The Thin Man Goes Home Blu-ray Review • Home Theater Forum hometheaterforum.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hometheaterforum.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Every now and then, unbearable tragedy builds a foundation for great triumph.
So it was from one such dreadful episode recounted here some months ago that ultimately a stage was set for a bright future to be fashioned by one of those most deeply impacted by the tragedy.
The story starts with the derailment of the Norfolk & Western southbound Extra 2012 freight train. Pulling 75 cars, only five of which were loaded, the train left the tracks the middle of a hot for the season afternoon May 20, 1934, just south of Nace in Botetourt County.
What prompted the accident âwas not definitely ascertained,â according to the railroadâs July 5 that year incident report to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Summer Stock feels like an ignobly small-scale end to Garland’s run at MGM. The plot is to quote the film itself pure hokum. Garland is Jane Falbury, a tenacious young woman trying to keep her struggling farm afloat with the help of her no-nonsense housekeeper, Esme (frequent Garland co-star Marjorie Main). Gene Kelly is Joe Ross, the theater director who shows up to rehearse his new musical in the Falbury barn at the invitation of Jane’s flighty kid sister, Abigail (Gloria DeHaven), who just happens to be his girlfriend and star performer. Only it turns out Abigail didn’t clear the plan with Jane first. So tensions (and comedy) flare as a bunch of theater kids try to adjust to life on a farm, while Jane realizes she just might have grease paint in her veins after all.