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The part I saw last night reminded me of an extended Night Gallery episode or a
70's TV movie, with the addition of more sexual content, and even that looked pretty
dull. Mr. Franco, back in his 1960s and 1970s prime used to pump out three or
four sexy horror movies a year. Maybe he was a second Fassbinder, but I wouldn't
count on that. More likely it was a result of putting a lot of average and stereotypical
things out in a hurry. I don't think it's a matter of being frustrated, it's just a matter
of a rather cliched and boring take on the usual horror elements, with a few worthless
twists and turns thrown in here and there. The whole thing seemed over familiar and
not very original, but let everyone see it and make up their own mind.
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Touch of Evil: What's Weaver on?
Next: That Touch of Mink
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Underground? Yes, lock this thing in a concrete vault deep underground, so it never
surfaces again. There's weird interesting, then there's weird dumb and boring. This
was the latter. I watched bits until Dennis Price died (lucky him). What a mess,
though it might be an answer to a trivia question: In which film did both Dennis
Price and Klaus Kinski appear?
I didn't think TCM would show a film with SSC, even at 2 a.m. and there were obvious
confusions with other films with the same name. Wish they had shown the one with
Laura Antonelli. It couldn't possibly have been worse than this dud. It would be been
more entertaining to listen to the Velvet's Warhol cover album twice over while thumbing
through a picture book about Nico. One more reason to ban fur.
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Night of the Hunter: Love/Hate Relationship
Next: Orphans of the Storm
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Jamaica Inn: Different kinda beachcomber
Next: Ruggles of Red Gap
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I'm always tempted to reply to threads titled "Anyone here love X?", yeah, X was okay.
I do like Dana Andrews, especially in his 1940s heyday. As I said before, maybe it
seems he is rather expressionless due to the stoicism of many of the characters he
seemed to play in that era, though that would not be an across-the-board characterization.
Bill Holden really got beat up for his performance in Golden Boy. But it was his first
starring role, so I cut him a break, especially in light of how he improved later on. He
does look and mostly act the part of the juvenile, but you have to start somewhere.
The manner of Holden's death was indeed tragic, and being only in his early 60's
he probably had some more good performances left, if his health had been all right.
Very sad all around.
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Shadow of a Doubt: Install Herbalarm ASAP
Next: Lifeboat
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I remember reading a few years ago about an attmept to revive the Ma and Pa Kettle
brand and update it for a contemporary audience. A few rough drafts were worked
up, I think one was Ma Kettle Gets an Abortion and Pa Kettle's Meth Lab,
but things just didn't work out, and the project was scrapped.
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Bra and stockings are okay, but I would think the true MM fan would want to wait on the
possibility of panties, especially if they had a hint of her precious bodily fluids. If you're
going to do movie star worship, might as well go all the way. Hurray for Hollywood.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Which of the 3 big Ealing comedies starring Alec Guiness do you think is the best, "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "The Lavender Hill Mob" or "The Ladykillers". I would vote for "The Ladykillers". Hilarious.
Maybe it's the rule of last thought about, but I'd keep them in the order you put them in. This is
difficult because each one is funny in its own way, and I'd be glad to see any of them again.
Guinness had an amazing run from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s.
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> {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote}
> I _love_ spending an evening with a bottle of wine and DVDs of *Can't Stop the Music, Xanadu* and *Roller Boogie* .
There is no disputing taste, but if that was the evening's line-up. I'd drain that bottle of
wine first.
Show no movies made after 1910.
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I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Incorruptible Max and the Jacobins, probably
beyond what they deserve. The French Revolution did eventually succeed, but it took
a long and roundabout way to get there. It's good to behead king. And the French Revolution
had one advantage over the American. It did something to limit slavery, whereas the American
Revolution further institutionalized it. Not a good way to spread liberty.
Even if TCM didn't celebrate Bastille Day, Sundance did, though perhaps not on purpose.
Sundance showed Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur (1955) last night. Since
if started at 12:30 a.m. on the 15th, it was technically not on Bastille Day, but who's
counting. Intriguing little movie, a crime caper film with a few twists, some fine on-location
shots of Paris, in general sort of a movie with one foot in low-budget film and new wave.
Definitely worth the viewing, especially as I hadn't seen this one before. That's half the fun.
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Bonjour Tristesse: Cocteau's Boho's Better.
Next: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (it is Bastille Day after all).
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Maybe I am misremembering, but I thought TCM showed The Hustler a few years
back, maybe two or three. Something I always miss in that film are the things
that Piper Laurie's character writes in lipstick on the mirror just before she offs
herself. I get most of them, but there's always one I can't quite decipher before
the shot changes.
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Then there is the Southeast Masocinematic Festival's coming double-bill of +20,000
Years in Sing Sing with Can't Stop the Music+.
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Stalag 17: Love Holden's disinvite.
Next: La Grande Illusion.
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SOTC was an okay musical. Yes, some people were put off by the fact that Marni
Nixon dubbed all of Jesus's solos, others were confused by the segue from +Bewitched,
Bothered, and Bewildered into Casey Jones+, but, all in all, it wasn't half bad.
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So Proudly We Hail: Somebody say...meeoowwwww
Next: Four Jills in a Jeep
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"Mr Chairman, let me explain. I am just an ordinary joe who joined CFU because I
have an interest in classic movies. Little did I know this seemily harmless organi-
zation was not interested in classic movies, but was a front for the communist takeover
of our country and the destruction of all that we, as Americans, hold dear. I deeply
regret my actions, however innocent they really are, and hope the committee will
understand. Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
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It certainly does, especially with White Heat, that's one of my all-time favorite crime
films. Top of the world.
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I know that version of Cleopatra and Sign of the Cross are somewhat notorious
for their scantily clad actresses in certain scenes. I saw a part of Sing of the Cross
a few years back, and it looked all right. I'm sure some of these films are well-made
and interesting, but since my spare time is limited, I usually have to pick and choose
carefully, so it's just easier to omit the genres that I know I'm not interested in. I'll
probably check out The Undercover Man tonight, I like crime films and, even better,
have never seen this one before.
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I hold in my hand, well actually it's right here on the desk, a list of 251 persons associated
with the CFU, or who know people associated with the CFU, or who at sometime in their
lives wrote the letters C F U, though not necessarily in that order. I will transmit this
list to the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and its current
chairman, Adolph Menjou III, to do with it as he sees fit. P.S. If anyone wants any advice
on evening wear, AM 3 is your man.
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It is funny how many old groups are out there touring. Of course Tap had the
disadvantage of always having to find a new drummer.
I'm getting to be a genre hag. There's just certain subjects I'm just not all that
interested in. Never seen Spartacus or Ben-Hur and really have no
interest in seeing them, though they are probably fine exemplars of their genre.
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To a certain degree, Spinal Tap was a real band. They released albums and did concerts.
If some band that had one hit twenty years ago and is still playing can be called a real
band, why not the Tap men? Turn it up to...12, man.
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