tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post5466028995227564382..comments2024-03-24T21:42:48.278-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: Uneasy Victors - Pt 3 - "The Big Lift" -1950Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-9660866194305638012011-12-07T11:14:19.150-05:002011-12-07T11:14:19.150-05:00So many of 'them' got away. So many compan...So many of 'them' got away. So many companies doing business then, using forced labor and worse, are still in business today. <br /><br />That buffoon, Herman Goering was even helped by guards to commit suicide by cyanide capsule, instead of meeting the hangman as he should have done.<br /><br />Well, you might say, dead is dead, but...Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-2570839208833117672011-12-06T17:34:00.448-05:002011-12-06T17:34:00.448-05:00Spot on, Yvette: "There is no apparatus for m...Spot on, Yvette: "There is no apparatus for marking the score settled when you are up against such evil."<br /><br />"Judgment at Nuremberg" at times seems to make us wonder if it's even worth trying. All three movies in this series speculate on how to do it. In the end, official judgment was settled on a case-by-case basis. And unofficially? That's something else.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-63011010466730433772011-12-06T16:32:01.403-05:002011-12-06T16:32:01.403-05:00Jacqueline: Thanks for putting this film in contex...Jacqueline: Thanks for putting this film in context for me. I know I watched it years ago but I remember being unsettled by the newsreel look ot it, a documentrary style I guess I wasn't used to.<br /><br />I'm with Dorian on your descriptive Monty Clift comments. This is exactly his film duality: rugged and fragile.<br /><br />As for settling accounts. I think the truth is: you can't really settle accounts. There is no apparatus for marking the score settled when you are up against such evil.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-38562174153364605212011-12-05T15:21:59.779-05:002011-12-05T15:21:59.779-05:00Thank you so much, Dorian. Montgomery Clift and P...Thank you so much, Dorian. Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas were the focus of this film, and it's amazing how much the movie rides on their shoulders.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-6346362631822610232011-12-05T13:54:24.970-05:002011-12-05T13:54:24.970-05:00Jacqueline, brava to you on your thought-provoking...Jacqueline, brava to you on your thought-provoking, exceptionally insightful review of THE BIG LIFT! As I believe I mentioned in your earlier posts in your terrific trilogy so far, many men in my family fought in World Wars 1 and 2, so even though I've only seen bits and pieces of THE BIG LIFT on TCM, I could feel your descriptons of the documentary-style elements. The evocative screen grabs you used helped, too. I also agree with this remark you made about Montgomery Clift's looks: "His thin, handsome face is a strange cross between rugged and fragile, and we could take that as a metaphor for much in this troubled actor’s life." Great post, my friend!DorianTBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357778472575080022noreply@blogger.com