From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 8:18:15 AM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > Are groupers familiar with the 1954 Fritz Lang(!) film "Human Desire," with   
   > Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, and a young Edgar Buchanan [Petticoat   
   Junction]   
   > as his sidekick and Broderick Crawford as her husband?   
      
   I forgot to mention -- it's based on a novel by Emile Zola.   
      
   > It's all rail! It opens with a montage at least five minutes long of Ford   
   > driving a train through all sorts of industrial landscapes over presumably   
   > familiar landmarks of visually impressive tracks and trestles. His locomotive   
   > is oddly streamlined -- not Raymond Loewy streamlined, but looking a bit   
   > like the front of a semi truck.   
   >   
   > Almost as impressive, that is, as the opening montage of "Nothing Sacred"   
   > (Carole Lombard), which must have been some of the first (1936?) color aerial   
   > photography of Lower Manhattan, which must have featured heavily in the   
   > advertising but which is never mentioned in "NYC in the movies" books. It   
   > goes on rather longer than is needed for the story! [On TV it's usually   
   > savagely abbreviated. There was a DVD.]   
      
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