ElCid
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I pulled up the schedule and noted some good ones coming up. Apparently on Saturdays at Midnight.
Suddenly (04/08) is fairly interesting, but I am not a big Sinatra fan. To me Cry Danger (04/22) is much more interesting. Watch for the instrument cluster in the Nash that Richard Erdman drives. The Narrow Margin (05/06) is a really good movie. Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor do excellent in it.
QUESTION. Is Noir Alley showing at Midnight Saturday/Sunday and then repeating same movie at 10 AM Sunday morning?
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1 hour ago, Arteesto said:
Popping in to say: Impossible to "ugly" her up.
True, but when you compare the flashbacks to Dors in prison, it is obvious she and director went to great pains to show her natural. Even her hair color changed. Far too many actresses of the time would never have done this.
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I watched Yield to the Night and was impressed. Probably not one I would watch again now that I know the story, but it was well-written, well-directed and well-acted. Dors in particular did very well. One particular positive aspect was that she was shown natural in the prison scenes.
It was also educational to see the British prison system as it related to women waiting to be executed. Two guards with her 24/7 for weeks or months?
In fact, because of Night, I recorded Long Haul. Don't recall it, but think I have watched it before.
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20 hours ago, Kay said:
Speaking of unique looks being exploited to project menace, I also watched Kansas City Confidential last night. I was impressed at what a really excellent film this was, but I want to mention the beautiful trio of baddies, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam and Neville Brand. Talk about getting by on your looks. Not that I don't like all of them as actors, but who can honestly claim that it was really their acting that made them so effective in roles such as these. There are plenty of amazing actors who can play a villain well, but the advantage of looking the part can be more viscerally effective than a merely great actor hope to compete with. A combination of the two is a veritable juggernaut. This aesthetic casting one beloved thing I regard as being leftover from the silent era, even if body-acting a largely lost art. Visual acting, exploiting one's looks to project a feeling. I'll start a thread about it eventually.
Hopefully you didn't mean above highlighted in exactly that way. Lee Van Cleef and Jack Elam proved in many movies their ability as actors. Neville Brand proved it in movies and TV shows both. I'm sure their looks helped with the casting, but ultimately it was their ability to deliver on the roles that got them the jobs.
Jack Elam was very good in both Support Your Local Sheriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter. Lee Van Cleef's staring roles in movies proved his ability to not only look the part, but act the part.
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Kansas City Confidential is a great movie. The cast and director did an excellent job. I have the DVD and frequently watch it.
The roles of Nevile Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam and Coleen Gray particularly impressed me.
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2 hours ago, Ashildr said:
I take comfort in the fact that when given the free and fair choice in 1989, people rejected everything Lenin stood for.
Until they put Putin in charge and he reinstated the worst aspects of the USSR.
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Not about cars, but might be of interest to some. The manufacturer for one of the vehicles I own reached out to get my opinion/input (big mistake, ha) on car subscription services. Never heard of them before, but apparently manufacturers are now offering them in selected areas.
Lots of info on internet if interested, but basically you "rent" cars for long periods of time. Pay a flat monthly fee and company handles maintenance, insurance, etc. You can "trade in" the car anytime for another model. Apparently limited to previously owned vehicles for the most part.
It is supposed to appeal to millennials who do want to have a car, but do not like the headaches of negotiating, financing, paying for maintenance, etc. Apparently the car companies have discovered that contrary to popular opinion, millennials do want to "own" vehicles and not be totally dependent on Uber, public transportation, etc.
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Just looked at my CD of Music that Inspired American Graffiti. Since there are 75 songs, there are far more than on the movie soundtrack CD. The only four from the movie soundtrack missing on the MIAG CD set are She's So Fine (Flash Cadillac), Surfin' Safari (Beach Boys), Green Onions (Booker T & the MG's), Goodnight, Well it's Time to Go (Spaniels) and All Summer Long (Beach Boys). I have them on other CD's.
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I think I saw it years ago. Was it about duck hunting and in B&W? Although that does not help answer your question. Not your usual "travel" film. Part of the Passing Parade series?
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I recently acquired the Nancy Drew Mysteries with Pamela Sue Martin. After giving up on them splitting Nancy off from Hardy Boys, decided to bite the bullet on a good deal on Season One. Ironically, the 4 disc set is divided between two for Hardys and two for Nancy.
While not as good as the Nancy Drew movies with Bonita Granville, we like them. The Hardy Boys wouldn't be too bad if someone other than Shaun Cassidy was in it. Season Two got really bad as he became the heart throb of girls under 13. They also reduced Nancy to mostly guest appearances on a Hardy Boys episode.
Another irony is that Bonita Granville was about 15 or 16 when her movies were made, but Pamela Sue Martin was 24 when she played Nancy. And yes, I remember Martin from her Playboy appearance.
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1 hour ago, hamradio said:
Music to get lung cancer by.
Actually the Marlboro Man in the TV ads did die from lung cancer.
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1 hour ago, jakeem said:
He was referring to Tehachapi, California, which was and is the site of a women's correctional facility .
Nothing to do with the movie, but also the site of a huge railroad track loop where long freight trains often pass over themselves negotiating the loop.
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11 hours ago, Dargo said:
I have to take back what I said earlier in this thread when I said I don't listen to film soundtracks.
Ya see, I now remember about 25 years ago or so, a fellow airline employee and I were sharing our love of westerns and western scores, and so the guy burned a CD of them and gave it me. This CD also contained many of the old television western theme songs we grew up with, but my favorite on this CD were always Jerome Moross' opening theme from The Big Country, Elmer Bernstein's open theme from The Magnificent Seven, and Ennio Morricone's theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
And for years while on car trips especially, I'd pop that sucker into my old classic El Camino's CD player.
And so there's that anyway.
(...and if ya might be wonderin' here, nope, don't have the El Camino anymore...sold it about 12 years ago...miss that baby though...oooh, it was sweet...a '69 model with a bucket seat SS interior)
The Magnificent Seven, AKA The Marlboro cigarette theme.
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50 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:
If that previous post wasn't rambling enough....just a note on the AMERICAN GIRAFFE soundtrack: Lucas wanted Elvis songs, but the estate's price to lease them was out of reach for then young filmmaker George. So he leased everything else, which I think make the movie stronger, more enjoyable, less cliché.
And I spent many hours listening to Wolfman Jack on the radio. His presence really set the tone for that movie for those who remember him. I think it was the first time I had ever actually SEEN him too.
I agree that the Wolfman Jack portions of the movie really added to it. However, when I purchase music, I prefer that it be pure, so to speak. No one talking over it, applause from an audience, etc.
I have one Elvis CD, but probably a dozen Elvis songs on other collections CD's. Never a big fan of his and I think his not being on AG didn't hurt it at all.
Incidentally, I have a fairly new turntable that came with a connection for hooking up to my computer. Also had a CD to load an app to record from vinyl to the computer and then to CD or directly to a USB. Have transferred the ones that I really wanted that are not available on CD. Disclaimer: This is for my personal use only and will not be given or resold to others.
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Hope the following isn't too off topic here, but mention of Riddle's Theme from the old Route 66 TV series always reminds me of the time when at age 10(this would be 1962) my father and I were in our family's 1959 Chevy station while driving on "The Mother Road" that summer from L.A. to go visit his family back in Indianapolis.
This was of course back when almost all cars only had a AM radio sitting in their dashboard.
Riding shotgun, I was "in charge" of both keeping that old Rand McNally road map at the ready AND in finding the next clear radio station to be found on that old Delco AM radio in front of us.
As Riddle's recording of that TV show's theme was a big Top-40 hit that summer, it began to seem as if every time we began to receive the next radio station's signal along that historic piece of tarmac, that song was being played, and so I remember this then 10 year old starting to envision Pop and I as that television series characters Buz and Tod, AND that '59 Chevy station wagon we were riding in transformed into a shiny new '62 Chevy Corvette.
(...aaah, good memories...good ol' Pop was a great fellow traveling companion)
Good memories.
I have the DVD's for Route 66 and the music is interesting. It is one of my go to DVD's to play when I want to occupy an hour or get nostalgic. Ironically, most of the shows are very serious.
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I'm big into late 50's/early 60's rock, doo-****, etc. which is lot of what's on AG. So, the AG soundtrack songs that are not on the Inspired AG album are on other ones I have.
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11 minutes ago, Princess of Tap said:
And I'd be remiss if I'm talking about TV not to mention my TV theme albums by Nelson Riddle for" Route 66"and "The Untouchables".
The best soundtrack music I think I ever owned, and this is kind of an oddity, was "The Lion in Winter" by John Barry. That was the Academy Award winner for original score in 1968 and if you're in for it, included Gregorian chants.
Speaking of John Barry, my favorite all-time soundtrack from college was always "Midnight Cowboy". There's a lot of stuff on there but Harry Nilsson stands out with John Barry's iconic theme plus songs from a little-known Australian rock band called The Groop.
John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy is a movie that deserved so much more recognition than it received. But I guess that initial X-rating was a little more recognition than the director wanted. LOL
My favorite John Barry is Body Heat. Have a CD of the music from it, but not the actual soundtrack.
FYI, Midnight Cowboy was the first X rated movie shown in military theaters. First showing was at Ft. Bragg NC in 1970, which is where I saw it. Barely warrants a PG-13 now.
Haven't been able to find a good CD with Riddle's Route 66 on it. Don't do downloads from the internet.
One thing about movie and TV show music is that the CD's don't stay on the market very long. Driving Miss Daisy is one I really would like. Again, I don't do downloads from internet.
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2 minutes ago, CaveGirl said:
That's hilarious...about "American Giraffe" I mean. My aunt was having a garage sale and gave me her original vinyl copy of AG, but I haven't actually played it yet. I had it on cd. I will have to go play some hits to hear Wolfman Jack talking I guess. Is he saying the same dialogue as in the movie, when he introduces the next song coming up from the radio station? Hmmm, I will have to check out which songs are on the "music that inspired" AG set. Thanks so much for the info!
This is the cover and where I got it. I'm sure it is available a lot of places. Surprisingly there are a lot of CD's of older American music being produced in EU.
On the actual soundtrack recording, it is taken directly from the movie as far as Wolfman's commentary.
https://www.oldies.com/search/results.cfm?q=American+Graffiti&results=
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I am not an audiophile, but I do like music from movies. My wife likes it even more. So, we have a goodly number of "soundtracks." (An earlier discussion of this topic elicited the comment that "soundtracks" actually include the dialogue.)
One disadvantage to soundtrack recordings is that often only two or three songs are really that good. That's why I always liked the Henry Mancini, Percy Faith, Ray Coniff, Mantovania, etc. recordings of the main songs from movies.
I have original American Graffiti on vinyl. My mother-in-law thought the album cover said American Giraffe, so now we refer to the movie as American Giraffe. One problem is that it includes Wolfman Jack talking over much of the dialogue. I did obtain a CD recently of the "music that inspired" American Graffiti. Does not have all, but has most and then some more. 75 songs on 3 CD's. Got it from a mail order catalog company and it still shows up in their catalogs.
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11 hours ago, Dargo said:
Sounds a bit like the British program "Wheeler Dealers" here, slayton.
Loved that show which was shown on the Velocity channel here in the States. Perhaps you're familiar with that one too.
And if you are, then you've probably heard that Edd China, the knowledgeable and likable mechanic who did all the grunt work on the show, has left it. Evidently the U.S.-based Velocity channel purchased the show and then claimed Edd's sequences, which were pretty much the heart of the show, "cost too much to produce" and wanted to lessen his involvement in it, and thus causing this turn of events.
(...you should see some of the comments in Edd's YouTube clip announcing his departure...many of 'em saying "Damn Americans. They always screw up everything they touch!"...and heck, in THIS case anyway, how can you argue against THAT, huh...LOL)
Velocity has some interesting shows if you are into classic cars and similar. However, they are few and far between. Most shows are about people arguing over how to make a car more powerful or IMO trashy looking. Not worth watching if you actually like cars. Chasing Classic Cars, Wheeler Dealers, What's My Car Worth and a couple of more are more informative about cars. Wheeler Dealers moved to US one season, but I think they are back in UK now.
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36 minutes ago, hamradio said:
Judging by scale that is the 100 Foot Woman.
Wonder how accurate any of these movies and the posters are as to scale.
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21 minutes ago, hamradio said:
What EXACTLY are those fire fighters doing??
Or should I ask?
Only Roger Corman really knows.
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Then there is the "remake," Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader. A new classic from 2012. A Roger Corman production and an update of his 1995 Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold.
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John Mahoney passed on Feb. 04 at 77. His first major role was in Tin Men, which where i first noticed him.
Cozi TV is having a Frasier marathon today (0s/10) in honor of Mahoney.
What has happen to AMC?
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On the other hand, it has produced some very good series.
Also, The Fox Movie Channel (FXM) has "classic" movies on from 3:00AM till 3:00PM (roughly) each night. Without commercials or other interruptions.
When AMC began having commercials I called and complained. Was told it was that or go out of business. Then they started showing fewer movies and more other types of programming. Bottom line - it's a business.