Went to the Hollywood Canteen to rent the first half of the Flash Gordon serial. (We'd only rented the second half.) I also bought The Dick Tracy Casebook and went to Paradise Comics and bought four more Classics Illustrated Junior fairy tale comics.
Dinner was the rest of the pork.
Saw the first half of Mervyn LeRoy's A Majority of One, but couldn't sit through it. It's about a romance between a Jewish mother from Brooklyn (a miscast Rosalind Russell) and a Japanese businessman (a badly miscast Alec Guiness). Its stage origins showed.
Got the latest Cinematheque schedule, for the new year. They're having a big Yasujiro Ozu festival. Miraculously, there are few conflicts with the opera stuff I'm doing. There are also some Vincente Minnelli movies.
Saw some of the serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, with Flash falling down an explosive pit, getting buried by an avalanche, being attacked by explosive robot soldiers, standing in the path of a death ray, and getting his spaceship shot down! Enjoyable hokum, which clearly influenced the Star Wars movies.
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