“John Garfield (the cat?) and Maureen O’Hara…I just want to see the sparrow!”
“What does this ‘canary‘ have to do with sparrows? Wish she’d stop that caterwauling!”
“This movie is a bust. No sparrows, no kitty!”
Andy checks out.
Of course, he comes back a short time later for a catnap.
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“The Fallen Sparrow” isn’t about sparrows, of course, except metaphorically. Andy got it wrong.
Garfield was intense, probably acting at the best I ever recall him acting. Too bad he died of a heart attack at 39 because he easily was one of the top actors of his time.
As for Maureen O’Hara…whew!.. she was very good in this film, too, and the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen! She almost stole the scenes she was in, as long as she wasn’t acting against Garfield. The two were intense, easily as matched as Bergman and Bogart in “Casablanca” or Bogart and Bacall in any film. [“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” – my favorite scene from “To Have and Have Not”!]
The film was shown as part of a film noir series on TCM Channel, though it had a spy aspect, noting the Garfield character fought Franco’s fascist nationalists as a member of the Lincoln Brigade. Captured, tortured by a Nazi who flew in from Berlin to Spain once a month, he escapes to America, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. He gets – mostly – over PTSD at a rest ranch in Arizona, returns east to spend the rest of the film trying to unravel the murder of a friend… and to find and kill the torturer he can identify only by the fact he drags one foot when he walks.
But no sparrows! Andy got that much right. On the other hand, it was very entertaining. I always enjoy a Garfield film and will remember Mauree O’Hara for being her most beautiful in this film.
You’re right. John Garfield was an amazing actor
I liked him in “The Postman Always Rings Twice” as well Lana Turner, who wasn’t happy Garfield was hired for the movie. Per the Wikipedia section on this movie, “when Turner found out that Garfield was cast as the male lead, she responded, ‘Couldn’t they at least hire someone attractive?'” Snarky! Her sizzles in the role and she was pretty hot, too!
I loved that movie! Much more than the remake.
I can’t imagine topping it!
Does Andy like bird videos on youtube? I got Jiminy addicted to them. We moved and we don’t have birds that perch on our windows anymore so tried youtube. Bad idea. Now he sits all over my keyboard. But he’s sop adorable! He’s addicted to tv in general now. ha. The other two not so much.
Yes, though he likes string videos even more. He does like to bird watch outside a bathroom window with a bird-friendly rose bush under it. As for television, he does like watching some things.
I really can’t blame Andy for not liking the movie.
It sounds like a good movie, Doug! One of my old favorites was the original “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney.
Did Andy ever see Hitchcock’s “The Birds”? 🙂
No “The Birds” here et, though it surely has been broadcast. I liked “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”, too! Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison both were excellent in this movie.
I also enjoyed “Topper”, with Constance Bennet and Cary Grant as ghosts! (Too bad they wrecked a beautiful car – an Auburn? – in the film. I’ll have to watch it again to see what the car was.
http://www.joesherlock.com/Topper-Car.html
That is some car! Complete with PA system!
I remembered it imperfectly, and the real deal was much, much more than a “mere” Auburn!
No, I haven’t watched it myself.
Sounds like an engrossing film for cat people but not for their cats. Quality bird TV can be hard to find.
That it seems! Andy, being a boy kitty, likes adventure films with car crashes and that sort of thing.
Purr Purr Andy But he doesn’t get what was going on BUT YOU SURE DO! My film critic PROF would have jumped to have you in his lectures.
I would enjoy a class like that! I’ve always enjoyed film, even as a little guy with the price of admission to the Saturday matinee. Several films that came out in the late forties, fifties, were ones I saw at the local theater when the they came out – “Boy With the Green Hair”, for example, is one of the earliest ones I saw but didn’t understand. I think that was the earliest one. I saw lots of movies that wouldn’t be suitable for children now but weren’t restricted back then but probably should have been! I remember seeing some film from the McCarthy era where the subject was a fellow who got branded as “a security risk”. “What’s a security risk?” I remember asking my (Chief of Police) father! I’m sure he wondered where I came up with that one, though I could have found it in Look or Life or Time or Newsweek magazines, all of which my parents subscribed to, of either the Omaha World-Herald or Alliance Times-Herald, their two newspaper subscriptions. I may have been a little guy, but I read a lot.
An enticing review
Several people commented that they found the plot to involved to follow. I found it helps to follow that sort of movie through the eyes of the primary character, learning things through his eyes. It’s kind of a Zen thing, when you let details flow in their time, not thinking ahead about what you are watching so much as letting it happen in real time.
we hate such mocking movies… whats with da cat on da hot tin roof? not one kitty in that movie… even liz is not even named kit or kitty but maggie… tztztz
I thought her name in that one was Moggie! My mistake!