Swithin
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I don't remember exactly, but it was either Dracula's Daughter, which was on the old Shock Theater on Channel 7 (ABC) in NYC, after the Ben Hecht Show; or one of the early films on Channel 9's Million Dollar Movie -- The Spiral Staircase, Follow the Fleet, King Kong, or Navy Blues.
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Finally, we don't have to see the wife of our former Vice President any more.
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They Drive by Night ?
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Taped it but haven't watched it yet. Btw, Fellini made his first solo film the year before -- The White Sheik, so too soon for Bergman to have been influenced by Fellini. The White Sheik is still my favorite Fellini film. So sweet and odd.
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Well if they must do it, there are two older actresses who could make it work: Joan Fontaine (Blanche) and Olivia De Havilland (Jane). If they can't get them, then they should do it with men and call it Whatever Happened to Baby John?. Those are the only two ways that it might be interesting.
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You know why they want to remake it? Because they CAN, Blanche, they CAN!
Ridiculous.
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I've never seen Ingmar Bergman's *Sawdust and Tinsel,* which is on TCM after midnight, even though I had a college course on Bergman. Looking forward to it.
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*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* (1969)
A newspaper editor or publisher sending a reporter abroad
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*The Black Pit of Dr. M*, a Mexican horror film. I really want to see the "lost" version, dubbed in English.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Academy Award-winning score for Anthony Adverse is my favorite score:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBfBlJMSt0
The excellent book, American Film Music by Darby and Du Bois, provides a full analysis of the score, calling it "highly complex for Hollywood."
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I'm reminded by your post about that wonderful film! Hope it's shown soon.
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*Sunrise* (1927)
Next: A face that glows in the dark.
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There is a very interesting and amusing interview with *Vincent Sherman* on the DVD of The Return of Dr. X, which has one of the great entrances in cinema: a pallid Humphrey Bogart with a white rabbit.
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I like Fields well enough, but I'm not a major fan. I love Million Dollar Legs and David Copperfield, but of course he's not the major character in those films. But there's one Fields scene which I think is priceless and hilarious: the audition scene in The Old Fashioned Way, when Jan Duggan sings the interminable "Gathering Up the Shells on the Sea Shore" for Fields, who plays The Great McGonigle. I'd love to see The Old Fashioned Way on TCM.
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Two great character actors in a row: Jesse Ralph and Victor Francen. Thanks, TopBilled!
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In Warren Beatty's magnificent film *Reds*, the color red is introduced very gradually, until later in the film, particularly in the scene when the revolutionary train pulls into Baku, it is particularly vibrant.
And then there's always Bette Davis' red dress in *Jezebel,* a flim which is 100% black and white!
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Miss W., baby, I agree. Elizabeth Taylor is totally gorgeous in *The Elephant Walk*. Stunning in every shot. But I don't think the film is very good, much as I like movies with Anglos shlepping around India. A better film with a somehwat similar plot (though set in South America) is *The Naked Jungle*, made the same year. But with ants instead of elephants.
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Funniest scene from Austin Powers Goldmember is the *Godzilla* scene. In a car chase scene, Austin accidentally smashes into an inflated Godzilla puppet in Tokyo. The Japanese react.
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Still, it gave us great pleasure, and you ARE wonderful!
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Bravo for including *Victor Francen*. His short scene in The Mask of Dimitrios is one of the finest pieces of screen acting I've ever seen.
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Thank you for that clip, Eugenia!
I was taken to see The Egyptian when I was a very small boy. Too small to understand it. Forgetting the film, some years later, as a young teen, I dreamed about a man who had a patch over one eye. He removed that patch and plucked a jewel out of the socket. He used the jewel to buy passage on a ship for himself and a small boy. It wasn't until I saw The Egyptian again that I realized the scene was from that film, the man being Peter Ustinov.
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There's an excellent BBC biography of Petula Clark called "Petula Clark: Blue Lady." I showed it in NYC as part of a series devoted to Welsh artists a few years ago. (Ms. Clark's mother is Welsh.) It's narrated by Honor Blackman.
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You are correct, Lavender!
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Disguise of Helena's boyfriend.
The First Film That Comes to Mind...
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*Dr. Cyclops* (1940)
Photographer in the snow