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4 hours ago, Dargo said:
Haven't watched it for a while, but I think in the 1958 film The Quiet American, Michael Redgrave in effect gets away with the murder of Audie Murphy after he begins spreading false rumors about Murphy being a CIA operative on the streets of Saigon and after he becomes his romantic rival.
(...if I recall correctly, Redgrave does end up going insane, and similarly to how Edward G. Robinson ends up in the film Scarlet Street)
Dang! Soo close!
9 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:John Mills in "Mr. Denning Drives North" (1952) gets away with murder. Actually, it was manslaughter. But that was a British film and Britain did not have a production code per se.
So, half credit?
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8 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
just saw where HBO has dropped GWTW from it's streaming platform.
About time, too!
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Looks like Ann Sheridan as Kay in Castle on the Hudson (1940) gets away with killing a man. Though the man she kills is trying to kill someone else at the time. And he's really bad. So is it murder? Maybe not.
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Dargo, I have DirectTV too, and the recording on my DVR for The Five Pennies (1959) froze before the end of the movie, just as Red starts to dance with his daughter. This has never happened before in my experience.
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17 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
We can all still find all the exact times online, right? I'm a little confused at all the hostility here.
I pay extra for a DVR precisely so that I don't have to go to the trouble of identifying times, then programing my DVD player to record. The whole idea is to find the program, select it, and not have to worry about it. Additionally, I can record multiple overlapping programs so that I don't have to choose which to record or watch, or have to stay up til 3 am on a weeknight. Not having the local schedules sync with TCM's broadcast defeats the whole purpose of the feature.
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Arrrrrgh! Curse TCM! I just was finishing off The Five Pennies (1959), only the second Danny Kaye movie I ever liked, and my recording stopped just before the end! If they don't want to go to the trouble of telling their audience when the movies start and stop, the least they could to is let the cable and satellite companies that carry their channel know so people who record on their DVRs will actually get the movie!
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Called Safe in Hell (1931), with Dorothy Mackail, Nina Mae McKinney and Clarence Muse:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1276/Safe-in-Hell/
The story is a bit different than you recall and ending is way better. About the best role Miss Mackail had. One of the few pre-code enforcement movies that doesn't pull its punches and cop-out at the end.
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I'm afraid my inkling is gone.
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A search on IMDB returns no movies those two people were in.
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The 'his' referred to is Tyrone Power. It's on YouTube, so you can check it out. Despite my high regard and lust for Susan Hayward, I did not make it past about 25 minutes or so.
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The first whom seems correct. The last incorrect. The middle whom I am not sure of. Anyway, the death of whom is almost universally acknowledged among linguists. Go ahead an just use who. No one'll bop you on the head.
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1 hour ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
I love the ballet but feel it isn't realistic
You're right there. But it isn't meant to be. As Brad and Ben discuss, movie techniques are used to convey the experience of the dancers as well as show the ballet, especially Vickie Page. In the later parts, the figures of her partner Boleslawsky, Lermontov, and Craster are interchanged, expressing her conflicting emotions about the male figures in her life, professional colleagues, authority figures, and lovers.
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1 hour ago, sagebrush said:
Possibly, the film was sped up to look like her feet were truly possessed. Possibly, it wasn't really a stairwell she was descending, but in fact a ramp with stairs painted on it to look as though she was running down a stairwell ( we can see the camera cut three times during this tense moment. )
You can slow the speed of the clip in the settings. When you do that, you see she is actually running down the stairs. As for whether the speed was artificially increased, I would think any ballerina worth her salt, let alone a prima ballerina could manage the footwork without a problem. As for the multiple shots of her descending, the logistics of craning down a Technicolor camera--an unwieldy beast in the best of circumstances-- in a spiral would argue for a segment of a stair, with takes stitched together to match the length of the overture music it is paired with. It's only about fifteen or so steps per shot. Inspection reveals it's two takes spliced together. The slight discontinuity could also be argued for on artistic grounds, expressing her disjointed state of mind.
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48 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
There was a film of Romeo And Juliet (1966) which was a filmed record of the Royal Ballet performance. I never saw it but it is an example of an actual ballet on film.
This and many other stage performances of ballets have been filmed for movies and TV. But ballets made as movies include only as far as I know Dr. Coppelius (1966) as I mentioned above, and The Nutcracker (1986, 1993).
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Humboldt County is on the California coast, north of San Francisco. Known for redwoods and some of the best pot grown anywhere.
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What a catastrophe!
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No, I just like to watch. It started when I happened across the Baryshnikov/Kirkland Nutcracker on YT. Combined with the Red Shoes (1948) and Moira Shearer's work in Tales of Hoffman (1951), I looked for ballets that were mentioned, and got hooked. What the dancers do can be astonishing and heart-stopping.
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2 minutes ago, Princess of Tap said:
The last time I saw a musical in a movie theater it was a ballet movie of Balanchine's "The Nutcracker", starring the" Home Alone" kid who was popular then.
Not a favorite of mine.
3 minutes ago, Princess of Tap said:Also there have been a few television movie/ specials of ballets. The most famous one being Baryshnikov's "The Nutcracker".
If it's the one with Gelsey Kirkland, that's my favorite.
3 minutes ago, Princess of Tap said:BTW-- A plie' is not that hard to do. But you're right:
it's going to be a lot harder to attempt a triple pirouette or a tour jete'. LOL
You have exposed my ignorance of ballet moves. Yet I doubt if you see many pliés in public.
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
(...wanna talk about it?)
What's there to talk about? There's nothing to talk about. I don't need to talk about it.
It's just cat videos infecting the message boards. Ohhh, the horror. . . .
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1 hour ago, Fedya said:
Did anybody mention Stars in My Crown yet?
There's a typhoid epidemic that leaves the civil authority (the doctor, since I don't think we ever see the town's mayor) running around like a chicken with his head cut off much like today's "leaders", who responds by trying to lock down the town preacher. There's also a guy who is willing to engage in violence to keep his essential frontline heroes working at his mica mine.
I think, a long way back in the thread. But it bears repeating.
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TCM's airing of The Red Shoes (1948) got me thinking about ballet in movies. There are lots of them about the dancers and their lives, or with dance numbers that are, well, at least balletic. But unlike stage musicals I don't know of any that are made of actual ballets, except for Dr. Coppelius (1966), a movie adaptation of the beloved Coppelia. You'd think something like Swan Lake at least would have been made into a movie, and to be sure, there do seem to be some theatrical releases of ballets. But they all appear to be just filmed stage performances. One explanation might be that while musicals have a wide appeal, ballets are more limited, if not elite. On the other hand operas have been made into movies, maybe not at a great rate, but certainly not unknown. But operas have singing, and even if it's artsy, that still has more appeal than performing astonishing physical feats mutely. If we can't sing like Callas or Pavarotti, we can at least hum a tune. Not so an arabesque or plié.
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I'll have to check it out.
That's a nice car!
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