Sprocket_Man
-
Posts
1,311 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by Sprocket_Man
-
-
Anne Bancroft wasn't in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS;
Anne Baxter was.
-
> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> When watching THE WAR WAGON today, I felt that Howard Keel posing as a native American was definitely bad casting. He's a fairly good actor, but it just doesn't work for me.
>
> Also, I think Donna Reed is miscast as Sacajawea in THE FAR HORIZONS.
>
> Were there no racially correct actors they could hire for these parts or Native Americans they could train???
As though there was any real concern about such things in the general population back then.
The box office was all that mattered, and both Reed (an Oscar-winner by that time) and Keel were bankable names.
The list of Anglo or Latino actors playing Indians in Hollywood films is a long one. A few names:
Anthony Quinn
Boris Karloff
Burt Lancaster
Jean Peters
Charles Bronson
Monte Blue
Victor Mature
Rock Hudson
Tony Curtis
Jeff Chander
Debra Paget
Jack Palance
Frank deKova
Elsa Martinelli
Eduard Franz
Hank Worden
Henry Brandon
Ricardo Montalban
Gilbert Roland
Delores del Rio
Victor Jory
Sal Mineo
Michael Callan
Martin Landau
Morris Ankrum
-
Varying degrees of ghastly dreck, all.
-
> {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote}
> To answer one of the earlier questions posed about the look of Ronald Coleman (51 in real lfe at the making of this film) where as his character looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties.
>
>One aspect is that at the turn of the 20th century such as in the Bohr War (1899-1902), the British were still accepting quite young boys in the army to serve as musicians.
A: It's Ronald Colman.
B: It's the Boer War.
-
> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> So being born in the U.K. to foreign parents doesn't automatically make you a British citizen? How odd.
Why is that odd? People travel all the time, and babies are born wherever it's most convenient for them to come into the world. The parents' nationality determines that of the child, not the locale where the baby made its first appearance.
> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> I noticed that one of Hermione Gingold's parents was an American. I assume that ruled her out from being Dame Hermione.
You assume wrong. Citizenship in any nation belonging to the British Commonwealth, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India, is the only requisite for being eligible for this honor. Remember that Sir Winston Churchill's mother, Jenny Jerome, was an American.
-
Taylor was born in the U.K., to American parents, so she did live there for a time, but was never a British subject.
Her knighthood is strictly honorary, and cannot be used in the way regular knights and dames can.
-
> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> That was common in a lot of Hollywood war films. Take ?Battleground? for example. Some of the soldiers were senior citizens, like the old guy with the false teeth and several others.
During WW II, the U.S. was drafting men up to 38 years old and, as I've noted before, to our eyes men at the top of that range could easily look as though they were in their early 50s.
And if ya don't take good care of your teeth, you're gonna lose 'em, just like "Kipp" Kippton Douglas Fowley, the actor who played Dexter, the Director, in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN) in BATTLEGROUND. Unspool that floss!
-
> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}
> Greer couldn't tell Ronnie because the shrink (Philip Dorn) said it would be too shocking for him.
No, that's not it at all. Dr Benet counsels against Paula's telling Charles that they'd been husband and wife when he was "Smithy" because the Doctor fears that -- even though Charles would probably do the honorable thing and resume married life with Paula -- he'd resent Paula's coming between him and Kitty, ensuring that neither of them would ever be truly happy.
-
> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> My purpose in starting this thread is two-fold: first, I'd like to mention an upcoming retrospective at UC Berkeley's Art Museum, for those who are able to attend. Secondly, I'd like to open up the thread to a more general discussion about the films photographed by the great Jack Cardiff, surely one of the greatest DPs of all time.
As far as I'm concerned, he was the best (he'd probably deserve it on the basis of that staggeringly beautiful shot in THE VIKINGS, as Ragnar's ship sails around the fjord's headland, its sail in full sunshine while the mountain behind it is in shadow).
I was fortunate enough to meet Mr Cardiff when the Motion Picture Academy honored him about five years ago at a screening of BLACK NARCISSUS.
-
> {quote:title=TCMWebAdmin wrote:}{quote}
> This thread is slowly beginning to take a direction into vulgarity. Please try and remember the Code of Conduct when posting and be mindful of others in your choice or words.
>
> If it continues, this thread will have no choice be to be locked.
>
> Thanks everyone!
> -Renee
You really do have a low threshold. It's a good thing you don't actually run TCM, or Rhett's last line to Scarlett might get bleeped.
-
> {quote:title=Tampopo wrote:}{quote}
> I love this film, in all it's borderline-camp glory!
>
> I'm not sure why, really. Perhaps because I like the leads, and like seeing a woman say "no" to Clark Gable.
Women always say "no" to Gable in his films...until they eventually say "yes" (GONE WITH THE WIND being the supreme example though, due to that novel and film's great sophistication, at the moment Scarlett finally tells Rhett that she loves him, he walks out on her, fed up with her unremitting selfishness). It's the form every Gable film follows.
-
THE BRIBE
KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS
TOO MUCH, TOO SOON
ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT
-
> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> Random Harvest has great storytelling, but some viewers can't get past how "mature" Coleman looks. Are we to buy into a middle-aged soldier? How old do we think he is?
In Britain, with its rigid class structure, a man of Charles Ranier's station in life would automatically be made an officer upon his joining the "forces' (as the Brits call them), and officers could, and would, be of almost any age (though the junior officers, who actually did most of the fighting, and dying, in the trenches and on the battlefields were, for the most part, in their early-mid 20s), so there's nothing at all unusual about a man like Ranier serving.
Remember, also, that back in the period 1910-1920, a man in his mid-late thirties would typically look like a man in his fifties does today (Colman was 51 when the film was released), so it's not at all far-fetched to believe that Charles Ranier is no older than 39 when he escapes the asylum (meaning he was 35 at the outbreak of WWI).
-
Too bad it wasn't the last.
-
> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wbIQZZ_oA&feature=related
>
> I believe most of this music is from Captain Blood, with a brief bit from The Adventures of Robin Hood.
The first selection in Hamill's routine is from Korngold's score to the 1947 Errol Flynn film, ESCAPE ME NEVER (:00:56 - 1:24), that segues into
CAPTAIN BLOOD (Main Title, 1:24 - 2:16), that cuts to
OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1946; 2:16 - 3:15), that cuts to
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (the Merry Men's attack on the treasure caravan; 3:15 - 3:36), then back to
CAPTAIN BLOOD (Main Title; 3:36 - 4:16).
-
Nope, it's not gonna happen. And it's all in my head, anyway.
-
> {quote:title=BruceGhent wrote:}{quote}
> I'll always remember Lionel Jeffries as the completely absent-minded Cavor, the brilliant and thought crazy scientist who discovers a means of propulsion to take him, Edward Judd and Martha Hyer all the way to the moon.His character was the most memorable and ultimately, the most sympathetic of the three. As THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON was primarily a Ray Harryhausen effect fest, Mr. Jeffries' role was a fine credit to this career.
Jeffries's performance was, without a doubt, the best ever to grace what is now commonly called a "Ray Harryhausen film." Cavor was far more human than the cardboard figures found elsewhere in Mr Harryhausen's oeuvre (one can argue that Harryhausen's animated creatures were more human, too, even though they were decidedly non-human. The best actor to ever appear in one of Harrhausen's films was, however, un-billed: next time you watch FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, take a close look at the postman who delivers the summons to Bedford's cottage -- it's Peter Finch, doing a cameo as a favor to the producers).
I frankly hadn't known that Jeffries was still alive; I assumed he'd be a hundred years old by now, and am surprised that he was only 83 when he died. I guess it's because he always played so old -- Cavor seems a man in his 60's, yet Jeffries would have been only 37-38, only six years older than Edward Judd, when FIRST MEN IN THE MOON was shot.
-
> {quote:title=GwendolynTheMovie wrote:}{quote}
> I was disappointed in watching the Sunday, February 7, 2010 presentation of Wuthering Heights when Ben Mankiewicz introduced the movie he noted that it co-starred Geraldine Paige, when in fact it co-starred Geraldine Fitzgerald...thanks to the DVR I was able to double check this error of his.
Oh, well, it's not much more egregious than misspelling Geraldine Page's name.
-
The sound of all that mucus in high-def.
I can hardly wait.
-
I just heard it a few minutes ago from a friend of hers, one of Hollywood's most legendary casting directors.
Grayson certainly was a babe in her day, though Louis B. Mayer's MGM was just as certainly loathe to let the public know it. So they bound her up in corsets and hid a couple of her most appealing assets, preferring to market the lungs underneath, instead.
Jack L. Warner wasn't so prudish; when he borrowed her for 1953's SO THIS IS LOVE, and starred her opposite Merv Griffin, the corset came off and the world finally got so see the real Kathryn Grayson...and quite a natural wonder she was, too.
-
The bigger question is why anyone would want to watch it.
-
> {quote:title=WhitSt wrote:}{quote}
> If you would have said black you would have be banned from the site. Saying southern promotes you to head of the faculty lounge.
I wouldn't have written "black," because I didn't mean black. I was referring specifically to white Southerners, most of whom most decidedly use "thuh" and short "a"'s before vowels.
-
> {quote:title=WhitSt wrote:}{quote}
>You're right The 10 Commandments did ellipse it.
"Ellipse it?" Have you been drinking Ovaltine, again?
-
Well made, but a rather pretentious and simplistic revenge tale with little heart and soul, other than to make the tired old argument that tyranny is a bad thing, so that the best thing anyone can do is turn the tables on his or her oppressor. Of course, it also doesn't help that the film steals shamelessly for earlier, and much better films, and has such a dreadful musical score (if I have to sit through one more film underscored with "wailing women" to signify...I don't know what, I'm going to get up and slash the screen into ribbons with my legionnaire's sword).
Films like BEN-HUR (also a revenge tale, but one that tackles the larger issue of turning that desire for vengeance into forgiveness and redemption) and SPARTACUS, which is about sacrifice, the turning aside of vengeance not for some intangible sense of redemption, but in exchange for having a mission, in this case the freeing of every slave in Italy.
PS: It's spelled "yea" and "nay."
Happy 100th Birthday to David Niven!
in General Discussions
Posted
The Moon's, indeed, a Balloon.