feaito
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Path and Mary Lou...many, many years ago....some Eddie Cantor (Samuel Goldwyn produced) films were showed in some TV station and I could watch "Palmy Days" (1931) with Charlotte Greenwood, "The Kid from Spain" (1932) with Lyda Roberti and "Roman Scandals" (1933) with the ever-lovely Gloria Stuart and a glorious Ruth Etting ...maybe she wasn't as pretty as Doris Day....but she was charming and sang engagingly....Love to watch all those movies again!
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Gregory Peck for the 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird!!!
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Sorry Erase that...mistake!
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Janet Gaynor?
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You're right Stoney...in fact, talking about Gibson, I didn't like "The Passion"....but trying to be sort of "objective", I must say that the film is anyway very well done and that the actress who impersonated the Virgin Mary gave a great performance. That I could not "connect" with that movie on an emotional & aesthetic level, is another stuff, you're right, everyone has his own tastes...and we are entlited to that....thank God we live in Free countries.
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Yes, indeed, many movies are based upon plays and books....but I'd rather read the books and watch the movies I want to (everybody is entlited to its own tastes), and I'm not interested (yet), in reading Tolkien, Potter or even Frank Herbert...I Prefer the "visuals" there (Frank Herbert I mean).... besides I read a lot (novels, cinema related books, history, etc.) and there's no much time to read all one would wish or to watch all the movies one would like...We all have a life, a family, thus we have to choose
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Sorry Bride of Frankenstein
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Great Picks Path!
The Lodger is the first silent I ever saw...and I can tell for sure it's highly entertaining and well done! A must from early Hitchcock!
And what can I say about Greed...it's one of THE greatest films ever....Von Stroheim at his best....with an "unrecognizable" ZaSu Pitts, for those who are familiar only with her comedy roles in the talkies...she gives THE performance of her career as TRINA....Must-see!!
The Story of Three Loves is a film which I saw many times as a young lad....beautiful short stories (3) I remember fondly the first one starring Moira Shearer and James Mason (IMHO the best) and the second? starring lovely Leslie Caron and a "mysterious" Ethel Barrymore...another must-check!
The Invisible Man!!! What a joy!....Claude Rains's firts major role?, lovely Gloria Stuart and great Una O'Connor: the "screamer" among screamers!!! She hollers all the way!!
Bride od Frankenstein....IMHO better than the 1931 prequel nd definitely James Whale's masterpiece....Horror, Black Comedy, Drama, all in one!! great Una O'Connor screaming round here too! Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, a lovely & very young Valerie Hobson...the great Ernest Thesiger as the eerie & unforgettable Dr. Pretorius...and Elsa Lanchester as the beautiful Mary Shelley in the film's introduction and later as the most "stylish" bride ever....Check for Gavin Gordon (who co-starred with Garbo in "Romance" and played the heavy in Robert Montgomery's "Shipmates") as Lord Byron in the film's opening...
It'd be nice if TCM would show the masterful Horror-Black Comedy masterpiece "The Old Dark House" (1932)...with such a great cast!....Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Lillian Bond,Eva Moore, Ernest Thesiger, John Dudgeon.....a jewel! Or maybe they have aired it before...Well I've got the Kino DVD release and it's one of my TREASURES...
Again, excellent choices Path!
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George Sanders in Picture of Dorian Grey?
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Saw this movie today, yet once again, 'cos I bought a DVD edition (Not the Criterion one, though)...and it's such a good movie...one lives all the thrill "all over again"...mesmerizing music, visuals, dancing, performances....such passion...and I have to admit that besides Shearer, it's Walbrook's Show all over the way...This actor was really GREAT!....Albert Bassermann too...Well all, Marius Goring (whom I remembered mostly for his "villain" roles), Robert Helpmann......Really this is THE LANDMARK ballet movie.
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Manhattan Melodrama?
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Basil Rathbone?
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On the Town?
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I must add that although beautifully filmed and excellently done, I don't care about "Lord of the Rings"....Got bored with the first part of the Trilogy (never read Tolkien)...On the other hand, although sth. completely different and not comparable to LOTR, I have enjoyed "Harry Potter", entertaining yarns, strictly one-time watches...although I wouldn't read the books....
The Series which caught me in "their clutches", in spite of the special effects and all (some people didn't like them)....is the World of "Dune" and "Children of Dune"....Loved it!!!
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"Seven" is an excellent drama, but it revolved my stomach(Hard to take scenes) !! Though, excellently acted, not a movie a would have in my DVD Library, for watching, over and over again....Other good movies but with utterly disgusting images were "The Naked Lunch", "The Cook, the thief, the wife and The Lover", "Dead Ringers"....
And the movie which I found more difficult to stand...in my whole life....was Cronenberg's "Crash" which I saw on the BIG screen....I'll never watch that one again!
Another movies I wouldn't watch again, because of the bloody-hard-take images are Gibson's "The Passion" and the last version of "The Pit and the Pendulum"....well-done, but way too bloody...
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To Kill a Mockingbird?
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It bumps me out repeatedly and my "Your Watches" page is working wrongly...This began all of a sudden on Monday?
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You're welcome "J"
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excuse more than 2 seconds
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2 seconds?
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in Trouble in Paradise....great dialogue!!!
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I missed "Outward Bound" and "One-Way Passage"
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You're welcome GWT...I think it happens many times when we've got "certain" expectations about movies!...Withe "Breakfast.." I expected plain sophisticated comedy....but it's more than that, drama, black comedy, sophisticated story line, etc...great performances....and CAT!!!
On the other hand, I had expectations about "History is Made at Night"...about being a mild shipboard comedy-romance...and it was really much more, a romantic drama with touches of comedy here and there, then becomes a sort of "disaster" movie...but anyway I loved it right away!!
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Breakfast in Tifanny's is not indeed an "easy" movie..I also had to watch it a couple of times after liking it, I expected something smilar to "The Pink Panther"....But GWT, is right after a couple of times watching it, you catch-up with its sophisticated storyline (after all Capote wrote the original story in which it is based)....Give at another chance bbgalaxy!
Trivia -- Week of July 12, 2004
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Woody (One Take) Strong Van Dyke and George Cukor