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beard and genuine foxine

December 15th, 2005 at 15:30 (1930s)

I wonder why in the few Hollywood movies, that feature a bearded main character, this actor always shaves his beard after a woman convinced him that he would look much better without a beard. Usually he doesn’t.
Here’s another movie that features a bearded attorney living in Budapest, Hungary. While he gets his shave the woman, who is responsible for this crude act, goes shopping for some genuine foxine (note the sign that obviously shows she’s in a large department store in Budapest…ha ha ha)

What’s the name of the movie we’re looking for today and what’s the name of the attorney who’s so happy about a pencil sharpener he thought the foxine woman has delivered him. Actually she just got it from the delivery boy while searching for our hero in the entrance of his appartment.

Napoleon’s underwear

December 14th, 2005 at 01:37 (1930s)

Watch the first minutes of this movie and you might think you’re watching the wrong version because it starts with French dialogues. Of course that happens all the time in French movies but seldom in US American like the one we’re looking for today.
Like many films it’s based on a play but it’s said to retain only a single line of the original play. Oh, and it’s a pre-Code talkie so there are some things in there one couldn’t see/hear the next twenty years after its release in US pictures.