Film_Fatale

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > I am certain that it's not from HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. Oh, boy, do I have fond memories of that one!

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > Nope, I can't say I've ever seen "Ossessione." Yep, I love sweat. I think TCM showed it not too long ago. Hope they show it again. B-)

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > On a slightly different subject, when the "Word of Mouth" promos open, one person can be heard saying "Damn good actress." It sounds like Martin Landau to me and I've always been curious. I think I've heard that, but I didn't recognize the voice. If it is indeed Landau, could it be from *Crimes and Misdemeanors* ?

Rizzi, Carlo - Gianni Russo in *The Godfather*

mongo, Thank you for the photo of Ricardo Montalban... and also for that latest MM photo. B-)

Pentangelli, Frankie - Michael V. Gazzo in *The Godfather, Part II*

> {quote:title=WonderMoon wrote:}{quote} > The one on Elvis Presley by Kirk Russell was also very good and funny too, very fitting Did Kurt Russell suddenly change his name to Kirk? :0

Neff, Walter - Fred MacMurray in *Double Indemnity*

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote} > hi michaela, > > im too young to go to bars silly. i dont think ill be a bar type person even when im old enough to go to them. > > good day dahlink!! > Ah, well, there are other places to sing. good day to you, too, dahlink!!! B-)

Edmund Gwenn

*what is your favorite PP movie?* Without a doubt, *A Shot in the Dark* (I posted some screencaps a few pages back), followed very closely by *The Pink Panther Strikes Again*. That's the one where Henry Mancini first used the Inspector Clouseau theme:

Well, I guess some people could use a wee bit sin-smeared violence once in a while.

Anita, OneSharpDame is correct. Howard Hughes is credited as director of *Hell's Angels* and *The Outlaw*; to make matters more confusing, it is generally acknowledged that Howard Hawks directed much of *The Outlaw*.

I got to watch *Appaloosa* again, this time on blu-ray - which quite possibly looked better than the theatrical print. (The fault doesn't lie with 35mm film, but with lousy projectionists who don't know how to focus a movie). It may play even better in home video, and at least there are some deleted scenes that help clarify story points that weren't very clear in the theatrical version. Renee Zellwegger is still arguably the movie's weakest point, and her character isn't very convincing at all no matter how many times I watch this. There's also a nice short with Dean Semler, the DP who shot *Dances with Wolves*, talking about how this movie marked his return to shooting film, after having photographed 4 movies with digital cameras.

> {quote:title=texanna wrote:}{quote} > nice phtos, ff. I have very good memories of this movie. actually, the first time I watched it it wasn't the movie itself, it was a movie being shown in another movie and it was dubbed to italian or portugues (i forget which). You might be thinking of a scene in George Roy Hill's *A Little Romance*, and the movie was actually in French, IIRC. I suppose it was a bit of an in-joke, since Hill also directed *Butch Cassidy*

Well, to finish my series of rambles about the *Pink Panther* series, I guess I have to acknowledge the rather sad destiny that awaited the franchise after the death of the beloved Peter Sellers in 1980. Unfortunately, it seems Blake Edwards tried desperately to continue the series in any possible way, even if his star was dead. Thus we had *Trail of the Pink Panther*, in which Edwards used old footage from the earlier movies that had been edited out and left in the cutting-room floor to give the illusion that his main actor was still alive. Unfortunately, the cutting-room scenes were relatively brief, and after a so-so start the movie plummets quickly when Inspector Clouseau disappears from the scene and a reporter (Joanna Plummley) is assigned to talk to the people who knew him - the other actors in the series were still alive, after all. Sadly, this movie and its even weaker companion, *Curse of the Pink Panther*, which features no Sellers footage, were the last screen appearance of David Niven, who would pass away shortly after the movies' release. He seemed quite old and frail at the time, and his voice reportedly had to be dubbed by somebody else. Unfortunately, *Trail* and *Curse* represent a doubly sad couple of movies, sad because Peter Sellers was no longer alive no matter how much Edwards desperately wanted to make people forget him, and sad also because Niven probably deserved a better cinematic farewell.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > And to think I was watching "Law and Order" with my bride while all this excitement was going on. > Darn. I wish I had something to contribute but it has been so long since I've seen it. > > The most striking thing I remember is visually that it was almost in a terminal fog. I know that is representative of more than just the weather but I wonder if it had a technical application with "covering" up the limitations of a set. > > Thanks so much for the interesting read. Yes, Chris, according to the documentary that is on the DVD, it was done at least in part to conceal the fact that they had a very small set. It seems they were on a fairly limited budget, at least by RKO standards.

Mmm. I think I like Part Two even better than the first one. B-)

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > >>Oh, that's a great anecdote, Charles! I would have loved to see the look on her face when she heard that. > > > What I'd love to see is Katharine Hepburn doing an impression of Carradine saying that. > > That was pretty ballsy of him to say at that period of his career. But I'll just bet that Pappy loved it. Oh yes, she was great at doing impressions! And of course Pappy must have loved it. B-)

Margaret O'Brien looks very cute in that poster.. but I wonder if she's drawn to scale.

_Don't forget to watch (or record) this Saturday, Jan. 17 @ 10am ET!_ *The Big Clock* (1948) A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder. Cast: Charles Laughton , Ray Milland , Maureen O'Sullivan Dir: John Farrow BW-95 mins, TV-PG

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > The game is on Sunday Feb. 1. It should start around 6:30pm ET. Thank you Chris, laffite. Please don't hate me for saying this, I usually just watch the Super Bowl for the commercials.

Well I don't think most folks expect sequels of classic films to generally come close to the original, but the real question should be, how does it stand up on its own? I don't think just because it isn't very good necessarily makes it a horrible movie. Of course a lot of people will feel they just have to jump in the bandwagon and dismiss it like it's the worst movie ever made.

Barbara Stanwyck