Fedya
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He should have dyed his hair like Kim Novak in Vertigo.
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Intolerance (1916).
Four stories from various eras that all purport to show the disastrous consequences of intolerance.
Didactic slog that only gets praised because it's not Birth of a Nation. With the exception of the oversized Babylon sets, everything Intolerance did technically, Birth of a Nation did better a year earlier. But Birth has the wrong views, so critics have become loathe to praise it while because Intolerance was the response, it gets praised to high heaven.
Three Ages and even Noah's Ark did the multiple eras thing better in terms of story-telling.
5/10.
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Sea Devils (1953).
Rock Hudson plays a smuggler in the Channel Islands in 1800 who is asked to transport a woman (Yvonne de Carlo) to France, a risky proposition since France and England are at war. The audience, but not Hudson, is told that de Carlo is going to France on a spy mission for England. Hudson sees de Carlo and gets the impression that she's a spy for France, and shanghais her back to the Channel Islands. All sorts of complications ensue.
It's entertaining enough and competently made, but nothing special. 6/10.
IMDb claims this is 91 minutes, but the TCM copy ran 87 minutes, for which I'm glad since the box guide had it in a two-hour slot but thanks to TCM's scheduling they had it in a 90-minute slot. I was worried I'd miss the last couple of minutes.
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So did your daughter Wolfgang marry a boy named Sue?
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23 minutes ago, Dargo said:
And not to take away from ham's and Lawrence's earlier funny answers to this, but perhaps also because out in the Arizona desert and where It Came from Outer Space is set, you never know when you might be surrounded by a pack of Javelina...
To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, "I never trust a man unless I've got his peccary in my pocket."
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1 hour ago, NickAndNora34 said:
I'm fairly certain it was meant to be a comedy, but none of the lines Hope spoke made me laugh. Or even chuckle, for that matter.
I think I'll Take Sweden is on this week. [pauses to check the schedule] 4:00 PM Saturday.
Terrible, terrible generation gap movie.
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Black Christmas used that conceit earlier.
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16 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
but he sounded a bit too convincing for me to believe he was completely faking it.
I find this funny considering the whole thing is acting.
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I've always gotten a kick out of the romantic pairing in The First Traveling Saleslady between Carol Channing and... Clint Eastwood.
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1 hour ago, marcar said:
BTW, why does an astronomer keep a gun in his convertible's glove compartment at all times?
Why not?
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Wolfgang Puck.
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12 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
OY! That shag carpeting was a pain. Had an apartment with that in it. BE-YOTCH to vacuum and sop up spills.
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How about Notorious? After all it has Claude RAINS.
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40 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
Have there been any comedy movies with a girl menaced by baddies?--whom she gets the better of?
I don't know if there was really any bad guy in Zazie dans le métro, but that was the first thing that came to mind.
Maybe some of the Shirley Temple movies. Baby Take a Bow for example?
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4 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
In addition there might be a Roy Moore 'vibe' with a girl and there is no comedy in that.
So it could have a Kevin Spacey vibe instead.
And you have an interesting definition of comedy if you consider The Bad Seed a comedy.
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Actually it's on at 10, unless you think Jules et Jim is either entertaining or for general audiences.
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Rose Marie, the child vaudeville star best known for her five years playing Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died aged 94.
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Would you rather watch WC Fields as Poppy?
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I like her in The Big Heat.
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It's a comic western. Entertaining enough but not earth-shattering.
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Didn't Bogdanovich host a season of The Essentials before it was Robert Osborne talking with somebody?
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25 minutes ago, NickAndNora34 said:
I agree with you about another "A Star is Born" film. There are 3 versions of this already.
Four if you count What Price Hollywood.
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14 hours ago, calvinnme said:
This would probably just be a 6/10 if it weren't for the important place it holds in film history. It is the first feature film directed by Ron Howard at only age 28, and he did a very able job his first time out.
What's Grand Theft Auto?
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Somehow I don't expect to see a live version of Hair.
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"The Boy With The Green Hair"
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I always think of the love icosahedron in Love Finds Andy Hardy.