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Laura on Reel 13
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"Interestingly enough, LAURA is the oldest film to have aired on Reel 13 this year, coming all the way from 1944. I'm not sure why the Reel 13 programmers have so vigorously avoided the 30's and such gems like BRINGING UP BABY, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, etc., especially given the strength of the older films they have showed. LAURA, for example, hardly feels dated. It is as evocative and mesmerizing a mystery as it must have been sixty plus years ago. The only thing that might be less effective to a modern audience is the surprise twist that occurs half way through. It was groundbreaking and the talk of the town in its day, but has been ripped off countless times since then. So, it might feel familiar to younger folks watching it today, but the film can hardly be blamed for the effect of subsequent copycats.All of the elements of Laura are outstanding and work in concert for maximum impact. Otto Preminger, who parlayed the succes ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Mystery
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"The mystery list is another one that seems poorly conceived. Unlike animation, “mystery” may be a genre, but the way it is defined and applied in the AFI list leads to a muddled selection of films.The AFI defines mystery as “a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime”. I'm not convinced that that adequately describes the films on the list, or, even if it does, it is absurdly reductive. Most ironically, the definition seems least appropriate when applied to the list's top selection, Vertigo (1958), which does not actually revolve around the solution of a crime at all, but a domestic mystery, and is really about Scottie's (Jimmy Stewart) inner-demons and obsessions in any event. Similar questions can be raised about other movies on this Top 10. For example, the second film on the list, Chinatown (1974), certainly starts with a mysterious murder, but part of the point of the film is that some “crimes” aren't illegal at all, and may even be facilitated by laws. The plot of T ... "
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Laura
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"This movie was probably made well before you were born, but it is a beaut! Although I’m not a film historian, Laura (1944) seems to have been a happy accident. It was a low-budget B movie upgraded to a well-financed A movie. Two prominent musicians turned down the opportunity to score the movie because they did not want to do yet another detective show; but David Raksin realized that the story was actually a romance and scored it beautifully. He scored it so well that most of the movie has no music—he estimates about 35 minutes of score. Raksin’s theme for Laura became so popular that he turned it into a smash hit with words by Johnny Mercer. More than 400 hundred people have recorded the post-movie tune. The movie also had serendipitous casting. Someone gambled on Dana Andrews as the leading man, Detective Mark McPherson, and he had the perfect blend "
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