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there is a large printed illustration of EVERY COSTUME BETTE WEARS IN NOW, VOYAGER, the above is only part of it, i cannot find the entire image to post. you can order a copy on amazon (i think)

It's been a while since I"ve seen the film. I thought that, at the end, Madame was threatened in some way. Also that, in that town of iniquity, it didn't seem like merely shooting someone would get you into any trouble. I need to see it again. Another actor I like who was in the film is John Abbott. Of course his best role is as the nervous wreck in The Woman in White. Gene Tierney and John Abbott in The Shanghai Gesture

A clip from The Killer That Stalked New York showing the Chatham Square Station 3rd Ave el for transit nerds The el ran down St. James Place here. The cemetery is the historic First Shearith Israel Graveyard, dating to the 17th century. At the :43 mark St. James Elementary School (now Transfiguration Upper School) is at center, where Gov. Alfred E. Smith received his only formal education, and beyond the school are the unfinished towers of the housing project that bears his name. Also, the actor is this particular scene is Richard Egan. The view starts on the EL platform looking south on the northbound track side of the 5 story high single island platform Chatham Square Station of the South Ferry Branch of the IRT 3rd Avenue EL. The 2nd Ave. EL had two tracks and a wider single island platform below the one in the 1950 movie scene...that platform and line abandoned June 1942, 8 years earlier. She walks to the opposite side of the platform and boards a southbound to South Ferry 3rd Ave EL local of MUDC Class (Open end-platform gate cars rebuilt in 1923 with enclosed end platform vestibules with sliding outside-hung doors ). The South Ferry branch closed at the end of 1950 shortly after this movie was made -- closing in Dec. 1950 and was demolished / removed from the south end of the station platform seen in the movie, to South Ferry terminal.. The two tracks ended at the south end of this platform, 5 stories high, with only two flimsy track-end- bumpers !! The City Hall Branch of the EL had a close by separate 2 island platforms Chatham Square Station which served both 2nd & 3rd Ave EL trains --- the 3rd Ave line using the northerly one platform and 2 tracks.

It's too bad about the censorship, but I really like the film. Eric Blore, who does a sort of send up of his usual role, gives a crazily enjoyable performance as the bookkeeper. I assume the censor required that Madame had to be arrested at the end, even though she was justified in doing what she did.

Now Voyager was my mother's favorite movie. Before I saw it on television, I saw it at the Starlight Cinema Club in London many years ago, with a group of wonderful British cinema fans. I love the film. It's a bit overwritten in places, Tina can be rather annoying, and Charlotte's eyebrows are over the top, but it's archetypal classic Hollywood.

The Shanghai Gesture (1941) While it falls short of the peaks in cinema achieved in the early '30s with his series of exotic adventures that featured Marlene Dietrich, The Shanghai Gesture shows that, even with the heavy censorship this film absorbed, director Josef Von Sternberg was still capable of weaving an hypnotic spell over the viewer. Set in the title city, its story features a dramatic conflict between a casino representing a gambling pit of hell versus a wealthy landowner who wants to close it down. Von Sternberg's mastery in creating an atmospheric other world on Hollywood sound stages is on full display. The casino itself, with several overhead spiralling shots, depicting a kind of Dante descent into hell, is certainly one of the most breath taking displays of art direction to be found in any Hollywood production during the '40s. The film moves at a slow pace, with Von Sternberg luxuriating over frequent closeups of his impressive cast of players. The most memorable is Ona Munson as Madame Gin Sling (what a name!), the Chinese operator of the casino, who has a long nailed finger in every corrupt pie and seems to know the secrets of everyone around. With a wild Medusa-type hairstyle and her mask-like features, Munson's icy, controlled performance is not overwhelmed by her physical appearance, a great credit to the character actress in the most outlandish role of her career. While her appearance at first may seem like borderline camp, her performance still works. Others in the cast include Walter Huston as Sir Guy Charteris, the landowner who is a man with a past, Gene Tierney as Poppy, his daughter, an exotic beauty who becomes addicted to the gambling (among other things) and a fez and cape wearing Victor Mature as "Doctor" Omar, Gin Sling's sly mysterious henchman who keeps an eye on Tierney at all times, ensuring her weakness as she loses her money, her jewelry and whatever pride she has at the casino. While drugs are never referenced in the film it doesn't take much imagination to see a drug addict in Tierney's increasingly shrill, shrieking performance, quite unlike any other the actress ever gave. Still other cast members include Phyllis Brooks in a wonderful performance as a wise cracking former chorus girl who has yet to sink to Poppy's lows, Albert Basserman as a political official who likes to visit the casino, Maria Ouspenskaya, in a silent performance as "the Amah," an assistant to Madame Gin Sling, and, of all people, big Mike Mazurki as a rickshaw pulling coolie who always seems to be there whenever Sir Guy takes a look around. I believe that TCM has shown The Shanghai Gesture in the past but I couldn't say if it still comes on the channel. Even though censors prevented this film from being what it could have been if it had been made in the pre-code era there is still a certain lingering delirious quality about Von Sternberg's last major film that makes it compulsive viewing today. 3 out of 4

For the first time, I saw Side Street with Farley Granger on Movies! Shot on location, it was fun to see what parts of NYC looked like in 1949. Excellent black & white cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Supporting cast included Jean Hagen, James Craig, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens and Cathy O'Donnell as his pregnant wife. Ends with wild chase finale.

Keyes got divorced the same year the film was made, 1950; Huston treated her very badly. So that dreadful look wasn't only due to make-up. It would be great if Noir Alley showed the 1947, Dick Powell noir Johnny O'Clock. This is a Columbia film, with a fine supporting cast of Thomas Gomez, Nina Foch, Ellen Drew, and Lee J. Cobb (who as the cop, doesn't overdo it like he tends to do).

Presumed Innocent Next: It's a threepeat in honor of Charles Dickens' Birthday

IT'S NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD, BUT....you can kinda sorta squint and imagine from time to time that DECEPTION, a re-unification of DAVIS, RAINS AND HENREID five years later, is a SUPER DARK SEQUEL to NOW, VOYAGER.

I found the entire movie terrible- Costner can't act but who could with such awful dialogue?

Upstairs Downstairs

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Crowley, Patricia

Det. Jim, thank you for this intriguing thread. Like TopBilled, I'm glad you didn't pick just the usual suspects. For several directors, you've sent me to imdb to review their list of credits, and that's great. Several of you have mentioned films I haven't seen or don't recall well. These are the films I would be the most eager to see again from these directors: 1. Henry Hathaway - Johnny Apollo 2. George Seaton - 36 Hours 3. Delbert Mann - About Mrs. Leslie 4. Frank Perry - Diary of a Mad Housewife 5. Guy Hamilton - Death on the Nile 6. Ingmar Bergman - Sawdust and Tinsel (aka The Naked Night) 7. Tim Burton - Big Fish 8. Robert Altman - Nashville 9. Vincente Minnelli - The Band Wagon 10. Sam Peckinpah - Ride the High Country

Our seventh character actor or actress is MAY WHITTY She consoled Joan Fontaine who expressed suspicion about Cary Grant. She helped Walter Brennan figure out that Lana Turner was slightly dangerous. She sat down for tea after Lassie came home. She dated Jimmy Durante who told her that this time it was for keeps. She did the Lord's work on Green Dolphin Street.

I'm also a big fan of Now Voyager. The acting is first rate by all expect Tina, but hey, that was a very difficult part for a young actress, especially having to act with masters of their craft like Davis and Rains. The parts with Tina do drag the film down a bit, and since I have seen the film so many times, I'll go and get a sandwich during one or two of the Tina dominated scenes. BUT I always come back for the ending. What is also funny is my wife's reaction to the film, as well as another one with Paul Henreid, Casablanca. Being Italian she is a romantic, but she gets annoyed at unfulfilled love (like Bogie \ Bergman in Casablanca, and here between Henreid and Davis): The stars just are not enough, she demands they get the moon!!!!

Not a fan of the Sound of Music either but Austria and the cities of Salzburg and Innsbruck are worth the trip. Using a train to get from the various cities is a breeze and very enjoyable. My wife and I flew into Munich and then took the train to each of these towns staying for 3 nights each. We went in May and while there was a light snow one day, the next day it was sunny and in the 70s. Thus the mountains looked liked they do in the photo. Here is Salzburg: Those hills are alive!

Destroy All Monsters (1968) I only saw the last part of this film on TCM this morning, but what I saw was fun! I was reminded of other movies: Queen of Outer Space; Green Dolphin Street (briefly); and, most notably, my favorite Fellini movie: The White Sheik. When the Earth's monsters arrive on Monster Island toward the end of the film, the radio announcer, who is doing the play-by-play, says: Who will arrive first? Godzilla? Rodan? Anguirus?" "Wait, there's something!" "Is that Godzilla off in the distance? No, it's Minilla. Minilla's the first to arrive." (Cute, squeaky monster arrives). "Just behind him is Godzilla, the king of monsters. And there's Mothra.... right on Godzilla's heels. Next to arrive is Anguirus. Approaching from the west, he's quite a sight to see." "Following Anguirus are Manda, Baragon, and Gorosaurus. Kumonga's here too. And there's Rodan!" The above exchange reminds me of the star-struck Brunella Bovo as she witnesses the Fumetti coming down the stairs to Nino Rota's music in The White Sheik. A guy on IMDB wrote: "The final monster fight at the end between Ghidorah and all of the Earth's Monsters is one of the greatest fights ever in movie history." I'm not sure about that, but it is impressive, as are the maidens from Outer Space (where is Zsa Zsa Gabor?) The subtitles are appropriately hilarious at times. The lovely Japanese woman in the helicopter at the end, smiling and waving to Godzilla and Minilla (who wave back!), shows that all is right on Planet Earth. I must watch the whole film sometime. The good girl The bad girl, from Outer Space .

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL I think TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

Nelson, Lori

Mamie Van Doren, who was born on February 6th 1931, and thus just turned 90.

I agree that it is a bit mind-boggling. In the beginning I was neutral about all of this...but after four months, and they haven't made the proper (re)adjustments...come on. It's like they're being stubborn and not admitting the new web design was not fully effective. Their goal should be to make it an enjoyable way to look up information for everyone, even the lower class and middle class viewers.

Dorothy Malone was as smirky and insinuating in those early scenes as she is in The Big Sleep, although according to the story she's just a hard-working nurse. She does just enough that you can't take your eyes off her in those scenes. I'm glad she finally had an opportunity to play bigger roles.

And some you have to see for the title to make sense(which can also make them memorable)--- THE FULL MONTY WAG THE DOG GROSSE POINTE BLANK THE USUAL SUSPECTS( which did pique the interest and appeal to Casablanca fans) I'll keep looking.... Sepiatone

Bulldog Edition (1936)

Craig Stevens

MEET THE STEWARTS 1942

Dive Bomber (1941)

Fred MacMurray

Have you seen her in MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)...? She's great playing against her usual type of role.

May you live long. That day is far, far off, if it is to come at all. See item 4 here. The Library of Congress is planning a screening in a few years, but they have no rights to license if for home viewing. Here is the Harry Shearer interview on his sneaky peak at it, which is very entertaining. There are a few snippets on You Tube, or there were last year. Very dreary viewing.

LASSIE COME HOME (1943)

"If I Had My Way" -- sung by the trio at the opening of One Way Passage (1932) [I much prefer this version, culminating in that incredible tracking shot at the bar, to the later Bing Crosby rendition.] Next: Sung in a mansion (but not a castle or palace)

Too Close for Comfort

Shogun

IT'S A DOG'S LIFE (1955)

THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (1965)

oh also, i didn't bring it up because I didn't want to conversation to go totally off the tracks, but THE TITULAR "FOOD OF THE GODS" that OOZED FORTH OUT OF THE ROCK on IDA LUPINO'S FARM looked like HAND LOTION. AND EVEN MORESO LIKE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE HAND LOTION THAT IS NOT HAND LOTION. It was SO GROSS. Why these two idiots saw this **** coming out of the ground and fed it to their chickens was another DO HUH NOW? moment for me.

I am looking for greatness in stupidity. But I will take all kinds of stupidity, even stupid stupidity.

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

I can't say that I actually knew the title of the song, but I did have some ideas of where to look and your last hint really helped, Miles. The song's title is So Long, Sarah Jane, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Lew Brown and Ralph Freed. It was sung by Bob Eberly and, even more memorably, danced to by Eleanor Powell in I Dood It, co-starring Red Skelton and featuring the Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra.

I haven't seen a ton of Mr. Plummer's work (I've never seen Sound of Music. I know. I actually just put in a hold request at the library to see it, though I know Plummer disliked it). But I liked him in Inside Daisy Clover with Natalie Wood. I have his screen debut, Stage Struck, with Susan Strasberg, on my DVR. I should take a look at that one in the near future. I haven't seen this film, but I believe in Beginners (his Oscar-winning role), Plummer plays Ewan McGregor's father. I hadn't realized until seeing younger pictures of him, how much he resembled McGregor; or rather how much McGregor resembled him. I really liked Christopher Plummer as Charles F. Muntz, the villain in Pixar's Up. Muntz was designed to look like a mix of Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and Howard Hughes. RIP Mr. Plummer. I look forward to seeing more of your films.

The redeeming quality of Now, Voyager is that the one scene worth seeing comes near the beginning: Unfortunately, the one scene worth seeing in Old Acquaintance comes all the way at the end:

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for mentioning it. Maybe TCM is about to publish a new book on Doris Day, and this is all clever cross-promotion and marketing. But truth be told, Doris and her WB movies are a bit over-exposed on TCM. Meanwhile the Joan Bennett camp is left high and dry. Again.

I like Michael Caine's quote: I have not seen it, but by all accounts it is a terrible movie. I have, however, seen the house it paid for, and that is magnificent.

watching FOOD OF THE GODS right now. wow. just... wow.

9. Although Pat Morita and Jack Soo each play Chinese henchmen, both were of Japanese descent. (at least Mickey Rooney wasn't cast!).

San Fin: I built in lots of time to get a schedule done (they are not due until the end of February) so I would truly love it if you had time to do one of your clever schedules. Having said that . . . the original Challenge Moderator (MattHelm) disallowed anything but the traditional (?) zodiac signs in his Challenge. But, I do not. So, if you (or a fuzzy of your acquaintance) wanted to do the Chinese sign, that works for me.

1967 The Last Adventure (1967) Robert Enrico, France With Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Joanna Shimkus. Today the film seems a bit sloppy and all over the map but I think that was the point in 1967. It begins as a sort of Jules and Jim triangle but in this the guys seem more interested in their planes and fast cars than lovely Joanna Shimkus. Then it shifts gears into a treasure hunt adventure film but even then everyone seems more interested in having a few laughs. So it is a bit confused but amusing nonetheless. Les Mauvaises Frequentations (1967) Jean Eustache, France Like a few other French films of this period this one is about young insincere men on the hunt for girls. I didn’t find it very endearing. The imdb lists it at 42 minutes. The criteria in this thread was for a film to be 40 minutes long. The print I saw was 38 minutes so it barely qualifies as a feature.