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I saw From Here to Eternity (1953), one of the classics of the 1950s. Besides the main stars - Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra, there were also Donna Reed, Mickey Shaughnessy, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, and uncredited Claude Akins in his debut. Makes Pearl Harbour (2001) seem even more pointless than it is.

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I saw The Ghost Writer (AKA The Ghost) (2010) directed by Roman Polanski. A fairly good film, but with a rather pointless ending. Starred Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

 

This was the film Polanski was working on when he was arrested in September 2009 in Switzerland. The filming had been completed and he finished off the supervising of the editing from prison.

 

American film books show an American classification of PG-13 compared to the UK 15. This is due to the film being cut to a PG-13 rating for cinema release in the States.

 

The film included a cameo appearance from Eli Wallach - he would have been 94 at the time he was being filmed. He must be the oldest well known actor who has appeared regularly in films far past the normal returement age. His most recent film was in the Wall Street sequel made when he was 95, which puts him just ahead of the late Gloria Stuart (Titanic) and Lillian Gish who made their last films at the age of 94.

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I resaw Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. One of the best Dickens' adaptations. It was shown in a colourised version which was unecessary and in places was very poor. As often with Sim's film, George Cole was also in it, this time playing the young Ebenezer Scrooge.

 

Very near the end of the film is the scene where Scrooge visits his nephew's house. A maid opens the door to let him in and takes his coat. She looks extraordinarily like Audrey Hepburn and others have speculated on this in the past. She was in the UK in 1951 and had started her film career in very small roles so it is possible that it is her, but she is not credited and there is no documentary evidence to support this. The chances are that it isn't her as her first UK film role was in Laughter in Paradise which was released near the beginning of 1951 whereas Scrooge wasn't certified by the BBFC until late September.

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