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16 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
I'm assuming there have been PhD theses written about gay subtext in Dark Shadows, right?
I mean, there was same gender neck biting at various times?
No not really, I think remember Willie Loomis getting bit on the hand. lol
But... on the other hand Roxanne Drew may have bitten same gender neck.
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As a Kid saw Godzilla, Mothra, and maybe one other but that's it. Don't ever have to see another, lol.
TCM should yard sale all of them and buy the rights to Paramount films, no?
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6 hours ago, spence said:
cigarjoe, you also already went to it?
No, I haven't seen any Batman or Superhero film except for probably a few seconds while switching channels. The only comic books I bought as a kid were usually Classics Illustrated. Then as a young adult a lot of head comix. 😎
Mantyhose wearing superheros don't appeal to me.
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A friend of mine also went here is his review:
Taxi Driver plus The King of Comedy minus any semblance of subtlety plus an extra dose of heavy-handedness = Joker (2019) - 4/10
I could write an essay about how dumb this cute little movie is, but I don’t need to. Just don’t watch it.-
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3 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
from wiki:
Production
After the success of House of Dark Shadows (the 1970 feature film version of Dan Curtis's gothic soap opera Dark Shadows), MGM was ready to back a follow-up film in 1971. Curtis originally wanted to do a direct sequel and revive the vampire Barnabas Collins. Actor Jonathan Frid, however, refused to play the role again for fear of being typecast. Realizing it would be a mistake to recast the popular character, Curtis worked with writer Sam Hall to concoct an all-new storyline.
On March 29, 1971, filming began on Curse of Dark Shadows, later retitled Night of Dark Shadows for its release. Without the headaches of producing the television series concurrently, the production crew was able to achieve a far more polished product than that of the previous year. In order to give the production some authenticity, spiritualist Hans Holzer was employed as an advisor to the production, though his actual contribution to the finished product proved minimal.
The story was very loosely based on the "parallel-time" sequence of the TV series and centered on the show's other popular male lead, Quentin Collins, played by David Selby. Night of Dark Shadows was shot in six weeks on a budget of $900,000 and released in 1971, after the show had left the air. It was not unsuccessful but was less successful than its predecessor.
Hall's script, developed in conjunction with Curtis, was a wistful tale of gothic romance and supernatural reincarnation, bolstered by credible performances from David Selby, Kate Jackson, and Grayson Hall. When filming completed without major problems, Curtis set about editing the final film, which proved far denser and more complex than House of Dark Shadows.
One reason often cited for the film's lack of performance is that MGM forced Curtis to cut over 35 minutes from his finished film, and gave him only 24 hours to do the job. Thus, the film went from approximately 129 minutes to about 94 minutes, which, according to some, caused the film to lose its coherence. (NOTE: I am one of those "some people"- LHF)
Much of the excised footage was recovered in 1999, but was without sound. This material consists of 16 never-before-seen sequences, extending over a dozen existing scenes, reinstating the darker mood and restoring the original structure and continuity. Highlights of the discovery include flashback between the doomed lovers Charles and Angelique, two new scenes featuring menacing groundskeeper Gerard Stiles, several romant
They should try and restore it a lot of the cast are still around to provide voice. David Selby, Kate Jackson
Lara Parker, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Jim Storm, Christopher Pennock,Not sure about Diana Millay, or Monica Rich.
Of course Grayson Hall and Thayer David would need voice doubles.
I'd buy it.
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6 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
Didn't Dan Curtis have the Orson Welles type problem of the studio telling him to cut the running time of the damn thing or we'll do it? I forget whether he did it or someone else did.
Supposedly I've heard that about 20-30 minutes were cut out of it.
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1 minute ago, speedracer5 said:
I didn't think of John Wayne at all. I just thought he was being a truck driver.
I'm not particularly a big fan of Wayne's though. His movies all seem the same to me. That's probably why Russell's impression of him didn't resonate with me. Nathan Lane's impression in The Birdcage however, was amazing. "Howdy ma'am."
Which goes to show that in a another 20-30 years nobody will even realize that he was doing Wayne.
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1 minute ago, speedracer5 said:
If he did, it was very subtle. I didn't pick up on that at all. I liked when he made out with Kim Cattrall and then spent the next scene fighting while donning smudged red lipstick on both his lips and teeth!
It's right at the beginning, when he's talking on the CB radio even uses the word pilgrim. 😎
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
I loved this movie. It was bonkers in all the right ways.
I love the way Kurt Russell sort of does a John Wayne impersonation in it.
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1 hour ago, TheCid said:
What's an LBC?
Little British Car
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26 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
On Twitter, Eddie Muller said this about the version of Trapped that is airing:
Sorry this is so big, I tried making it smaller.
This will be great, you can barely make out the trolley barn in the copy I own.
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24 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Trapped is a public domain title, so it's available in a lot of terrible editions. I have it on one of those 50-movie sets from Mill Creek.
I gave the movie a 6/10, but I don't recall much from it.
Its got a nice denouement in a trolley barn. This was the first Noir where I really liked the Bridges character. He was playing pretty much heavies in most of the other stuff I've seen him in. In this one he's sort of likeable. 😎
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25 minutes ago, Hibi said:
ignoring the first 6 or so months (which I've never seen since the initial airing).
Funny thing is there was a lot of on location footage used comparatively to the show after Barnabas.
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20 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
This weeks Noir Alley film will be Trapped (1949):
Trapped is a 1949 semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, and John Hoyt. It was written by George Zuckerman and Earl Felton.[1]
Like many semi-documentaries, the film begins with a voice over footage of the treasury department, telling the story of what the department does. Then it quickly begins the story once a woman tries to deposit a twenty-dollar bill at the bank that turns out to be phony.
PS: MY true reason for posting this is because I hate country music!
This one is great until Lloyd Bridges leaves the film then it loses some steam. The copy I have is a multi generational AVI file. Hopefully this one will be a nice restored print. Don't remember if Muller said if it was or not.
Anyway if you want country music in a Noir The Crooked Way has John Payne outside a Western Swing Bar.
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3 hours ago, TheCid said:
When I was younger and dumber, I wanted a Spitfire. Great name, beautiful design and a British sports car. Fortunately never bought one as they were not very dependable and mechanical/electrical nightmares.
I agree with you on the electrical but not the mechanical You can fix pretty much everything on it with a 3/8, 7/16,1/2, 9/16, and 5/8 inch wrenches/sockets a Phillips and a regular screwdriver. That's it.
I rebuilt the one in the photo twice. The first time when we babied it to home to Montana from Spokane Washington in 1986 it was ten years old had 79,000 on the odometer and had belonged to a doctor. It was originally a California vehicle. It was leaking oil out of the valve cover gasket. I pulled the motor stripped the block had it hot tanked at a machine shop and put in new rings and bearings drove it hard. So a hand full of 9 years later I got it up to 97 MPH the oil pump sort of crapped out and starved the rings so I had to do a second rebuilt. some of the pistons got screwed up so I had to drive to Spokane, Washington to check wrecking yards to see if I could find some pistons, I found some that came off a MG Midget MKIV they were using the same 1493b cc engine.
So I rebuilt it again with a new oil pump pistons, rings, bearings this was sometime in 1996 so had it all rebuilt but was moving back to New York. Got a 24 U-haul truck put all the furniture and boxes etc., etc., into the front of the U-haul truck drove it to a loading dock with a ramp and drove the Triumph in with a bit of room to spare. Then we hitched a 16 ft trailer to the truck drove the Toyota 4 runner onto it and headed to New York. From 1996 until now it's pretty much been in storage. I'd take it out for a spin every couple pf weeks. Three or four miles into town and back at most from May to October so maybe 10 miles a month so 70-100 a year up until three years ago. So that's maybe 1900 miles on a rebuilt engine.
The last three years haven't driven it started it a few times but that is it. Been working on it the last month, the battery was dead, the clutch master cylinder was froze the zenith-stromberg carb was leaking. So I ordered a carb kit a clutch kit a new sending unit for the gas tank. Rebuilt the carb and put it on. something was wrong it would idle but no power. Something was botched up. took off the dashpot cover unbolted the air valve and after a couple of wildass guesses figured out it was in the wrong way Turned it 180 and put it all together and now it purrs like a kitten and accelerates.
Got the clutch master cylinder soaking in some stuff, we'll see if I can free it or have to buy a new unit. Still got to change the fuel tank sending unit.
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
But wasn't that at the end of the show? You said Moltke left years before that. I guess I'll have to stick it out to see. I hope Decades doesnt pull it before then. LOL. Long way off.
OK I don't know what Decades is showing for episodes but Alexandra Moltke who played Victoria Winters was on the show from episode 1 to 627 then another actress took over for a few weeks, then the character Victoria left the show with Peter Bradford never to return. The total episodes of the show went to 1245 so Victoria Winters left at roughly half way point.
The first 200 episodes played more like a film noir with gothic undertones. They didn't start delving into the supernatural until the Laura Collins/Phoenix storyline, that was at episode 123. Barnabas shows up at episode 211. The show went all color on episode 295.
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mrs cigarjoe and her LBC
76 Spitfire 😎
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Ruby (1992)
This really really could have been an interesting flick if it had really stuck to the facts or gone the other route and over the top burlesqued the whole story a la a James Ellroy novel.
As is it's pretty tepid. Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn and Film Noir vet Marc Lawrence. Watchable 6/10
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
So Vicky just left the show for no reason stated. She just left town?
We already told you..... lol it's complicated.... She left with Peter Bradford when she returned to 1797 that was the last we saw of her character.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Does Vicky marry Burke and they leave? I can't remember why she leaves.
No they were going to be married but his plane goes down in the Amazon.
Then Vicky is at the seance they do to find out something (forgot what for sure but its probably to contact Sara, Barnabas's baby sister remember her singing London Bridge?) the candle goes out Vicky screams and when they get the lights on it's not Vicky it's another gal dead BTW, who Barnabas recognizes as Sara's governess from 1797. Vicky ends up back in 1797 in her place that starts the 1797 storyline.
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3 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Oh, I know. There's lots more. I loved the Quentin storyline, I'm looking forward to that!
When did Joe and Maggie leave the show? Were they in the Quentin storyline?
After Vicky leaves Maggie becomes the new governess. Maggie (Katherine Leigh Scott) plays different characters in later episodes, Something happens to Joe but I can't remember what.
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Just now, Hibi said:
When does Barnabas get cured of his vampirism? Was that after Adam? And for awhile he was sucking on Julia, around the time she cut her hair. Is that after that after Adam too?
Julia' serum works for a while until Barnabas demands that she speed it up which causes Barnabas to look his real age. He bites her and goes back to normal. Then when they use Barnabas in the "Life Force" part of the Frankenstein Adam experiment he's not a Vampire as long as Adam stays alive. lol.
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1 minute ago, Hibi said:
God, this show got desperate near the end! LOL.
You are not even close to the end. Lol.
After Adam you got Quentin as Ghost, then you go back in time to Quentin in 1897, then The Hand of Count Petofi, and the full Count Pretofi, then parallel time 1970 then the Leviathan storyline then back in time to 1840 with another ghost and the head of Zachariah Judah I think he's called, then the final admission of Barnabas that he in fact loves Angelique after all which immediately causes her to die in his arms (Her spell on Barnabas caused anyone that Barnabas loved to die, remember, oops!). Then we get the death throws of the series with the Lottery Curse.
THE JOKER sad, depressing, haunting & tremendous
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Maybe they just want to show off her legs...