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4 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I always miss the homosexual in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. That's how the role is
given on the end credits. I'm guessing that back in the day it was done in a pretty stereotypical
way, but I still don't recall him. He might have had so little time on screen that I missed him.
I don't remember one at all! I'll have to look for him next viewing. I'd never seen this film (but knew of it) until a year ago when it was on TCM.
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1 minute ago, Vidor said:
Got around to watching my TCM Underground recording of "Fleshpot on 42nd Street".
All the crudity of 70s grindhouse cinema, of course, and you could really tell where the cuts were made from the hardcore version. But it was interesting, and I was down with the movie...until an absurd Diabolus Ex Machina ending that just ruined the whole thing.
Yeah, the ending was so cheap and laughable! I watched it earlier in the year. There was a HARDCORE version????????? I dont recall this film at all. I doubt it got much of a release. Pretty amateurish, but was interesting enough for one viewing.
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11 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I agree. It's not as confusing as some other noirs, though it took me a while to figure it all out.
There are usually large time gaps between my viewings of the movie so I forget which is which.
I'd have to see them in close proximity to recall the differences.
DITTO! Has been a long time since I've seen the studio version........
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Oddly, Pelham wasn't much of a hit when it was released. It did well in NYC, of course, but don't think it did that well elsewhere. Not sure why. It didnt play lengthy engagements that I recall.
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I rewinded that scene to watch it again and noticed that woman, but it didnt look like Eva to me. Eva was petite when younger and that woman looked a bit "overripe"
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1 hour ago, TikiSoo said:
Last night I watched THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 after someone here had said it was a great Walter Matthau role. Wow. What a great movie.
The story is about four criminals who take a subway car & passengers hostage in exchange for a million dollar ransom. Matthau is at mission control of Transit Authority Police and is the person in contact via radio with the criminals and the police on the street & tunnels. He gets lots of air time and does great with this dramatic role.
This thriller didn't lull for one minute and built up to several climaxes once Matthau decides to just pay the ransom to protect the hostages from being killed. Tension builds with scenes of money going through counting machines & being bundled.
Several fabulous scenes take place as bright blue 70's cop cars speed through NYC streets trying to get the cash to the appointed place in time. The stunt driving is astounding-one crash in particular, I couldn't believe they want us to believe everyone survived - this was before seat belts & air bags.
Also of note was the incredible music score by David Shire. From the very first notes to the end, the music was dynamic & unnerving mostly on the back beat with bombastic horns & slight sax melody. Wow. A really great example of film music enhancing the emotions of a movie.
This was full of familiar faces Sal Viscuso, Doris Roberts, Tony Roberts in small parts & a younger Jerry Stiller as police chief (Rico Petrone haha) who was just as handsome as his son Ben here. All the criminals were unknown to me except Martin Balsam who pretty much always plays himself. The hostages were a little contrived, but OK. I did not like that one principle black cop's voice was dubbed or if that was his real voice, should have been dubbed, it was awful. There were many little one line snarks & jokes which added to the realism & at the same time micro-relieved tension.
Just everything about this movie was OUTSTANDING. Well, except for what the mastermind criminal does at the very end, unrealistic. But I howled out loud at the very last shot in the movie - priceless. One of the very BEST ending shots ever seen in cinema, in my opinion.
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You didn't notice Robert Shaw as the head heavy?
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49 minutes ago, midwestan said:
Yeah, I knew Zsa Zsa was in it, but Eddie said at the beginning that Eva Gabor was in it too. I don't remember seeing her in it.
DITTO. And I've watched the film many times.........
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9 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I think the more times one watches Touch of Evil the easier it is to figure out the plot, which
is confusing on the first go round. Like Miss W I was amazed at how Heston would just leave
his wife and not come back for hours. Well there he goes again. It's not like he just went down
to the ice machine to get some ice. As the advice columnists say That might be a red flag.
I don't think it's as confusing as some other noirs, you just have to pay attention. I wonder if TCM will ever show the release version again. It would be interesting to compare them.
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9 hours ago, Vautrin said:
If I remember it correctly they wouldn't call the police. Maybe they figured that would only make
him worse or that the cops wouldn't do anything. But I would have taken that chance.
Yeah, everyone knew he was nuts, but no one wanted to get involved.
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1 minute ago, Vautrin said:
Her boyfriend or husband (I wasn't quite clear on which he was) was 78 which is still a pretty large age gap,
but nothing like it appeared to be. It became clear that the killer had mental health problems and likely made
up most of the things he complained about. Totally wacko.
Yes and sad nothing was done about the guy.
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Yes, am sure it is. Wanted to see it when it came out.......Surprised it turned up on TCM.
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12 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
That's good to know. Remember the FTN episode from a few weeks ago about the man in Harlem
who killed his two upstairs neighbors because he was in love with the woman? I looked it up on
the net. Most of it was accurate, but the woman was 62 years old and she looked about twenty
years younger on the show. I believe it took place over a longer period of time than it seemed to do
on the program too,
Yes, saw that one, and she looked A LOT younger on the show! LOL. Interesting on how they compare to the real life cases....That one was really awful. Sometimes the people bring it on themselves, but they didnt do anything to deserve THAT! Then he takes the coward's way out.
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36 minutes ago, Millenniumman said:
Maybe he's talking about Precious who is 16 in the film there's a rape scene.
If that's the film, I wont miss it then! I recorded it!
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45 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I think TCM should alert viewers ahead of time when a filthy film will appear.
That way filthophiles like myself won't miss it.
ME TOO! Sorry I missed it!
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7 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
All the makeup certainly worked because it's hard to turn away from that landscape of a face even if
one would like to. I don't know about the dinner party story. Welles was something of a teller of tall
tales.
That's for sure. He looked HIDEOUS!
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1 minute ago, Vautrin said:
The premise certainly sounds entertaining. Web of Lies has many of the same sort of clueless people
doing stupid things that sadly get them into trouble, often fatally.
Luckily, in this case, no one got hurt except for some bruised egos......
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12 hours ago, Swithin said:
There will always be a place for Ayllene Gibbons.
I always wondered what her name was! She seemed the go to lady whenever they needed a fat lady in a film in the 60s. (MFL; Taming of the Shrew etc....)
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HUH? What is all this about? What film?
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15 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Most likely the answer is: because it wasn't his choice;
I assume he didnt want the credits distracting from the long take?
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17 hours ago, Vautrin said:
No, I missed that one. It doesn't really sound like anything out of the ordinary these days.
It was a good one! It wasn't really funny what happened, but I had to laugh at their cluelessness.....
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7 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
Guess it was all Orson. Putting the wide in widescreen.
Did you see that episode last night on Dateline? About the high school jock nude modeling??? How could they be THAT stupid????
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Thanks. I've seen them all multiple times. I'm not sure about Hell Drivers, but it sounds familiar.
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Sorry to hear this.
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I Just Watched...
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I didnt realize until I checked imdb just now that HARRY REEMS was in the film! LMREO! He played the cute guy at the end, right? Now I wish I could see THAT sex scene uneditied! LOL.