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Are these DVDs that are not Region 1? In that case you need an all-region DVD player.

It sounds familiar to me, but I can't think of the title either. Maybe we both dreamed it.

*The Good Die Young* was shown last night on TV. Wonderful ensemble work in this picture about four men who take part in a robbery in London, each for his own reasons. Laurence Harvey is memorable as a heel who is gradually revealed to be something much worse.

A well written and perceptive post. I can see that you're going to be an asset to this forum. One of the many highlights of this film is the priceless look on Ralph Meeker's face when he's sitting in a luncheonette, waiting for the (phony) cops to leave the garage, and someone bursts in saying, "A bunch of hoods got killed down the street. One of them was Bugsy Siegel!" Robards is great as Capone. And the next time I see the picture I'll look for the Segal/Cagney homage.

The homage to *Psycho* escaped me, but I'll watch for it the next time I see the picture. And there is some humor, too: the opening scene, and later, when a law officer is asked whether the ghouls are moving slowly, he says: "Yes, very slowly -- they're dead." This line is echoed in *The Fugitive.* When someone protests that Kimble is dead, Gerard says: "Then he should be easy to catch."

I should have mentioned that Harry Harrison is the author of the novel. But I wonder what the new stuff tastes like. Are people going to be making nervous jokes when they eat it? And here's a suggestion for a cross-endorsement -- "Hannibal Lecter says Soylent Green is delicious!"

There was a similar scene -- this seems to be something scriptwriters love -- in a Korean War movie. Communist soldiers are dressed as G.I.s; Americans ask, "Where you from?" Answer: "Chicago." Question: "How are the Cubs doing?" Answer (puzzled): "Cubs? -- A cub is a small bear -- " That's when the G.I.s know that these are Commie infiltrators.

Drive at 60 m.p.h. in a convertible with the top down, wearing a hat, and not have the hat blow off your head. Have five or six guys shoot at you, and not once be hit.

Sunset Boulevard I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Maggie Smith Diana Rigg

The remake may be dreary -- remakes often are -- but I didn't think the original was. I'm not a football fan, but I won't find it necessary to leave New York. I just won't watch the game. And has anyone noticed that the teams are from the two states where pot is now legal?

The house in FIVE (1951) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and owned by Arch Oboler, the director and writer of the film.

*Citizen Kane*

*Reign of Terror* / *The Black Book* is an excellent film. It's surprisingly accurate: Robespierre really did have a ****-list, and for a while he had the power of life and death over everyone in France. As you noted, Richard Basehart was ideally cast in the role. Bob Cummings and Arlene Dahl do good work too.

Have you ever seen THE MOVIE MURDERER? The stars were Warren Oates and Arthur Kennedy. Here, Tom Selleck was so young that he didn't have his mustache yet. He was good, but I didn't guess he'd become a star. It's a good movie, but if you're tempted to buy it, beware of bootlegs. If a legitimate DVD ever appears, I'll grab it.

In 1967 there appeared a made-for-TV movie called "The Star Wagon," starring Orson Bean. Fourth billed was a then-unknown actor who played a yokel assistant to Bean's eccentric inventor. Mr. Unknown was -- well, different. I had never seen anyone quite like him, and I couldn't take my eyes off him when he did his mumbling monologues. I checked the credits at the end to find out his name -- it was Dustin Hoffman. I said, "This guy is going to be a star." (Whatever happened to him, anyway?) (I should add that I missed the boat on Jack Nicholson. When I saw him in *Easy Rider* I never guessed that he'd become a superstar, and an excellent actor as well.) Is there anyone for whom you correctly predicted stardom when they were still unknown?

Clara Bow and Louise Brooks

I started to watch von Sternberg's *Docks of New York,* but I found the documentary/interview on the same DVD more interesting.

One of the lines in *Black Sunday* that I love is Robert Shaw, as the Israeli agent, saying: "What is this...'Super Bowl'?" Good question.

Have any of the accounts in Anger's books been refuted -- that is, proven wrong -- and not just disputed?

Those are two fascinating (and very similar) existential westerns -- no other pictures are quite like them. "Waiting for Godot" on the prairie.

I couldn't take my eyes off Adjani in *The Driver.*

SHANE -- one of the great ones, and a beautiful story as well. HIGH NOON And eight others, to be announced. But the first two are an easy choice.

Goldfinger

Jane Greer was something to see in this picture.