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The Captain's Table (1959)
Lloyd George Knew My Fa-a-a-ather, Father Knew Lloyd George
Hearing a drunken sailor (I think it was the captain himself)in this 61 year old delightful film, singing that nine word song to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers, over and over again, for the first time in at least seventy years today, immediately caused me to increase my rating by two points, from 7 to 9.
I know I'll be singing it again repeatedly for weeks and months and maybe even years to come!
The Night Is Young (1935)
Although All May Not Agree, The Royals Have Ruled
This movie and I have something in common. We have both been just released (with less than three months difference in age) 85 years ago! And of course we are both wonderful. I saw the film for the very first time two days ago and found it most delightful, I concurring with most of the comments posted by the fifteen user reviewers to date.
But there is one problem which, unfortunately, is insoluble.
At the same time as I saw the movie, all of the world media, including the social media, was filled with the news that the Queen of Great Britain, had ruled that her grandson Harry and his wife Meagan could no longer retain the title of His or Her Royal Highness nor fulfill most of their royal functions and duties as long as they took up residence for part of each year (as they declared was their intention to do) in Canada (where I was born and lived my entire life and where the Queen is still the titular Head of State).
If the author of this movie,Vicki Baum, and the screenwriters could have rewritten the very end of it so that Ramon Navarro had married Evelyn Laye, with or without the Emperor's approval, and they lived happily ever after, then the movie's audience would likewise have been able to leave the theaters or homescreens equally content,
Regretfully, as mentioned above, this is not to be.
Zig Zag (1970)
This entire review is a spoiler
It seems that none of the reviewers to date have realized that the "twist" ending was the cleverest and best denouement possible. By occurring as it did, his wife got all he originally wanted her to get, and much more!! If it had not happened, although he would have been entitled to the reward money for discovering who the real murderer was, the latter paying for his crime, he would still have ended up in jail for serious public mischief by causing a false accusation to be laid and an expensive police investigation and jury trial to occur. It makes no difference that it was self-directed or directed against anyone else as far as the difficulties he caused may be concerned. In addition, the court might have fined him in an amount equal to or even more than the needless cost to the state. This would have eaten up most, if not all, of the reward money.
However, because of the unexpected ending, his wife would be entitled to collect both on the double indemnity provision in his insurance policy and, as his heir, the full reward money as belonging to his estate. That's more than he had schemed for her.
Beautiful!