You don’t need Netflix to chill in style. Most of that stuff is sugarpoison for the brain anyway.

There’s plenty of subtle propaganda in many (most) old movies too. But it’s much easier to see, and consider, and to piss out if it doesn’t suit you.

I especially loved the first one here for reasons not entirely clear to me. The characters are poor, and maybe you could call it a kitchen-sink drama.

That’s probably got something to do with it.

Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino & Claude Rains in “Moontide” (1942)

Sirocco FULL MOVIE | (Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb)

Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida in John Huston & Truman Capote’s “Beat the Devil” (1953)

Affair in Trinidad | Rita Hayworth | Glenn Ford

Gene Tierney & George Montgomery in Henry Hathaway’s “China Girl” (1942)

William Holden, Nina Foch & Lee J. Cobb in “The Dark Past” (1948)

Sci-Fi Adventure Movie – Unknown World (1951)

This last is a good movie, but I especially enjoyed the first few minutes, on the state of Civilization as it was typically seen then. You get to follow the science for real this time, or decline to, as it were. I know you’ll make the right choices, and look both ways before crossing the street on rainy nights.

James Mason & Dan Duryea in “One Way Street” (1950) -feat. William Conrad & Rock Hudson (uncredited)