tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post3352963387678125784..comments2024-03-24T21:42:48.278-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: The Golden Horde - 1951Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-46232947047147905922018-08-04T00:47:06.818-04:002018-08-04T00:47:06.818-04:00Just watched this - dumb as a rock but fairly ente...Just watched this - dumb as a rock but fairly entertaining in many ways - the action choreography was quite good I thought and Ann's costumes are the pure fantasy of Hollywood designers - in this case Leah Rhodes who I don't know but she has a lot of films credited to her. Nice set designs as well. Curious that it only went 73 minutes - kind of short for an A production but a bit long for a B film. Beautiful Technicolor. And yes the history is bonkers - Khan did in fact conquer Samarkand as did loads of other people. Brian Naashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12798896753133473887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-30745162493430921612014-08-25T11:20:40.379-04:002014-08-25T11:20:40.379-04:00Metzinger girls, I agree, she was quite lovely in ...Metzinger girls, I agree, she was quite lovely in these period films. It's a fun movie, despite it's weaknesses.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-74359006368401557222014-08-25T11:12:53.172-04:002014-08-25T11:12:53.172-04:00Now this sounds like a film not to be passed up......Now this sounds like a film not to be passed up...those screenshots really sold me, and I just love films with Jersey-born Mongols. Ann Blyth was beautiful in every film she made but she looked best in period films, especially The Student Prince. I doubt any Heidelberg biergarten kellnerin looked as pretty as she did! Thanks for a great review of a film I never heard of. The Metzinger Sistershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10728879307994086409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-19959676868548752272014-08-21T22:24:33.042-04:002014-08-21T22:24:33.042-04:00These are fun movies, and, shamelessly, maybe some...These are fun movies, and, shamelessly, maybe some of the fun is in picking out the actors who stick out like sore thumbs.<br /><br />That's an interesting point you make about wondering if female audiences of the day responded as we do. I think perhaps many did, thinking of generations past of strong-minded females in my own family. But I guess there must have been a lot of acceptance for this sort of thing too. In this movie, I think it would have been fine to have a strong male, but a different kind of strength, one that matched the cerebral strength of the Ann Blyth character, someone we could understand her respecting and loving.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-68004769349071377182014-08-21T21:14:28.419-04:002014-08-21T21:14:28.419-04:00I love this great line: " in an old Hollywood...I love this great line: " in an old Hollywood movie like this, we have to accept that some of the Mongol troops are going to sound like they come from Jersey" - I think that's the appeal of these movies, that so many of them entertain because they are wildly anachronistic and sometimes will star actors who don't belong there (another case of a too-modern actor in historical epics: Tony Curtis in "The Black Shield of Falworth" and "Spartacus"). I know that feeling of frustration when watching a movie when the female character is so much smarter than every male around her (often starring Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn), yet in the end she's forced to submit to male authority - I think it may be how Hollywood was reflecting (or thinking it was reflecting) the culture of its time. That female audiences of those times responded to strong actresses (such as Bette Davis) makes me wonder if they felt that frustration, too.grandoldmovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773085288675763855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-194535593126239212014-08-21T12:53:16.146-04:002014-08-21T12:53:16.146-04:00Hi, Kevin. I haven't seen Brandon's turn a...Hi, Kevin. I haven't seen Brandon's turn as Fu Manchu, but he still seems like B-movie material here. That's interesting about CREATURE music being in the Godzilla movie, too. Funny.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-33214234869920463312014-08-21T11:51:39.902-04:002014-08-21T11:51:39.902-04:00I've never seen this one, but it sounds like f...I've never seen this one, but it sounds like fun. That's too bad about Henry Brandon's performance. He made a splendid Fu Manchu in the Republic serial DRUMS OF FU MANCHU (1940).<br /><br />I believe the score was written by Universal house composer Hans J. Salter. Universal would sometimes license their music out, which is likely how it wound up in KING KONG VS. GODZILLA. That's why the theme from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON also shows up in that movie. Kevin Deanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697597405552599370noreply@blogger.com