Bronxgirl48
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My pleasure, Windy City!
I'm looking for a clip with Raymond Burr in a bikini.
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Ark and Dewey, I just saw THE HILL this evening. A great movie. One of Lumet's best films and Sean Connery's best performances. Not to mention Harry Andrews, Ossie Davis, and the rest of the cast. And that ending....
I could have sworn both of you wrote up your comments on it, but can't remember the threads.
Please take pity on a Baby Boomer brain, and straighten me out.
Thanks,
Barb
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lol, FJA loved his puns.
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Before GOLDFINGER, here's Julie Newmar: (and with the added bonus of Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra and Raymond Burr, yes Raymond Burr, as Mark Anthony)
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Thanks!
I think I'll choose to believe that he gets absorbed into the electrical energy and himself becomes Kronos.
Let me have my little illusions, life is tough enough, lol.
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I haven't seen KRONOS in a long time and don't remember it too well.
Tell me Morris LIVES!!
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Yes, I heard about that -- she discussed it with her mother, who didn't know what the term meant either.
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lol, call Lou Dobbs! He'll get his own personal death ray.
(Actually I was referring to the politicians being really "out there", but, I can see all sides....)
And btw, Morris Ankrum fans -- and I'm sure that's all of us -- must be warned about what happens to him here.
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I really appreciate your recommendations -- I'll put them on my list, and I'll bet the Western Channel will run some or all of them.
MEDIC sounds vaguely familiar to me.
You can never go wrong with Richard Boone.
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There sure was a lot of LATHER in that shampoo, lol. Seems like an actress wouldn't have to wash her hair for two years after just one application.
As I recall Rhonda's part in SPELLBOUND -- I think she was supposed to be a clinical nymphomaniac -- was small but quite effective.
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Thanks yourself, scsu, for that great link. Rhonda is involved with a lot of charities, and her many fans can contribute.
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The jalapenos, tomatoes, and cilantro in that dip just cleared up a blemish this morning. And I thought it was only good with Doritos!
And OUT OF THE PAST is a Tourneur film; so there's a lot of reasons to see it.
I can see you becoming a filmmaker. And I want to see Olivia de Havilland in your movie.
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I liked the aliens on the Capitol steps.
Or am I being redundant?
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Those saucers didn't look anything like Ed Wood hubcaps, they really were believable to me.
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Yay! Kerwin Mathews is a real cutie-pie.
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No, you're correct, there is a self-righteous prissy obnoxiousness about Marlowe -- it even comes through a bit in ALL ABOUT EVE.
I must have bent down for my chips and salsa, because I missed his hairy back. YUCK. Another turnoff, but not apparently for Joan Taylor.
The top half of the aliens looked somewhat like, well, I can't say on a family message board.
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You know, you're right, Terry.
I can only hope that Klein was satirizing the French attitude.
That Puritan holdover of ours is our greatest weakness, yet in a strange way our greatest strength, and actually defines us as a nation, at least to our detriment in the eyes of our fellow beans across the Atlantic, who I'll bet if you say "Chicago" to them they'll STILL go "Rat-a-tat-tat!"
Was it THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY where James Garner's speech to Julie Andrews throws back European "civilization" in its face? "The French think I'm a savage because I take a half hour for lunch. The only reason they take two is because the service in their restaurants is lousy".
(well, Paddy Cheyevsky said it, not me...)
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Bela alone is always worth the price of admission.
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I dozed off halfway through THE WEREWOLF and woke up with my face in the salsa.
It was the chunky kind.
No, actually when I eat I'm very fastidious, like Angela Lansbury's mom Moyna MacGill at the diner in THE CLOCK. (did anyone else think that lovesick-for-Jennifer-Jones Robert Walker looked really ANGRY in the scene at the church, when he and Judy are reciting their wedding vows?)
Here is gorgeous Rhonda hawking Lustre Creme shampoo, for those days when her hair is "as hard as a gangster's heart": (and as an added bonus, you also get the Oomph Girl, the Gill-Man's other inamorata, James Mason's love in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, and Veda Pierce!)
And remember: four out of five top Hollywood stars use it!
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Aww, thank you Frank, but Bronxgirl brilliant? What are you smoking??
Yeah, THE OKLAHOMA KID, that's the title. I guess maybe Jimmy's the title character.
I can't imagine Bogie being called kid. I'd love to see this. Probably the Warners stock company is in it; I can see Frank McHugh as Cagney's sidekick. (I'll have to check the imbd board and see if I'm right)
Haven't seen TRIBUTE TO A BADMAN.
I'm so glad I get Encore's Western Channel; that's where I've been seeing all these Boettichers, Manns, etc.
I want Jane Russell's cute flowered bathtub, in THE TALL MEN. Cameron Mitchell to Gable, of drunk Russell: "She's out cold" -- Clark: "She's never been cold in her life"
Wherefore art the Jane Russells, Gables, and Randolph Scotts of today?? Everybody now is CRAP!!!
Hmm, it's an interesting mixture I just stated -- of poetry.....and meanness.
Get it? Get it?
I want your honest opinion.
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I read that Klein was American, from New York City. I could hardly believe it.
I know this was filmed during the Vietnam War, but why did he have the French say that Americans were (among other things) "dirty"? Actually, it's kind of ridiculous since we're the most hygiene-obsessed nation on earth.
I guess we were clean enough for them when we liberated Paris!
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Haven't seen THE THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER.
Better meet Harryhausen and probably Ray Bradbury soon; they're gettin' up there in years.
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Unlike moi, you can make large lists of your favorite westerns. I haven't seen half of what you have!
But I'm adding, almost week by week! Recently saw THE TALL MEN.
"I want a tall man, don't want no small man...." sings luscious Janey. A satisfying Cinemascope western -- very entertaining -- rugged, colorful, beautiful scenery, great interaction between Russell, Gable, and Robert Ryan. The gruff sentimentality of the ending reminded me of Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT.
And! Saw my second Scott Boetticher, THE TALL T. Not quite sure what the title refers to though, it doesn't seem to be referenced in the movie. I'm really enjoying this director's westerns - they're compact, well scripted and acted, with the haunting aridity of his settings almost a character in itself. I'm beginning to really appreciate Randolph Scott more and more in this genre. Unexpected casting of Maureen O'Sullivan is actually a brilliant stroke; she adds a lot of dimension. And what can I say about Richard Boone -- a GREAT performance. He's runnin' with callow violent youths **** and Billy Jack but he's lonesome, and wants to settle down....poor guy. .you'll feel sorry for him....NOT.
Looking for reviews of THE HILL
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Thank you so much. I actually think THE HILL is a minor masterpiece. It seems not to be anti-war, but anti-bad authority. Lumet's camera is amazing. I immediately felt pulled right into that camp -- a VERY uncomfortable feeling! -- and wanted to get out. Lumet's superb ensemble cast (and I noted Redgrave's excellent portrayal of the doctor) is pitch perfect, and his direction keeps the plot tense, taut, and quite unsettling. Everything is exposed -- racism, homophobia, sadism, cowardice, selfishness, complacency.
I'm so glad I saw it. It needs to be more widely known.