JackFavell
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Hey, it's evil twin night tonight! Has anyone seen *Dead Ringer* ? I seem to remember a small conversation about it somewhere. I really liked this movie last time it was on. A nifty, tense little thriller, directed by Paul Henreid. I've never liked Karl Malden as much as I did here, and hated Peter Lawford more. Bette is of course, perfect.
Edited by: JackFavell on Oct 28, 2011 10:10 AM
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Hey, even I liked Will Penny!
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I gotta watch this movie again! What a great question.
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I am so jealous that you are getting to watch the Rogues, wouldbe. I wish I got that channel. Let us know if it's any good. I'm a big Boyer fan. And David Niven.
I think only Gene Tierney could make Anne Baxter look plain.
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I was wondering if you saw that!
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I'm not saying that Hartley is a great actress, just that she is competent enough to carry forward the ideas. I don't remember the young man, but I seem to remember he was barely adequate. I may be confusing him with one of the young'uns from the Andrew MacLaglen movies though.
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I think there is an unspoken shorthand in the movie which led me to believe that whether or not he acted on it, he had lustful feelings for her. That line about killing him for it makes it a bit more clear.
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I thought he was more afraid of his own feelings .... perhaps incestuous, which led him to fear all men's motives and caused his weird obsessiveness with her - because his own deep feelings were not quite.... right.
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Hartley is a good enough actress to make you care for a character who normally would just make you want to shake her. I can identify with her somewhat, having a controlling father. I think mainly, we see her make horrible mistakes BECAUSE her father was too tight reigned. Children are fragile, but not that fragile. They need to be taught the right way to do things. To me this is the meaning of her section of the film. If the creepy father had been more able to let her leash out a little, she never would have gotten into trouble in the first place. I felt there was a deep seated sexual fear on his part verging on incest. And I never really thought about his bible toting ways as stereotypical, but you are right Chris, they are. But maybe not then? It's a cliche now. I thought it was certainly an interesting and well done portrayal by that guy who is in everything. I've forgotten his name.
The young man was just ok, but if this is about teaching the young, letting them fail on their own in order to learn, well then it fits into the entire theme.
However, that part still hasn't got the universality of the McCrea/Scott friendship, which just blew me away. I loved that they were so different, and yet when it came right down to the wire, they still loved and respected one another. even with the mistakes made. Maybe the movie is about mistakes and how we learn.....?
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Gosh, those are lovely photos of Teresa Wright! You are spot on about her, she has such warmth.
Elizabeth Sellars always reminds me of Olivia de Havilland. Something about the eyes always attracts my attention to her because of that resemblance.
Edited by: JackFavell on Oct 27, 2011 12:05 PM for the h of it.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> Good evening, Little Red Buick!
Good morning, Briny Marlin!
>I don't know most of the films well enough to know how to rank >them, but here's what I am pretty sure of:
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> *1. Brief Encounter*
> *2. Ride the High Country*
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> *I like your confidence! What makes you believe I'd like them the most?*
*Brief Encounter* is a perfect film! It's emotional, probably the most true filming of how people think. It's written superbly, and directed superbly. It's a film I get completely lost inside. Celia Johnson plays every possible emotion under the sun, even boredom, exquisitely. The way the film is told in flashback and in memory, is just genius - the way we watch that opening scene is so different than the way we watch it again with meaning at the end. It's tragic, and beautiful, and small, and ends where it should. There isn't a thing about it not to like.
Ride the High Country is well done, and again with the perfect ending. The ending raises it for me about 10 places.
Why was I so confident? cause they are the only ones on the list that I've seen! Except for the SH movies, which blend into each other for me, though certain scenes stand out. Their tone is what I like. I even like the war ones that no one else seems to like. Plus I like Henry Daniell, so any movie with him is going to rate high with me. He's the only actor capable of being Rathbone's arch nemesis.
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> Lives of a Bengal Lancer I loved as a kid, but later on, whne I came back to it, I was a little bored. I haven't seen in for so long, I can only remember that I liked a jailhouse scene.
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> You saw that as a kid? That's great! Did you just stumble across it or did someone introduce it to you?
Stumbled. I stumbled across everything as a kid. I was quite solitary. I had lots of friends, but I always liked my alone time. They didn't have cartoons 24/7. We just played all day or got bored. No one I knew watched anything like what I was watching. I think I just fell in love with black and white, and couldn't get enough. I had a picture book that I found first from the library, then got my own copy later. It was filled with photos from every movie made in each year, starting in 1927. I just loved looking at it, so I memorized the pictures in it. I started seeing the movies they were from on TV, or I would purposely look for those movies that had intriguing photos. I still look at the movies and those moments from the photos leap out at me every once in a while. I could probably tell you what scene was shown in that book for every movie in the 1930's or 40's.
I fell for Gary Cooper right off, and there was this one station on TV that showed Bengal Lancer and Beau Geste often. I always felt with the more unknown films that I had discovered them - like I was an adventurer - Lewis or Clark, finding new and intriguing lands afar - at least new classic movies afar. I saw Bengal Lancer about as frequently as Prisoner of Shark Island - they were both adventure movies to me, a whole new world, and I loved those, since I lived in my imagination. Only certain children long for adventure like I did.
> *I can't really rank the Sherlock Holmes films, having never seen them next to one another. I like them all.*
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> I recently got the collection, so I've been watching them in order.
I'd be afraid to watch them in order, I might find them going downhill. These are ones I watched as a kid a lot, so I am really fond of them.
Edited by: JackFavell on Oct 27, 2011 11:03 AM
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Love the Marie Prevost! I like her eyes too blue.
Sheila Terry was definitely smokin, thanks MN for identifying her correctly.
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I don't know most of the films well enough to know how to rank them, but here's what I am pretty sure of:
1. Brief Encounter
2. Ride the High Country
*Lives of a Bengal Lancer* I loved as a kid, but later on, whne I came back to it, I was a little bored. I haven't seen in for so long, I can only remember that I liked a jailhouse scene.
I can't really rank the Sherlock Holmes films, having never seen them next to one another. I like them all.
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You know, when i watched this movie, Chris, I was all aglow with the performances of McCrea and Scott, and I was really just overwhelmed by the great ending. But as I look back on Ride the High Country, I realize that the love story could fall completely away, and I wouldn't care, so it's not just you.
The movie on the whole was well done, even the younger story, for what it was, but there was no deep resonance to that young part of the story, no overwhelming humanity like there was in the part with the two older actors. But it was still enough to carry me out with a good feeling about the film.
Could the movie stand on just the one older plotline? Or does it need the younger one thrown in as a macguffin to get the older fellas where they need to be? I don't remember enough to know the answer.
If the answer is yes, you need the young couple, wouldn't it have been great if Nick Ray had directed the young couple part, and left Peckinpah to direct the older part?
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Thanks.
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To me, one of the best things about it is the non-chronological approach.
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I'm enjoying the chat here.
Chris, I'd love to chat about RTHC! I'll have to re-watch... It was one I really loved on first viewing. When I think back on it, every part of the plot drops away from my memory except the lovely performances of Joel and Randy.
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Oh, isn't that the sweetest photo??? He's adorable. What a funny story! Isn't it odd how fate works sometime? I liked Pola wistfulness wishing she had kept the photo.
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Hi, Ugaarte!
Yes, she had a good long life and let's hope it was very happy! I like the last photo best myself.
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No , I'm not positive, but it was listed as Barbara Kent. I double checked because I didn't think it was at first.
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I agree, MN, I looked at it and thought "That can't be Barbara Kent!" I found it on two different websites, and it was definitely marked Barbara Kent at both sites separately. One was a Spanish website. The more I looked at it the more I thought it was her, so I decided to post it.
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I only saw bits and pieces of Mask of Dimitrios and The Southerner, but I was really surprised at Zach's range... I was shocked at how easily he fit into that farming background! I really liked what I saw of him in this movie. I even believed im when he turned away Noreen Nash who was so obviously crushing on him! Norman Lloyd looked out of his element as the skulking hillbilly weirdo.... does EVERY southern movie have one? luckily I got all of these recorded.
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I'll bet it piqued her interest!
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That's right! I remember the previous conversation now! Oh, that french voice, it made him sound toujours gai, not sleazy, like a down and out reprobate.
I just love the scene where Bette has to undress and trade jewelry with her twin. It makes you realize how difficult it is to manipulate a dead body, and to keep from leaving any clues.
Did you get to see The Black Room? I fell asleep during it, nothing much was happening, but I loved the feel of it. I found the buildup to be really fun. It felt like a later film than 1935. I only saw up to the point where the dog attacked one of the townspeople, and the good Boris twin jumped in between - while the evil Boris twin yelled out, "Kill him! Let him tear the fellow to pieces!" Ha!
I wonder what kind of name de Berghman is? Part German, part French?