The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

How does a guy get to be a geek?

For the lovable pipe dreamers

“Would you… yum me, just once more?”

She didn’t come there to talk out of school.

Delightful

“Anyone wise to you yet?”

Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top.  From the 1933 movie “Baby Face,” a flick so steamy Hollywood decided it better start enforcing the production code in 1934.

Even the trailers were better in the old days

Claire Trevor can’t sing.  And it breaks your heart.  The set-up:  Trevor is Edward G. Robinson’s dame.  He’s a ruthless gangster.  She used to be a hot night club singer but years of drink have turned her into a pitiful lush.  Robinson’s Johnny Rocco is not only a heartless gangster, he might just be one of the most sadistic creeps to ever grace the flickering silver screen.  Right before this scene, he promises to let her have a drink if only she’ll sing a song like she used to.  Now watch her sock you in the gut with the nakedness of her desperation.

Old school heroic fantasy, courtesy of Fritz Lang.