JackFavell
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I like my movie endings nice and dramatic, don't you?
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang-
Helen: Jim, why haven't you come before?
Jim: I couldn't, I was afraid to.
Helen: But you could have written. It's been almost a year since you escaped.
Jim: But I haven't escaped. They're still after me. They'll always be after me. I've had jobs but I can't keep them. Something happens. Someone turns up. I hide in rooms all day and travel by night. No friends. No rest. No peace.
Helen: Oh, Jim!
Jim: Keep moving. That's all that's left for me. Forgive me, Helen. I-I had to take a chance to see you tonight. Just to say good-bye.
Helen (She hugs him with a look of intense suffering and pity on her face): Oh, Jim. It was all going to be so different.Jim: It is different. They've made it different....(A door slams) (He whispers) I've gotta go.
Helen: I can't let you go like this!
Jim: I've got to.
Helen: Can't you tell me where you're going? (He shakes his head no and stares wildly at her.) Will you write? (He backs up and again shakes no.) Do you need any money? (He again shakes no.) But you must, Jim. How do you live?
I steal!
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Lovely, Frank.
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Here are a couple that stick in my mind from The Lady Eve:
Jean Harrington: "They say a moonlit deck is a woman's business office."
Jean Harrington: "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."
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Nice choices, Kyle!
Sturges wife said (in reference to the code and "Miracle at Morgan's Creek"):
"He wanted to obey the letter of the law but totally violate the spirit of it"
Constable Kockenlocker: Listen, zipper-puss, some day they're just gonna find your hair ribbon and an axe someplace. Nothing else. The mystery of Morgan's Creek.
Mr. Johnson: The responsibility for recording a marriage has always been up to woman. If it wasn't for her, marriage would have disappeared long since. No man is going to jeopardize his present or poison his future with a lot of little brats hollering around the house unless he's forced to. It's up to the woman to knock him down, hogtie him, and drag him in front of two witnesses immediately if not sooner. Anytime after that is too late.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=88583
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Fred, I had no idea. The movie is so good, it never occurred to me that it was not Wales- though I have read over and over that they could not film there because of the war. Thanks for the info.
I did look up where The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was made, and discovered that it was filmed in many California locations, including Stillwater Cove Regional Park in Sonoma County, Palos Verdes, Carmel-by the-Sea, and Monterey.
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Oh, yes, and the end of The Man Who Would Be King shocked the heck out of me.
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The Front, with Woody Allen, directed by Martin Ritt. I don't want to be a spoiler, so I'll just say that I love the ending....
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Definitely The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Top Hat (2nd runner up)
How Green Was My Valley (while it was still green, and without the snotty church guild)
"There is no fence or hedge around time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough." -- from Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley.
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Harold and Maude
Monsieur Verdoux
Delicatessen
Catch-22
The Evil Dead/Army of Darkness
Sorry - I have to mention The Ladykillers ( 1955) again because it is probably the best black comedy of all time.
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I guess my favorite would be The Cocoanuts with the equally forgettable Oscar Shaw.....
Un Chien Andalou was made in 1929
If I could choose the movies from 1929 that I would most like to see they would be:
Hallelujah!
Applause
Show Boat
Pandora's Box
and....
Sunny Side Up
Queen Kelly
The Vagabond Lover
Sally
Rio Rita
The Canary Murder Case
Evangeline
A crazy year for movies- very free seeming in some ways.
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A Little Romance
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Lone Star, directed by John Sayles. Wow. What a terrific movie.
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Wow. I didn't know till I saw the thread title. He always seemed so edgy and alive. I find it hard to believe....
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Ditto. I would love to see it on The Essentials-or anywhere for that matter.
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I thought they supposedly "found" ON-J's husband or boyfriend. The story is that he was trying to change identities or something and just ran off on his boat....don't know if this is true or not-I saw it while passing by Nancy Grace's show...blecchh. (sorry if someone here likes her)
Frank- loved the INXS vid. They were a great band.
I knew you had a soft spot- including Audrey in that lineup of sultry nightclub singers. And in Breakfast at Tiffany's, one of the most romantic movies ever made! Personally, I think she should have run off with Cat and skipped yucky George Peppard.
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Not sentimental? After those ooey-gooey You Tube presentations you just played for us? Come on.
This one's for you, FrankieG:
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I love Local Hero, and Burt's stargazing tycoon is refreshingly not stereotypical. In fact the whole movie takes stereotypes and turns them upside down and sideways. I think Burt's movies challenged the practice of putting people into categories, and if there is a prevailing theme in his work it is that no one is what you expect them to be.
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Fred- you are incredible. Posts like this are why I decided to come on this website in the first place. Thanks.
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Carolyn - That was a great quote from our Miss Alice. There were far too many quotes from her for me to share here, so I'm glad you responded with that one. I think it's my favorite.
My Man Godfrey has some of my favorite lines ever, mostly from Molly the wise-cracking maid:
Godfrey: May I be frank?
Molly: Is that your name?
Godfrey: No, my name is Godfrey.
Molly: All right, be frank.
Detective: Just a minute, sister!
Molly: If I thought that were true, I'd disown my parents.
Detective: [chuckles] So you got a passion for jewelry, huh?
Molly: Yes... I got a passion for socking cops.
Detective: Where are they?
Molly: Most of them are in cemeteries.
Blake: Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat.
Alexander Bullock: I've had to look at her for 20 years - that's MRS. Bullock!
Blake: I'm terribly sorry!
Alexander Bullock: How do you think I feel?
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It's a desert island disc for me too. What you say about the change or transition makes sense. I'm sure George didn't do it on purpose, but I guess it really doesn't matter if you didn't mean to do it, anyway. I still love My Sweet Lord and pretty much every other song he ever did....
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Lubitsch was also quite witty:
"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
"There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one."
"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
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You're right. Vincent Price didn't do any other comedies, at least until the very latter part of his career (Edward Scissorhands). It is odd, though, because I think of him as having a great sense of humor. Some of his crazy horror roles are actually funny in a macabre way, like "Theatre of Blood".
Not to digress, but I've always thought Tallulah Bankhead was one of the most beautiful women ever, and she is also the star of my favorite joke:
? She was in Washington for a Democratic Convention honoring her "divine friend, Adlai Stevenson"... And during a long speech by some senator she had to go to the ladies room, but found when she was settled in for the duration that there was no toilet paper at hand. "So I looked down and saw a pair of feet in the next stall. I knocked very politely and said: 'Excuse me, dahling, I don't have any toilet paper. Do you?' And this very proper Yankee voice said: 'No, I don't.' Well, dahling, I had to get back to the podium for Adlai's speech, so I asked her, very politely you understand, 'Excuse me dahling, but do you have any Kleenex?' And this now quite chilly voice said: 'No, I don't.' So I said: 'Well then, dahling, do you happen to have two fives for a ten?'"
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Saucy is just the right word for his films! I haven't seen The Smiling Lieutenant, yet, MissG. I fear I am going to be another one who never actually gets to see the movies I talk about. I really have to start renting movies again. I was relying on TCM to show all these great Lubitsch movies, but as I look them up, I discover they are not in the collection, or are not currently scheduled.
There is a unique combination of sophistication and innocence in Lubitsch's early films that I like. Although the characters (usually Maurice Chevalier) are knowing, they are bright and enthusiastic, rather than world-weary. They are never apathetic, bored, or indifferent.
I also notice that though Lubitsch ends his films on an upbeat note, he never fully resolves his plots- Most directors or I guess maybe the scripts themselves include the standard wedding scene, or imply a one and only love match. Lubitsch actually runs the other way, almost implying that thing will get rocky again!
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Oh, I love that pic, Konway! Jimmy Stewart looks so sweet.
Favorite line from movie.
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Tracy Lord: You hardly know him.
C. K. Dexter Haven: To hardly know him is to know him well.
C. K. Dexter Haven: I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know at one time I secretly wanted to be a writer.
Tracy Lord: You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to.
Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.