mrroberts

Like any other film types there are "good" goofy movies and "bad" goofy movies. The first Burt Reynolds "Smokey and the Bandit" was pretty good. But I thought that the sequels and the "Cannonball Run" movies were just awful. I actually wanted to walk out of Cannonball Run 2. Anyone else want to make some distinctions, good or bad?

Richard Basehart may be the most underappreciated actor in noir films. He was so, so great in his early noir films.

For those who don't know this, the dog Pard in *High Sierra* , was Bogart's own dog.

Olivia looks like the "lady in white", all white.

Mr Dobbs, if you want to see "Baby" as a blonde , go to youtube and look up "Slick Hare". Its the Bugs Bunny cartoon featuring Humphrey Bogart and his blonde date at a restaurant. "Baby" is at the end of the cartoon.

Add a second vote for *High Sierra* .

Since the first picture on this thread has no name attached am I to assume that is FredCDobbs? Fred, you look great as a blonde

How sad, Alice Brady was only 47 when she died of cancer. She was great playing the wacky mother of the equally wacky Carole Lombard in *My Man Godfrey* . "Godfrey" is one of my all time favorite films (top 5). Alice got an Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for "Godfrey". And she did win an Oscar for *In Old Chicago* the following year, just before she passed away.

Katy Jurado was in *Broken Lance* with Richard Widmark

I think I saw this film on the TCM December listing; *All Mine To Give* . One of the all time tear jerkers.

Any relation to Durward Kirby? Didn't Samantha's mother call Darrin "Durward" ? -- Speaking of what I think are dumb titles, the popular 1954 horror /monster flic "Them" . The movie was just on this weekend and it is a good one. But when the little girl breaks out of her state of shock, that's what word she yells? THEM? And of course that one word becomes the title of the whole film.

How about Barbara Stanwyck (she was a blonde , at least one time)?.

If Hammer had done any westerns they could have had a Paul and a Ringo.

I think one of the funniest Christmas theme tv shows I ever saw was on the Ted Danson show "Becker". Several stories going on at once; the girl Linda trying to sing Christmas carols (she was unbelievably horrible), little guy Bob running around dressed as a "Santa" so he could hide from another "Santa" that wanted to beat him up. It was incredibly funny.

Its a shame we can't lose Rupert Murdoch.

I don't understand why the contempt for Raymond Burr, he personally didn't take this movie and purposely trash it the way you say. He was just an actor hired for a role, did his scenes by a script. The Americans (producer, director, scriptwriters, etc) who got rights to the movie and "commercialized" it for the American audiences may deserve your criticism. The American "Godzilla" was formated to fit in with the current sci fi/ monster craze that was going on in the U.S. I am guessing most of the audience was the teenage crowd of the fifties who were going to the movies for the entertainment value alone. So judge it (the US version) in context with the other giant mutant bugs and dinosaurs and space aliens of the era. It is great to be able to see the original version of this film and get the original film maker's 'vision' however. But you will notice that even in Japan the follow up "Godzillas and other monsters" become more of an entertainment then a message.

*Christmas In Connecticut* with Barbara Stanwyck

Novak, Kim

Leach, Archie --- John Cleese in *A Fish Called Wanda*

Was Anne Baxter C.C.'s brother?

I understand that in the "Olden Days" tv sets had a hand crank on the side. You had to call the operator and ask for the channel you wanted to watch. Many people were on "party lines" so if one of your neighbors got on first you had to watch what he was watching. And if you had a "Big Screen" tv that meant a 15" screen. Ah yes, the good old days.

Reading Anne Baxter's film bio, she was a very busy gal early on, starting in 1940. So she was making movies at 16/17 years old. She was one of those many pretty young brunettes that Fox seemed to corner the market on, like Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, etc. Fox certainly had a nice selection of young stars to pick from. Anne also did a lot of tv in the sixties and seventies. She did SEVEN episodes of Batman, never realized that. I know *All About Eve* is her most famous film but the first Anne Baxter role that I think of is the wild tomboy in *Yellow Sky*, with Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark. Wiki says that Paulette Goodard was originally going to play that part, I thought I read that Jean Peters was supposed to. But Anne got the part when Jean Peters refused it and got suspended for a time. --- Anne Baxter was only 62 when she passed away, sad.

Interesting stuff. But Anne not only is 16 but she looks 16 too. Maybe they weren't really serious about her for this part but just wanted to test her for future considerations. -- *Rebecca* is one of my favorite Hitchcock films and Joan Fontaine's work is a big part of why I like the film so much. She just plays the part so well, just like she does in *Suspicion* and *Jane Eyre* . She's almost the same character in all 3 films. I'm not too big on her other films however.

Victor went to America because he wanted to do all of the talk shows . -- Seriously, about all of this recent talk about *Casablanca* . I always have had the impression that the "story" was constantly being improvised and rewritten while they were filming. Ingrid said she didn't know who she should love more because she didn't know who she was getting on the plane with. Wasn't that the last scene filmed and the ending wasn't determined until they got to the filming time? If Bogart had known in advance that he would end up walking off with Claude Rains instead of Ingrid Bergman, Bogart might have walked off the picture (laugh, laugh). -- Little did the people involved in making this film realize how closely the film would be disected and analyzed.

Finance, earlier you said Esther Williams. It ain't cheap taking care of a swimming pool you know.