faceinthecrowd
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Clara Bow and Louise Brooks
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I started to watch von Sternberg's *Docks of New York,* but I found the documentary/interview on the same DVD more interesting.
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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.
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Have any of the accounts in Anger's books been refuted -- that is, proven wrong -- and not just disputed?
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Those are two fascinating (and very similar) existential westerns -- no other pictures are quite like them. "Waiting for Godot" on the prairie.
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I couldn't take my eyes off Adjani in *The Driver.*
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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.
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Goldfinger
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I seem to remember one of the male characters saying, "Call it my woman's intuition." That sounds like a broad hint (pun intentional).
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Jane Greer was something to see in this picture.
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WW II didn't exactly "come along," but if it had never happened, there might have been more films noirs. And that would have been fine with me.
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"Oh, the odor of goodness!"
Frank Silvera as General Huerta in *Viva Zapata!*
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"Oh, the odor of goodness!"
Frank Silvera as General Huerta in *Viva Zapata!*
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Exactly the opposite took place when *It Happened One Night* was released. When Clark Gable took off his shirt, revealing that there was nothing under it but his manly chest, the sales of men's undershirts plummeted.
But to address the broader question of how movies influenced -- or reflected -- social changes, I think the 1960s are a significant decade for examination.
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For me, the one Stallone movie worth seeing is *F.I.S.T.* Well, some actors don't make even one good film.
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The film that Norma Desmond watches is *Queen Kelly,* which was directed by Erich von Stroheim, who plays Max in *Sunset Boulevard.*
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In *The Grifters,* Anjelica Huston receives a telephone warning that her boss knows she's been stealing from him. She leaves immediately; on the TV is the movie she's been watching: *The Lady Vanishes.*
In *Brute Force,* the inmates watch *The Egg and I.*
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"Nobody dies."
A WALK IN THE SUN
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Two footnotes to Ann Sheridan's career:
1) In *Kings Row* she didn't appear on the screen for more than 60 minutes after the opening credits began, even though she was top-billed. That has to be a record.
2) Her publicity photos were usually of the sultry and seductive type, but she generally played the girl next door. (An exception was the floosie in *They Made Me a Criminal.*)
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"Bogie."
-- Jean-Paul Belmondo in *Breathless,* as he gazes raptly at a poster of *The Harder They Fall.*
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When Janet Leigh goes to see Jack Webb in his pad, he says:
"You've got the wrong gutter. This is a single."
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In the "Little Johnny Jones" number Jimmy dances halfway up the wall -- at least, it looks that way.
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A favorite episode of mine is "The Element of Danger" (1962), in which Lee Marvin plays one of his patented nut jobs -- a violent guy who places himself in precarious situations because that's how he gets his kicks. I bought the DVD just for that performance.
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An intriguing aspect of this film is that it's never really established whether Bergman's character is the real Anastasia. It's hinted that she may be, and is giving up her claim for the sake of love; and if the viewer finds that interpretation satisfying, the screenplay doesn't rule it out.
I predicted stardom for ....
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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?