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In this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we encounter more Nazis in a couple of movies very loosely based on real WWII incidents: Disney's Miracle of the White Stallions\xa0(1963), based on Operation Cowboy (but with the equine eugenics shoved into the subtext), and\xa0Operation Crossbow\xa0(1965), about the attempt by British Intelligence to stop the threat of Nazi rockets. Sophia Loren shares a great scene with Lilli Palmer in the latter, but to say more would be spoilers. In Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss our viewings of two more Powell Pressburgers,\xa0A Canterbury\xa0Tale\xa0and\xa0The Tales of Hoffman, plus an adjacent film,\xa0The Thief of Bagdad\xa0(1940), a Korda production co-directed by Powell and starring Sabu and Rex Ingram.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 30s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MIRACLE OF THE WHITE STALLIONS (1963) [dir. Arthur Hiller]

0h 21m 17s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965) [dir. Michael Anderson]

0h 35m 04s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: The Thief of Bagdad (1940) by Michael Powell, Tim Whelan & Ludwig Berger and A Canterbury Tale (1944) and Tales of Hoffman (1951) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project \u2013 a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of\xa0The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise\u2019s piece on Gangs of New York \u2013 \u201cMaking America Strange Again\u201d

* Check out Dave\u2019s Robert Benchley blog \u2013 an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist\u2019s 2000+ pieces as he can locate \u2013 Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!\xa0

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