Swithin
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West of Zanzibar (1928)
Kongo (1932) -- remake of the above
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I bet the OP wants TCM to show Gummo (1997), and I agree with him.
Werner Herzog has said that the bacon taped to the wall in this scene clearly marks this film as the entertainment of the future.
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Torquemada -- Mel Brooks in A History of the World, Part I (1981)
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This couple was not born in the United States, nor were they born in the same countries as each other. Wife came to the United States as a young woman. She appeared on stage and in movies. She was the star of what may be the bleakest pre-Code movie of all time.
Husband made a movie based on a novel which was remade by someone else a few years later, for nefarious purposes.
Name Husband and Wife, giving the titles of the films referred to as well.
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Kay Walsh was in Young Bess with Doris Lloyd.
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4 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Swith, Ms Carol became a agent because her films were just that-- forgettable.
But her husband, oh my! He was something else. "This Gun for Hire", "The Blue Dahlia" and "The Glass Key" are three of my favorites. Surely you've seen these legendary noirs.
Swith, it's now your turn and please give me a break. 😲
Good morning and thank you Princess!
I'm curious about her films now. I've seen his films, a long time ago, but unlike my 30s favorites, I'm not as up on noirs as everyone else here is. In fact, I don't think I've ever posted in the "Noir Alley" thread. The genre is just not on the top of my list, in terms of favorites, though I like them well enough.
I'll be back with another one soon...
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Perhaps Sue Carol and Alan Ladd? If so, I'm at a loss to name any of her films that I've enjoyed. Regarding Alan Ladd, I guess I enjoyed Shane, but I don't remember it very well.
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"So High" -- performed by the Hall Johnson Choir in Green Pastures (1936)
Next: A sad song in an animated feature
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"Voodoo Death" -- The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958)
I just watched one episode (25 minutes) of the 39-episode 1957/58 TV series, starring J. Carroll Naish as Charlie Chan and James Hong as his son. The plot of "Voodoo Death" is fairly typical. A bunch of people are guests in a stately home in England (where this episode was shot). The host is a nasty old man. It's clear from the start that everyone hates the old man, apart from Charlie Chan and his son Barry. There is money and a legacy involved. The next morning the man is found dead. Bartu, the black servant with the Voodoo snake tattoo on his hand confesses. But he didn't really do it, he just thinks he did, because he made a Voodoo doll of the mean old man and stuck a pin through it.
The police arrive, with the usual dumb detective thinking he knows the killer, until, one by one, each of his theories is disproved by Chan. Finally Chan, with the help of the servant and a real snake, scares the killer into confessing. (Bartu sticks a live snake in the face of each of the suspects, saying it means death for the guilty. When Bartu comes to the murderer, the murderer screams "Take it away, take it away, alright, I did it!")
Charlie Chan has his usual quota of aphorisms, my favorite being, in response to a compliment: "Like aging spinster I’m getting too old to blush becomingly."
Bartu and Charlie
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James Hong, born in 1929, and still working.
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J. Carroll Naish was in Anthony Adverse with Akim Tamiroff.
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Duncan, Isadora -- Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968)
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Oklahoma! (1955) "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye."
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"Nobody Makes a Pass at Me" -- Barbra Streisand in Pins and Needles (album; the show produced by the ILGWU took place in 1937. But this song is so perfect for this clue. Plenty of ideas, but they don't work for her.)
Next: Song mentioning a sheep or cow
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Charles Coburn was in The Green Years with Hume Cronyn.
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Next: Another film with two women's names in the title
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1 hour ago, txfilmfan said:
Of course, teleprompter guy (Jerry), is played by David Burtka, NPH's real-life husband.
I knew he was in it but didn't realize that was him.
I liked the way Jack referred to someone's boyfriend as his "lover." Appropriate lingo for his generation.
Collin coming back really bothered me. It showed what a flawed character he is, leaving the way he did, and then attempting to come back the way he did. A perfect ending would have been Michael kicking him out.
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12 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
There are a few other story lines hanging:
- There was also a secondary cliffhanger with the "Mamma Mia" story, when Suzanne goes to the restaurant where Kai's father is waiting for him.
- Stanley's cancer
- Billy's apparent self-realization. Will he change?
If Andre De Shields' character does depart for Miami, that will be a shame, because these men need some sort of guidance.
The worst part of the series for me: the couples counselor wigging out in drag, attacking Michael (and vice versa). Who would behave that way?
In the car, after the wedding, Billy deletes a contact. Was he deleting the number of the waiter, or of Wyatt? Presumably, because he seems to be undergoing a conversion, perhaps the waiter; but I don't have faith that he'll change.
Yes -- Suzanne's visit to L'Express is another cliffhanger. I've been to L'Express on Park Avenue South several times, though not recently. It's too noisy for me; if she goes in, she's not going to be able to have much of a conversation!
I agree about the drag scene.
One scene I found amusing was Stanley's liaison with the teleprompter guy, intercut with shots of the mother's paintings, and Stanley's ultimate OTT outburst. You have to admire the teleprompter guy, though. Gives new meaning to "What I did for (mother) love!"
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Just now, JamesJazGuitar said:
Tender Is the Night is NOT out of copyright in the USA; that is why I got the book from the British company for < 4 EU in Italy.
It was a later book, published almost a decade after Gatsby. It is online at the Australian Gutenberg, where the rules are different. (They updated the law in 2004, but it was not retroactive.)
This is the U.S. rule, though there are exceptions:
"These exclusive rights are subject to a time limit, and generally expire 70 years after the author's death or 95 years after publication. In the United States, works published before January 1, 1927, are in the public domain."
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935) -- the Monster
Another sympathetic monster
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36 minutes ago, DougieB said:
I knew my memory was going to fail me. Which character was Wyatt?
I agree about the ending of Beecham House. It was obviously a geared for a follow-up which apparently will never happen. Frustrating.
Wyatt was a relatively minor character, who showed up in the last two episodes. He was Billy's young boyfriend, who dumps Billy when Billy gives his number to a waiter at the wedding. He seemed to be the most decent, well-balanced gay character in the whole series.
I liked Jack, the Andre De Shields character as well, though I think his move to Miami was not realistic. He would have done that a bit earlier in his life, meaning after retirement, but before becoming as aged as he is.
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Parry, Nanette -- Hattie Jacques in Make Mine Mink (1960)
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Edith Evans
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Well, I just finished the series. I enjoyed it, really liked some of it, found some of it stupid, and the two final episodes, though somewhat enjoyable, loaded with every cliche in the book.
(Btw, the couple called "The Jonathans" are obviously a rip off (or homage) to "The Jasons" in The Inheritance.)
Wyatt was my favorite character and possibly the only character that could pass for "real."
AND I HATED THE ENDING! The worst ending since Beecham House! But it did show, doubly, what a stupid jerk Collin is. Unfortunately, it was a cheap trick to tease a second series that may or may not happen.
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Lee Patrick was in City for Conquest with Blanche Yurka.
So movies from the 80s are "classic" movies now
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Speaking of the 1980s, I wish TCM would show Reds (1981) and actually explicitly mention who all the witnesses are. I mean identify names to the faces. I know many of them, but not all. I have the DVD --it's one of my top ten films, but the DVD does not identify them.
Of course I know these two girls: Dora Russell and Rebecca West.