clore
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You remind me that ever since I was a little kid, that when the Count is eyeing Gertrude walking away, I expected something like a Road Runner cartoon. To have the live Gertrude morph into a scene of a cooked goose on a platter, surrounded by all the trimmings and then have things snap back to reality.
Almost 53 years later, and it still comes to mind.
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EVIL UNDER THE SUN isn't up to DEATH ON THE NILE, but I find it enjoyable enough. I'd watch it, but would never be adding it to may collection.
I do with that ODD MAN OUT could have made today's schedule.
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As soon as the credits ended, the letterboxed 2.35:1 image expanded to fill my screen at 1.8:1.
Don't let them tell you they don't have one, I saw it on FMC a couple of years ago.
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We may have been nearly neighbors. I've been in Jackson Heights for 39 years now. The ex worked in LIC on 49th Street for many years - still does. She got a lot of nice photos when De Niro was shooting A BRONX TALE over there, driving the bus down Broadway and Newtown Road.
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The Thalia and The New Yorker were the Radio City Music Halls of the revival circuit. I love the more "seedy" of the bunch, sticky floors, broken seats - that kind of place.
Plenty of dives to go to in Brooklyn, such as The Marcy and The Graham, where you could see triple-features that may not have been 20 or more years old, but were often still airing on TV. If you wanted to see a decade-old Hammer or AIP film in the late 60s, these were the places to find such things.
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Before he became a film producer, Jon Davison had what he called a Cinematheque in a storefront around the corner from The St. Marks. I remember seeing a lot of films there in 1969-70, all of these were "word-of-mouth" screenings as most were illegal prints.
I recall seeing a Rouben Mamoullian fest at the Huntington Hartford Museum in Columbus Circle circa 1967. They screen his version of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE to a packed house, it was supposedly the first legal screening in 25 years.
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how could Leonard Maltin write a review? I also have Leslie Halliwell’s review; was this film shown at a special event well before 2011?
These guys might have used some ancient reviews to "guide" their own assessment. I was with Maltin at a 1966 "closed" screening of the 1936 SHOW BOAT courtesy of William K. Everson weekly film society meetings. That was supposed to be out of circulation, but Everson had a nice looking 16mm print.
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I mean, gee whiz Fox, you don't know how to present your own classic films on your own network?
They only knew one way - run them at 6am if they were made before WWII. That "Legacy" series presented what, three B&W films - GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, ALL ABOUT EVE and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN?
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Mr. Smith. Again. I was surprised nobody started a thread complaining about seeing this one again, as there have been for Gaslight, and North By Northwest
From 2009
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Isn't just about every month "novel into film" month? Other than plays - which has to take second place, novels account for such a high percentage of material adapted into films that as one glances on non-fest days, there's still a good number of films that would qualify.
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> You're absolutely right about THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST -- hilarious, ahead of its time and sometimes eerily prescient (except for the section where Sidney falls in with the hippies; that's never worked terribly well, and should've been trimmed down).
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I can forgive the hippie scene as it does have that great sight gag involving all of the assassins on his trail.
I hope that I'm remembering it correctly, I haven't seen it since it came out.
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They should have had Curtis dub the baby saying "Mama's Mia, but the devil is my faddah."
This doesn't quite qualify as looping, but while making HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS, veteran actor Edmund Lowe fell ill about halfway through shooting. The decision was made to replace him, but still use all of the footage that had been shot so far.
Thus, actor Bernard Nedell was hired to impersonate Lowe, he was groomed and costumed just like the actor whom he was replacing, so I suppose it's possible that Lowe may have looped some dialogue.
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Speaking of William Castle and looping, doesn't Tony Curtis provide an uncredited voice in ROSEMARY'S BABY?
It would have been funny if Castle had done one of his on-camera intros for that film. Something to the effect of telling us that Paramount wouldn't let him direct the film because they would prefer that people not connect him with it at all.
Still, he managed a cameo in the film as the one whom Mia mistakes for Ralph Bellamy.
I admire his showmanship, but other than MR. SARDONICUS and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, I'm not big on his output in the horror genre. Some of the early Columbia stuff shows flair, but otherwise, meh.
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I was only 9 years old when we saw that at the theater. My sister is two years older and we actually wanted to take advantage of the fright break and get our money back, but our theater was too cheap to bother with what had been heavily promoted in the trailer.
We were laughing whenever "Warren" was speaking, literally, even a child could figure that twist out in a matter of minutes.
We much more enjoyed the compainion film, QUEEN OF THE PIRATES, where the dubbing for this Italian epic wasn't as amusing.
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Thanks Tiki, I appreciated your back story also.
The part of the film that infuriates me is the scene where Richard Kiley's record collection is destroyed. How stupid could he have been to have brought his precious collection to a school where some of the students had already jumped him in an alley?
He might as well have placed his wallet on the desk and left the room.
I did read the book around the time that I first saw the film - around 1964, just before I started in the junior high that I mentioned. When we had moved to that neighborhood known as Ridgewood, it was an upgrade and the so-called cliques there were pretenders compared to some of what I had already seen in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick.
I mean, these "bullies" were still emulating Brando a decade after THE WILD ONE and if anything, they were closer to Buzz in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE with his gang of flunkies who would never have survived a day in a rough Brooklyn or Bronx school. All that posing and primping - the real tough guys showed signs of the hard life, they didn't look like movie stars.
Vic Morrow got it right, except that for plot purposes, he had to end up being a weasel. The ones you had to worry about had the look of "vacancy" in their eyes.
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> ...Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge) upon encountering robot TPC (The Phone Company) executive Arlington Hewes (Pat Harrington) in the great 1960's satire THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST.
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Now there's a movie for TCM Underground. Heck, put it on in prime time. For my money, one of the great political satires of all time, a bit ahead of the curve in 1967 and now it's dated in all of the right ways.
What a supporting cast - Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Pat Harrington, William Daniels and a personal favorite, Walter Burke.
A few years after I saw the film, I started working for New York Telephone for a brief spell. The mock industrial short shown within the film looks just like the type of short that we were exposed to back then while in training.
And for added enjoyment, James Coburn plays the gong, just as he would during his Tonight Show appearances of the time.
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I saw a recent airing of THE TALL MEN on one of the HBO channels. It's not pan and scan, but it's not as if they letterbox the 2.35:1 image within the 1.8:1 ratio of a widescreen TV. It's just center-weighted, so info on the sides is missing.
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You might remember Felicia Farr as the woman who got to spend time with Walter Matthau on a circular bed in CHARLEY VARRICK.
Charley didn't grieve over his wife's death for too long, that's for sure.
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I was in junior high a decade after this film was made. It was my first year in the school having just moved from an even worse neighborhood.
The school was in a blue-collar neighborhood in the borough of Queens. I had my own Artie West as a thorn in my side, in fact the guy's name was Arthur and his last name started with a "W."
He wore a black leather jacket every day, even in the late spring. He tried by knife point to extort protection money from me, I just laughed as we were dirt poor anyway, it would be like getting blood from a stone.
He was rather insistent, even to the point of sitting across the table from me in the cafeteria and jabbing his knife under it, telling me that I had to pay or else.
One day, I had warned my buddies on the other side that something would happen and that when Arthur started, to get up from the table. When the trouble started, I just turned the whole table over onto him, covering him with his own soup, mashed potatoes and gravy. He managed to toss the knife to a friend, but I saw who caught it and was prepared to use that info.
The two of us were taken to the principal's office. He started warning me under his breath that I had better watch out, or else there would be trouble in the future.
I told him "If you weren't so effin' stupid, we wouldn't be here now. Just keep your big mouth closed, and follow my story, and if you're lucky, you'll get out of this. Don't think that I don't know you were already taken to court for the same thing last year - I might just keep you from going to reform school, but you're gonna owe me for that. Or else I can tell them that you threw the knife to Bruce."
Smooth-talking, innocent-faced little me made up a story on the spot, took the heat for the table-turning by saying the guy insulted my mother and we were both assigned the punishment of writing "The Golden Rule" a thousand times and to have it ready the next day.
But after that, no one messed with me or my friends. I was suddenly a mini-celebrity. In high school it started all over again, a much larger bully, same kind of black leather moron, dared me to meet him after school because of what he considered my having not paid him the proper attention.
When I did show up, he must have been surprised as he backed out of any physical confrontation "just because you had the guts to show up." Someone I haven't seen or spoken to since that semester wrote to me via Classmates, remembering the day and saying that Johnny (the bully) wasn't used to people taking him up on his dare.
But with regard to both incidents, what I counted on and had learned much earlier, was the element of surprise. The "bully" is counting on the other one to cower and tremble. You can get away with it once, you just have to hope the guy doesn't challenge you again.
As to required courses, back then NYC schools did have certain subjects that were mandatory regardless of whether you were going for an Academic, a General or a Commercial diploma. An Academic one required you to take a foreign language for example, but the other two didn't. If I recall properly, math, social studies and English were required in all.
Someone going for a General diploma would likely have had shop, typing or music appreciation classes instead of a language.
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Farr had it in her advantage to be a Columbia contract player, and she was already in JUBAL and THE LAST WAGON for Delmer Daves, so chances are that her billing was already set by the time that Leora Dana was cast.
For Dana, this was her first feature film with any billing at all, so to have gotten fourth position isn't too shabby.
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Is it Neil Hamilton?
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TAKE HER SHE'S MINE has a running gag where James Stewart's character is mistaken for the real James Stewart.
In THUNDER BAY, Stewart's character makes a reference to Dan Duryea's character that he can do an imitation of a certain movie star.
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For Van Heflin Day
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> In the scene you mention clore, Grable claims the music on the radio IS Harry James, stating that she knows Harry James when she HEARS him, but the song ends and the announcer says it was somebody else(I couldn't hear who he said it was).
Ahh, was that how it went down? I haven't seen the film in about 30 years. I could recall the line "I know Harry James when I hear him" but misremembered as to whether she was arguing for or against it being HJ on the radio.
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Even the first time that I saw JOURNEY, I noticed that actor Peter Ronson who played Hans also had a credit as technical advisor on the film.
I had no idea what a tech advisor did, but it seemed impressive since I never before saw an actor get such a credit.