Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1940: VIGIL IN THE NIGHT & ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
There's Sometimes a Buggy
English - August 26, 2022 05:52 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsTV & Film Society & Culture Philosophy timetravel amnesia continuum identity memory paradox romance thefuture thepast timeline Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week's studio is RKO, 1940, and we have two great movies: Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard as a saintly nurse and Anne Shirley as her flawed sister in George Stevens' noirish medical drama; and Abe Lincoln in Illinois, based on Robert E. Sherwood's play, with Raymond Massey reprising his stage role of Abraham Lincoln. We discuss the latter as an anti-fascist film and argue for both films as examples of RKO's particular brand of progressivism, which continues even after the departure of Pandro S. Berman.
Time Codes:
0h 01m 00s: VIGIL IN THE NIGHT [dir. George Stevens]
0h 47m 01s: ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS [dir. John Cromwell]
Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler
+++
* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s
* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)
* Read Elise’s latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating.
* Check out Dave’s new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!
Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy
Write to us at [email protected]
We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!