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Bucket List Update
Bucket List Update
Academy Award Nominated Movies
1944 Wilson
starring: Alexander Knox,
Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Vincent
Price, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, William Eythe,
Mary Anderson, Eddie Foy Jr.
plot – The
story of Woodrow Wilson, who became the 28th President
of the United States of America. This film begins when Woodrow was teaching at Princeton.
It goes on to show his political rise to
Governor of New Jersey and then on to the Presidency.
This was a fabulous movie. I didn’t know a lot about Wilson. I
learned how he didn’t want us to go to war, and how he used all of his efforts
to end World War I. I loved the way the movie showed him at home with his wife
and three daughters.
1953 The
Robe
starring: Richard Burton, Jean
Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger, Torin
Thatcher, Richard Boone, Betta St. John, Jeff
Morrow, Ernest Thesiger, Dawn Addams, Leon
Askin…
plot – Richard
Burton plays the part of a Roman soldier named Marcellus Gallio. He is one of the soldiers
playing dice as Jesus is dying above them
on the cross. He wins the Lord’s robe, but loses
it to his slave named Demetrius, who was played
by Victor Mature. Marcellus feels guilty and
is plagued by bothersome visions. He thinks
that finding Demetrius and the robe will solve
his problems. He hunts for him and discovers faith
along his journey.
This was a wonderful classic movie, He was hard to watch Jesus
carrying the cross and then hanging from the cross as the soldiers played dice
below him. This movie reaffirmed and reminded me of everything that I had
learned at St, Marks Lutheran Church when I was growing up.
1959 Room
at the Top
starring: Simone Signoret,
Lawrence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfits, Donald Houston, Allen Cuthbertson
plot – According to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053226/
“An
ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy
factory owner's daughter, despite falling in
love with a married older woman.”
This was an okay movie. It really didn’t keep my attention. The
storyline was predictable.
1960 Sons
and Lovers
starring: Trevor
Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears, William Lucas
plot – According to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054326/
“A young man with artistic talent who lives in
a close-knit,
English coal-mining town during the early
20th Century finds himself inhibited by his
emotionally manipulative, domineering mother.”
I really liked this movie. The family dynamics were interesting,
and the desire to discontinue the family history of working in the mines was a
battle.
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