On the Loss of Arms

To whet your appetite the latest on the situation regarding Angels and Pins can be found here.

We finally watched Inherit the Wind after dragging it out of the depths of the PVR at the weekend and a fine 2 hours it was. Although it is obviously a fictionalised account of the Scopes trial which I imagine was a lot more good natured than current evolutionist/creationist debates, it manages to be both compelling and detailed. The evident heat of the deep south panders to my idea of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and makes the whole thing almost physically uncomfortable in ways that modern processing of movie atmospheres never seems to match. There are obvious echoes of To Kill a Mockingbird and many other films of the time. The debate is intellectual without being technical and has some brilliant put downs that seem very modern. And finally in the list of films which it reminded me of is another Spencer Tracy one - Bad day at Black Rock and I've not actually see that one.