clore
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>>Any people you watch in a movie that are supposed to be attractive, but aren't?
MR. SKEFFINGTON makes a great big deal about how supposedly beautiful Bette Davis' character is supposed to be.
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Yes, at the end he referred to THE INVISIBLE MAN and the 1943 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. But the opening remarks came as he was commenting about the film about to air.
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>>Not being familiar with THE WOLF MAN, what should the intro have said?
Something along the lines that Claude Rains plays the father who refuses to believe that his son could possibly be a werewolf.
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>>Who is writing these intros?
Someone who apparently has no concern about job security.
Again, before I get jumped on, my position is that these writers are paid to make Robert Osborne look smart. They are not doing the job properly.
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SPARTACUS has aired a few times, but not in about five years or so.
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Did I just hear him say that in THE WOLF MAN, "Claude Rains plays a scientist who is up to no good?"
Must be a different film than the one that I saw.
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>>Which critic wrote that?
Believe me, I would attribute a name if I could recall it. I'm in NYC so chances are that it was one of the locals, but whether it was Rex Reed, William Wolf, Renata Adler or Pauline Kael, I just don't remember.
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>>did Marlene Dietrich ever play anyone who wasn't something of a tart?
Or as a friend of mine says:
"I like the movie where she's a singer in some dive bar."
I guess though that she's not a tart in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY.
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>.Andrews and Tierney were finally re-teamed in WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, 3 years after DAISY KENYON.
Yes, and Elizabeth Taylor and Dana Andrews got to co-star as two-thirds of a triangle in ELEPHANT WALK in 1954. The other third was Peter Finch, no youngster himself at the time.
Henry Fonda had to wait until 1973's ASH WEDNESDAY to play Taylor's husband. The joke was that in the film she gets a face lift in order to keep him from roaming elsewhere. One review at the time said that it didn't help, Fonda still looked younger after her supposed improvement.
Ouch!
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>>Have you noticed the person who started this thread has yet to reveal her age? We've been tricked ! (she must be a lawyer).
As she has 1975 in her present user name on the IMDb, I'm guessing that that is her birth year. She changes her user name practically every week over there.
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>>Fonda HATED many of the movies had had to film at 20th. DAISY KENYON was no exception, and he did it to finally be rid of the contract, as he owed the studio one film.
Fonda really seems to be elsewhere. Maybe some of it is that he's playing a disillusioned war vet and a widower, but nowhere during the film does he demonstrate the mastery of "modern combat tactics" that he claims to have at the end. It's almost as if he's trying to prove that he was the inspiration for L'il Abner, he appears terribly dimwitted.
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>>Although I'm a Bogie fan, there are a couple of others where he didn't seem to be believable. The first is "Sabrina". In fact, he looks very uncomfortable in that role. The other is "The Two Mrs. Carrolls." Of course, anything with Stanwyck in it is worth watching, but Bogie as a painter? I guess he was just doing what they told him to with that one.
He was uncomfortable making SABRINA. He knew he was a last-minute replacement for Cary Grant and that Billy Wilder was rewriting the script daily to make the dialogue more suitable for Bogie's delivery style. He also thought that Wilder was giving too much attention to Hepburn and to Holden with whom the director had worked before. For some reason, Bogart did not like his male co-star.
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS isn't much, but I prefer it to his other wife-killer opus CONFLICT. As you note, Stanwyck is great and the young girl, Ann Carter (of CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE) turns in one of the best performances I've ever seen from a teenager. And that last scene of Bogie offering the cops a glass of milk almost makes the whole thing worthwhile.
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THE ENFORCER was the last film that Bogart made for Warner Brothers. Credited to director Bretaigne Windust, the story goes that most of it was done by Raoul Walsh at Bogart's request when Windust became ill.
None of the Santana ventures went out through Warners. They were partnered with Romulus on THE AFRICAN QUEEN and BEAT THE DEVIL (both released by UA) but the failure of the latter took Bogie out of the production end.
Santan also produced two other films that did not star Bogart, these were AND BABY MAKES THREE and THE FAMILY SECRET which were released by Columbia.
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I can't help but laugh when on the stand, Derek screams to Macready "Yes I killed him! You want me to kill you too?"
Other than IN A LONELY PLACE, the Santana films that Bogie made for Columbia (also SIROCCO and the worst of the lot, TOKYO JOE) aren't much to be proud of. He was fighting with Warners for better scripts and this is what he does on his own?
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>>39 worked for for Jack Benny for an extra 41 years.
I've been trying to convince myself of that but sometimes my knees just tell me that I'm fooling myself. But I can predict rain with greater accuracy than Doppler weather reports.
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>>I was thinking about DVR'ing "Slim". I was just wondering if anyone had seen it and if it was worthwhile. It looks like it could be a lot like "Manpower" which I've already seen.
Yes, it is like MANPOWER which was like TIGER SHARK and KING OF THE LUMBERJACKS. It was one of the Warner B unit's favorite stories according to the book INSIDE WARNER BROS by Rudy Behlmer.
SLIM has a nice cast, it's worth watching for that alone.
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But watching a pan-and-scan version of a 2.35:1 film gives me the heebie jeebies. Even the Anchor Bay DVD was 2.10:1 so it's not as if this doesn't exist in digital form in something other than what is being presented.
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In watching this one, my feeling has always been that the only reason that Andrews and Fonda are vying for Crawford is because the script says they should. Fonda seems particularly disinterested, maybe because Joan was trying to get him to wear offstage the jockstrap that she knitted for him. Maybe it was because he knew that once shooting stopped, he would be gone from Fox for 12 years.
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>>Today is my 50th birthday! Born the year PSYCHO & CHILDREN'S HOUR were released.
Telling.
Happy birthday TikiSoo.
BTW, another coincidence. I recently told you of my sister who edited a magazine on carousel horses. She had a cat named Tiki, a gorgeous black one that almost made it to 20.
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Actually, at the time that you posted, it was 7 hours and 45 minutes away. If you don't get some sleep now, MODEL SHOP will put you to sleep.
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Ride the High Country
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>>And you'll always have Paris.
Glad to see that someone picked up on my pun.
I wish I was 38 again, but that was 20 years ago.
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That was only because they wouldn't go hiking with him.
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I've seen a short on TCM that covers the home life of the stars and there is footage of Dan Duryea as a scoutmaster. Who wudda thought...
Actually, my mother comes from White Plains as did Duryea. People there who knew him were quite surprised to see him so villainous on the screen. Apparently he was Mr. Nice Guy in his home town, a studious kid who grew into a straight-arrow businessman who had a smile for everyone.
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"Daughters Courageous" perhaps?