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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:00:11 GMT
One thing I have to say right from the start, I love how Boyer decides to show his real age in this film...it's a very "unglamorous" role for him. This is not the same suave good-looking man who romanced Irene Dunne in LOVE AFFAIR.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 24, 2023 19:03:16 GMT
Isn't he going to go upstairs and check on Cora?
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 24, 2023 19:03:39 GMT
Cora, played by Constance Smith, looks a bit like Darnell. I wonder if that's going to play into the plot.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:03:46 GMT
Uh oh, the first letter has already arrived!
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:05:01 GMT
Cora, played by Constance Smith, looks a bit like Darnell. I wonder if that's going to play into the plot. Smith's role was intended for Maureen O'Hara, but scheduling conflicts prevented O'Hara from doing it.
Rennie's role was intended for Joseph Cotten.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:08:26 GMT
This was the 26th film (out of 28 films) that Linda Darnell made under contract at 20th Century Fox.
She had begun with the studio at age 16 in 1940. She was 28 at the time THE 13TH LETTER was made.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 24, 2023 19:09:07 GMT
Darnell was ready to get naked for the good doctor. Andrea, her black negligee was about to come off if the good doctor hadn't stopped her.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 24, 2023 19:11:48 GMT
This was the 26th film (out of 28 films) that Linda Darnell made under contract at 20th Century Fox.
She had begun with the studio at age 17 in 1940. She was 28 at the time THE 13TH LETTER was made.
I didn't know that but it makes sense as a few month ago I saw her in 1939's "Daytime Wife." She was all of 16 playing a 20ish year old woman. Her career obviously started early.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:11:58 GMT
They have both received a letter.
"Mrs. Laurent: I am watching you and Dr. Pearson. Stop before it's too late."
"Dr. Pearson: Before I tell Dr. Laurent about you and Cora, I give you this chance to leave town."
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:16:05 GMT
Mrs. Gauthier and her son. The razor in this scene is significant.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:17:15 GMT
"A person who displays such poison is sick. It could be almost anybody."
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:18:51 GMT
A new letter:
"Dr. Pearson
Unless you stop your affair with Cora Laurent and leave town, you must take the consequences."
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 24, 2023 19:21:09 GMT
"Cupping her to draw out the infection."
What the heck? It's 1951 not 1851.
That medicine will be appropriate for next month's Gothic melodramas.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:21:54 GMT
Poison keeps flowing...
"Dr. Helier:
If you don't want the hospital to become involved in a scandal, you will do well to get rid of Pearson immediately.
As to Higgins, ask him about the cutback he received from the hospital contracts last January."
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Post by topbilled on Sept 24, 2023 19:23:29 GMT
As if tearing up the letters will make the problem go away.
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