Ceremony Year (1946)

Movies Came Out In (1945) Winner: The Lost Weekend – Just watched recently, and this film had to be super edgy for the time.  The plot is: desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.  It reminded me a little bit of Nicolas Cage’s Leaving Las Vegas, but set in …

Ceremony Year (1945)

Movies Came Out In (1944) Winner: Going My Way – Just watched recently, Bing Crosby plays a priest who takes on a new church in a rough neighborhood and helps out the local youth by starting a choir.  Some years later, Bing stars in “The Bells Of St. Mary’s” and it’s a remarkably similar plot.  …