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Blithe Spirit (1945) TCM 8/10 A man and his wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife. A first time viewing for me, I loved it. Noel Coward brings his acerbic wit to this version of his play. It was well directed by David Lean, prior to his becoming known for his epics. Rex Harrison is at his witty best and Constance Cummings is fine as his exasperated current wife. Kay Hammond is deliciously catty as the ghost. Margaret Rutherford steals every scene she is in as the eccentric medium who contacts the spirit. The humor is surprisingly adult for the 1940s. The final gag is hilarious, and ends in kind of a ghostly ménage a trois!

Odd that you're limited to recent sources, which will likely be politically loaded. There are decades of scholarship to draw from.

I, on the other hand, now understand why you have mentioned several times on these boards how much you love How To Steal a Million. That Audrey Hepburn is lovely, a wonderful comic actress who looks great in Givenchy, didn't surprise me, though seeing Audrey is always a delight. That Peter O'Toole has a flair for light comedy equal to his flair for playing T. E. Lawrence: now that did surprise me. That Hepburn and O'Toole have great romantic chemistry surprised me, although Audrey almost always has chemistry with her co-stars. Hugh Griffith is an added delight, and I would not have guessed that Eli Wallach would fit so well into this kind of film. If you want a caper film performed allegro vivace, this isn't your film, although Wyler's gentle andante gives us plenty of time for the romance, and that is the point of the film. I would not have guessed Wyler as the director, and that in itself is a compliment. The cinematography and set design are splendid; the film is a visual treat. As Hibi noted, this is the kind of film that went out of style (appropriate phrase) not long after 1966. So, thank you, SansFin, for your warm advocacy, and I may just have to get a copy of How To Steal a Million when I'm in the mood for a romantic movie.

The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Jungle Book (1942) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Mysterious Island (1961) A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) The Guns of Navarone (1961) Hanna (2011)

Help! Jamaica Inn The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Kingsman: The Secret Service

Nancy Olson says it's noir, but what does Eddie say and has it ever been on Noir Alley?

In honor of her 100th birthday, TCM will present three Jane Russell movies on June 25th. First is The Outlaw at 8 PM ET, followed by The Paleface. The third and one of my favorite movies is His Kind of Woman with Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price. A somewhat humorous film noir set mostly in Mexico.

Hey everyone! So to make a long story short I am starting to write a speech about silent film and its significance to the overall history of film to present day cinema for one of my classes and need to gather recent (oldest being 2 years) expert sources to cite. I'm on the lookout for some, but please if you know of any feel free to link them, it would be a great help! Besides that, please feel free to discuss any thoughts about the silent era and its significance today that you may have! I look forward to your responses! -SS

No, stay here ! I hardly ever go on that Noir forum. I mean, it's good that it exists and all, but this is pretty much the only thread I check out on a regular basis, and I think it's just fine to discuss noirs and related topics here on this thread. No need to stick rigidly to just the films featured on Noir Alley, I feel like this thread is good for all things noir. And I enjoy your posts here very much. Please don't stray away from this thread !

Sanders of the River 1935 Clive of India 1935 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Damn the Defiant 1962 Khartoum 1966

Where Eagles Dare (1968) -- WWII war adventure Tom Jones (1963) -- comedy adventure

The Four Feathers 1939 King Solomon Mines 1950 Zulu 1964 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 Robin and Marian 1976

Excellent choices. His westerns are great-- JESSE JAMES, RAWHIDE and PONY SOLDIER (which you didn't mention). I think I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU was released on DVD, because that's how I saw it.

Tyrone Power Tom Brown of Culver (Universal, 1932) - A boy (the actor and the character are oddly both named Tom Brown) who thinks his father (H.B. Warner) was a war hero finds out he was a deserter. At 18, Power makes his film debut as Brown's fellow military academy student. TCM airings: 0 Flirtation Walk (Warner Bros., 1934) - A US Army private stationed in Hawaii (Dick Powell) gets involved with an engaged woman (Ruby Keeler) who's also the daughter of the general (Henry O'Neill). In order to avoid scandal, the pair decide to break up, but meet again years later at West Point in which he produces the annual play in which she happens to be the star. A 20-year-old Power has an uncredited role as a cadet. TCM airings: 35 Northern Frontier (Conn, 1935) - A mountie (Kermit Maynard) sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfieters. Power also plays a mountie. TCM Airings: 0 In Old Chicago (20th Century Fox, 1938) - The O'Leary Brothers - honest Jack (Don Ameche) and roguish Dion (Power) - become powers and eventually rivals in Chicago on the eve of the great fire. TCM airings: 2 Marie Antoinette (MGM, 1938) - The tragic life of the Austrian noblewoman (Norma Shearer) who became queen of France at the age of 15. On loan from Fox, Power plays a Swedish count who first makes Marie aware of her own fecklessness and becomes her lover after she's married. TCM airings: 70 Suez (20th Century Fox, 1938) - Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French aristocrat who's experienced disappointment in love (Power), is assigned to be a junior diplomat at the Isthmus of Suez and realizes it's just the place for a canal. TCM Airings: 2 Jesse James (20th Century Fox, 1939) - After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their farm, brothers Jesse (Power) and Frank (Henry Fonda) turn to banditry for revenge. TCM Airings: 3 A Yank in the R.A.F. (20th Century Fox, 1941) - An American pilot (Power) impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in order to impress his ex-girlfriend (Betty Grable). TCM airings: 4 This Above All (20th Century Fox, 1942) - A beautiful woman from an aristocratic family (Joan Fontaine) defies convention by joining the Woman's Air Force and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier (Power). TCM airings: 2 Son of Fury: the Story of Benjamin Blake (20th Century Fox, 1942) - Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle (George Sanders), young aristocrat Benjamin Blake (Power) goes to the South Seas so he can make his fortune and claim his birthright. TCM airings: 1 Rawhide (20th Century Fox, 1951) - A stagecoach stop employee (Power) and a stranded female traveler (Susan Hayward) find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws (Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchannan, Jack Elam) intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment. TCM airings: 4 I'll Never Forget You (20th Century Fox, 1951) - A scientist obsessed with the past (Power) invents a time machine and transports himself back in time to 1700s London where he romances a beautiful young woman (Ann Blyth). A poster on imdb says that this movie, like Berkeley Square, which is also adapted from the same novel, are tied up in rights hell with the estate of the novel's author, and as a result never air on Fox Movie Channel, let alone TCM. TCM airings: 0 Diplomatic Courier (20th Century Fox, 1952) - A US State Department courier (Power) tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post-World War II Europe. TCM Airings: 0

Oakley, Annie, played by Barbara Stanwyck.

Viewed Blithe Spirit for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it. Witty screenplay and as you noted the actors were in fine form. Always good to see a 40s film on TCM I haven't seen before.

My Summer Under The Stars 2021 Choices 1. Ned Beatty (Deliverance ('72) ) 2. Henry Fonda ( 12 Angry Men ('57)) 3. Ava Gardner ( The Barefoot Contessa ('54)) 4. Richard Burton ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ('66)) 5. Deborah Kerr (An Affair to Remember ('57)) 6. Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice ('82)) 7. Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood ('38)) 8. Spencer Tracy (Father Of The Bride ('50)) 9. Jack Lemmon (The Odd Couple ('68)) 10. Melvyn Douglas (Hud ('63)) 11. Lillian Gish (Way Down East ('20)) 12. Ann Sothern (A Letter to Three Wives ('49)) 13. Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs ('91)) 14. Robert Ryan (Crossfire ('47)) 15. Hedy Lamar (Algiers ('38)) 16. Cornel Wilde (The Big Combo ('55)) 17. Greer Garson (Mrs Miniver ('42)) 18. John Wayne (True Grit ('69)) 19. Maryln Monroe (The Seven Year Itch ('55)) 20. Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ('66)) 21. Geraldine Page (Interiors ('78)) 22. Jean Seberg (Breathless ('60)) 23. Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces ('70)) 24. Jerry Lewis (The Bellboy ('60)) 25. Douglas Fairbanks (The Mark Of Zorro ('20)) 26. Clara Bow (Wings ('27)) 27. Peter Lorre (M ('31)) 28. Toshiro Mifune (Yojimba ('61)) 29. Lily Tomlin (Nashville ('75)) 30. Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby ('68)) 31. Ginger Rogers (Top Hat ('35))

If you ever go into battle, you want her leading the charge!

silent cinema's place in film history, is at the beginning 🤣

I watched Boys Night Out earlier this year and of course have seen The Great Escape. I think i picked a losing argument here. I guess it's because i've never heard his name mentioned in the way of other classic or iconic actors from this era that i didn't think of him as being very popular. i stand corrected. i've heard of the shows Maverick and The Rockford Files but unfortunately haven't seen either.

Back in the days when TV theme songs would make the pop charts. Heck, back in the days when TV shows had theme songs (longer than 10 seconds, anyway). I had a 45 of the Rockford Files theme. Don't remember what was on the other side.

THE PERFECT SPECIMEN (1937) Next: Claire Trevor, Elisha Cook and Lawrence Tierney

And if you are a director that is wise to the, shall we say, interference from studio executives who want to have their say concerning the final edit of the movies at their studio, you only give them enough footage that the movie can only be edited one way, or in a limited way. I think John Ford was notorious for this when he was shooting having the edit in his head as he went along.

Vaccaro, Brenda

I watched a good interview recently that featured Elodie Keene, a television director who began as an editor. She said when she worked as an editor, she often butted heads with the producers, because she was trying to "bend the film" to her vision of the story. The producers favored the director's interpretation, not hers as the editor, which probably explains why she moved into directing. But I love that phrase of hers, bending the film. The biggest problem she had was with the longer takes that involved tracking shots. She wanted the camera to linger on certain actors' faces to register expression or the emotion of the scene, but some tracking shots are done in a way that the expressions get pushed into the periphery. She also talked about how hand-held cameras have revolutionized the filming process. But if you get too experimental, it may detract from the story. As for the flow of a story, sometimes the flow has to slow down, if the idea is to draw us into the moment as it might occur in real life. An audience will stay with a long(er) scene if the characters and their actions remain compelling enough to sustain interest. The other thing I took from Elodie Keene's interview is that sometimes the editor is limited on the shots available, if the director had trouble getting the performer to deliver the lines adequately. A combatant performer is going to make things much more difficult on set, forcing certain artistic compromises in order to just get it done, get the scene over with and move on to the next part of production. The editor only has what the director gives them to put together.

The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

The Court Jester (1955)

Well its a Noir. Where else better to discuss it. Would you rather we started a whole separate thread?

Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

EDUCATING RITA (1983)

THE PUMPKIN EATER (1964)

Hanover, Ted- Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (1942)

You're Easy To Dance With - Fred sings and dances with Virginia Dale, later Fred dances with Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn Peter Lawford sings in a movie

Its confounding visual style somewhat blunts (or at least calls into question) the power of the film as a whole. He made the deliberate choice to make an homage to New York City, one of the most vibrant locales on earth, with an extremely set-bound, old-Hollywood feel to it, which put it way out of step with filmmaking trends of the time, which he himself had helped to establish. But it helps if you think of it as also being an homage to 40's films like On The Town. After the much-ballyhooed exterior location shots were out of the way, that too was a very traditional, set-bound Hollywood film. There's an exterior scene at a motel colony where the band is staying in which the background trees actually appear to be cut-outs, which had to be a choice. It was jarring the first time I saw it, but now I just think of that as part of his whole concept. The movie has liveliness and charm and some stellar musical numbers (including "Honeysuckle Rose" sung by Diahnne Abbott, De Niro's wife at the time), as well as some pretty raw dramatic moments as the relationship between De Niro and Minnelli deteriorates. It has a very downbeat ending, perfect for a mercurial musician and singer who just can't make it work. In my opinion, it's definitely worth the bother.

Excalibur (1981) Dr. No (1962) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) The Yellow Submarine (1968) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

LOUIS ARMSTRONG MEETS OSCAR PETERSON

War of the Worlds

The movie is "Gaucho Serenade" from 1940. I might have gotten it sooner if the description of the two sisters had said that the older one would be Gene's love interest and the younger one was about fourteen years old. From 1939 to 1941 June Storey played Gene's leading lady in ten movies. Young singing star Mary Lee was in quite a few movies with Gene in the early forties, often playing a young girl named Patsy, as she does in this movie. She was sort of Republic Studio's version of Judy Garland. Here is the scene by the lake. You can find a complete synopsis of the movie on Wikipedia.

Born to Kill(1947) Next: Dick Powell, Mike Mazurki, Otto Kruger

Zeta-Jones, Catherine

I just use copy and paste.

The Trouble With Angels is when the hook was set on me.

MY COUSIN VINNY (1992)

I and my fellow deadbeats resent that remark. I'd go into more detail, but we deadbeats aren't really into that kind of thing.

Thanks for posting this list! I was curious about a movie titled "Kane" and did some searching and couldn't find a movie with that name. I think what he might have meant is "Citizen Kane". I've never seen "Duel in the Sun" so I'll check that one out. I absolutely love many films on this list especially Vertigo, The Red Shoes and On the Waterfront. I was given a box set of films directed by Elia Kazan that was curated by Martin Scorsese. It is an amazing collection. Love to find a box set of Scorsese's films! Raging Bull is my favorite.

FYI, it's Orson WELLES (with a second "e" after the ell.) If Orson were still alive, it's likely he would drunkenly berate you for this before bazooka barfing 2/3 of a bottle Paul Maisson Pinot Grigiot all over your feet.

FACE/OFF seems to have become a forgotten film. But it was a big hit.