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   Jack Bohn to evelynchim...@gmail.com   
   Re: Comments on the 1945 Retro Hugo Nomi   
   20 Mar 20 07:46:43   
   
   From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   evelynchim...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Here are my additions, as published in the MT VOID:   
   >    
   > Comments on the 1944 Retro Hugo Nominations in the Dramatic    
   > Presentation Category (Supplement) (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)   
   >    
   > After Mark published his overview of 1944 candidates for the Retro    
   > Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Cora Buhlert pointed us to a    
   > spreadsheet that containing several presentations Mark missed; we    
   > also had input from Nicholas Whyte.  Some are very short films    
   > (e.g., Warner Brothers cartoons) or radio programs, and Mark was    
   > concentrating on what were considered at the time feature films.   
      
   Of the Oscar nominated shorts, I'd recommend the George Pal Puppetoon "And to   
   Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street."  There's also an overlooked Raggedy Ann   
   cartoon "Suddenly It's Spring."   
      
   > Mark is currently tied up on other projects, but I have decided to    
   > jump in and comment on the new additions to the list (feature films    
   > only).  And here they are.   
   >    
   > Long Form:   
   >    
   > BETWEEN TWO WORLDS   
      
   One of the ones I was thinking of.  I've seen it and 1930's OUTWARD BOUND, of   
   which it is a remake.  I suppose I should see THEY CAME TO A CITY and HALFWAY   
   HOUSE for a complete comparrison.   
      
   >    
   > THE CANTERVILLE GHOST   
      
   The other one I was thinking of.  I'm surprised to see this came out before   
   MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, the character Margaret O'Brien plays here seems a   
   slightly toned down version of the sorta Wednesday Addams prototype she played   
   there.  I wonder why this    
   isn't better known.  Perhaps it would be better if the full price of an act of   
   bravery had been paid.  We have the one ghost, and there's a time in the   
   celebration at the end where Robert Young's character could realize he's   
   become one, too.  But, as    
   wartime propaganda, perhaps they don't want to point out that soldiers are   
   likely to die.   
      
   Short Form:   
      
   > THE PHANTOM: (We were unable to find a copy of this.)   
      
   Is this the serial?  You have it as a short form.   
       
   I notice you haven't listed THE MUMMY'S GHOST and THE MUMMY'S CURSE, not that   
   they'd be nominated.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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