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I presume the movie doesn't cover Trumbo's bragging about keeping anti-Communist works from reaching the screen? It's his own little form of a blacklist, I suppose.

She and Roman Bohnen get a great scene in The Best Years of Our Lives as Dana Andrews' parents when Dad reads his son's service record that got him all those citations.

And you can see him in the opening to High School Confidential!, which is a hilarious movie.

Exactly: Steve Cochran found a way to hate him.

Have you seen Slander?

Did you expect him to stop being deceased?

I just watched The Toast of New York over the weekend, where he's very clearly in a supporting role to Edward Arnold.

As opposed to Captain Queeg not getting his second helping of strawberries, which would be DESSERT FURY.

I don't think anybody has mentioned Strait-Jacket yet:

Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer are both older than George Chakiris.

The Hospital, a Paddy Chayefsky (IIRC) screenplay starring George C. Scott as director of a hospital where everything is going wrong.

God I love The Sign of the Cross. I think it was Richard Barrios when he presented it as part of the "Gay Images in Cinema" series on TCM who said that DeMille wanted to show Christian virtue triumphing over vice, so he filled the movie with copious amounts of vice. Plus it's got Elissa Landi.

I'll be up at 5:30 AM, but that's because I have to be to work by 6.

I happen to think both Network and Rocky are outstanding films, and either one would have been a worthy Best Picture winner. Rocky also isn't particularly upbeat with its portrayal of Philadelphia, or its ultimate message. A lot of the choices also seemed to repeat opinions that are de rigueur. Apocolypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer, for example. Raging Bull over Ordinary People. Anything over Chariots of Fire. And of course the obligatory selection of Gay Fatal Attraction (er, Brokeback Mountain) and the insinuation that it didn't win because of its subject matter. I've always felt that it got more credit that in deserves precisely because of that subject matter.

I really enjoy Shelley Winters' character in The Poseidon Adventure. She seems to have had a lot of trouble with water throughout her career: Meeting John Garfield at a public swimming pool in He Ran All the Way Going for a boat trip with Monty Clift in A Place in the Sun Her final shot in Night of the Hunter And The Poseidon Adventure

Princess of Tap: I've seen several of Jean Renoir's films and consider him a good director. But I wouldn't use Orson Welles' recommendation as a yardstick. When I heard his conversations with Henry Jaglom I realized even more just what a pompous egomaniac Welles was.

Sight and Sound picked two movies diminished by their severely tedious third acts as their top two movies? And they've got similarly-diminished Vertigo in their top 10?

The Man Who Never Was is based on a true story, and has Clifton Webb doing CSI in reverse, making up a dead body to look like it had really died in a parachute accident and was carrying authentic information about British invasion plans for the Nazis to find.

Ceci n'est pas un film.

You've never seen the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty? (Much better than the Marlon Brando version.) I'd also recommend him opposite future wife Joan Tone in Dancing Lady, which also has Fred Astaire and the Three Stooges.

They get axe-murdered? Sorry, I'm not a fan at all of the Eddy/MacDonald movies. Jeanette is just about OK in San Francisco, but then that's a film with so much more going for it, especially in the final act.

Oh, come on. What do you have against those pointless zooms?

Humanist (Or maybe not....)

I haven't seen that one, but if you want a hilariously bad movie, watch Bop Girl Goes Calypso, including George Jetson (aka Joe McDoakes) in the cast.

Parvenu: One who has suddenly risen above his/her social class but has not gained acceptance within that higher social class. So: George Raft?