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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 2h

Jimmy Stewart in the last act, the filibuster finale, of #MrSmithGoesToWashington (1939)... Go home every other actor, director, screenwriter, producer etc. ever. Phenomenonal, peerless cinema. #HollywoodsGreatestYear #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#TheMalteseFalcon (1941) is 85 years old today and coincidentally, 85 years is also the length of the third act when the characters sit around waiting for a parcel to be delivered. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In #ThePublicEnemy (1931), Jimmy Cagney and his brother, played by Donald Cook, are at loggerheads then in #Taxi! (1932), Cagney takes his date to a movie starring Cook. "Isn't he attractive?!" the date asks. Cagney murmurs, "His ears are too big." #Intertextuality #Bantz #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I wouldn't go for that dame if she was the last woman on earth. And I'd just got out of the navy." Pre-Code dismissal of the heroine who slapped him from Cagney's character in Taxi! (1932). #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I brought my novel notes to the pub for a read-through. Just because. #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars #BookSky #PubSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you've just listened to In Our Time discussing #Casablanca (1942) on BBC Radio 4 and want to know what the cast and crew did next, here's my take on its unfairly-maligned follow-up.

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Sailing Into The Danger Zone – Passage To Marseille (1944)

A Special Feature by John Featherstone. “I want to reach the danger zone by nightfall…”

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that he got credited for his amazing stunt. A really classy touch, fair play. #Cliffhanger #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm watching the film John Dillinger saw before the FBI plugged him outside the movie theater. No Googling - but who knows what it is? #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I wouldn't go for that dame if she was the last woman on earth. And I'd just got out of the navy." Pre-Code dismissal of the heroine who slapped him from Cagney's character in Taxi! (1932). #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I brought my novel notes to the pub for a read-through. Just because. #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars #BookSky #PubSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you've just listened to In Our Time discussing #Casablanca (1942) on BBC Radio 4 and want to know what the cast and crew did next, here's my take on its unfairly-maligned follow-up.

latereviewer.com

Sailing Into The Danger Zone – Passage To Marseille (1944)

A Special Feature by John Featherstone. “I want to reach the danger zone by nightfall…”

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My friend and former uni lecturer, Dr. Sheldon Hall is co-discussing the mighty #Casablanca on BBC Radio 4, Thursday 1st October at 9am. Please tune in or record if you can, #FilmSky, and feel free to share this post too.

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Casablanca

The classic 1942 movie that convinced Americans the Second World War was worth fighting.

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that he got credited for his amazing stunt. A really classy touch, fair play. #Cliffhanger #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Casablanca

The classic 1942 movie that convinced Americans the Second World War was worth fighting.

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An incredible score. One man wrote to #WarnerBros to see he'd been to see #KingsRow seven times but sat with his eyes closed for the last five. So many others wrote to request a copy of the score, the studio produced this generic response. (Source: Inside Warner Bros. by Rudy Behlmer.) #FilmSky

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Manhattan Melodrama. Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy.

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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did, too. SPOILER HINT: Sounds like a Woody Allen movie title

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docant73.bsky.social @docant73.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I didn’t know…so I searched it up!! 😜

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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ugh. At the Biograph theatre in Chicago. A mob movie. But, don't recall...

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm watching the film John Dillinger saw before the FBI plugged him outside the movie theater. No Googling - but who knows what it is? #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sam Spade is so sleazy in the pre-Code, 1931 adaptation of The Maltese Falcon he makes Bogart look like an incel. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Big Country (1958) on the big screen was just wonderful. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People who dismiss Flynn as an actor have obviously never seen #TheDawnPatrol (1938) because he's stupendous in a role where he actually has something of an arc. The grim change that comes over his character when he's given responsibility for the lives of his young squadron is incredible. #FilmSky

David Niven and Errol Flynn being ace(s).

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sam Spade is so sleazy in the pre-Code, 1931 adaptation of The Maltese Falcon he makes Bogart look like an incel. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Big Country (1958) on the big screen was just wonderful. #FilmSky

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Gavin Schwier 🇨🇦 @gavin27.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oof. Never did watch the new one

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You missed NOTHING, mate. Awful.

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I swear there's a time-travelling algorithm that creates films just for Talking Pictures TV. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This interview is an absolute masterclass in avoidance and misdirection. He's bulletproof, no question comes close to hitting the real Tom. Fascinating in all the 'wrong' ways. A true enigma. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why @theguardian.com use lower case letters when it talks about the First and Second World Wars? It feels like they're downplaying their significance to me. Genuine question; anyone know why?

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What do you call a film director whose use of KY Jelly left him in severe discomfort? Ernst Lube Itch. #FilmSky #JokeSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I swear there's a time-travelling algorithm that creates films just for Talking Pictures TV. #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why @theguardian.com use lower case letters when it talks about the First and Second World Wars? It feels like they're downplaying their significance to me. Genuine question; anyone know why?

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What do you call a film director whose use of KY Jelly left him in severe discomfort? Ernst Lube Itch. #FilmSky #JokeSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A nice evening run up and down the hills of #Sheffield at a decent pace and in a decent time. Oh, that yellow folder on the top shelf is my novel #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars (this was taken in my study). #RunSky #BookSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Amazing that a character in #Pressure was hired to predict the weather for the burning of Atlanta sequence for #GoneWithTheWind in July 1939 when those scenes were shot in December 1938 and the shoot itself ended in June... #FilmSky

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was brilliant returning to #KingKong (1933) earlier, not least this genius piece of filmmaking that incorporates boxing tactics and wrestling moves. I can't begin to imagine the effect this all had on Depression-era audiences. #FilmSky

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King Kong (1933) - Kong vs. T-Rex Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I barely ran this summer and I only picked it up again on 1st September so I'm really happy with this progress - and doubly so because one of my knees isn't full strength (yet). #RunSky #Garmin #Sheffield #HumphreyBogart