Dreams (1940) Poster

(1940)

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6/10
When You're Feeling Blue
boblipton25 February 2021
This episode of John Nesbitt's long-running series for MGM concerns dreams -- you might have guessed that from the title. It offers three dreams, a couple of them common anxiety dreams that you might have had yourself. The third is one that this short claims that Abraham Lincoln had.

Was it prophetic, or just another anxiety dream? I think it's the latter, but you can't get much dramatic tension out of pure rationality, can you?

Fans of old movies and new will take some pleasure in knowing that one of the dreamers shown is Johnny Arthur, a comic actor of the silent and sound eras; anothe is Peter Cushing, only 27 years old, but instantly recognizable. The performer playing Lincoln is uncredited.
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5/10
Safety valve of the mind
bkoganbing25 February 2021
This short subject from John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series is way too short and superficial to offer anything beyond some entertainment value about Dreams. The consensus is that dreaming is a safety valve of the mind allowing us to act out in ways we can't do in reality.

There's also some theories that dreams can be prophetic. The case of Abraham Lincoln's dream about his own demise is cited. Years later after this film was out it was reported that Harry Truman had a dream vision of his mother who had just died in 1946.

There's a lot in this world unknown and unexplored, but this is way too simplistic a film for serious study.
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7/10
This film refers to the final moments of . . .
oscaralbert22 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . Abe Lincoln's life, but it's not the way I heard it. Lincoln was gunned down in Ford Theater, but this fatal site has nothing to do with the dude who later got an automobile brand named after himself despite giving tips to and supporting the Fuhrer due to his own extreme anti-Semitism, and despite the fact that he hired armed thugs to patrol the catwalks of his vehicle assembly plants to rub out any laborers talking to each other, suggesting the possibility of labor union organizing. Lincoln's own controversial plan to ship back those individuals formerly in servitude to the home continent of their ancestors was one of the apples in the latter-day Ford's eye, causing him to name the Continental sub-brand after Honest Abe. But before Hammering Hank's heyday, the mortally wounded Abraham noticed Gen. Abner Doubleday, inventor of our National Pastime sweeping both the North and South during the monumental internal battling like Wordle is Today, in attendance at his bedside, and he whispered his dying plea: "General, Please don't let Baseball die."
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