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On 4/7/2021 at 10:31 AM, TomJH said:
Black Bart (1948)
Universal released this western, a fictionalized account of the gentleman bandit who preyed on Wells Fargo stagecoaches in California during the 1870s. The film is distinguished by its strong Technicolor, making this production constantly pleasing to the eye.
Dan Duryea, in a lead role, for a change, plays the title character, in a generally effective if understated performance, lacking the flamboyance of his best work. Top billed Yvonne de Carlo plays Lola Montez, another real life character, here with a fictional romance with Bart whom she wants to retire from the robbery business before he pays the ultimate price one day for his dangerous lifestyle. De Carlo looks sexy and flashy in a couple of Spanish style dance numbers though her character strangely disappears before the end of the film.
Cast in supporting roles are Jeffrey Lynn, of all people, as a larcenous western bad man, along with Pa Kettle himself, Percy Kilbride, as a compatriot. Kilbride, at least, brings a rustic credibility to his characterization that Lynn clearly lacks. The stunt double work in this film is pretty obvious, at times, and every time Black Bart rides a horse in costume, including a mask covering his head, you just know that Duryea was no where near the film set that day.
The ending may seem abrupt and rather conventional but I had to wonder with the flippant bantering dialogue we hear between a pair of bandits as they are finally cornered by the law if William Goldman had seen this film and been inspired by that aspect of it before writing his screenplay two decades later for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The other interesting aspect of this film is watching Duryea and de Carlo sharing romantic scenes a year before they were reunited to far different effect for the same studio's noir classic Criss Cross.
2.5 out of 4
What a cast!
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On 4/6/2021 at 9:46 PM, speedracer5 said:
I don't like ET either. I never have. I've seen it exactly once and once was enough.
Agreed.
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On 4/6/2021 at 6:57 PM, Dargo said:
So, anyone here besides me catch part-1 of Ken Burns' Ernest Hemingway doc last night on PBS?
It held my attention and interest pretty darn well, anyway.
(...and even though it never featured some kid flying off into the air on his bicycle and silhouetted against a full moon!) LOL
I started to watch it. Fascinating. Not particularly a fan, but it was interesting. I was watching the Jazz series, but... Well, I can't find a schedule for these shows. They show up on PBS periodically, not really scheduled and I find that I'm watching part two or part six and miss out on a lot. It's infuriating really.
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No doubt. Groucho is the king.
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On 3/27/2021 at 12:01 PM, EricJ said:
Agent: "I'll give ya till three to get outta here! A-one, a-two--"
(Dixieland music starts up)Thought that was Windblown Hare, where Bugs meets the Wolf who threatens to b-l-l-l-LOWW the Three Obnoxious Little Pigs' houses down. (Not sure if they'd show that, since that's on the Saturday-morning Canon of WB toons.)
Haven't seen that one yet, but they are showing some toons that I haven't seen in years.
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Oh... the rabbit in red... la de de de da.. the rabbit in red...
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On 3/14/2021 at 11:11 PM, slaytonf said:
Yikes! That is glamour!
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11 hours ago, EricJ said:
70's TV movies tend to go out-of-copyright, and show up on Amazon Prime, where they're a treasure trove to dig up.
My sister remembered the 1978 TV-movie version of The Thief of Baghdad, with Peter Ustinov as the sultan and Roddy McDowell as Sabu, and refuses to watch either the 1940 classic or the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks version. I should remember to tell her it's on Prime.
Hey, thanks, EricJ. I didn't realize Prime had these movies. I think I put Scream of the Wolf on my watchlist.
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
Haven't heard of this one.
Me neither. Is it a Hammer film?
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Funny you came up with this topic as my sister and I have been watching made for TV movies from the 70's.
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) Part 1 of 2
The Initiation of Sara
Midnight Offerings
The Haunting of Julia
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I like the beach movies in the summertime. Creature From the Black Lagoon is a good summertime flick. Tarzan pictures,
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On 3/17/2021 at 12:50 PM, TopBilled said:
Previous Honorees:
2003
James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Peter O'Toole, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Katharine Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Doris Day, William Holden
2004
John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Jean Harlow, Laurence Olivier, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Charles Chaplin, Shirley MacLaine, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas
2005
Lauren Bacall, James Cagney, Joel McCrea, Alec Guinness, Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Shelley Winters, Ray Milland, Lena Horne, Kirk Douglas, Jane Wyman, Cary Grant, Glenn Ford, Fred Astaire, Donna Reed, James Garner, Irene Dunne, Marlon Brando, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Sophia Loren, Norma Shearer, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, William Holden, Constance Bennett, Deborah Kerr, Humphrey Bogart
2006
Angela Lansbury, Groucho Marx, Susan Hayward, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Burt Lancaster, Claire Trevor, Jane Powell, John Garfield, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Walter Matthau, Lana Turner, Richard Dix, Joseph Cotten, Carole Lombard, Bela Lugosi, Audrey Hepburn, Lee Marvin, David Niven, Rita Hayworth,Van Johnson, Ann Sothern, James Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Barbara Stanwyck
2007
Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’'Toole, Joan Crawford, William Holden, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Vincent Price, Doris Day, Alan Ladd, June Allyson, Ernest Borgnine, Joan Bennett, Elvis Presley, Maureen O’Hara, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Ann Miller, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Broderick Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Loretta Young, Roy Rogers, Mary Astor, Buster Keaton, Sean Connery
2008
Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Gregory Peck, Marie Dressler, Claude Rains, Anne Bancroft, Greta Garbo, James Garner, Fred MacMurray, Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Kim Novak, Peter Lorre, Greer Garson, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Jack Palance, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Ava Gardner, Trevor Howard, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
2009
Henry Fonda, James Mason, Marion Davies, James Coburn, Harold Lloyd, Judy Garland, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Dirk Bogarde, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, Deborah Kerr, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Jones, John Wayne, Red Skelton, Miriam Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Sterling Hayden, Angela Lansbury, Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Yul Brynner, Ida Lupino, Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers, Jean Arthur, Claire Bloom
2010
Basil Rathbone, Julie Christie, Steve McQueen, Ethel Barrymore, Woody Strode, Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, Warren Beatty, Kathryn Grayson, Walter Matthau, Norma Shearer, Robert Ryan, Gene Tierney, Margaret O'Brien, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Ann Sheridan, Walter Pidgeon, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, John Mills, Elizabeth Taylor, John Gilbert, Maureen O'Hara, Lee Remick, Olivia de Havilland, Peter O'Toole, Henry Fonda, Thelma Todd, Clint Eastwood
2011
Marlon Brandon, Paulette Goddard, Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, John Garfield, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Orson Welles, Ann Dvorak, Shirley MacLaine, Ben Johnson, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Charles Laughton, Lon Chaney, Joanne Woodward, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Gabin, Debbie Reynolds, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Joan Blondell, Burt Lancaster, Peter Lawford, Linda Darnell, Carole Lombard, Anne Francis, Howard Keel
2012
John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Johnny Weismuller, Marilyn Monroe, Claude Raines, Van Heflin, Sidney Poitier, Rita Hayworth, Toshiro Mifune, Lionel Barrymore, James Mason, Ginger Rogers, Deborah Kerr, James Cagney, Lillian Gish, Elvis Presley, Katharine Hepburn, Freddie Bartholomew, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Quinn, Kay Francis, Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Irene Dunne, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jeanette MacDonald, Ava Gardner, James Caan, Warren William, Ingrid Bergman
2013
Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Alec Guinness, Mary Boland, Charlton Heston, Joan Fontaine, Fred MacMurray, Ramon Novarro, Steve McQueen, Lana Turner, Henry Fonda, Catherine Deneuve, Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Wallace Beery, Natalie Wood, Randolph Scott, Hattie McDaniel, William Holden, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Coburn, Clark Gable, Jeanne Crain, Martin Balsam, Shirley Jones, Glenda Farrell, Kirk Douglas, Rex Harrison
2014
Jane Fonda, David Niven, Walter Pidgeon, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Muni, James Stewart, Jeanne Moreau, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Marlon Brando, Alexis Smith, Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Faye Dunaway, Herbert Marshall, John Hodiak, Claudette Colbert, Paul Newman, Thelma Ritter, Lee Tracy, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest Borgnine, Gladys George, Dick Powell, Sophia Loren, Edmund O’Brien, Arlene Dahl, Joseph Cotten, Betty Grable, Alan Ladd
2015
Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Adolphe Menjou, Teresa Wright, Fred Astaire, Michael Caine, Katharine Hepburn, Raymond Massey, Robert Walker, Joan Crawford, Rex Ingram, Robert Mitchum, Ann-Margret, Groucho Marx, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Patricia Neal, Lee J. Cobb, Vivien Leigh, John Wayne, Mae Clarke, Alan Arkin, Marlene Dietrich, Debbie Reynolds, Warren Oates, Virginia Bruce, Greta Garbo, Monty Woolley, Ingrid Bergman, George C. Scott, Gary Cooper, Shelley Winters
2016
Edward G. Robinson, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Fay Wray, Karl Malden, Montgomery Clift, Jean Harlow, Esther Williams, Tim Holt, Hedy Lamarr, Spencer Tracy, Janet Gaynor, Ralph Richardson, Cyd Charisse, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, James Edwards, Angie Dickinson, Ruby Keeler, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Brigitte Bardot, Constance Cummings, Van Johnson, Boris Karloff, James Garner, Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, Jean Simmons, Dean Martin
2017
Marilyn Monroe, Ray Milland, Lon Chaney, Claire Trevor, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, Franchot Tone, Sandra Dee, Sidney Poitier, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Vanessa Redgrave, Ricardo Montalban, Elvis Presley, Rosalind Russell, Rod Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Cary Grant, Ann Harding, Glenn Ford, Greer Garson, Dennis Morgan, Simone Signoret, James Cagney, Leslie Caron, Slim Pickens, Marion Davies, George Sanders, Elizabeth Taylor
2018
Frank Sinatra, Myrna Loy, Lionel Atwill, Clint Eastwood, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Totter, Harold Lloyd, Jeanette MacDonald, Walter Matthau, Dorothy Malone, Gary Cooper, Doris Day, George Brent, Lupe Velez, Peter Finch, Miriam Hopkins, Barbra Streisand, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Stewart Granger, Anita Louise, Dana Andrews, Virginia Mayo, Peter Lorre, Carroll Baker, Anthony Quinn, Agnes Moorehead, Lew Ayres, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Joan Crawford
2019
Henry Fonda, Ruth Hussey, Marlon Brando, Shirley Temple, Melvyn Douglas, Lena Horne, James Stewart, Ava Gardner, Red Skelton, Rita Moreno, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Brian Donlevy, Liv Ullmann, Rod Steiger, Irene Dunne, Errol Flynn, Audrey Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Dorothy McGuire, Joel McCrea, Leila Hyams, Fred Astaire, Shirley MacLaine, Dustin Hoffman, Mary Astor, Walter Brennan, June Allyson, Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas
2020
Barbara Stanwyck, Rock Hudson, Rita Hayworth, S.Z. Sakall, Ann Miller, Burt Lancaster, Sylvia Sidney, Charlie Chaplin, Goldie Hawn, Norma Shearer, Sammy Davis, Lana Turner, John Barrymore, Steve McQueen, Nina Foch, Cary Grant, Maureen O’Hara, Warren Beatty, Dolores Del Rio, William Powell, Diana Dors, Natalie Wood, Olivia de Havilland, George Raft, Anne Shirley, Laurence Olivier, Claudette Colbert, Paul Henreid, Eva Marie Saint, Charlton Heston, Alain Delon
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Most honored:
Katharine Hepburn: 9
Cary Grant: 9
John Wayne: 8
Humphrey Bogart: 8
James Stewart: 8
Doris Day: 7
Joan Crawford: 6
Barbara Stanwyck: 6
Elizabeth Taylor: 6
Henry Fonda: 6
Bette Davis: 6
Gary Cooper: 6
Kirk Douglas: 6
Audrey Hepburn: 5
Judy Garland: 5
Fred Astaire: 5
Sidney Poitier: 5
Marlon Brando: 5
Elvis Presley: 5
Spencer Tracy: 5
Gregory Peck: 5Lotta research there, TopBilled. Nice job!
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What is this thing about Pepe Le Pew being scrutinized as a bad character all of a sudden?
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41 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I am almost done with ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968); I think I have only seen it once before and that was ca. 1995, right after I read the book, which many of you probably know is just about exactly like the movie down to uncanny detail.
I did not like either particularly at the time, all these years later though, I can appreciate the mechanics of the movie and I can see why it was/is so popular.
nonetheless, at the end of the day, this film is pretty much wasted on me, I was born in 1978; I grew up watching even sicker more twisted stuff and I was raised Episcopalian, and we really don't get into The Devil much at all (sadly, I might add), so my view of THE DARK ONE is quite different from people who were raised BY STAUNCH CATHOLICS or BAPTISTS or any of the other religions that LONG AGO LEARNED that if you want to put some BUTTS in the seats, you HAVE TO TALK ABOUT FUN STUFF LIKE THE DEVIL EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY!
I also have the standard-model Gay pitch black sense of humor combined with the standard-model Gay FULL-ON EMBRACE OF THE UNUSUAL AND MACABRE, so I find this film to be- like THE WICKER MAN- something of a DARK comedy, or at least tottering on the brink of it at almost all times. Plus, being filmed at THE DAKOTA, the YOKO ONO JOKES just write themselves (as they always do.)
At the end of the day, I am at something of a loss as to why RUTH GORDON won supporting actress for this; and yet, at times, I get it.
she looked great though:
I really think that the best performance in the film is from JOHN CASSAVETTES though.
Look into the location shooting of the picture. What a fascinating story that is. Filmed in NYC, the tenants complained of the noise and etc. The building itself has an interesting history and I... Oh, heck, I'm going to watch it.
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38 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I am almost done with ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968); I think I have only seen it once before and that was ca. 1995, right after I read the book, which many of you probably know is just about exactly like the movie down to uncanny detail.
I did not like either particularly at the time, all these years later though, I can appreciate the mechanics of the movie and I can see why it was/is so popular.
nonetheless, at the end of the day, this film is pretty much wasted on me, I was born in 1978; I grew up watching even sicker more twisted stuff and I was raised Episcopalian, and we really don't get into The Devil much at all (sadly, I might add), so my view of THE DARK ONE is quite different from people who were raised BY STAUNCH CATHOLICS or BAPTISTS or any of the other religions that LONG AGO LEARNED that if you want to put some BUTTS in the seats, you HAVE TO TALK ABOUT FUN STUFF LIKE THE DEVIL EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY!
I also have the standard-model Gay pitch black sense of humor combined with the standard-model Gay FULL-ON EMBRACE OF THE UNUSUAL AND MACABRE, so I find this film to be- like THE WICKER MAN- something of a DARK comedy, or at least tottering on the brink of it at almost all times. Plus, being filmed at THE DAKOTA, the YOKO ONO JOKES just write themselves (as they always do.)
At the end of the day, I am at something of a loss as to why RUTH GORDON won supporting actress for this; and yet, at times, I get it.
she looked great though:
I really think that the best performance in the film is from JOHN CASSAVETTES though.
She is wonderful in her Columbo episode. She is pure magic.
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The current matinee stinks!
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I'm still waiting for Rabbitson Crusoe. "Twenty years of coconuts! I can't stands coconuts! A rabbit! A stewing rabbit!"
And Sahara Hare. Riff Raff Sam rants and raves to Bugs about getting his footy prints all over his desert. Bugs hears all the raving and simply says, "Your slip is showing".
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On 1/19/2021 at 8:25 AM, Det Jim McLeod said:
My favorite also, "HASSAN CHOP!"
Bugs to Daffy: What's with you anyway?
Daffy: I can't help it. I'm a greedy slob. Save me!
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Well, the 1939 version is certainly dated for its time. Vaudevillians each and every one added to the mix of a time long ago, the depression and everything. I think that was the beauty of the film. To remake it today, I don't know. You are certainly not going to find many actors today with the Brooklyn accent reading a sign that says, "I'd toin back if I was you."
Certainly there are no other actors out there that come close to Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and the amazing dancing Ray Bolger.
Go on! Get in there before I make a dime bank outta you!
The 1939 version is a classic film beloved to us all. I can't imagine it being remade today, but that's just me.
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space via MST3K. A horribly boring movie showcasing babes in short dresses, choreography by who knows by whom. For me it was a fun venture as I enjoy these horrible low budget films.
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On 1/31/2021 at 12:21 AM, Princess of Tap said:
And next week is "The Black Scorpion".
These arachnid movies I think are better than the Godzilla ones. Spiders are real to me but creatures like Godzilla look fake from the get-go.
The Black Scorpion is actually a pretty good monster movie, as far as giant atomic monsters go.
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17 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
The Invisible Ray has also ben colorized.
Blasphemy!!!
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3 minutes ago, Swithin said:
I didn't know Joseph Losey wrote the script!
I actually think it's a great film, a great, intelligent script. A-list cast, including Beulah Bondi.
I would like to see the film again, Swiffer. Can't find it on YouTube.
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On 1/25/2021 at 11:53 AM, Swithin said:
I once read somewhere that The Invisible Ray was the first Hollywood film to deal with the responsibilities of atomic energy/radiation. At the end of the movie, Karloff's mother, played by Violent Kemble Cooper, says to Karloff: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science." Meaning using science for destructive purposes. Kemble Cooper was a descendant of the Kembles, a prominent British acting family which included Sarah Siddons.
I never cared for The Invisible Ray. Seemed to me that Universal was putting their two horror stars into anything they could find. Losey scrip. I don't know. I haven't seen it in years. Then there's another picture - a crime film where Lugosi was supposedly hypnotized... Come on.
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There are four occurrences in Droopy's Good Deed that were edited for poor racial innuendoes.