There is a scene EXACTLY like this in “The Incredible Shrinking Man” — right down to the kind of radio and the ratty furniture and the great clothes. I feel like we really missed something.
Or maybe it’s in “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”.
Really good movies get sometimes confused in my mind.
Like “The Searchers” and “Son of Frankenstein”.
I think there was a scene like this in “The Searchers” which was cut when preview audiences laughed at the sight of Ethan Edwards dancing to a radio.
Think M. and I may have seen that scene on a visit to the Czech Film Archive in 1993. It was shelved near “Cameo Kirby”. I found the scene oddly transgressive yet deliriously cathartic.
Wayne was not known as a great dancer but apparently Ford coaxed an amazing jitterbug from him in that scene.
It was obvious from watching it
that Ford had worked a wonder.
Made us want to get up and dance,
right in the stacks, at Prague.
You can find that cut jitterbug dance scene from The Searchers on youtube:
There is a scene EXACTLY like this in “The Incredible Shrinking Man” — right down to the kind of radio and the ratty furniture and the great clothes. I feel like we really missed something.
Or maybe it’s in “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”.
Really good movies get sometimes confused in my mind.
Like “The Searchers” and “Son of Frankenstein”.
I think there was a scene like this in “The Searchers” which was cut when preview audiences laughed at the sight of Ethan Edwards dancing to a radio.
Think M. and I may have seen that scene on a visit to the Czech Film Archive in 1993. It was shelved near “Cameo Kirby”. I found the scene oddly transgressive yet deliriously cathartic.
Wayne was not known as a great dancer but apparently Ford coaxed an amazing jitterbug from him in that scene.
It was obvious from watching it
that Ford had worked a wonder.
Made us want to get up and dance,
right in the stacks, at Prague.
You can find that cut jitterbug dance scene from The Searchers on youtube:
Oh, my God, Paula — what a find.