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12 hours ago, Kay said:
As for me... Laredo fills a 1hr, 15min time slot due to more added commercials, but I needs my Neville Brand.
When the wife is watching say something on TBS or one of the other commercial channels. I actually get **** off now when commercials come on, (they can really irritate me very quickly) and especially when a two hour film is stretched to a three hour time slot. It's doubly irritating when the film in question is something we actually own, like fer instance McLintock!
And concerning sex and violence, Neville Brand, and the above Overton's Window have you seen him in The Police Connection aka The Mad Bomber (1973) a pretty intense non PC Neo Noir where he plays rapist sex-weirdo. It also stars Chuck Connors and Vince Edwards. Also pretty good in a bit part in Psychic Killer (1975).
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Backlash (1947) A body in a burned car at the bottom of Mulholland Drive, is believed to be that of a criminal lawyer. When it's discovered that the car was in first gear and was likely pushed off the road the police suspect murder. The lawyer's wife, his partner, and an ex-convict are suspected of the crime. But the body was incorrectly identified. Again another time waster with Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, and Larry J. Blake.
6-6.5/10
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9 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Danger Man Season One (1960-1961)
British spy/adventure series, with 39 half-hour episodes. Patrick McGoohan stars as John Drake, an American operative working for NATO. He travels all over the world on various missions, everything from rescuing high-profile kidnapping victims to thwarting drug rings and smuggling operations, from stopping assassins to solving public health crises. He often goes undercover, adopting the guise of the loud, obnoxious Ugly American type to lower the guard of his enemies. He generally eschews the use of guns, and is positively chaste compared to the womanizing James Bond stereotype. I thought McGoohan was very good in the lead, an unusual mix of honorable man-of-action and quick-witted malcontent. The stories got pretty monotonous by the end of the season, with many of the set-pieces repeated, and the guest cast reappearing as different characters.
The guest cast features many performers who would later appear in the James Bond films, including Lois Maxwell, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Honor Blackman, Charles Gray, Zena Marshall, Nadja Regin, Walter Gotell, Burt Kwouk, and Anthony Dawson. Other notable guests include Barbara Shelley, Hazel Court, Sam Wanamaker, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Green, George Coulouris, Bevely Garland, Jackie Collins, Judy Carne, Hermione Baddeley, Jack MacGowran, and William Marshall.
The spy adventure was one of the signature genres of the 1960's, and many cite Danger Man as ground zero for the phenomenon. It wasn't the first, but it was the impetus that led to The Avengers on TV, to the James Bond films, as well as the shows The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission:Impossible, and more. However, this first (and technically only...but more on that in a moment) season wasn't very well received when it aired in the U.S. on CBS, and the show was ended. McGoohan was the first choice to play James Bond in the films, but he thankfully turned it down (too much sex!), and it went to Sean Connery. Meanwhile, after the genre exploded in popularity by the middle of the decade, Danger Man was revived, although changed a great deal. It went to an hour-long format, the character was made a British agent (although the John Drake name was kept), and the US title was held over: Secret Agent, while also adding the hit theme song "Secret Agent Man". This series eventually led to The Prisoner and cult immortality, but that's a story for another day...
Source: Amazon Prime
I watched this as a kid, but always remember it with the "Secret Agent Man" title theme music, I'm assuming that the original series had just the harpsichord theme that you here just after the Johnny Rivers song? or maybe not.
"The stories got pretty monotonous by the end of the season, with many of the set-pieces repeated, and the guest cast reappearing as different characters."
Agree with you there.
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17 minutes ago, Kay said:
Have you ever heard about medication commercials making people sick? The nocebo effect? I never gave a thought to them until the whole "restless leg syndrome" epidemic, and wouldn't you know it- I caught it! When the commercials stopped, so did my restless legs. I didn't think I was being effected, but I was!
I don't watch much commercial TV, and rarely see commercials. I watch TCM, stream films off various sites and watch the news for roughly or two an hour in the AM and PM.
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11 minutes ago, lpetiti said:
In my opinion, I don't think so...a classic is something that withstands the test of time and probably has something special about it.
I'd say twenty years from today would be a good benchmark.
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Apology for Murder (1945) Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, and Russell Hicks, sort of a poor man's Double Indemnity. The angle this go round is Savage the overly greedy "widow" conspires with Beaumont a newspaper man.
An OK time waster it's streaming at the moment at a popular site 😎
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6 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I've seen that one many times, but never thought Brennan's role as that "dark" in it.
His intro is especially dark and foreboding.
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Murder in the First (1995) Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman (from IMDb) Henri Young stole five dollars from a post office and ended up going to prison - to the most famous, or infamous, prison of them all: Alcatraz. He tried to escape, failed, and spent three years and two months in solitary confinement - in a dungeon, with no light, no heat and no toilet. Milton Glenn, the assistant warden, who was given free reign by his duty-shirking superior, was responsible for Young's treatment.
It's very loosely based on the life of Henri Young. The real guy was already doing time for bank robbery and murder.
Entertaining still 7/10
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Our Man in Havana (1959)with Alec Guinness sort of a quasi serious film.
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I played my first video game here:
Right next to the Majestic Ballroom, a real taxi dance place still in business. The video game was Spacewar!.
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I thought her arrogance/indifference in Desperately Seeking Susan sort of worked in her favor. But otherwise I agree with GGGerald.
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2 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I've seen the alternate cut with the title Mr. Arkadin. It's kind of a mess, but if you like Orson Welles' later stuff, this has some interesting moments.
Oh I've seen Mr Arkadin didn't realize they were the same film.
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Don't think I've seen Confidential Report (1955)
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Gerald 'Slink' Johnson in Black Jesus
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As mentioned Willem Dafoe: The Last temptation of Christ
Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class
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1 hour ago, rayban said:
Sounds very interesting, whatever happened to Kevin Anderson, who seemed destined for stardom?
He was active until 2014, just never made top tier.
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Bait (1954) another Hugo Haas cheapie noir
With a prolog that features Cedric Hardwicke as the devil no less.
Haas is a miner looking for a lost mine that he and his deceased partner had once found in a valley of former diggings. He acquires a younger partner John Agar (a lot of westerns including Fort Apache (1948), a lot of SyFy, Attack of the Puppet People, The Brain from Planet Arous, The Mole People, Journey to the Seventh Planet and TV), to help with the search and the mine when they find it.
Haas also gets hitched to soiled dove Cleo Moore (On Dangerous Ground, 711 Ocean Drive), and other Noirs so that he can get rid of both Moore and Agar when they fall in love with each other. It's all part of his plan to get all the gold for himself. Watchable 6/10
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What exactly is your question?
"BE HONEST BUT NOT CRUEL PLEASE??? & HOLLYWOOD VS. THE REAL EXOTIC CLUBS"
Are you asking to compare Hollywood depiction vs Real Exotic Clubs?
When I was 15 my playground was Times Square/42nd Street before the "exotic club" era.
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banned burlesque in New York City on April 30, 1937. 14 burlesque theaters were refused the renewal of their licenses, effectively banning burlesque in New York. About six months later, burlesque producers were opening new venues by calling their shows “follies” or “reviews,” while enterprising producers like Mike Todd (Elizabeth Taylor’s third husband) flouted the ban by putting burlesque performers in legit Broadway theaters. When the popularity of the jazz clubs of 52nd Street began to lose clientele burlesque picked up the slack. Eventually by '65 Times Square was sprinkled with topless gogo bars and strip joints that were either small clubs where the dancers danced on the bar top, or hole in the wall theaters with burlesque shows on small 12 x 12' stages competing with live nude girl peep shows with viewing booths. There were no "exotic clubs."
Lived in Montana after '72 where strip shows were all in bars/lounges, nothing too fancy or ornate. Didn't visit a real "exotic club" till I was back in NY in the late 90's. Most of these upstate places have no DJ canned music that the girls themselves provide and a small stage with fixed lights. Never been to anything as big as depicted in a Hollywood film but I'd assume these exist someplace.
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52 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
and his ROY BEAN was the only other dark character I've seen him do.
Check out My Darling Clementine for a another dark Brennan character.
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The Wrong Man - (1993) - The Good, The Bad, And The Heart-breaker
Director: Jim McBride, Writers: Roy Carlson (story), Michael Thoma (screenplay), Cinematography by Affonso Beato. Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Anderson, John Lithgow, Jorge Cervera Jr. and Ernesto LaGuardia
Neo Noir, Half Road pic, half Policier, half dysfunctional Drama.
Kevin Anderson (The Good) plays a young 30-ish American, Alex Walker, a sailor on the run after a fight over a woman that went seriously wrong. He's fleeing from a manslaughter charge in Massachusetts, he says he didn't want to spend 10 years picking up cans along the highways. His cargo ship The Starfish is working the Gulf coast of Mexico.
John Lithgow (The Bad) plays a chain smoking "ne plus ultra" Ugly American John Mills, channeling Henry Fonda and touches of other classic Noir performances, you see a bit of Jimmy Stewart and get impressions of Broderick Crawford, he's so very entertaining in the role, an excellent performance.
Rosanna Arquette (The Heartbreaker) plays Missy, Mills' younger wife/common law friend with benefits, a real sweetheart Floozy of a Femme Fatale. Missy's past is shrouded in Noir. She spins a honey dipped, storybook fantasy background, but we learn later that she "worked" at an infamous Georgia highway truck stop in probable salacious endeavors "giving the best business in hash house history." Arquette is playing the exact type of exhibitionist, free spirit role that in the late 50s early 60s would have been given to Brigitte Bardot, Arquette is smoking-ly sultry in this film and beautiful to watch, a siren luring men to their fate.
There is also a good policier angle that is nicely fleshed out of a young ambitious Mexican Criminal Law graduate Ortega played by Ernesto LaGuardia, who will remind you of a young Ricardo Montalban, vs. the old school Police Chief Diaz, played excellently by Jorge Cervera Jr. who gives off a John Wayne/Harry Carey vibe. The cinematography is outstanding, the noir sequences to die for, the Mexican locations humid-ly hypnotic.
I'm starting to believe that what makes Neo Noirs authentic Neo Noirs for me, is not only a heavy dose of Noir stylistic cinematography along with a simple Noir storyline, but also a bit of cinematic memory, when you can picture the stars in these Neos as inheritors of Classic Noir star parts, or see a nod to Classic Noir type locations combined with an old school, without bells & whistles, low budget, "B" film artistry you reach the tipping point into full blown Noirsville.
I had to order this off Ebay from Hong Kong, it's worth it. It's equal to the best Neo Noirs of the 90s, a great, great soundtrack by Los Lobos too, 10/10 enjoy. Needs an official release.
Full review at Noirsville The Wrong Man. 😎
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7 hours ago, Dargo said:
About a quarter way through Nobody Lives Forever, I remembered catching it a few years back on TCM. And then in the final scene where Brennan buys the farm on the dock landing, I then was also reminded of how he pretty much needlessly died.
C'mon now. I'll never understand how after Brennan gets the drop on Coulouris and shots him ONCE, he then would allow Coulouris to SLOWLY whip around, and I DO mean slowly, and then plug Brennan with a few shots?
See, now BOGIE did this kind'a thing RIGHT in Key Largo, and when after plugging Eddie G. the first time on that boat, and then just before Eddie G. tries to get a couple of shots back at him, Bogie fires off a couple more rounds at him and finished Eddie G. off!
(...okay okay, yeah yeah I know..."it was just a movie", huh!)
Yea this go round I actually made it all the way to the end where it did get visually noir-er. Other than Garfield, George Tobias and Richard Erdman practically the whole cast was pretty noir-lite. Agree with your observations above Dargo.
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11 hours ago, EricJ said:
Just keep telling yourself that the next time you sit through Ken Russell's "Lisztomania"...
Never seen it.
Secret Agent/Spy Films
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Noir The Tall Target is essentially a period secret agent film.