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So now I have a blog. Here is a brief history of my decision to start writing:

GrantUA05 (5:53:33 PM): i was thinking you should start keeping a movie blog
deadpanda1917 (5:53:45 PM): will you write it for me?
deadpanda1917 (5:53:49 PM): that sounds like a lot of work
GrantUA05 (5:53:56 PM): no, but ill read it
GrantUA05 (5:54:01 PM): and it will help me keep up with movies
GrantUA05 (5:54:03 PM): win win...win
deadpanda1917 (5:54:13 PM): hmm
deadpanda1917 (5:54:18 PM): just like moderating
GrantUA05 (5:54:19 PM): think it over..
GrantUA05 (5:54:20 PM): and then do it

It is now 6:14 PM. I guess the hard part is over now. To the masses still reading, you should know that this is in fact a movie blog. So without further ado....

Last night I finally watched Alfred Hitchcock's courtroom drama The Paradine Case. Gregory Peck is good as always, but most of this movie was pretty mediocre--especially for Hitchcock. The Mrs. Paradine role was perfect Greta Garbo. In fact, they must have had her in mind when they wrote the intentionally "mysterious" character. The Garbo impersonator doesn't quite pull it off; she just comes off as vaguely empty. She is on trial for the murder of her much older, super rich, blind husband. Gregory Peck is the lawyer who falls for her mysterious aura. What's odd is that Mrs. Paradine is so unlike Hitch's usual leading ladies, who are nearly always blond. In fact the one blond (Peck's long-suffering wife) becomes the center of most of the film's emotion, even though she has very little screen time. Overall, this is definitely lessor-Hitchcock, only worth checking out after the classics like Vertigo and Psycho. I get the feeling producer David O. Selznick probably had a hand in un-Hitchifying this movie.