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32 minutes ago, Hibi said:
He was good in one of my favorite half hour Hitchcock episodes. The one set in the tropics with the snake......
I remember some of these from Television back in the day, but wasn't an avid viewer, I was more Twilight Zone-Outer Limits kid.
I picked up the complete set recently (within the past year) gotten as far as disc 3 season 3 so far. What sold me on getting the whole series was the very first episode with Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, and Ray Teal, made in 1955 same year as Kiss Me Deadly. I liked it because a lot of it was filmed on location.
Since that first episode a lot of the others have been studio bound and seem like filmed plays. Some have been hit some miss. Season 3 seems to have a bit more episodes shot back on location which are more interesting.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
the Adam storyline.
It's not a fave, it drags, it gets better towards the end of it when they create an "Eve" for Adam it's hilarious because it goes way beyond Elsa Lancaster's Bride Of Frankenstein ending Eve is quite the Vamp
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Corey was effective in some of these Wallis projects like Desert Fury, I Walk Alone and Sorry Wrong Number
He's pretty good in in a great little Tiki Noir Hell's Half Acre (1954) from Republic Pictures, it's quite the cast along with Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester (she plays a Honolulu cabby), Marie Windsor, Jesse White, Philip Ahn, and Keye Luke.
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18 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Wow Robert Muller is really branching out! 😉
Eddie Muller lol
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Seen it once and liked it, has it ever been on TCM?
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The Cruel Ones aka The Hellbenders (1967) dir. Sergio Corbucci, Joseph Cotten is a ruthless ex-Confederate officer who wants to resurrect the South with the help of his sons and a stolen US Army payroll. With numerous cavalry units looking for the outlaws who ambushed the pay wagon, Cotten's scheme has the loot hidden in a coffin with a dance hall gal posing as a grieving widow whenever they are questioned by patrols. A time waster. Familiar Spaghetti Western actor Aldo Sambrell makes an appearance. Impressed with the cinematography, it looks quite a bit like the American West but of course it's all shot in Spain and Italy. They do Mexican Bandits but the Native Americans look a bit dodgy as they always seem to in Spaghetti Westerns. 6/10
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On 10/21/2019 at 7:38 AM, TikiSoo said:
That's what you get (Bette Davis) when you let newbie film fans vote. Sadly, they don't even know who Joan Bennett is.
They may know Joan Bennett more from the original Dark Shadows an then it's later repeats on cable.
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Thanks for posting from the article, LawrenceA.
It's the reason it's imperative that TCM show modern classics along with the past classics to stay relevant. Have very enthusiastic hosts that can explain/show, say an idea or a style or a technique in a film and how it influenced the creators of a modern film.
Something along the lines of a Film Noir that uses lots of chiaroscuro like He Walked By Night or The Crooked Way shown along side Frank Miller's Sin City.
Somebody who would click with younger audiences and could drive these points home is Quentin Tarantino, he's as enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the kind of cinema he loves as Robert Osborne was about his area of expertise or Eddie Muller is about Film Noir.
TCM's problem is that it has a lot of stuff in the vault that is occasionally offensive and increasingly irrelevant (except to niche fans) to a lot of younger people who are the future audiences.
On a side note, you got this whole global market out there to tap into and if someone would do it creatively we (old movie fans) could have our cake and eat it to.
One example. You have this huge Chinese Market out there why not use that potential audience to revitalize say the old Charlie Chan detective series but set them in a gritty Sin City-ish Noir Chinatown. You have to create an addictive gritty aesthetic that people will demand more of. Get them into appreciating a variation of Black and White movies.
Do them seriously with real Chinese actors and intelligent mature type stories and if they are R-rated even better.
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5 minutes ago, Peebs said:
I'd certainly recommend giving it a try. Tilda Swinton is a mom willing to go to extreme lengths to protect her son. Goran Visnjic very effective as a the bad guy. Makes good use of Lake Tahoe setting.
Nice. There are a probably some of them out there in the 70s and 80s that got showed once in theaters and grindhouses and then never showed up on cable or DVD.
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3 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Trapped will be released on Blu-ray/DVD December 31st.
Now if it's the right price I may be tempted.
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A short and sweet Western that I like:
Hell's Heroes (1929)
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1 hour ago, Peebs said:
How about "The Deep End" from 2001?
Sounds interesting, I haven't seen it.
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15 minutes ago, ThePaintedLady said:
Moments like these make me hate Sling.
But those are quite rare we only notice it when it's something we were looking forward to seeing again, in maybe a much better print. However even that wouldn't tempt me to buy it, it's watchable but not enough to want to own.
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We need Experimental, Blaxploitation and Sexploitation films as the next boxes. 😎
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6 hours ago, kingrat said:
Speaking of film noir, is Force of Evil the talkiest film noir in all of the film noir canon? Talk, talk, talk. Then more talk. Finally a little gunfire. Abraham Polonsky is a WRITER-director. Lack of pacing is a problem. I remembered not being a big fan of the film, and that opinion was confirmed. Say two and a half stars out of four. It was the first John Garfield film I saw, and I didn't immediately take to Garfield. That changed when I saw more Garfield films, most of them better than Force of Evil.
It's funny: if you said "John Garfield vehicle by a blacklisted director," most people would think of Polonsky and Force of Evil. But that description also fits He Ran All the Way, directed by John Berry, a much better film. Garfield has a meatier role, Shelley Winters is much better than Beatrice Pearson, and Berry is a much more interesting director. Reputations often don't match up with actuality.
Exactly what I thought the first time I watched it. I'm just going by memory from the copy I on a DVD from Netflix , but from what I remember Thomas Gomez never comes up for air he never shuts up. lol.
I'll pull up my review...
March 31, 2013,
Caught this yesterday on a DVD from Netflix, nothing special, some interesting NYC locations, Marie Windsor is basically wasted, Gomez & Garfield are good, story isn't quite believable (come on, a Mom & Pop numbers racket with all lovable characters vs bad guy mobsters). I'll give it a generous 6/10 upon first viewing.
I never bought the DVD for my collection.
Here are some IMDb reviews that I also posted
Illegal good guy, 13 April 2011
Author: Alex da Silva from United Kingdom
Joe (John Garfield) plays a corrupt lawyer who is in partnership with gangster Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts) to control the "numbers" game. Joe tries to help his brother Leo (Thomas Gomez) who operates an illegal small bank for betting who is going to be made bankrupt by a fixed scam that will make banks pay out more than they have. The idea is for the gangsters to then come in and take things over. Leo refuses to listen, but is forced to draw himself into the new conglomerate that Ben Tucker is organizing. A rival gangster turns up wanting a share of the spoils from this particular scam and as a result of a killing and a kidnap, and phones being tapped by the prosecutor's department, the whole set-up is brought before a court.
This is a boy's film about gangsters and it can get pretty confusing if you don't pay attention throughout. The female roles are irrelevant to the plot which is a shame in the case of Marie Windsor who plays "Mrs Tucker". She is the best of the cast in her scenes and she completely outshines the rather feeble and bland Beatrice Pearson who plays "Doris". I also found the love interest between John Garfield and Peatrice Pearson difficult to believe. The acting is generally good with Thomas Gomez also deserving a mention. I didn't like him at the beginning but he managed to change my opinion so that I was sympathetic to him towards the end.
In fact, the end section of the film is the most memorable with several good scenes including a set-up in a cafe, a confrontation between the main bad guys, clever use of the telephone bugging operation and a discovery on some rocks under a pier. Unfortunately, I lost interest in the film whenever Beatrice Pearson was on screen, which seemed like way too much, and the story can get confusing, so the film loses points on those accounts.
It's a film that has a message similar to "On The Waterfront" in saying that the only way to topple powerful gang cartels is to stand up to them legally.
Wobbles between dramatic and strained...the last third finally kicking in with some intensity, 4 October 2010
Author: secondtake from United States
Force of Evil (1948)John Garfield is the centerpiece of this high end crime film, and he's the problem. He's a great understated actor, sympathetic, gentle, and not quite the right man for this role as a sharp, ultimately cruel lawyer named Joe Morse in a sprawling criminal enterprise. So in scene after scene, what could have had a film noir or gangster edge ends up strained in a more normal dramatic way. The script might be one of the problems--some forced metaphors about death, or canned lines that are too profound for their own good.
But these are not the only problems here. The direction, I suppose, under Abraham Polonsky, is the reason it has an odd flow to it. (This is his only film of note.) Many decisions seem steadily mediocre, like having Morse do voiceovers that aren't quite styling enough to work as style and are a slow way of telling the events. Morse is connected with an overly sweet girl who isn't really his type and romance doesn't make sense. And there are some editing gaffes that don't help. Larger still, this is an impersonal plot, with no clear protagonist or antagonist, just a numbers racket that is being undermined by some unseen politicians and some gangsters who aren't quite sure what's going on (really--even Morse is lost).
Beatrice Pearson plays Morse's girl, and it's sad to say she just can't act at the same level as Garfield, and many of the other bit actors. But Morse's brother played by Thomas Gomez is a strong and sympathetic type, and he pulls off several amazing scenes. The camera-work is smart and generally intense enough, with high or low angles at key points, if sometimes a little obvious. The city (Manhattan) is a good backdrop, giving it a very nice ambiance, both night and day.
Well, the movie has an outsized reputation. The shining moments and dark moods and the better final twenty minutes don't make up for the general messiness on many levels.
Good But Not Great Crime Picture, 2 May 2006
Author: brocksilvey from United States
I saw a coming attraction for this movie one day on TCM. I'd never heard of it, but the clips they used for the preview made it look like a terrific noir, and I couldn't wait to see it. It didn't live up to the expectations. It's a good movie, but it's not even one of the more memorable noirs from the 40s. In fact, it's not really much of a noir once you get past the moody black and white photography (which is one of the film's greatest assets by the way) and its cynical tone. It's much more of a standard crime picture with a gritty documentary-like sheen, the kind the studios were churning out left and right in the late 40s and early 50s, but it didn't leave as much of an impression on me as, say, "The Naked City," "Night and the City," or "Panic in the Streets."John Garfield, however, is extremely good in the lead role. I haven't seen him in that many things, but he's a kindred spirit of Marlon Brando's: the brooding tough guy whose sneering mug hides a warm and very human streak. He never seemed to get his full due as an actor--if I'm not mistaken, he made his last film not long after this one, sometime in the early to mid 1950s.
"Force of Evil" is definitely worth a look.
Grade: B
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7 hours ago, Ampersand said:
I thought last week Eddie Muller said it was Dust Be My Destiny (1939) tonight and was wondering why there was no intro. Only feel a bit bamboozled as this still looks like a nice noir/drama with a bit of romance and a man who gets a bad rap by the system. And the title, that is just great. No Force of Evil but at least it's in tune and not a surprise full-on romance.
Edit: After watching it, it's more crime-drama with a greater emphasis on romance but wow, this is a great watch. And the ending, it's kinda like a brick joke with an earlier scene but it works so well.
I stayed up and didn't check the the Sling TV schedule unfortunately it wasn't available on Sling. I have seen Force of Evil though before.
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Good Bad Ugly and The Good The Bad The Ugly some times for correct English title The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) of course the Italian title is Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo which literally translates to The Good The Ugly, The Bad, but you can see how it much better it sounds in Italian that way. Same can be said for the English title.
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Journey Into Fear (1943) 68 min.
I was pleasantly surprised, when I first saw this one years ago. What really makes this great is that you never know what's happening next, although a caveat to that is you also don't know if this is intentional or if the studio cuts made it way more convoluted than it was actually intended to be. Regardless it works!
Either way the chiaroscuro cinematography, the sound design, studio sets, and the bizarre characters that Joseph Cotten encounters in The Levant aboard a cattle boat crossing the Black Sea are priceless 8/10
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3 hours ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
I'm lucky enough to have access to RCN, a small regional cable provider. But I pay a lot for that privilege, and really need to take a look at an alternative like Sling.
As long as it's high speed connection and you don't care too much for sports, either cast Sling with the TCM movie package, from a computer with WiFi or Roku Box or smart phone (with chromecast or fire stick) to your TV.
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I just saw something about NBC today, said their streaming service was going to be free.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
You're assuming that he was directly paying for his cable access. Some people have cable via the place that they live. As in, it's included with the rent. Think group homes, nursing homes, and other government-subsidized housing. Meaning he wasn't paying for cable in the traditional sense like with a contract and monthly bill. Nipkow often talks about getting his meals from food banks, and he scrounges stuff out of the garbage. I don't think he has $30 to spare, and if he did, it would go to food and clothing. And I mean that with all due respect to Nipkow and his situation, which many people are in.
I'm assuming that if he's posting on this board he's connected to internet somehow.
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6 hours ago, JoeMastro said:
I haven't read every post from every page, but I haven't seen my problem posted anywhere. Although I am a senior citizen, I still work full time from my home. I have 5 TVs in my home with the main box residing in my son's room, the rest have the little remote boxes. I have had these TVs and hookups for years and I could get everything on my Comcast subscription in every room with a TV and a box. I love TCM enough to have been willing to pay the 10 bucks and really didn't care about the Sports Entertainment Package. So I signed up, but still couldn't get TCM or the packaged channels. A tech came over and informed me that packages could only be viewed on the TV with the main box, in order to have it the way it used to be for over 30 years, I would have to get a main box for every TV, at an additional cost of $12-13 PER TV! So in order for me to see TCM on every TV it would now cost me an additional $50 or so. So now my bill would increase by $60 per month. I asked him who was running Comcast, The Sopranos? Next Comcast will be kidnapping our family members!!! I don't know if Direct TV or any of alternate suggestions made by the many posts that I have read here and on the Internet in general, but I'm certainly going to investigate them. I have had enough of Comcast and their BS. Comcast claims that their viewers were watching only two or less TCM movies a week. If that were true, there would not be this nationwide groundswell of Comcast customer outrage. Comcast executives must really think that their customer base is dumb.
Do this, just get the High Speed Internet from Comcast. Subscribe to Sling TV $25-30 per month and add the movie package an extra $5 per month. Monthly cost is now $35-40. Sports packages will be more but since you don't care about the sports you'll be fine.
Get a wifi (a one time cost of about $30+) and connect that to the main cable box. If any of those TV's are smart TV's they may be already able to pick up that wifi signal.
If the TV's don't have it (not wifi enabled) but have HDMI connections you attach something that will pick up the wifi for them such as a Chromecast or an Amazon Fire stick they are around $35+ one time cost.
Best case monthly scenario (if your TVs are wifi enabled) is your paying whatever Comcast will charge for just the high speed internet plus the $35-40 per month for Sling.
Out of pocket one time setup costs will be for the wifi $35 and the Chromecast/firestticks either you buy five of them for all your TVs which will be roughly $175.
Or since you probably won't be watching all 5 TV's at once just buy one Chromecast and plug it into whichever TV you are watching at the time.
Worst case scenario is if all five of your TVs are connected with just coaxial connections. I'm not sure if there is a workaround for the Chromecasts or Firesticks for that.
If you have a smartphone you can cast anything you can pick up on them to the TV'a also.
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10 hours ago, laffite said:
The quality of hirsuteness is certainly taking a hit insofar as being manly goes. No one seems Fonda it.
Yea I'm wondering (indelicately) about the ages of the complainers.
Got me thinking about how, the defenders of the comic book based films, were taking great umbrage over the complaints about superhero films/animation features and the predominance of the "man boy" fashion look and it's "giant toddler" appellation. Bill Maher did a piece on it telling them to grow up, somebody posted that in another thread. lol.
The reason I ask is because going along with that giant toddler look has also been the trend of men and women shaving their p*u*b*e*s. Does everyone want to look like prepubescent children when naked now too? Makes you ponder the state of the US, what kind of strange national mania is it portending? 😎
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