Swithin
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That music, yes! I just watched the trailer, and it brought the tune back to me. I've always enjoyed the film, had it on video but now have no old-fashioned VCR.
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at 5:30 am!
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Here's the trailer. It seems to be known by other names, but I know it as Graveyard of Horror:
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I think such a movie would be lauded as a great work of art. It reminds me of a few of the scenes in Graveyard of Horror, a very odd horror film, a sort of Spanish film best seen dubbed, that has this enticing description in Psychotronic Encyclopedia:
"A man cares for his hairy ghoul brother by tending his grave and feeding him fresh corpses. A strange feature best viewed at 5:30 a.m. on television."
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You're right, slaytonf. The movie could exist, but not in 1936. It sounds like a sort of cross between Bergman's Autumn Sonata and The Silence, but directed by Hitchcock in Swedish, as a kind of hospital room homage to his own Lifeboat.
Well, maybe it could almost have existed in the 1930s, if one of the sisters married the doctor who was treating her, and, despite the prognosis negative, he married her.
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Disagree with you about Maggie Smith's Desdemona. But I'm haunted by having heard a recording of Uta Hagen in that role. Regarding Diane Keaton, I love her in her Woody Allen movies -- especially in her stunning small musical scene in Radio Days -- but for me, her best role is as Louise Bryant in Reds.
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Thanks for reminding me about *The Man Who Would Be King* ! I've never seen it, am recording it while I watch the primary coverage on MSNBC.
Btw, I'd love to see a Rudyard Kipling series. One of my favorite films of all time -- *The Light that Failed* -- hasn't been on for ages! (Has it ever been on TCM?)
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To follow up, there was a thread, R.I.P. Ben Gazzara (1930-2012). Just did a search and found it. SullivansTravels posted it on February 3.
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There was a mention of Ben's passing. I remember, because in response to it, I wrote that I worked with him on a project in 2002, and what a thoroughly nice man he was. I also reminded anyone who needed reminding that he was the original Brick in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It's possible that all that was part of another thread, not one explicity dedicated to the announcement of his passing, so you may have missed it.
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I think Cagney was great in everything. Love him in the musicals and comedies -- Footlight Parade, Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Bride Came C.O.D., etc. And in the dramatic roles, of which The Roaring Twenties and City for Conquest are among my favorites+.+
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Andy, you reminded me of one of the great lines in Woody Allen's *Radio Days*. The Woody/kid character says, "My parents could argue about anything." Cut to the parents: Mother: "The Atlantic is a better ocean than the Pacific; Father: "No, the Pacific is a better ocean than the Atlantic."
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*Maggie Smith*, relatively new on the scene, won for her best performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It was kind of a surprise -- there were many more famous ladies nominated that year.
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"Forgive me for such unworthy thoughts, but sometimes I wish I could tear it all down!"
Donald Sutherland talking about Hollywood in The Day of the Locust (1975)
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I remember how brilliant they were together in Doubt. I think Viola Davis will have many more chances.
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Has anyone read the piece on Connie Wald in The New York Times ? Really nice, Oscar-related, with respect for history. She is the 95-year old widow of Jerry Wald and a Hollywood icon.
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I like Le Cirque's creme brulee but not their performances! Btw, who was disappointed in the In Memorium segment? I think they should ditch the accompanying floor show.
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I love Kaper's soundtrack for *Auntie Mame*. But someone once told me that he didn't really write all the stuff he got credit for, he was sort of the head of the department, or something like that. Don't know if that's true.
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Did they show *The Egyptian* during the Herrmann month? If so, I missed it. If not, they could show it during an Alfred Newman month, since Herrmann and Newman collaborated on that greatest score for a 50's epic.
But my first choice would be an *Erich Wolfgang* *Korngold* month. Korngold's score for *Anthony Adverse* is, I think, the most beautiful and sophisticated film score ever written. His scores for Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, Elizabeth and Essex, Kings Row, Deception, Devotion, etc., ain't bad either.
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That's right! Your thread, Mr 6666
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Winnie may have called his wife this.
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Totally agree with you about The Prisoner of Shark Island, a very good John Ford film about Dr. Mudd. Gloria Stuart plays Mrs. Mudd. Another film I'd like to see again is John Ford previous film, Steamboat Round the Bend.
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Helen Westley, one of the great character actors, was born *Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney* in Brooklyn. Two of her names -- Remsen and Meserole -- attest to the fact that she comes from a very old Brooklyn family: Remsen and Meserole are streets in Brooklyn named for her ancestors.
On Broadway, Aunt Minnie aka Roberta was played by Faye Templeton. The cast also included Tamara, Lyda Roberti, Bob Hope, Sydney Greenstreet, and Ray Middleton. The song "Lovely to Look at" was written specially for the film.
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The Red Pony ?
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The saddest part is that the fabulously weathly RC church is not supporting its own they way it used to. The closure of St. Vincent's Hospital a few years ago, the major Catholic hospital in NYC and Greenwich Village's primary hospital, is another blot on the RC church. To put it in movie terms, it's more a case of The Nun and the Devil than The Nun's Story. I wish Mother Dolores well and hope she finds her funds, but I think they should come from her church.
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