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Fedya

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  1. The Arrangement (1969)

    Adman Kirk Douglas has a midlife crisis that results in him attempting suicide.  Deborah Kerr plays his wife, Faye Dunaway his mistress.

    Horrible, horrible movie that gets one point for the porn-stache that Douglas wears before the suicide attempt.  Amazingly, a lot of reviewers praise this one simply because it's supposedly making deep comments about suburbia or something.  Apparently Elia Kazan saw The Swimmer and thought, "Let's make something with the same themes that's even more ****ed up!"

    Terrible.

    1/10, with that one point for the aforementioned mustache that has to be seen to be believed.

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    I'd like that.  O'Brien's appeared in so many of those and TCM has shown so many of those Pete Smith shorts featuring O'Brien I'd think it's high time TCM gave him his own day of different films from his widely diverse filmography.

    I'm sorry, Dave.  I'm afraid I can't do that.

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  3. Five Gates to Hell (1959).

    Neville Brand plays a Vietnamese warlord in French Indochina in 1950 whose commander is deathly ill.  So he leads a raiding party to kidnap a bunch of doctors and nurses from a Red Cross field hospital to treat the commander, who is laid up in a hilltop castle.  The medical staff obviously would like to escape.

    The idea is good, but Brand is miscast (technically, he's mixed-race, as his white mother died in childbirth) and the dialogue the characters (especially his) have to deliver is terrible.  The production values also look surprisingly subpar.  FXM also showed a panned-and-scanned version of this.  It's going to be on FXM Retro again this Tuesday and Wednesday (11/14 and 11/15) if you have the channel.

    5/10

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  4. I'd start with the shorter movies, and the comedies since I think the humor looks less dated than the silent acting.  One Week might be a good example.  Laurel and Hardy shorts might be another, since those are names people should recognize.

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  5. 2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:

    I don't mind dubbed Italian movies, as they didn't record live audio in any language while filming. Even the Italian language version for their own market had all the sound done in post-production. That's how most Italian films were made until sometime in the 70's. Otherwise, I prefer the original language. I don't have trouble reading. 

    I've got an idea! I'll use numbers, the way I do for Fellini! Instead of "I don't understand you Alexander..." I'll say, 22, 83, 16, 72, 5, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, 9. 17, 10, 10, 4, 18, 69...

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