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In my rather unique world, things happen differently than with most people.
This includes the area of movie and television watching. I moved out of
my parents' home almost a decade ago now, and at that time I decided I
did not require a television set, nor a VHS or DVD player, nor a cable
subscription. It was mostly the irritation caused by the copious ads
I'd see on TV that motivated me to drop cable TV. My cable situation
has remained the same to this day.
That's not to say that I lack entertainment. Oh no. Even without a TV, I can easily manage to waste plenty of time via computer and the internet. It started with a lot of theatre going and much buying of DVD movies and DVD boxed sets of old TV shows. Once that got too expensive, I started visiting the local library. Once that got too tedious, I started downloading TV shows via bittorrent. Once that got too time consuming, predictable, and legally fuzzy for my tastes, I limited myself to free internet TV shows such as those at revision3.com. But there's only so much internet geek TV that one person can stand, and so I've now turned to archive.org.
There are nearly 2000 feature films available for free at archive.org. These are either old films that have no copyright anymore (public domain), or freely licensed works available for public download.
And so I've started at "A" and am going through the archive whenever I decide I feel like watching a movie.
Tonight I stumbled across a beauty from 1936 called A Man Betrayed. The plot just makes you smile the more it unfolds. It is the story of a man who works as a salesman for an oil company, who starts to suspect that the company may not be as honest as he has been telling everyone. He is rather naive, but he has a brother who's in his corner with a bit more street smarts. Which is a bit surprising since the brother is a missionary.
As the salesman gets framed for murder, his future appears to be going straight downhill. Yet hope comes from the strangest places.
I'm sure I'll find more gems as I slowly work my way through the archive. So far, the experience is better than the iTunes movie store. But remember: this opinion comes from a unique individual...