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Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically different backgrounds -- one wealthy, the other staunchly puritanical -- they allow class differences to prevent any possible union. Their passions exist purely in their hearts and minds, but the couple never physically or socially express this forbidden love. Later in life, Deanie is institutionalized following a breakdown, and she eventually returns home to resolve her feelings about Bud.
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could this be it?
A PREVIEW OF "SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS"
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Splendor in the Grass to receive a rating. Please check out a preview of the film below:
Cast:
Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie, Pat Hingle, Barbara Loden
Director:
Elia Kazan
more cast & crew...
Synopsis:
Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families'
disapproval...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SplendorintheGrass-1019645/preview.php
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"By the way she drove her husband John (John Barrymore look-a-like) crazy with her antics."
i should be so lucky:-)
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that should be "they eat in cuba same as we do"......why can't we edit?
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sim "have dinner with me? tomorrow night? why should that be something you want?"
bran "maybe becuase i figure i'll be hungry tomorrow night, now i'll pick you up at noon"
sim "noon? to go to dinner?"
bran "well it takes a little time to get there, its my favorite place, el cafe cabana".
sim "el cafe cabana, where's that?"
bran "havana"
sim " havana? havana cuba, you want to take me to dinner in havana cuba!"
bran "well they eat in a havana same as we do"
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guys and dolls is one of my all time favorite movies, the casting is inspired, it took risked that payed off very well, it really is a great film.
brando "this mission is laying an egg, your stuck with a store full of repentance and no sin, now do i give you a fair rundown?"
simmons "i won't know, i've never had a rundown".
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bran "'there is no peace onto the wicked-Isiah 131", this is wrong".
sim "lets just say it's a matter of opinion".
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bran "what will he be like?"
sim "who?"
bran "oh... that, upright, downright, forthright square, with his close shaved chin up, who right now is marching along the proper way to proper you, what will he be like?"
sim-"he won't be a gambler".
bran " i can name better than you what he won't be, but what will he be?"
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bran " in one of my darkest moments i came up with a three horse parley, shadrack, meshack and abendigo"
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i got the horse right here his name is paul revere, the handicapper here says its no bumsteer.
i say it's valentine, he takes it by a mile, the morning lines got'em going off at five to nine.
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bran " why nate'en, i've never known you to lay it on the line, you always take your bite off the top"
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bran " on the day i left to make my way in the world, my daddy took me to one side, 'son', my daddy says to me,'not having the necessary lettuce to bankroll you to a very large stock, instead i'm going to stake you to some very vaulable advice...................................."
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there are so many more great lines, i can go on and on and on......do yourself a favor and watch it with an oen mind, you will be thoroughly entertained.
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trading and sharing are part of a consumer/fan's "right of fair usage" IMO, its part of what keeps culture and interest alive and also why these movies are still apreciated so more money can be made from them
i'm 38, i know an 18 yr girl who i work with, we've talk about nostalgia alot, i've made copies of or lent her old movies many times, now that she's been exposed to "mr simth goes.." or "lawrence of arabia" et cetra, aren't the rights holders better off? isn't tcm and all of us who have an interest in these cultures? the powers that be should see it the same as a supermarket giving out free samples, it gets the people hooked........too much restriction kill's the golden goose.
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tulluah bankhead was the hottest person of her day, way ahead of her time, she gets my vote......i would have loved to have married such a woman.
The Conqueror And Other Bombs
in General Discussions
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One of the funniest, strangest, and saddest movies of
all time is RKO's 1956 epic The Conqueror, starring
John Wayne, certified American Hero, as... Genghis Khan.
Believe it or not, that's the sanest part of the movie.
At least John Wayne could ride a horse. The Tartar queen who
steals Khan's heart is played by Susan Hayward, a pale Irish
woman with bright red hair. Imagine Nicole Kidman trying to
pass for Connie Chung, and you've pretty much got the idea.
Khan's mother is played by Agnes Moorehead, who went on to play
Samantha's mother on Bewitched. And Genghis Khan's "blood
brother" is played by Pedro Armendariz, a Mexican heartthrob
who doesn't look remotely related to John Wayne or the Mongols.
Bizarre enough? We haven't even started.
Ever try to cast an entire horde? It ain't easy, apparently.
The producers couldn't quite come up with several hundred
actual Mongolians to ride along as Khan's rampaging minions, so
they hired... a bunch of American Indians.
Who, translated through the magic of Hollywood, look exactly
like... a bunch of American Indians.
One of the most jarring moments in the entire film arrives
about halfway through, when two actual Chinese guys appear
briefly as extras. After a full hour of trying to convince
yourself that John Wayne and this weird menagerie of Europeans,
Mexicans, and American Indians are all from Mongolia, actual
Asians look positively otherworldly.
Hang on, this gets gets even better.
Given the Cold War politics of 1956, everybody couldn't exactly
fly to Mongolia to film the thing. Instead, they decided to
substitute... Utah.
Sure. Utah, Mongolia. Pretty much interchangeable. [image]
Enamored with Utah's Snow Canyon area, director Dick Powell
shot most of the film in the same exact chunk of the Utah
desert. So if you watch closely, there are several spots where
Wayne and Armendariz ride some great distance and wearily
dismount... almost exactly where they started.
And, since absolutely everything has to be wrong on a picture
like this, the script aims for a weird neo-primitive
Shakespeare vibe, giving John Wayne lines like:
"I feel this Tartar wo-man is for me, and my blood says: take
her!"
and
"She is wo-man -- MUCH wo-man!"
and
"Know this, wo-man! I take you for wife!"
and so on.
Let's sum up here:
Imagine, if you will, the full effect of two hours of watching
John Wayne and an Irish redhead doing caveman Shakespeare while
trying to look vaguely Chinese, while a Mexican guy and Endora
from Bewitched ride around in circles with a bunch of Indians
in the middle of Utah, and somehow this is all supposed to
represent a stirring epic on the life of Genghis Khan.
Man, it's fantastic. Trust me. You've got to rent this thing
sometime. It's a freakin' laugh riot. I pounded the table and
cried in places.
Honest. Incidentally, the film was financed by Howard Hughes,
who most biographers don't mention was completely out of his
mind. And even though the public laughed the film off the
screen, Hughes thought The Conqueror was a masterpiece. Hughes
wasted millions on this thing, then lost millions more
promoting it, and then later spent even more millions buying up
and hoarding every copy. As a result, the film wasn't seen
again by the public for decades, although Hughes himself
reportedly watched it in solitude literally hundreds of times.
The Conqueror was such a colossal disaster that RKO never
recovered. The Postman and Waterworld were bad, but Kevin
Costner still hasn't wiped out an entire studio.
Yet.
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So what does this all have to do with anything in the news?
Stay with me here.
The Conqueror was also a disaster in another, much more
horrifying way.
The town of St. George, where the cast and crew spent much of
their time, and Snow Canyon, where most of The Conqueror was
filmed, were about 100 miles downwind of the Nevada Test Site.
That's where the U.S. government tested various atomic weapons.
The government didn't bother to warn anybody about the fallout.
So the cast and crew of The Conqueror spent three solid months
immersed in contaminated air, food, and water.
You can guess the result.
Reviewing The Conqueror's credits, from the top:
* John Wayne? Died of cancer.
* Susan Hayward? Died of cancer.
* Agnes Moorehead? Died of cancer.
* Pedro Armendariz? Committed suicide while dying of cancer.
* Dick Powell? Died of cancer.
And so on.
By 1980, when People magazine did a headcount, at least 91
members of the cast and crew had contracted cancer.
People never found out how many of the Indian extras were
afflicted.
It's a brutal irony that John Wayne, the living embodiment of
American uperpatriot militarism, may well have died as a
casualty of the U.S. government's willingness to endanger its
own people.
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It gets much worse. The Conqueror is just a footnote to the
full story. he town of St. George, none of whose citizens were
big Hollywood stars, suffered a similar fate. Uninformed of the
danger, and exposed in their homes for years instead of months,
the residents of St. George eventually contracted cancers in
staggering numbers.
The Conqueror's crew numbered in the dozens.
St. George's population was in the thousands.
You probably wouldn't recognize any of their names. They
weren't the sort of bigshots you'd read about in People
magazine. They were ordinary folks, just like you and me.
And they were expendable.
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Fast forward 40 years...
St. George is now a popular tourist gateway to Bryce Canyon and
Zion National Parks. A steady stream of tourists passes through
the town, on their way to gorgeous scenery and carefree skiing.
Utah's web page now refers to St. George as "Utah's Hot Spot."
Nobody seems to catch the irony.
Not only is The Conqueror forgotten; the only people who seem
to remember the atomic cancer cluster are the descendants of
the victims.
The full death toll of American civilians from U.S. atomic
weapons testing may never be known.
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OK, India and Pakistan have now tested some big big bangs, and
everyone's worried about how their future nuclear stuff might
visit all sorts of horror on their enemies.
Which is scary, yeah. But how about we pay a little attention
to what they've already done to some of their own people?
India tested their nuclear weapons literally walking distance
from several small villages where some of their own
unsuspecting citizens live and work. And already hundreds of
Indians are showing some of the classic symptoms of radiation
poisoning.
The Indian governnment says it's all perfectly safe, of course.
Officials say the sick folks are just looking for a handout.
Which doesn't explain why livestock is keeling over as well.
Even if Pakistan and India avoid a hot war, innocent casualties
of their conflict have already begun to mount.
You wouldn't recognize the names of the villages, nor would you
know the names of the people who live there. But they're
ordinary folks.
Expendable.
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If you or I knowingly, recklessly, and needlessly kill a single
innocent person, we then stand guilty of manslaughter and
deserving of contempt.
Does it not follow, then, that if a government knowingly,
recklessly, and needlessly kills an innocent person -- or
indeed, hundreds of innocents: in fact, the very people said
government is supposed to represent -- then this government
stands equally guilty and contemptible?
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The danger of nuclear weapons lies not only in their
detonation. It also lies in their testing, their maintenance,
and their disposal -- indeed, in every phase of their very
existence.
Humankind will someday abolish nuclear weapons.
Or vice versa.
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facts."
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of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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From a differant source:
The rest of the story on this one remains to be told; That
Hughes in his maddness realized that nothing could protect him
from radiation from Nevada bomb tests, even the looney crap he
did to protect him from germs. That Hughes felt personally
responsible for all those deaths of the crew, and from that was
born typical Hughes' action.
After moving to Las Vegas in 1966 Hughes attempted to buy the
State of Nevada and the White House in an effort to stop
nuclear testing in Nevada, offering LBJ $1,000,000 if he would,
and pouring out the bucks on Dick Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and
Paul Laxault.
In fact it was money from Hughes for exactly that purpose that
ended up being the infamous $100,000 in Beebe Robozo's safe
that helped bring Nixon down. In fact during the time from
1966-1971 close to $20 million in Hughes money went pooff and
disapeared in the Hughes-AEC battle. Much of it ended up in the
pockets of politicans from EVERYBODY running for president in
1968, to a former Utah Governor, and a Salt Lake City Mayor.
The man hired by the Hughes organization to run the Hughes ban
the bomb tests in Washington, DC was none other than Larry
O'Brien, and it was concern over how much he knew of the
Hughes-Nixon nuke-tests bribes that lead to the witch hunt
among Nixon's aides that sent the burglars into O'Brien's
office, and the plumbers into trying to open the safe of Las
Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun. Thus it is so fitting the
memo flashed to Hughes from his cheif lawyer the night before
Nixon resigned, "Nixon will resign at 12:00 EDT tomorrow to
save both himself and his friends."
Hughes money poured out of the cage of the Sands in
non-discript $10 and $20 bills and into a wide variety of
efforts to stop the bomb tests, including the Utah Peace and
Freedom Party in 1968, WILPF and involved such well know
figures as Barry Commoner and Linus Pauling, Funded covertly a
march down Salt Lake City's State Street of over 1,200 carrying
signs, "Ski Utah the Hottest Snow on Earth". And on and on!
It was also this raging battle between Hughes and the AEC that
gave birth to the downwinders'-fallout victim's movement in
southwest Utah, and all of us orginal community activists who
started it go back in one form, or another to those days, and
that battle. Eventually we won! We got the media's attention
locally, regionally, statewide, nationally, and finally
internationally, AND ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEDIA ACTIONS WE
TOOK WAS TO LEAK THE STORY OF POOR JOHN WAYNE AND THAT DAMNED
MOVIE TO A BRITISH TABLOID JOURNALISTS AND STOOD BACK AND
WATCHED THE MEDIA FREAK SHOW, KNOWING THEY MAY NOT GIVE A ****
ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO LIVED AROUND SNOW CANYON, BUT THEY'D HOLD
THE PRESSES FOR GOOD OLD JOHN WAYNE. AND WHEN THEY DID WE WERE
THERE WAITING TO LINE UP THE SURVIVORS FOR PEOPLE MAG, LIFE,
AND THE MORNING TV SHOWS, AND THE HUNDRED OR SO OTHERS, TO HIT
THE TV TALK SHOWS, AND TO DEMAND CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.
Trouble is the real rest of the story behind this is that it
wasn't just Snow Canyon, St. George, or John Wayne, as the
National Cancer Institute fallout report forced out last summer
and fall clearly shows, it was all 160 million Americans living
during those "hot years". Those 160 million American's all got
just about the same fallout levels as did we folks in St.
George, AND JUST AS MUCH AS DID GOOD OLD JOHN WAYNE! AND WHAT
HAPPENED TO JOHN WAYNE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE IN ST
GEORGE HAPPENED, AND STILL IS HAPPENING ALL ACROSS THIS
COUNTRY.
The NCI fallout report was only concerned with ONE radioactive
isotope produced by the bomb tests -- Iodine 131. There were
359 others, and many of them were far more deadly than Iodine-
131, and unlike the thyroid cancers the Iodine caused, the ones
they did were not 95% treatable, and survivable. The NCI report
said the Iodine alone caused 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer
nationwide. Add the toll from the other 359 not discussed, AND
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AMERICAN DEAD, INCLUDING JOHN WAYNE, WOULD
REACH INTO THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS AT THE LEAST AND INTO THE
MILLIONS MOST LIKELY.
People should rent that movie, should watch it, and should
quickly learn to understand the full meaning behind it, and the
tragedy of it all for not only John Wayne, or the people in St.
George, but for themselves where ever they live, and for this
nation as a whole. Absent such an understanding, we have no
hope of ever surviving the endless nuclear crisies of which
India and Pakistan are todays current chapter. Because only the
truth of how many of our own we have already killed will ever
make us free of the nuclear testing demon!