filmnoirguy
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Glad TCM included Michael Hall whose major film role was playing son Rob Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives. Regrets for not including Warren Berlinger and Robert Conrad.
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7 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Another early look...
Thanks for printing this out in a readable format. I've been going blind trying to read the sched. on Now Playing.
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Although it's not my favorite decade, I may as well jump in here with my list of 1970's favorites (in order of release):
Patton
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Picture Show
Klute
Cabaret
Jeremiah Johnson
The Exorcist
Lenny
Chinatown
Shampoo
Three Days of the Condor
Network
All the President's Men
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Annie Hall
Days of Heaven
Interiors
Apocalypse Now
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I also remember Warren Berlinger as Ernie in 1959's Blue Denim starring Carol Lynley and Brandon de Wilde.
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19 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
That is true.
but there’s A LOT MORE on the other side of the scale.I remember one time a standup comedian, I think it was back in the 80s, actually listed THE BAD MOVIES OF BURT REYNOLDS, vs the good (Which was pretty much just “deliverance“ and “starting over.”)
They even superimposed them on the screen.
You could do something equally brutal with Nic.
And to think Burt Reynolds turned down the role of the astronaut in Terms of Endearment because it was a supporting part. Of course, Jack Nicholson accepted the role and won an Oscar, to boot.
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I have the 2-disc DVD of Strangers on a Train with 2 versions of the movie. The American version (which Hitchcock preferred) runs 101m. He eliminated some repetitive conversation Walker and Granger have while ordering lunch in the lounge car, and ended the movie with a brief conversation between Granger, Roman and a pastor on the train as a "kicker."
The British version (also called the Preview version) runs almost 2 minutes longer. The conversation between Walker and Granger ordering food on the train is a bit franker. Hitchcock decided that Brits would think he was making fun of the pastor so he deleted the last scene on the train and ended the movie with Ruth Roman telling her father and sister that it was Granger who was calling on the phone and he wanted her to bring his tennis clothes when they met.
This may not have anything to do with your question, but it's a entertaining sidebar.
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After my son and I attended Debbie's show at her Las Vegas Hotel in 1998, we went to her Movie Museum also located in the hotel. Her employee in the museum, Bob Isoz, gave a presentation of her many costumes complete with revolving stage. We saw Betty Grable's dress from The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Gene Kelly's and Donald O'Connor's suits from the "Fit as a Fiddle" number in Singin' in the Rain (they looked so small!), Marilyn's pleated dress in The Seven Year Itch (Bob pointed out that it was similar to a yellow dress Grable had worn in 1951's Meet Me After the Show) Charlton Heston's tunic from Ben Hur and so much more. This was, obviously, before Debbie's sale. Before her show, we met Debbie. She came out to greet everyone standing in line in the hallway. I was with my 22 year old son. She said "I'll bet your dad had to drag you to see me and you don't even know who I am!" I answered "All I had to tell him was that you're Princess Leia's mother and he was on board." She must have gotten a kick out of my comment, because she used it in her show!
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I'm quite sure that 3 years ago, back in October, 2017 there was an announcement thread about her death.
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I recently read that Clark Gable regarded his performance as Gay Langland in 1961's The Misfits as his best and his favorite. It was also his last.
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My favorites include her Best Actress Oscar nod playing Alice Tripp in A Place in the Sun, Charlotte Haze with her cherry pies in Lolita, Ruby in Alfie, and Lola Manners in Winchester '73.
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It's like losing an old friend. I watched Jeopardy most every day at 4:30 pm. Goodbye, Alex Trebek. It's been quite a ride.
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I also collect them.
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What I enjoy about Macy's Thanksgiving Parade are the Broadway show tunes performed by the current New York casts. Three movies we like to rotate (one per year) are 1947's Miracle on 34th Street, Hannah and Her Sisters, and even though it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, The Trip to Bountiful.
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How about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein? Maltin writes: "All-time great horror-comedy still works beautifully, mainly because the monster's play it straight." 😱
On Halloween, we're watching the director's cut of The Exorcist with 11 additional minutes that add something creepy-crawly to the film. 👹
Neither is really a ghost story, but beggars can't be choosers on Halloween 2020 (or something like that!). 😷
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Saxon was also good in This Happy Feeling with Debbie Reynolds and Unforgiven with Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.
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44 minutes ago, Hoganman1 said:
My dad was a big Kim Novak fan. He said he liked VERTIGO except that (SPOILER ALERT) Kim Novak gets killed twice.
Good comment.
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12 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Psycho is probably Hitchcock's most celebrated film, certainly his most famous, and it had a great influence, of course, on slasher films to come. Well crafted as it may be, though, it's a difficult film for me to really enjoy because of its darkness.
Many of my favourite Hitchcocks are those done with a light touch, the last of them being North By Northwest.
Being, essentially, a psychological study with the superficial trappings of a mystery, Vertigo is not a light hearted film and it puzzled many critics and viewers at the time of its release, failing to be the hit its director desired it to be. Hitchcock, rather ungraciously, blamed James Stewart for part of the film's failure, deciding the actor had been too old for his role. Hitchcock created a great film, in my opinion, though I am less impressed by his criticism of Stewart, especially since I regard his dark portrait as Scotty to be one of the most startling and impressive of his career. Casting this actor against type was a brilliant move.
Somewhere in the past I've read that while filming Vertigo Hitchcock was talking to Stewart about starring in North By Northwest. When Vertigo wasn't the expected hit, Hitchcock decided that maybe it was because Stewart looked too old for not only the role of Scotty Ferguson, but also for Roger Thornhill. Enter Cary Grant who was 4 years older than James Stewart. Personally, I'm glad Stewart was cast in Vertigo, and equally glad Grant was cast in North By Northwest.
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Rear Window is not only my favorite Hitchcock mystery, but also my fourth favorite film of all time. Having said that, I think James Stewart was robbed of an Oscar nod for Vertigo. In my opinion, it was the Best Actor's performance of 1958. I own both movies on Blu-ray and watch each once a year.
Other Hitchcock films that are favorites include Strangers on a Train, North By Northwest, Psycho, Rebecca. In fact, I've never seen one of his movies I haven't liked.
His daughter Pat wrote that putting Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant together in an espionage story set in post WW2 South America complete with Nazi spies along with an exciting climax made Notorious her personal favorite. She also revealed that Hitch's favorite was Shadow of a Doubt set in Santa Rosa, CA. He loved the fact that a small town could have the Merry Widow killer living amongst them as they enjoyed his company.
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My favorite MGM musical is 1951's Show Boat, thanks in part to the brilliant dancing of Marge and Gower Champion. They have two numbers---"I Might Fall Back on You"," an original song that was written especially for this movie version, and "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" that was written for the 1927 Broadway show. The teams dancing to "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" in 1952's Lovely to Look At is also superb. A third musical movie of theirs that I like is 1955's Three for the Show from Columbia. Marge and Gower received star billing with Betty Grable and Jack Lemmon. While the story is rather corny and contrived (it was a musical remake of Too Many Husbands) the songs are pretty great with Marge and Gower dancing and performing on a huge grid to the Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me." RIP Marge Champion.
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I love Top 10 Lists so much, I usually expand it to a Top Baker's Dozen List. Since Gregory Peck is one of my favorites from the Golden Age, here is mine (in order of release):
1. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
2. Spellbound (1945)
3. The Yearling (1946)
4. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
5. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
6. The Gunfighter (1950)
7. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
8. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
9. Roman Holiday (1953)
10. The Big Country (1958)
11. On the Beach (1959)
12. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
13. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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14 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I think Slightly Scarlet is available in some capacity, I am able to borrow it from my library system.
EDIT: It's available for streaming on Amazon Prime. I wonder if this title is in public domain. There is a DVD as well from VCI Entertainment?
It's also available from Netflix.
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26 minutes ago, jakeem said:
Here's a scene from the movie featuring both actresses.
Dahl also has been a longtime supporter of Turner Classic Movies. In fact, she was present at the creation of the cable channel. She was one of the notables who attended the Times Square ceremony that marked the launch of TCM on April 14, 1994.
Arlene Dahl graduated from the same high school my two (now adult) children graduated from. So, of course, I had to show them a couple of her movies at the time. Will try to find Slightly Scarlet if its available.
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4 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
R.I.P, the most ravishing redhead ever on film
Both Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl were ravishing redheads. I wish they could have played sisters in a film. Both Rhonda and Doris Day (2019) were 97 when they died. Will this age be the new norm? A good long life!
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Boy, did this thread veer off course. To get back on track, Shane is my all-time favorite western. My all-time favorite movie is Sunset Blvd. Which would also make it my favorite film noir and favorite drama and favorite black comedy. So I'll go with Sunset Blvd. as my personal perfect movie.
Why hasn't Hitchcock's Rebecca been shown in such a long time?
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Another standout performance in "Rebecca" is Joan Fontaine in the lead. I think she should have won the Oscar for this one (it went to Ginger Rogers!) instead of "Suspicion" the following year. "Notorious" and "Spellbound" also deserve to be seen more often on TCM. I saw "The Paradine Case" starring Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Leo G. Carroll, John Williams and, yes, Louis Jourdan recently on DVD from Netflix. It's too long and "talky" for my taste and I wouldn't want to watch it again.