Bronxgirl48

Hey, WINCHESTER '73 is playing right now on the Western Channel! Yeah, I like my Dorothy Malone Sirked, not Disney-fied. I agree about Fred -- he can play cold and cynical extremely well (THE APARTMENT comes to mind) but he's also pleasant in light comedy; I didn't see TEXAS LADY but he and Claudette did THE EGG AND I, and there was another one where they have kids and go on vacation in the West...but I'm drawing a blank.... Oh, there's Grandpa Walton as Wyatt Earp, and the contest is about to begin!

I know what you mean about the ending of AT GUNPOINT, lol. For me, "mad" and Fred MacMurray just don't go together. The only non Disney person in this little Frontierland is Dorothy Malone, but here she's relatively reigned in, and that's no fun. I wanted to see her sashaying around in her petticoats at least. (maybe she did so in the half hour I missed) Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

Watch out -- John Hodiak is getting restless and will come and get you if you don't visit him soon, lol. Wendell Corey will be p.o.'d too.

Paul Henreid with a whip is almost as incongruous as David Niven with one (going over Sharon Tate) in EYE OF THE DEVIL.

I can't hear you -- transmission from Venus is very poor.

You know me, Frank! LOVE the portrait of Captain Gregg -- thankee, me hearty!! (like Gene, I want to live in Gull Cottage with his ghost) I'm also partial to Robert Fig Newton as Long John Silver. Arrrr.

http://www.artfund.org/artwork/3677/enlarged/1/portrait-of-emma-lady-hamilton I'm waiting for my naval hero to show up. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

So I missed the first half hour of AT GUNPOINT, but the rest looked like a Walt Disney version of HIGH NOON.

I'm commissioning Jacoby to paint my portrait as we speak.

Did you catch DESERT FURY?

It's ironic to me that the direction is so stylized and formal, the emotions are anything BUT structured; it's all about falling and letting go and the fear of letting go and imbalance and power shifts in relationships....a wealth of material to plumb for the film buff. I also want Laura's apartment. And I'll take a fawning maid, like Bessie. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

No fox fur? What about the little game puzzle that Dana plays? Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

So I saw the first Stewart Mann, WINCHESTER 73. The best scene was Indian trader McIntire playng poker with McNally. Second was Duryea bossing that weasel Charles Drake around with the coffee. What Shelley ever saw in him is beyond me. Loved the historical references; Stewart was scary, turning on a dime as he goes from mild to pounding Duryea's head on the bar counter. I always enjoy Jay C. Flippen. I didn't care for the ending; wouldn't it have played better dramatically to have us in on the Stewart-McNally relationship from the beginning, rather than having it "wrapped up" quickly by Jay to Shelley? Really dug Jimmy and Millard Mitchell together. I normally prefer westerns with scope, grandeur, those epic landscapes and a rousing or haunting score, so my favorite so far of this collaboration is BEND OF THE RIVER. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

Duke looks very sexy in that clinch with Ella. Interesting that she's dropping her gun.

I know I've seen PHANTOM LADY, but I don't remember it too well.

Frank, watching it the other day, I think I'm s..l..o..w..l..y coming around to the fact that VERTIGO might indeed be a masterpiece. It's still crystalizing in my mind but it should come together soon for me. It's a very formal work, every frame is composed almost like a Japanese work of art, there's a lot of structure and harmony in the compositions. The subject matter is ostensibly about power and obsession, but also about identity. I'll have to get back to you with these thoughts. I love Stewart's apartment. I don't like Midge's -- hers is a hodge-podge, while Scottie's is modern and neat as a pin. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

She's definitely in that Lauren Bacall classy 40's noir-mystery mold, which is why it was interesting for me that she's in a western.

Thanks, Miss G. It certainly didn't seem like the standard shoot-em-up Western to me from that trailer.

Him and Chris Matthews.

Is TALL IN THE SADDLE a noir western? It looks it from this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah0WR5oNZ94

That analysis of Barrymore you read about or thought about, is really brilliant.

He did Holmes and Bulldog Drummond? I never knew that.

Thanks for posting that neat Harryhausen interview. I'm one of the girls he speaks about who loves dinosaurs. They scare me, but I love them anyway.

I actually haven't seen TROUBLE IN PARADISE. I'll vote for THE GREAT MAN VOTES; haven't seen this one either. I saw THE INVISIBLE WOMAN some time ago but it's been unfortunately blotted from my memory, because I vaguely recall that Barrymore is very amusing as a mad scientist, and the cast is pretty good. Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48

I know, it looks very bad, and Barrymore's part looks like it could be played by any standard-type silent screen actor. Seemed a waste of his talents.