical comedy is brilliantly timed, particularly in the repeated pratfalls and faceplants that Fonda undergoes when confronted with a Lady Eve who looks so much like Jean. Fonda is a near perfect foil for gags like those, his character's dazzled innocence reinforced by the actor's undeniable good looks. There's hardly any other star of the time who would make Charles Pike quite so credible: Cary Grant, for example, would have turned the pratfalls into acrobatic moves. The other major thing that Sturges had going for him is a gallery of character actors, the likes of which we will unfortunately never see again: Pallette, Charles Coburn, William Demarest (who made exasperation eloquent), Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, and numerous well-chosen bit players.  

Producer-director Cecil B. DeMille and cinematographer Victor Milner between takes on the elaborate barge set for (1934). Milner won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for this film.

Crown Princess Inspects Troops

This morning, Her Imperial Highness, Crown Princess Ophelia, addressed the Britechester Naval Brigade in her role as Princess of Britechester.

The Britechester Brigade is a special, smaller, naval task force that historically has been used for special missions and elite rescues. Among the soldiers standing at attention this morning on the docks of Evergreen Harbor were many familiar faces, including the Crown Princess' own father- Prince Matthew Norton, brother, Prince Benedict Ivanov, and boyfriend, Cadet Luke Marin. Also numbered among the ranks are Wendelin Humphrey, Duke Whitland, Terry Harden, Earl Culpepper, Francisco Castille, Marquess Cedarworth, Simon Milner, Earl Alto, and Princess Emilia's fiance, Petty Officer Gabriel Micheletti.

HIH addressed her troops with a heartening speech about their honor and duty, as well as thanking them for the sacrifice they're making in serving the greater good of the Simsdom Empire. She then wished them luck and "godspeed" on their endeavors, and admitted that she was praying heartily for their safe return.

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Who can say for sure; we'll just have to wait and see if there's a favorable outcome to the Brigade's launch today.

Good luck boys!

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) dir. Lewis Milestone

Cinematography by Victor Milner

this is the night (us, tuttle 32)

Cleopatra has always intrigued me. It’s a great story, but somehow it doesn’t always seem to translate that well on screen. I quite liked this version though. It was short enough and well paced, the sets, the costumes, the music. There was plenty to keep me interested. Also I was quite impressed with the fight scene towards the end. Pretty impressive effects considering it was made in the 30′s. I do wonder if the musical team of Aladdin were inspired by this film. The opening music especially had a total Arabian Nights-vibe to it. All in all, I liked it but doubt I’ll watch it a second time. Cleopatra received the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Victor Milner.