Ascotrudgeracer
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There is a Walter Connolly lookalike who made a CAREER out of being the fat guy blocking narrow passages on passenger trains.
You people know who I'm talking about.
Blocked.
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Gotta say...Fatty Arbuckle.
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1957: more Americans attended movies at drive-ins than walk-ins.
Daylight Saving Time destroyed the industry. Other reasons, too, obviously.
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Forgot to credit Jules Dassin for his direction.
Check his filmography; amazing.
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In no particular order:
1. Burl Ives
2. Francis L. Sullivan
3. Greenstreet
I'm interested in your picks.
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about 30 films total.
"Great Expectations" (twice) '34, '46.
"Joan of Arc" '48
"Oliver Twist" '48
"My Favorite Spy" '51
Will always wonder what "Casablanca" would have been like with Sullivan in Greenstreet's part, and I wonder if he was tested; probably not at Warner's, where Sydney was a fixture and an obvious choice.
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This great film captures the essence and atmosphere of London's underworld better than ANY other, and there have been many!
Mike Mazurki (!) delivers a strong performance! He is NOT clowning here.
Widmark is stunning as a desperate climber.
No one forgets Francis L. Sullivan here; a perfect turn.
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Masterpiece, really different because it is film noir set in London with the subculture backdrop of pro wrestling.
Richard Widmark's ("Harry Fabian") best work, and you get Googie Withers (great), Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom and "a BETTER Sydney Greenstreet" Francis Sullivan.
This gem seldom makes lists, but that's due to lack of exposure.
Remake with DeNiro was repellent.
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For me (and it's all about me, right?) TCM is "all about":
After (I thought!) seeing every film noir EVER at least 10X, the channel will dig out a masterpiece the world hasn't enjoyed in 50 years and I'm on it for the first time.
AND don't ever forget...no commercials.
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OK...she said she didn't realize the character she portrayed was bisexual.
Huh?
Bacall had been around Hollywood (and free-spirited actresses and theater people) for some time by the time 1950 rolled around.
Like the director didn't mention something to her about the character?
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Perhaps there is something of an "Everyman" in Bogie. That might be the appeal.
He also looks like the type who would never inform.
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I have a strong feeling Al Pacino is more proud of his work in this minor masterpiece than any other film in his impressive body of work.
A stark, gritty look at the hour-to-hour hell faced by heroin addicts for whom nothing else matters than their supply of the very thing that will imprison (if they are fortunate) or kill them.
TCM has the movie...please air it. If TCM "promo'd" it for a week or 2, ratings would be way up there. People are waiting for it, agreed? When is the last time YOU enjoyed it?
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One of the reasons I love Columbia (and RKO) films from this time is spotting the same "actresses" in all those films who were bit players, but their real purpose was to give "joy" to Harry Cohn and Howard Hughes. They didn't get to say much, but they were always in the backround looking good for The Stooges or any number of zanies.
I will always wonder when I see players such as this: where did they live? What kind of money did they make? What did they do that night after getting a pie-in-face that afternoon...
Too much time on my hands!
Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on May 20, 2011 11:54 AM
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I've wondered the same thing.
The first requirement of being a male star: a (literally) big head. The old moguls insisted their stars had large heads. Bogart sported a pretty fair dome.
Second: he usually oozes some kind of power.
Third: Warner Bros. decided he was going to be a star so they told audiences "Humprey Bogart is handsome...do not believe your eyes (and ears)."
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Joan Fontaine never looked so anorexic as she did in "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt."
I LOVE this gem. Fritz Lang had a way of making those living rooms and offices look so deadly.
Fontaine was rail-thin in "The Bigamist."
She was skinny in all her great films; I love that woman.
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When I think of Fritz Lang:
1. "While the City Sleeps" (1955)
2. "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956)
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Can't think of too many films shot in the REAL saloons and dives of Havana, Cuba, 'Fifties.
These are the actual places where Batista's henchmen watered down at the bar, shoulder-to-shoulder with CIA, crooked capitalists, knife-fighters!
Cuba pre-Castro? This is what GF2 was trying to capture.
Lamarr is so alluring.
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Yes, that's part of "Model Shop."
The film is: "This is how France looks at Americans living in Los Angeles."
It is an amazing time capsule with those expertly photographed exteriors.
You're saying this wouldn't fit any great film festival?
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The "Lady" is Hedy Lamarr, who in this minor masterpiece, never looked so thin or ravishing!
It's what happens when an evolving MGM constructed noir filmed -- incredibly! -- in Cuba during the heyday of the Batista dictatorship.
John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready and Steven Geray support the delicious actress during her attempts to survive the dismal life as a Havana "nightclub entertainer" while scheming to enter Truman-era America. "Marianne Lorress" is a very hot woman feeling incredible pressures from governments and men.
Cinephiles sometimes get it wrong: it seem like the title should be "Lady Without A Passport" but it is NOT!
Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on May 14, 2011 9:44 AM
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A French swipe at Los Angeles during 'Nam.
Refreshing, quite different.
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Impossible to top her's as the saddest story in the history of Hollywood "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
Rumored the lovely young artist suicided over lack of work, but it is usually more than that. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but it seems like the best solution.
Wonder if those hot Santa Ana winds were whistling around Mt. Olive that night? 'Tis the season...
Just look again at the "H" and think of Peg Entwistle.
Edited by: Ascotrudgeracer on May 13, 2011 10:08 AM
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Like the ex-heavyweight champion who tries to make a comeback after the snap has gone out of his punches, the great hoofer laced up her taps one time too many.
She wasn't "bad" in this spot, but 5 years after her last movie appearance, Powell was a ghost.
Perhaps we simply expect too much from our stars.
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Joan Bennett's weirdo slave devotion to her pimp, Dan Duryea!
He belts her in the mouth: picking herself up off the STREET, Joan rubs her aching jaw..."Oh, that Johnnie!"
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In "Window" the scene wherein Robinson is backseat with cops in police captain car: Edward G. thinks maybe HE is their suspect when a detective assures him the police have one great advantage when catching a killer...
"...Time."
Filmdom's Greatest Fatmen.
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