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Swiss clock

posted 15 years ago by titch-2
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I loved the Swiss clock scenes, with Grant and Dunne as the figures in the clock.

[–] trf100 15 years ago

I agree.

That was about the only humorous thing in the movie.

[–] melinda2001 9 years ago

I found it creepy but when you think about it, it was probably the state of the art in special effects back then.

[–] bedrock1960 9 years ago

What in hell was "creepy" about it? Next to awesome, creepy has become on the most misused and overused words in our language.

[–] melinda2001 9 years ago

What's creepy about spiders or ventriloquist dummies? I don't know. It's just the feeling that I got.

[–] johnston.scot 9 years ago

While it didn't strike me as creepy, I'll venture the observation that - to the extent it seemed creepy to some people - the reason was the uncanny valley.

Which, apropos of another post, is what makes ventriloquist's dummies creepy, at least sometimes and to some people.

[–] edonovan2 9 years ago

Part of what makes the movie so extraordinary is that they get together after midnight -- so their divorce is finalized and they are having sex out of marriage, which could not be depicted in those days.

[–] mjz688 9 years ago

Yeah that occurred to me as well. I was fully expecting them to be in bed together before midnight so as not to violate the prevailing sexual mores of the time.

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