Way back last November, I posted an MRI of my right ankle. This MRI was taken by Shields MRI, which has a large presence in New England. As I’ve pointed out before, whoever the idiot was at Shields who looked at the MRI said I had an “intrinsically normal posterior tibial tendon,” when it was far from normal. I’m doing vastly better than I was a year ago, and my running schedule is almost back to what it had been, but I definitely still have chronic PTT inflammation and weakness in my ankle.
Well, guess what? Shields MRI has a TV commercial where it appears to me they’re showing an intrinsically normal PTT. Compare the picture for yourself with the one at the link above. Do you see a large bulb of white along the tendon in the TV commercial, like you see in my MRI? I don’t think so.
I first featured the late Deborah Kerr a year ago, in a scene from Michael Powell’s Black Narcissus. Prior to that, at age 21, Kerr appeared in Powell’s The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp. This is a movie you may not have even heard of, let alone ever seen.
Following a Michael Powell movie demands a lot of concentration; not because the stories aren’t told well, but because they’re so intelligently made, deliberately paced, and densely packed. I say this because I’m providing 15 minutes of scenes from Colonel Blimp, and I daresay you may consider them to be tough going, perhaps even boring. But if for no other reason than seeing a young and luminous Deborah Kerr, I think this is worth watching.
Kerr plays three different women of the same age, appearing at various points in time over a period of decades, while “Colonel Blimp” ages. I added transitions at the beginning and end of a scene, at 4:50 and 11:30, that may look like they’re in the original film, but they’re not. I let this scene play out because I want you to see Anton Walbrook’s impassioned speech against Nazism. Keep in mind this movie was made in England during World War 2, long before the outcome was certain, and Walbrook himself had escaped persecution in Nazi Germany for being gay.