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*On PBS Mon, Oct 26, 2009 @ 4:00 AM (Eastern!) _Mildred Pierce_ (1945)*
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Tue, Oct 20, 2009 @ 9:45 PM (Eastern!) _Strait-Jacket_ (1964)
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*All Times are Eastern. Check Local Schedule.*
*Fri, Oct 23, 2009 @ 8:00 PM _The Night of the Hunter_ (1955)*
*Night of the Hunter was rated #34 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills ranking, and #90 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.*
*In a 2007 listing of the 100 Most Beautiful Films, Cahiers du Cinema ranked Night of the Hunter No. 2.*
*It is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.*
*It ranked as the 71st greatest movie of all time on Empire Magazine's 500 greatest films list.*
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*I never thought much was ever bestowed, or said about "Under-Rated" actress Carol Ohmart!*
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ohmart won the Miss Utah title at the age of 19, leading to a modeling career. She won fourth place in the Miss America Pageant.
In 1955 Paramount signed her and billed her as "the next Marilyn." After a few forgettable roles, Ohmart was written off.
Among her most noted roles was in William Castle's _House on Haunted Hill_ in 1959, where she played the murder-plotting wife of Vincent Price.
Thanks,
Wikipedia
*_Filmography_:*
1973 The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1968 Caxambu
1966 Branded: Headed for Doomsday
1964 Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told
1963 One Man's Way
1961 Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Dead Man
1959 The Scavengers
1959 House on Haunted Hill
1958 Born Reckless
1957 The Still Trumpet
1956 The Scarlet Hour
1956 The Wild Party
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*Quinn, Anthony*
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*Beaton, Cecil* - An English fashion and portrait photographer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
His most lauded achievement for the stage was the costumes for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956), which led to two Lerner and Loewe film musicals, Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964), both of which earned Beaton the Academy Award for Costume Design. He also designed the period costumes for the 1970 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
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*_Johnny Guitar_ (1954)*
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patio ... _The Party_ (1968)
*NEW WORD: Scarecrow!*
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Doris Day was in: _It's a Great Feeling_ (1949) with Joan Crawford as Herself (uncredited) ....!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Filmmaker Nichols Graduates To AFI Lifetime Honor*
*Legendary Director 38th To Get Award*
October 11, 2009
KPHO.com Newsroom
*LOS ANGELES -- Director Mike Nichols has been chosen to receive the 38th American Film Institute's life-achievement award.*
Nichols, whose films include "The Graduate," ''Working Girl," ''Silkwood" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", will receive the AFI honor at a ceremony next summer.
The 77-year-old Nichols joins past AFI award recipients such as "Virginia Woolf" star Elizabeth Taylor, "Silkwood" star Meryl Streep and "Graduate" star Dustin Hoffman.
Nichols' most recent film was 2007's "Charlie Wilson's War," starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. He also is a Tony Award-winning stage director and made the Emmy-winning miniseries "Angels in America."
*Mike Nichols*
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*Don't forget!*
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*Happy 50th Anniversary.......House on Haunted Hill (1959)..!!*
I remember my mother introducing to me to this film when I was 8 years old. Mr. Price is just a scream in this film!
_House on Haunted Hill_ (1959) is the tale of five people invited to stay the night in a haunted house by an eccentric millionaire, Fredrick Loren, who is throwing the "party" for his fourth wife, Annabelle, with the stipulation that the power will be out and all doors will be locked at midnight, allowing no accessible escape. Anyone who stays in the house for the entire night, given that they are still alive, will each receive $10,000.
*The film is best known for a famous promotional gimmick used in the film's original theatrical release called "Emergo": William Castle placed an elaborate pulley system in some theaters showing the film; allowing a plastic skeleton to be flown over the audience at the appropriate time.*
*House on Haunted Hill (1959) - French!*
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*I found _Bug_ (1975) on DVD for $3.99 at Best Buy!*
*It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written & produced by William Castle .*
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I just found a DVD copy of: _Body Snatchers_ (1993) to buy for $7.99 at Suncoast Motion Picture Co. I'm picking it up today! My friend raves about it. I really don;t remember the film! This why I love being a film buff, discovering new films! Good or bad or in between.
I'm very interested to see Forest Whitaker in the film ...before his "Oscar" win.
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*_Strange Cargo_ (1940*)
Andr? Verne: I don't know what you'll look like tomorrow, but right now, baby, you're the most beautiful dame in the world.
Julie: And as for going around with you, I still pick my own gutters
Verne (Clark Gable) to Julie (Joan Crawford) promising to escape prison that night to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940): ''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
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*_Zombieland_ (2009)*
Tallahassee: I haven't cried like that since Titanic!
Tallahassee: Time to nut up or shut up!
Columbus: I could tell she knew what I was feeling, we all are orphans in Zombieland.
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*WOW ... Oh My God I just found about this today shopping in a DVD store!!!*
*_House on Haunted Hill:_ 50th Anniversary (1958)*
*Johnny Legend released a 50TH Anniversary DVD containing a whole slew of Extras!*
*_On the DVD_*
Original theatrical trailer
Return To the House
Castle & Price previews
Surprise William Castle TV Spot
Carol Ohmart profile
Gold Age Price
Edited by: CelluloidKid on Oct 12, 2009 11:44 AM
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*"Gremlins" To Hit Blu-Ray In Target-Exclusive Release*
AHN - Sep 28 2009
Anthony Jones - Celebrity News Service Contributor
*Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - While Blu-ray fans and film aficionados will be heading out to stores to pick up "The Wizard of Oz," Warner Bros. Home Video and Target is offering up an exclusive on another film classic: the 1984 comedy "Gremlins."*
The blockbuster comedy, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, hits Blu-ray for the first time in the States with a Target-exclusive release. It offers up the maniacal gremlins in 1080p and a Dolby TrueHD audio track.
Special features are said to include over 10 minutes of deleted scenes, a making of-featurette, photo galleries, and the theatrical trailer. Also include are two commentaries: one with director Joe Dante, Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller, and Howie Mandell, and the other with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell, and special effects artist Christ Walas.
"Gremlins" is the first of Target-exclusive Blu-ray releases. An exclusive release of another 80's classic, "The Goonies," is rumored to be released in November.
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*WOW! Being a film buff I learn new things every day! Today I learned of a "4th" adaptation _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_.*
_The Body Snatchers_ is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes a town in Marin County, California, being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds replace sleeping people with perfect physical duplicates grown from plantlike pods, while their human victims turn to dust.
Thanks,
Wikipedia.
*_Adaptations_*
*_Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (1956)* - The best!! I lvoe the ending! Freaked me out the 1st time I saw I was 8 Yrs od with my mm on the late late show! Gave me nightmares for years!
*_Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (1978)* - Spooky! Stands on it's own! A "Contemporary Classic".
*_Body Snatchers_ (1993)* - The film a friend told me about, & that I really haven't heard of before that set off this conversatiion!. I may of seen the box ...Now I have it in my Netflix que!
*_The Invasion_ (2007)* - Silly ...bad C movie fun! Nicole Kidman & Daniel Craig I guess had to pay the rent that month!. Primarily it was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Warner Bros. Pictures later hired James McTeigue to shoot scenes rewritten by the Wachowski Brothers.
While watching the film ...you do get (3) three inconsistent points of view as the film plays out!
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*Happy 25th Anniversary Gremlins (1984)!!!*
*_Awards_*
Gremlins won numerous awards, including the 1985 Saturn Awards for Best Director, Best Horror Film, Best Music, and Best Special Effects, and Holliday won the award for Best Supporting Actress.
The film also won the 1985 Golden Screen Award and the 1985 Young Artist Award for Best Family Motion Picture (Adventure).
Corey Feldman, who played Billy's young friend, was also nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama.
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*"Gremlins" To Hit Blu-Ray In Target-Exclusive Release*
AHN - Sep 28, 2009
Anthony Jones - Celebrity News Service Contributor
*Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - While Blu-ray fans and film aficionados will be heading out to stores to pick up "The Wizard of Oz," Warner Bros. Home Video and Target is offering up an exclusive on another film classic: the 1984 comedy "Gremlins."*
The blockbuster comedy, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, hits Blu-ray for the first time in the States with a Target-exclusive release. It offers up the maniacal gremlins in 1080p and a Dolby TrueHD audio track.
Special features are said to include over 10 minutes of deleted scenes, a making of-featurette, photo galleries, and the theatrical trailer. Also include are two commentaries: one with director Joe Dante, Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller, and Howie Mandell, and the other with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell, and special effects artist Christ Walas.
*"Gremlins" is the first of Target-exclusive Blu-ray releases. An exclusive release of another 80's classic, "The Goonies," is rumored to be released in November*
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*The film was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.*
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*I'm still wondering where the alternate title _Bats with Baby Faces_ (UK) came from!??!*
Tab Hunter set for tell-all doc!! Cool!! Very Cool!
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*Tab Hunter set for tell-all doc*
*Actor to bare H'w'd secrets in film*
Sun., Oct. 11, 2009
Variety
By MICHAEL FLEMING
*In what could be the most honest performance of his career, Tab Hunter will appear in "Tab Hunter Confidential," a documentary in which he promises to candidly describe what it was like to live a lie.*
The docu, titled after Hunter's 2005 autobiography, in which he discussed keeping his homosexuality secret so he could be sold as a heterosexual matinee idol, will be directed by Jeffrey Schwarz. Schwarz has directed Hollywood docus including "Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon"--about gay adult film star Jack Wrangler's marriage to singer Margaret Whiting -- and "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story," on the genre filmmaker.
Pic will be produced by Allan Glaser and Neil Koenigsberg.
Koenigsberg said Hunter's pledge to cooperate with the film came out of interviews Hunter and Glaser (Hunter's longtime partner) did with Schwarz for "I Am Divine," a docu that Schwarz is directing about the cross-dressing star of the John Waters films. Hunter starred in (and Glaser produced) the Divine starrer "Lust in the Dust." Schwarz and Hunter agreed to tell the story of Hunter's own transformation from a teenage stable boy to famous actor under contract to Warner Bros. at a time when Hollywood carefully controlled the images of its stars.
Christened Arthur Gelien, Hunter was given his stage name by rep Henry Willson, and soon he had a hit record in "Young Love" and starred in films including "Damn Yankees." Magazine covers and gossip columns had him romancing young beauties, and Hunter didn't dare reveal his sexuality, and relationships with the likes of closeted actor Anthony Perkins.
"This will be as frank as Tab's book," said Koenigsberg. "While he and Tony Perkins were lovers, they were on the covers of magazines that asked which of them would get married first. Has it changed that much in Hollywood? If a virile old-fashioned movie star came along like Tab, how would the studios, the financiers and the public respond to the idea he might be gay? Would that star not have to stay in the closet, like Tab and Rock Hudson?"
What about Neil Patrick Harris, the openly gay actor who plays a rambunctious hetero bachelor in the top-rated CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother?"
"You still think of Neil as the child actor, cute and adorable, but with Tab, it was all about selling flesh," he said. "The film will also explore Tab's relationship with Henry Willson, this manager who had a stable of stars he exploited. Tab talks about the studio machine, how the publicists and the execs would lock the door and say, 'There are rumors.' They were basically told who to romance, and when Rock Hudson was told to get married, he did. Tab has plenty of stories about the old studio system, about being under contract and how they swept everything under the rug."
Koenigsberg said he and Glaser are in conversations with financiers and distributors.
Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd.