Saturday, November 08, 2008

Good Dialogue and warm garlic cure everything


It's no secret I love old movies. But somehow, I've always managed to miss The Lady Eve. It's been on my netflix list forever, but kept getting bumped down for something else. I finally watched it last night. I might have to watch it again tonight. That's how much I enjoyed it. There was so much terrific dialogue and I know I missed half of it because I was laughing so hard. Plus I had garlic in one of my ears, so my hearing was a little under par.

Let me back up a day.

I went to bed Thursday with a mild sore throat and woke up Friday morning with an earache. My mother-in-law swears that sticking a piece of warm garlic in your ear helps cure earaches. By Friday night I was miserable. I thought, why not? I warmed up the garlic, stuck it in my ear, and curled up to watch T.V. The instant I saw "The Lady Eve" pop up on my list of Free Movies On Demand, I clicked it.

Let me tell you, they just don't write dialogue like that anymore.

The plot is deliciously simple: Card shark/con artist Barbara Stanwyck tries to scam bumbling/handsome/naive millionaire Henry Fonda. Of course they fall in love. But the ending isn't exactly typical.

Watching Barbara Stanwyck outwit/outsmart/outplay Henry Fonda is like eating chocolate cake. And the fact that I woke up this morning without my earache is the whipped cream on top of it.


4 comments:

Lucy said...

I love old movies too. There's just something about them.

I'm glad you found a new movie you like and I'm glad the earache is better. Good to know about the garlic. :)

The Girl You Used to Know said...

Now every time I cook with garlic, I'm going to think of your ear.

Gina Black said...

I gotta see this movie. Maybe I'll eat the garlic while I watch.

Maria Geraci said...

I can't say the garlic will work every time, but I'm definitely going to keep trying it. That is, as long as people don't shun me ;)

 

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