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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 19:38:15 GMT
"Robert will be away for the night, and I absolutely must see you. I am desperate and if you don't come, I won't answer for the consequences. Don't drive up. Leslie."
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 19:39:26 GMT
I'm always disappointed in Stephenson for selling out his legal ethics.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 19:42:24 GMT
Mrs. Hammond has the letter. Maybe she will sell it...
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 19:44:52 GMT
The negotiations over the letter between Stephenson and Yung are incredible - it's game theory in action.
Stephenson played it very well, but his hand was a weak one and Yung called him on it.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 3, 2023 19:46:03 GMT
"Two thousand dollars and the great satisfaction of being of service to you and our client."
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 19:46:06 GMT
"Jury's can be very stupid, it's just as well not to worry them with too much evidence." Or something close to that.
Dear Lord.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 19:46:10 GMT
"Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money to save some trouble."
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 19:47:27 GMT
"Two thousand dollars and the great satisfaction of being of service to you and our client." Please define the word smarmy for me.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 19:50:22 GMT
Davis' white dress with the large buttons is another example of freakin' incredible tailoring.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 19:53:42 GMT
Bette Does Chinatown.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:03:13 GMT
Bette Does Court.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:06:48 GMT
Andrea,
A key difference in the two versions is that in the 1929 film, Mrs. Crosbie gets on the witness stand to testify in her own defense. That part is left out of this remake...probably because William Wyler and Bette Davis agreed she couldn't replicate Jeanne Eagels' outstanding scene in the earlier version.
Also, if she got on the witness stand and lied through her teeth, which is how Somerset Maugham wrote it, then it would make a mockery of justice and the production code office was not about to allow that.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:07:07 GMT
British justice had a better day in "The Winslow Boy" than it does here.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:10:08 GMT
Andrea,
A key difference in the two versions is that in the 1929 film, Mrs. Crosbie gets on the witness stand to testify in her own defense. That part is left out of this remake...probably because William Wyler and Bette Davis agreed she couldn't replicate Jeanne Eagels' outstanding scene in the earlier version.
Also, if she got on the witness stand and lied through her teeth, which is how Somerset Maugham wrote it, then it would make a mockery of justice and the production code office was not about to allow that. I might have to read the play now. I like Maugham, but haven't read this one.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:10:49 GMT
Herbert Marshall played Somerset Maugham in THE RAZOR'S EDGE (1946).
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