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A bit of classic country from George Jones during his pre-blowdryer period, +She Thinks I Still Care+. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOR63LEtXk

I find all you guys' points to be totally awesome.

I guess it all hinged on what they wanted for the film version. Jimmy Stewart seems to fit if you want someone to be fairly clear cut about his character and not have too many notes of ambiguity. Dirk Bogarde would probably be better (except perhaps for his age, he was younger than John Dall) as a teacher with less clear motives. Just what went into mentoring his two charges? With Bogarde one might wonder, and he later played somewhat alike roles in Victim and The Servant. Louis Calhern would be an interesting choice. He might play the teacher in a similar vein to that of his character in The Asphalt Jungle-respectable to all outside appearance, but corrupt on the inside. It's all speculation now anyways.

It was ten years ago, though probably not today, that the Chili Peppers released their Californication CD. A really great CD, with not a weak number on it. Here is a live version of Scar Tissue...sarcastic, mister know-it-all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZLa2ieyps

I have to admit to liking the Steed/Peel episodes more than the other combinations. I've seen a couple with Honor Blackman and just a few of the New Avengers, so this is really a preliminary judgment, but it's hard to see how they could be better than the ones with Diana Rigg, especially in the script department. The production values in the color episodes were pretty good. The Tara King episodes are okay, but not as good as the ones with Rigg. To each his/her own. BBC America had the Steed/Peel and Steed/King episodes on a few years back, and they have held up very well.

Okay, MFYTPOS strikes again. Blondie, maybe, dubbing and annoying banners not withstanding. performing Dreaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4N_Ri3Mlk Message was edited by: sineast Message was edited by: sineast Message was edited by: sineast

Let me try one more experiment to get poor old Roxy Music's video up. Ladytron with Eno on sythesizer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMjt8vs

I'll bet they did, and I'm sure some of the other cast members might have joined them. That must have been a fun set to work on. Even in this movie, Bogart doesn't look very healthy. I see where one of the Santana Productions films is on this Friday at 10 pm, +Tokyo Joe+. I've seen little bits of it, and it looks like a pretty routine adventure story . It's one those are you in the mood or not movies.

No doubt Huston and Bogie worked things out over a half-dozen or so late night drinks. It's always a bit sad to see Bogart sucking on those coffin nails, as we know the eventual outcome.

Okay, they're going to be stubborn. John Lennon sings Instant Karma, what a great populsive beat. And Yoko appears as the rest of the Beatles might have wished to see her. We all shine on...maybe.

Let me see if I can actually get a Roxy Music video up today, or if youtube will still be stubborn about it. Let me see if Ladytron will work on a new day. If not, it'll be time to shift gears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMjt8vs

Hitler's Children's: Eva's cheating heart? Next: The Great Dictator

I remember reading that Bogie was not too happy about some of his co-stars in Sabrina either. Maybe he was a bit on the crotchety side. His role in +Beat the Devil+ does seem like more of an ensemble one, but it also appears to echo his real life: The somewhat cynical old pro who knows all the angles and is bemused by the bumbling of his fellow con artists.

Thank you both. I'm also surprised you can't completely delete a post. I'm on another non-movie site fairly often, and on that site, it's very simple to delete a post entirely. And a single letter or sign with the words edited by looks a bit silly. At least it's better than having the orginal message there.

Is there a simple and effective way to delete your own post? I didn't see anything about the subject in FAQ's. Thanks.

Rope is a cozy little movie, with the thrill killers hosting a small party while the afternoon turns into evening, and with a close-up of somebody's back to separate the ten-minute takes. A delightful little tale, a little talky at times, but still good. It's even a little hard to take all the talk about justified homicide seriously. On a practical note, it seems better to do these thrill killings solo, because Brandon ended up with a nervous, high-strung partner who likes to talk. And last, but not least, if you have the gun in your pocket, you'll be happier if you keep it right there. Mason or Bogarde would have made interesting choices for Rupert, if it had been a different movie. I don't know about Grant. He might have carried it off. But when I think of Grant in that role, it's hard not to conjure up his performance in Arsenic and Old Lace, where there is also a body in the chest, and Cary does a dozen double-takes a minute. He was wonderful in that very different movie. Guess we'll never know how he would have fared in Rope The problem with others in the Rupert role might be ambiguity. At the end of the film, Rupert gives an unambiguous defense of society's norms and law and order, a little over the top perhaps, but Stewart has the right tone for that sort of thing, whereas the other actors mentioned might not have pulled that aspect of the character off as well.

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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote} > > > If that's what happened, I guess it just shows that actors who invest their own money in movies they star in should have a thicker skin. > > What else did Santana Productions make, besides this one and In a Lonely Place, I wonder? The Wiki entry on Bogart has a brief but informative section on Santana Productions. Besides In a Lonely Place and Beat the Devil, they also produced Tokyo Joe, Sirocco, Knock on any Door and one or two others. Apparently, the box office on these films wasn't very good. but, in the best Hollywood tradition, there's still a happy ending. Bogie sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for one million dollars, equal to two years of his Warner Bros. salary when he started Santana in 1948. And he still had the boat too.

A website that works and then doesn't, without rhyme or reason, intermittently, and doesn't do what it is supposed to do. Sound familiar? There's more than one out there. But, since a Cat has nine lives, I'll try again, with Into White.

It's doubtful anyone would call Beat the Devil Huston's best film, but I find it to be one of his most enjoyable. Many of the usual suspects back in place for a nice little tongue in cheek take on film noir, including, naturally, Huston's own contributions to the genre. Was channel surfing and caught about the last hour. Sort of an early version of a movie about nothing much at all, but very entertaining nonetheless. I liked Edward Underdown's performance as the ultra stiff-lipped Harry Chelm, who got the goods in the end. Well done, old chap. Bogart put some of his own money into the production, and it didn't do very well at the box office, which may have given Bogart a jaundiced view of the movie. He said that only phonies liked it, which might have been his thinner wallet talking. Even Bogie got it wrong sometimes.

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The artist now known as Yusuf Islam, and formerly known as Cat Stevens, and before that as Steven Georgiou, had a birthday a few days ago (61st). Happy Birthday. Here he performs Longer Boats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF3Cjbk1zU Message was edited by: sineast