tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post4486265217003604390..comments2024-03-29T07:00:46.755-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Forgotten Movies, The L-Shaped Roompattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-87998114826908735632015-10-22T05:06:58.209-04:002015-10-22T05:06:58.209-04:00Where are the subtitles? I couldn't understand...Where are the subtitles? I couldn't understand most of what the bloke said. Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65662843201060638032015-10-20T16:54:16.814-04:002015-10-20T16:54:16.814-04:00As you might remember, Patti, I saw this one when ...As you might remember, Patti, I saw this one when I was about eleven, and it certainly hit home...probably the first kitchen sinker I saw.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83194124461408379512015-10-20T11:37:38.474-04:002015-10-20T11:37:38.474-04:00Don't know anything about this one. Been a ver...Don't know anything about this one. Been a very long time since I watched any movies made before about 1970Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-20154677477895502232015-10-20T11:32:53.265-04:002015-10-20T11:32:53.265-04:00We saw that Sandy Dennis movie too, along with sev...We saw that Sandy Dennis movie too, along with several others she made in that era - mostly downers. (Wikipedia lists that one as A TOUCH OF LOVE, though we definitely saw it under the title THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.)<br /><br />I remember the days before abortions were legal and birth control pills were easily available very well. We knew several people who had pregnancy scares, and a close friend of my brother's had to drop out of school and get married and get a job when his girlfriend got pregnant.<br /><br />It is a very different world today.<br /><br /><br />Jeff M.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-9751402978829291472015-10-20T11:17:00.240-04:002015-10-20T11:17:00.240-04:00I get this confused with "Thank You All Very ...I get this confused with "Thank You All Very Much" (based on Margaret Drabble's THE MILLSTONE) in which Sandy Dennis plays the pregnant and unmarried woman and an incredibly young Ian McKlellan plays her love interest.<br /><br />There were plenty of warnings in the pop culture for us gals that my mother's mantra in my teen years--DON'T GET PREGNANT!--was the way to go!Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-33018244995711755312015-10-20T10:42:38.707-04:002015-10-20T10:42:38.707-04:00I agree that audiences prefer escapism to Reality....I agree that audiences prefer escapism to Reality. The Brits used to do this kind of gritty working class movie well. Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-67933088295184611002015-10-20T10:15:41.555-04:002015-10-20T10:15:41.555-04:00I saw this years ago along with a lot of the other...I saw this years ago along with a lot of the other British "kitchen sink" dramas. I liked most of them. I think black & white is what they <i>should</i> be in, as most movies of that era seem to have been.<br /><br />I didn't realize there were two sequels to the book.<br /><br /><br />Jeff M.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.com