CineSage_jr

One Hitchcock villain can be identified by a missing body part. Who is he (Herbert Marshall's real-life artificial leg doesn't count), and what didn't he have?

It's definitely from THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST (the movie that, in its way, eerily predicted the NSA's spying on U.S. citizens), and I'm going to venture that it was spoken by CEA Agent Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge). A wonderful film (only the hippie stuff in the middle doesn't quite gel).

All this victimhood from every corner is getting too ridiculous-I say just laugh at what's funny,whatever the target may be,and let the chips fall where thay may! That's the problem: it's easy to laugh when one's not the one at the bottom of the heap struggling to get up.

The rule-of-thumb is quite simple: when one's irony, optimism and, most importantly, curiosity is gone, so is one's youth. Consequently, some of the oldest people I've ever met are the youngest, physically. There are those, elsewhere on this site, who've just taken to critcizing the puns and plays-on-words I like to insert into my postings' title bars. They don't seem to realize how this betrays their advanced age.

Hey TOOMANYNOTES You know...I just came on board and have the same trouble with the thread that was changed. That was quite an "explanation/answer" given to you.... What a putdown from somebody that struts while he is sitting down !!! Message was edited by: RockyRoad There's an old adage in Japan that goes "The nail that sticks up must be hammered down." It's wonderfully emblematic of their conformist society, where most, if not all, traces of individuality are frowned upon and serve as justification for exclusion from the mainstream. The very idea that something as trivial as what someone writes in the title bar is worthy of discussion and criticism is indicative of a tendency toward conformity in all societies. The topic of each thread in this forum is about what it's about; though there's obviously going to be a bit of fluidity in the thrust of that discussion, I submit that those conformist tendencies are the underlying causes of these objections, not the content of what I write.

Interesting that in the 1950s Warner's gave composers credit on advertising material, where as other studios, most notably MGM, did not, despite the fact that MGM's chief composer during that period, Mikl?s R?zsa, had a far more lucrative contract with that studio than Max Steiner ever had at Warner Bros.

Okay, what are they?

"I'm in on a plot" (though he had joked that it should say "This is what we do to bad little boys."

The only thing I can think of is that the actor Paul Fix is in both films.

Toomany, I like to use the title bar as a kind of "Greek chorus" to comment on the overall gist of the discussion -- in a usually ironic fashion; I like to make puns and plays on words, obviously -- and my own specific comments. The point is that the title of the thread doesn't change, as only the person who started that thread can make such an alteration. As such, I don't understand why anyone would find anything about it confusing.

It's not even close: Alan Hale, who could do more with a look or a double-take, than most actors can with a whole soliloquy.

Mary Badham told me a couple of weeks ago that after her friends back in Alabama saw her wearing the "ham" costume in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (in the scene where she and Jem are attacked by Bob Ewell and saved by 'Boo' Radley), they never let her forget it, since her last name's "[/u]Bad[/u] Ham."

Let's not forget Cary Grant, who died onstage doing one of his "Evening with Cary Grant" talks after he retired from acting. Paul Mantz- Hollywood stunt man killed during the filming of The Flight Of The Phoenix. The sad part about this is Mantz was doing a "protection shot," so that they'd have an extra take of the plane's takeoff in case the first take proved unsatisfactory when viewed in dailies the next day. The shot used in the film was the first one Mantz completed successfully, that was already in the can.

After he lost his voice, Hawkins continued to work, with his voice dubbed by the British actors Charles Gray and Robert Rietty. Hawkins also has the distinction of being one of only six (by my reckoning) featured actors to ever appear in three Best Picture Oscar winners.

Actually, I think that line of demarcation was PSYCHO.

Could Hitch have had something in common with...Hitler?

"James Mason Should Be Canonized" is a rift on one of my all-time favorite "inside jokes" in a movie... That's "...is a riff on one of my all-time favorite 'inside jokes'...[/i]

I'm an oldie now (52), but I remember watching these old B&W 1940's movies even as a 5 or 6 year old. They came on in the mornings when I was growing up and they were old then. Something just fascinated me about them. I'm 52, but am not the least bit old. What's the matter with you?

It's a Warner Bros. film, and they've not yet issued it on DVD.

The CD of Elmer Bernstein conducting The Scottish National Orchestra playing the full Orchestral arrangement of the 'Magnificent Seven' music is truly excellent. Go buy it, and play it with the sound cranked all the way up, and tell me I'm wrong. Buy it if you can find it. The CD, along with its companion recording of Bernstein's THE GREAT ESCAPE, was withdrawn by RCA shortly after it was issued because the discs used photos of Steve McQueen without permission of, and payments to, the McQueen estate. RCA decided that re-pressing the discs was too much trouble, and just ordered the recalled CD's destroyed. Fortunately, I was able to buy both when they first appeared (and had Elmer autograph them for me before he died).

Elmyr de Hory's the forger.

They don't use nitrate film stock anymore, so the issues aren't the same today. However, color in today's films seem to fade and alter much quicker than Technicolor did. That has nothing to do with whether the film stock's base is made of nitrocellulose, or modern acetate, mylar or estar. Genuine IB (imbibition) Technicolor employs metallic dyes (which, due to their chemical makeup, have been the same color since the compounds were formed in the gas disc that formed around the Sun and later congealed into the planets) that're applied to the film base color by color, in much the same way that a four-color lithograph is printed. By contrast, modern color film's images are formed on its emulsion photographically, through the application of light projected through a negative, frame by frame. The chemical process involved never really stablizes fully -- it can only be slowed by keeping the film in a controlled temperature and humidity -- which is why current Eastman stocks eventually turn color and fade.

People here tend to be pretty forgiving. Off with their heads!

I wrote the biography of the Welsh-born Baker that appears on the Anchor Bay DVD of a nifty British crime film he made called HELL IS A CITY. Of course, it's the bio that makes the disc worth buying.

I know that Warner's HV had a three-version DVD set of SHOWBOAT on its schedule, but it may be that they decided to scale back on that plan.