Film_Fatale
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Well, all I know is it was produced by Bogart's production company - Santana. So he must have had a lot of say over who worked in the movie. In fact, it seems that at one point Laurel Bacall was considered for the part of Miss Gray. :0
(Obviously it's impossible to think of this picture without GG in it!!)
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Peter Falk (trying to appear inconspicuous)
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> I just recorded it, but my daughter was home from school today because of snow, and I didn't get to watch it. I have never seen it, so I am very curious. I have to stop recording everything and start watching!
Yes, or soon you'll be like me, with 2,000+ movies recorded and barely able to keep up with what's playing day-to-day on TCM
By the way I read about the snowstorms, hope they weren't too bad over by where you are.
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> Great point! Bogie is a pretty mashed up looking guy.....
Funny you should say that just now. I just finished watching the movie on the DVD, and there's this 20-minute featurette on the movie, with director Curtis Hanson (of *L.A. Confidential* fame) talking about the film and why it's one of his favourites. And one of the things he mentioned is how remarkable it was for a major star to be playing such an ugly, rotten character - especially when the movie was being produced by his own company!!
Hanson also praised the movie for being revealing of the essence of both Bogart and Nicholas Ray, thanks to their close collaboration on this movie - which he compares to that of Hitchcock and James Stewart in *Vertigo*, Gena Rowlands and John Cassavettes in *A Woman Under the Influence*, John Wayne and John Ford in *The Searchers*.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> >I'm going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers
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> And that's exactly how Margaret Hamilton left the witch business.
Oh, that was a good meltdown, too!
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks for the info, FF. I hope TCM shows it soon, so I can see the bits I missed....
You're welcome Wendy. As I'm revisiting the movie, I started to think a little bit about GG's line, about Dix looking interesting and liking his face. In hindsight, it might be more than a throwaway line.
Maybe it's designed to subtly indicate that she is attracted to Dix because of his looks, and that perhaps she's not a very good judge of character. I guess most of the time people are attracted to someone else either because of their physical attributes or because of their intellect/ideas/values (admittedly, sometimes it's both).
As for TCM showing it again soon, it's not currently on the schedule, unfortunately.
I'll be back later with some nice screencaps. B-)
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I believe this movie has been shown in the TCM Underground. With any luck, they might play it again some time - but it isn't currently scheduled.
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> {quote:title=konway87 wrote:}{quote}
> That's great. Thanks for posting, Film Fatale.
You're welcome, konway! I'm surprised there aren't more Lubitsch fans in the forums.
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Neil Hamilton
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Woody Allen was in *Crimes and Misdemeanors*
with _Martin Landau_
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Lizbeth Scott
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Why wouldn't the Canadian and American versions have the same stuff?
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June Allyson
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One little bit of trivia regarding *In a Lonely Place* - the character of Paul, who greets Dix in the opening bar scene, is played by Steven Geray, who appeared in other Columbia noirs like *Gilda* and *Affair in Trinidad* and was particularly memorable in the little B-noir with Chester Morris, *Blind Spot* (1947), which was just shown at this year's San Francisco Film Noir Festival.
Steven Geray
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Henry Fonda
BTW, nice Coop photo! :x
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Quint - Robert Shaw in *Jaws*
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Don't mean to change the subject back to the actual thread topic, Jackie and Frank, but I was just looking at the DVD of *In a Lonely Place* and I was amazed to learn what a thorough restoration Sony undertook for this movie. There is a 5-minute look at this restoration effort in the DVD's bonus features, and it's just amazing to learn they took almost a year to restore this movie to as close to its original condition as was possible, partly with the help of tech companies like Cinetech and Chace Productions.
The last time I had watched the movie it was on TCM so I hadn't really seen it on DVD before, I guess, and I just hope the restored print is the same one that Sony leases to TCM for broadcasting.
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Fernando Lamas
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Right on, Jackie! And hope you'll be watching the big game, too! B-)
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Nefretiri - Anne Baxter in *The Ten Commandments*
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Lee J. Cobb was in *Green Mansions*
with _Audrey Hepburn_
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Fabulous.. .just fabulous. B-)
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I will reveal the answer on Super Sunday before the game. I hope others will take the proverbial stab. There is no prize but the right answers will experience the joy of being right. The only thing better than that is to win the lottery or the Super Bowl.
I'm going to say $12 if bought at face value, $35 if bought from scalpers.
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*HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...*
*ERNST LUBITSCH* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Jan. 28, 1892 - Nov. 30, 1947)
*ALAN ALDA* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Jan. 28, 1936)
Ernst Lubitsch and his films
in Films and Filmmakers
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> No, they were pretty mild and then turned to rain this afternoon. But my back aches from shoveling heavy snow....
Sorry to hear that. I remember what it's like shoveling snow in NE, and I can't say I miss that.
> That's the problem for me - TCM just keeps showing good movies every day - I either watch and wish I had taped, or I tape and wish I had watched....
Maybe we should just get some myvu's and watch movies wherever we go?
Those things are for real, by the way - http://myvu.com