Wow, Watch on the Rhine’s got it all. Not only does it have a nice metaphor for the United States waking up to the horrors of the Nazis and determining to do something about it (which the United States never did), it’s also got a nice ending telling mothers their place is to send their […]
Entries Tagged as 'Dashiell Hammett'
Watch on the Rhine (1943, Herman Shumlin)
June 1st, 2006 No Comments
After the Thin Man (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)
December 3rd, 2005 No Comments
The last time I had a Thin Man marathon–which must have been five years ago, maybe more (I had the LaserDisc set, so I’m trying to remember when I started concentrating more on DVD), I thought After the Thin Man, the second film in the series, was disappointing. Now I’m not having a marathon, just […]
