The Mighty If

If one war did break its pod
And cast poison seeds abroad:
If one word did from wounds lick
Clean of sting; restore the sick;
If clamor of factions set
One man to say,‘no’ to hate;
If one man had full measure
Of his worth to bestow in ‘nother
If in such free give and take,
With love clean his thirst slake-
Why, the earth [...]

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Les Enfants du Paradis
1945, 3hrs 15m, France, Black and White
This tragic tale ‘is a tribute to the theatre’. Partly because it is based upon the lives of Frederick Lemâitre and Baptiste Debureau, at the beginning of their careers as well as Jean-François Lacenaire, who was a well known dandy in about the ‘Boulevard du Crime’ [...]

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CASABLANCA (1942)
Casablanca could have been a B picture.
After George Raft turned down the lead role (- he also turned down the Maltese Falcon ) Warner Brothers thought of Ronald Reagan. But no Casablanca became Humphrey Bogart’s film, under the direction of Michael Curtiz. (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Wolf) In [...]

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