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Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003)
Who was that? It certainly wasn't Washington.
I can take or leave this movie, but what brought me to add a comment was how this is a perfect example of Hollywood's drive to "humanize" our founding fathers. Biography after biography of George Washington has driven home the integrity of his personal comportment and indicates he would *never* utter the vulgarities emanating from Kelsey Grammar's mouth. One biographer (I think it was Richard Brookheiser) said that would ask visitors to Mount Vernon to leave at the drop of a single profane word from their lips. I've enjoyed Kelsey Grammar in the past and he'll always be Frasier to me as he will to most others. But taking him seriously as George Washington, to whom faith, prayer, and Godly discipline in daily personal conduct were bedrock traits is impossible.
Rapture (1965)
30 years, and still looking for it :-{
This is a film that I've seen twice, the last time in 1972, that has stuck with me all these years. Patricia Gozzi was so alluring and the score so haunting and beautiful...I remember waiting for the credits to role to see the name of this unknown actress and the composer. It's the first I'd heard of Georges Delarue and the first of many times I'd heard a mesmerizing score and later seen Delarue's name. I'd love to see this movie again.