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Most repellent piece of trash...walked out during the rape scene.

(intellectual yawn) This movie completely silly and overrated. J. Edgar Hoover actually WAS correct when he said there is no "Mafia." Do you really believe a bunch of greasy crooks controlled the courts, the U.S. Congress, that they had business empires? "Goodfellas" was more like it...busting open parking meters for pennies. My parents owned carpet stores in the Midwest, and a couple of these characters tried to muscle in for some protection money. My father told them to go into the basement of one of his stores for the payoff; he has a couple carpetlayers beat the daylights out of them and threw them into a snowbank in the alley.

There are no men in "The Women" but the strange thing is, when audiences were interviewed, most thought they DID see men.

Mafia kingpin refuses to enter the lucrative world of heroin sales because "the Church wouldn't like it." BUT they think nothing of slaughtering people with guns, knives, etc. "Selling drugs? No way! I want to go to heaven!"

No, wait...I think it's John Hodiak in "A Lady Without Passport." But some have called it "Lady Without a Passport" but WE know they are so wrong. Hedy Lamarr never looked better in it; a time capsule of pre-Castro Havana, and a great film. I nominate it for cult status.

People claim she visited the location of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" but does anyone believe that WAS her as the prostitute luring Bogart inside that building in the first reel? I've stopped the tape and looked as hard as I could, and I can't believe it's Sheridan. But it DOES sound like something Huston would do...sounds like something she also would try, on a lark.

...from "The Essentials"? There was some controversy. I remember one post titled "Fire Molly Haskell NOW!"

Victor Mature in almost any of his films, but 'cept "Sampson and Delilah."

For anyone with a better than average I.Q., "Dr. Strangelove" has more laughs than any film EVER. But the dullards don't get the comedic references; not trying to be cruel or superior (I'm not), but you have to be moderately intelligent to appreciate it.

...the William Burroughs biopic wherein Keifer Sutherland (as Burroughs) shoots and kills his wife (played by Courtney Love) William Tell-style? I can't find this movie, but I'm a Burroughs fanatic and I need to see it. If you have a link I would appreciate it.

Sometimes I wonder if it is the case of the culture and times were so different in the old days, that what was funny then, isn't anymore. Look at how many "old" people were mainstays of classic films; today they don't dare make movies where anybody isn't a kid.

Has anyone on this board ever laughed at anything Charlie Chaplin did in a movie? Eating shoes and pretending the laces are spaghetti...that's comedy? "Dancing" with dinner rolls and forks? I've never met anyone who said Chaplin could make them laugh. Just a man filled with hubris, I think. Genius? Why? Give an example.

Is it true he gets paid million$$$ to have his name on the credits as "associate producer" but in truth has nothing to do with the movie? Poor fella...must be down to his last $2 billion. How much money do these people need?

Brando, who called Wally Cox one of his best friends, actually said Cox had phenomenal strength; that he could never beat him in arm wrestling and never saw him lose an arm wrestling match. Seems strange, but this is true.

Every pumped up guy who ever won some bodybuilding contest THOUGHT he could make a million $$$ with his body in the movies. Of the many thousands who tried, only one really did it. He is do obvious, I won't insult your intelligence by naming him. Yes, to some extent, Steve Reeves had success as did Ferrigno. But only one made big bucks off his muscles.

Wonder how Sinatra took it...Ava Gardner said Mickey was the best lover she ever experienced. "The little man knows all the tricks," she smiled. Wowee! This, and 85 years in show business. Rooney is The MAN!

What I believe to be a mistake by the programmers is when they string together a full day of films with the same star. I'm sure even Buster Keaton fans don't want to watch him for 8 hours straight. Absolute random picks with no connecting theme; that's what I like. More obscure gems that have never been aired...my idea of a perfect day or night. Seems like some -- "Mr. Blandings Builds His..." -- gets shown too often.

The problem with marijuana has always been: 1) law enforcement 2) the delivery system (not the pusherman, the smoking of it...use a vaporizer). The entire town of Libby, MT, has cancer from an asbestos enterprise nearby; the workers would bring the poison home to their families. Pot is the only thing that gives these poor souls any quality of life. Cannibis doesn't kill, stress kills and pot relieves stress. How about those people who did 40 years in prison for the crime of having a joint in their sock? Now there are more pot stores in LA than Starbucks and McDonalds combined.

That's right...I remember you knew Pat Frawley (no relation to the actor). I do remember I big poolhouse and a zoo of sorts. Ironically, he owned the Schick Smoking Clinics, and died of lung cancer. Maybe not so ironic.

Each time I witness his performance, my thought is: this is one of the greatest dramatic actors ever to hit his mark. Casting him in his masterpiece was inspired. I remember families being warned the film was too frightening for children...cold war children of the nuclear age.

The German actor who played the lead in the Goebbels version is hanged inside a cage(!) above a street of cheering throng, as I remember it. That actor (and others) had "lots of 'splaining" to do after the war; career in tatters, of course.

As far as marijuana goes, it's out of control everywhere on earth and absolutely legal in many places. My question, dear soulmates, do you find watching movies is more (or less) enjoyable after smoking grass? This isn't the 1930's; not to revive some stale pot vs. alcohol debate, there are many substances more dangerous than this particular vegetable material. I have friends who can't watch anything -- or eat an orange -- without a few hits. I'm pretty sure we're adults here, so how about it?

If you haven't seen it, you must. Except for the poster who calls it "boring." It's raw, uncompromising, looks like a documentary (but isn't) and illustrates perfectly the impossibility of occupying a nation that refuses. The techniques of urban war (both sides) are still happening today in places America refuses to leave alone.

Dr. Goebbels produced a remake of this classic shot-for-shot. He hardly changed a thing; the sets appear identical. The National Socialist version was a huge hit in Hitler's Germany. Prints may be obtained through current neo-Nazi sites.

Haha. That manse, by the way, was leveled so Aaron Spelling could have the biggest monstrosity in the history of Holmby Hills, much to the rage of the neighbors.