Swithin
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I think this asinine 2020 adaptation qualifies to be mentioned in this thread. The one saving grace was the performance (and interpretation of the role) by Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep. Hugh Laurie was also pretty effective as Mr. Dick.
Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep
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28 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
I found your question in the middle of page 3 and the last clue was 6 days ago!!!
I'll be back later with one, that's if we still have power. Henri is on it's way here.
I thought my clues over the top obvious, but maybe not!
Raining here, but I think it's not going to be as bad as predicted.
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2 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
I'll take a shot with Red Buttons he won his Oscar for Sayonara and Roxanne Arlen who played Electra in Gypsy ?? Miyoshi Umeki also won her Oscar as the woman Red's character was in love with in Sayonara.
You are correct, Lavender. Now it's your thread -- use it well!
Ms. Arlen on the right
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9 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
Here is a list of Mongolian films from wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mongolian_films
But A Mongolian Tale (1995) features a story with the little horses and is probably the most famous one to arrive in North America. And of course, it is in Mongolian.
That may be a possibility. I'm going to check to see if I won the Oscar contest around that time. The Film Forum's mission is to show revivals of classic films as well as unusual new films, many foreign. Here's their current schedule:
https://filmforum.org
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10 hours ago, 37kitties said:
This is one that TCM will never, ever get weary of running. Like The Searchers and North by Northwest and....... well, you know - there's quite a few of 'em.
Well it's public domain, so that's always an incentive!
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2 hours ago, Sukhov said:
It couldn't have been Yellow Earth (1984)?
I'm pretty sure it was a Mongolian film. The way it came about was, every year I was in an Oscar context with a few friends. The winner got a movie and restaurant dinner of one's choice. I picked the Mongolian film one of the years I won. So I just have to see if I can remember, looking at old calendars, at which year I may have won. Also, I doubt I would have selected a Chinese film, as I was never much of a fan of Chinese movies.
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1 hour ago, Bogie56 said:
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003) is the only pure Mongolian film that I have seen.
But from what you have described it may be a Chinese film. Not Yellow Earth, I don't think. Probably A Mongolian Tale (1999) by Xei Fei. Have a look at that one on the imdb and see if it rings a bell.
Since it was sort of connected with a social event, I can try to pinpoint the approximate year after a bit of research. But I'm pretty sure it was in the 1980s. The little horses are typical of Mongolia.
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On 8/20/2021 at 3:26 PM, LawrenceA said:
Yeah, Letterboxd lists multiple countries for each film, if applicable. For instance, besides Jordan, Wadjda is also listed for Saudi Arabia (one of only two from there I've seen, the other being The Message), as well as listed under Germany, Netherlands, UAE, and USA.
I'd naturally prefer a single nation of origin, but alas.
Also, here's a list of countries from which I've not seen any films:
- Greenland
- Haiti
- Belize
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Costa Rica
- Guyana
- French Guiana
- Suriname
- Bolivia
- Madagascar
- most of the Central African countries
- most of the West African coastal nations
- Yemen
- Oman
- Iraq
- Syria
- Albania
- Montenegro
- Kosovo
- Moldova
- Belarus
- Estonia
- Turkmen-, Uzbeki-, Kyrgyz-, and Tajikistans
- Mongolia
- North Korea
- Bhutan
- Bangladesh
- Myanmar
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Papua New Guinea
as well as several Pacific and Caribbean island nations
I saw a very enjoyable film many years ago at the Film Forum in New York. It was either Cambodian or Mongolian. There were men on little horses. I've been trying to remember the name for decades! (Actually, I think it was Mongolian).
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I'd love to see the films, I loved the first book.
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Barbara Pepper as Bonnie Fleagle in Murder, He Says (1945) -- "There ain't no jail can hold her!"
Next: Played someone chubby but not overly fat
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For those who couldn't get enough of House on Haunted Hill when it was on Svengoolie last week, TCM will be showing it on October 22!
06:15 PM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
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Without question, my favorite film that Robert Redford was in, is Out of Africa, although it's not his movie, and I wish he had tried to do more of an English accent.
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Green Dolphin Street has several great character actors, who add real style to the film: Gladys Cooper, Edmund Gwenn, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, and Dame May Whitty.
I have a friend who was related to Richard Hart.
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Here's an interesting article from about a year ago. It also refers to Rondo's wife:
https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/movies/2020/11/12/documentary-explores-the-beauty-of-rondo-hatton-tampas-disfigured-horror-icon/
"Voted Most Handsome Boy in his Hillsborough High School senior class of 1913 and a star on the football field there, Hatton’s looks changed when he returned from World War I. His nose, brow and chin grew too large for his face. The disfigurement was initially blamed on exposure to German mustard gas during the war, but he was later diagnosed with acromegaly disease — a hormonal disorder that develops when the pituitary gland produces too much growth hormone."
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4 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Well, Rondo Hatton's destiny was prefigured . . . by his name, IMO. Who the heck names their kid Rondo?
The young man in the pic provided by Swithin doesn't look like a Rondo, to me. Looks more like a Harry -- "Handsome Harry" Hatton. The Creeper, OTOH, looks like a "Rondo."
Check out the ears, the ears tell the story.
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Jessie Ralph was in David Copperfield (1935) with Violet Kemble Cooper.
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A Cold Wind in August (1961) --(I was a very tender age -- about 12 -- when I saw this film in the Surrey Theater in the Bronx, but I was not yet torrid.)
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Mandragora (1997)
Next: Rafting
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"In Waikiki" -- Sung and danced by Ann Sheridan in Navy Blues (1941)
Next: Sung on horseback
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18 minutes ago, DougieB said:
I can't look at Rondo Hatton without thinking about what the poor guy's life must have been like. This wasn't his last movie, but he died before it was released.
The irony is that he was voted handsomest boy in his high school class. That was before the acromegaly set in.
"He starred in track and football at Hillsborough High School and was voted Handsomest Boy in his class his senior year."
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, August 21, 2021:
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5 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
That's the film that made me love ROGER LIVESEY. I was already a fan of MICHAEL POWELL's films. Definitely give it another chance.
Have you seen Roger Livesey in one of his final wonderful roles, as the Duke of St. Bungay in 18 episodes of the miniseries The Pallisers? If not, you may enjoy this brief scene.
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20 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
I watched Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955) with Danielle Darrieux the other night. I was looking up the bio on the Italian actor, Erno Crisa who plays the gamekeeper lover. It mentioned that he appeared in many "European photo novels" which I guess was the subject of The White Sheik. I don't think I knew anything about them before seeing the film in the early 70's. It all seemed really bizarre and peculiarly Italian.
I hadn't heard of the fumetti until I saw The White Sheik either.
I haven't seen that version of Lady Chatterley's Lover, only a 1993 British miniseries, with Sean Bean as Mellors. I'm a huge D.H. Lawrence fan. His first novel, The White Peacock, is my favorite novel. It would make a great miniseries, in the right hands. There is a minor character, Annable, who is an prototype of Mellors. (As you probably know, there is an earlier version of Lady Chatterley's Lover, titled John Thomas and Lady Jane.)
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"Angel Baby" -- Crazy Love (1987)
Next: Sung wearing a sweater
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Your Favourite Foreign Language Films
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I have solved the mystery. I did not see a Mongolian film. (Btw A Mongolian Tale played in New York at the Lincoln Plaza.) The film I saw was actually an Icelandic film called When the Raven Flies (1984), which did play at the Film Forum. I now recall that we had dinner at the Middle of the Road Restaurant, which was a Mongolian restaurant. There are indeed little horses in the Icelandic film, as there would be in Mongolian films, which helped lead to my confusion. With the Mongolian restaurant and the Icelandic movie, I guess I had a "little horse" evening!
From The New York Times review:
"'When the Raven Flies,'' which opens today at the Film Forum I, is more than just a curiosity (though it certainly is that, since Icelandic films are so rare here). Mr. Gunnlaugsson is a skillful storyteller, and he gives the film a slow, brooding style and an irreversible momentum."