slaytonf

{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif} In the background of some of the beach shots in By the Sad Sea Waves, you will notice a Pier with a roller coaster super structure and other buildings. That must be Pacific Ocean Park, an amusment park in Santa Monica built in the 20s and lasting until the 60s. I remember going there as a child for family outings and having frozen bananas. {font}

Oops, wrong forum. Edited by: slaytonf on May 23, 2013 6:54 PM

In my personal pantheon of directors, I rate someone in the top tier if she, or he has a generally high level of output with at least one true masterpiece. Hitchcock, for me, because he made Vertigo, ranks equally with the best. Similarly, Clarence Brown, because of his work with Garbo, National Velvet, and Intruder in the Dust, and his masterpiece, The Yearling, one of the five best American films, is among the best.

You mean Ditzy Gillespie. Boop boop be doop.

>MIlesArcher: > He posted a picture, without comments, of Marc Copage, who played Diahann Carroll's son on the show Yes, it was late. I was being clever.

>RichardKimble: >She plays the wife of Duvall's murdered brother -- Duvall visits her early on ! I am devastated for not recognizing her! Thanks for identifying the extra faces. I hope you had your grain of salt with you when you consulted Wiki. Interestingly, it seems both movies were adapted by novels from Richard Stark, Point Blank from The Hunter, and The Outfit from--The Outfit. I must respectfully say I don't agree with you on your rating of the movies. No, not at all.

I got it! Mel Brooks' next movie!: Lassie, the B***h (I can understand the desire for excluding profanity, but really, to block out such a mild word as "famale dog" is a bit too patronizing. Let's see if bastard comes through. It does. Hm, now I know bastard applies to both sexes, but it is usually used for the male illegitimate child. Do I detect a note of male bias?)

Saw this movie a long time ago. It's ok. Like Lee Marvin in Point Blank, Robert Duvall wants his money. I didn't know when I saw it, just whoall was in it: Robert Ryan--with not nearly enough screen time Timothy Carey, that very strange actor you remember from The Killing Richard Jaekel was Sargeant Bowren in The Dirty Dozen Sheree North, playing the best **** I've ever seen Marie Windsor, a great lady of noir, notably of Narrow Margin and The Killing Jane Greer! I didn't see her Elisha Cook, Jr., also of--guess--The Killing Anita O'Day, a wonderful jazz songstress Archie Moore, world light-heavyweight champion Emile Meyer, who played Rufus Ryker, the heavy in Shane

>jamesjazzguitar: >. . . .it kind echoes the title of this thread since the vast majority of his movies were spoofs of genres. And as I hope I made clear in my OP the title was ironic, he being one of the great comic geniuses. Mr. Brooks used spoofs of film genres as the base for his creativity, just as Alfred Hitchcock used suspense as his, and Agatha Christie used mysteries as the base for hers. "Hope for the best, Expect the worst. . . . "

Although TCM has already shown it, I wouldn't mind seeing Dandy in Aspic again.

Robert Walker Jr., as a junior.

On tonite! PBS American Masters program on Mel Brooks. Lots of talking heads. But they're funny talking heads.

>prc1966: > I'd like to see TCM do a 60's spy movie theme one month A great idea. It would give them the opportunity to show the Harry Palmer movies.

That's him!

This guy should be familiar:

They're the boys from the TV show Flipper, Tommy Norden and Luke Halpin.

On the spy spoof nite tomorrow. The first and better of the two James Coburn Flint movies. Looking forward to it. There are others I can think of that could make one or two more nights of spoofs (without any more Matt Helm movies). They include Casino Royale (the good version with David Niven and Peter Sellers), Some Girls Do, Deadlier Than the Male, and Modesty Blaise. Thanks, TCM!

Yup. Played by Lee Montgomery: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071347/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Looks like the Forbidden Planet robot made it's way to a Columbo episode (airing now on MeTV). Forbidden Planet Columbo The show features Jose Ferrer, Lew Ayers, Jessica Walter, and Robert Walker, Jr.

The best response to your comments is to simply reiterate my observations.

Those pics look a little old for a post-1950s thread.

I generally skirt the dangerous, dark, and murky morass of political correctness. And I'm going to do it now. Because there's no reason to bring it into consideration with regard to The Producers. Mel Brooks doesn't do anything inappropriately hurtful, or demeaning. There is nothing wrong with satirizing, abusing, degrading, abasing, insulting Nazism, Hitler, or any other of his band of monsters. And the more they are debased, skewered, and ridiculed the better.

Mmmm. . . .lessee. . . . I can tke a screen shot of the page:

You're very welcome.