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 Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 6:07 pm Post subject: High Treason (1929) |
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I just came across this 1929 British science-fiction film that I've never been aware of before.
Taking place in the near future, a sinister terrorist group that is financed by arms manufacturers plans to ignite a war between the United States of Europe (Europe, India, the Middle East, Canada, Africa, Australasia) and the Empire of the Atlantic (United States & South America).
The melodramatic acting is hilariously over-the-top at times. The special effects are creaky.
However, I found the plot tragically relevant 95 years later.
Articles abound about the continual ruthless drive of real world arms dealers in their lust for wars anywhere and anytime in their unending quest for massive profits. War is never off the radar for many nations. I recently read a listing of the top 100 arms manufacturing firms. Guess which country has 49 of those companies? |
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WadeVC
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:36 am Post subject: Re: High Treason (1929) |
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| Pow wrote: | | I just came across this 1929 British science-fiction film that I've never been aware of before. |
Where did you find this movie....You Tube, Amazon or elsewhere. It certainly sounds interesting enough.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Both the sound and silent versions are available on YouTube. |
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WadeVC
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| scotpens wrote: | | Both the sound and silent versions are available on YouTube. |
Thank you so much. I'm going to hunt this down and give it a watch.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2024 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The "televisor" was a nifty conceit by the filmmakers. It was their version of Facetime. |
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Bud Brewster
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Right! And the phone screen looks like a laptop or computer monitor — decades before computers were created. 
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WadeVC
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | Right! And the phone screens looks like a laptop or computer monitor — decades before computers were created. |
Isn't it amazing that what was considered futuristic back then is a reality now? Not only in movies, but comic books as well.
A lot of the gadgets of the old Dick Tracy comics are today's reality.
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I modified and enhanced the YouTube thumbnail —
— and made a better version of the poster than any of the other images I found with Google Image Search.
Cool, eh? 
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