Rob Price
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2021 November 26 • Friday

Here's a way too obvious Meta Marquee moment that doesn't even involve a marquee but we've expanded our original survey to include whatever we want and it's also the day after Thanksgiving and we're sleepy so whatever.

At the end of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Cary Grant, in character as Blandings, is shown reading the book from which the movie was adapted.

This is fairly lazy stuff and we are just as lazily including it here.

What isn't lazy about this movie is James Wong Howe's brilliant cinematography, particularly one long, unbroken tracking shot in the beginning of the film that's at least as impressive as the famous opening shot of Touch of Evil, while being quiet and confined to a very small interior space and involving some very tricky choreography.