slaytonf
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
Why slayton! Haven't we had enough of THAT these past three and a half years already?!!!
(...or as Tiki suggested earlier in this thing........)
George Putnam shows that bombast has been around for a long time, probably since there were people. So we must always be ready with our needles to puncture it.
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On 5/24/2020 at 2:39 PM, Polly of the Precodes said:
In Blackmail (1929), at the end of the movie, the guilty party is about to confess when the police come back to the station because the person they had been pursuing had died during the chase. The indications are that the guilty person will be free to go...at the cost of having to live with the knowledge of what really happened.
So I watched it, but it doesn't feel like the Hitchcock movie I was thinking of. I'm starting to think it was a phantom memory and the murder in Vertigo (1958) was the only one in his filmography that someone really gets away with.
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Well slayton, if you're not ...... being facetious here
To paraphrase: "Bombast is an ugly ting, und I tink it is yust about time we had some!"
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15 minutes ago, Fedya said:
To be fair, Slaytonf, I believe Dargo's photo is a screencap of Putnam in Perversion for Profit:
But that is a fair representation of him.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Growing up in Los Angeles, for years we actually had the newscaster that Ted Knight patterned his Ted Baxter character after.
His name was George Putnum...
And now you malign a great newsman. For shame.
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Um...um...oh, what's that one?...I can't think of her right now.
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10 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Wouldn't it be true of many thrillers where the bad guy was killed?
Exactly, which is why people get a pass on killing someone. My sense is that created something of an ambivalence in censors. Not only are protagonists not supposed to get away with murder (or other crime), but they really shouldn't kill anyone, either. As Shane says, killing marks someone. So al lot of times, even in a climactic battle, the black hat is done away with by a tactical sleight to spare them the mark.
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1 hour ago, Marysara1 said:
In 21 days together the murderer was going to confess but when he heard to man on trial died from a heart attack he didn't.
It's a British movie, but was shown in the United States. Since it was the central motivator of the movie, my guess the reason Wanda and Larry escape punishment is that the guy killed was a real meanie, and the death could be judged accidental, even self-defense, by your standard rational person.
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59 minutes ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
In Blackmail (1929), at the end of the movie, the guilty party is about to confess when the police come back to the station because the person they had been pursuing had died during the chase. The indications are that the guilty person will be free to go...at the cost of having to live with the knowledge of what really happened.
I'll take a look at it.
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Is that Charlton Heston in the clip?
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
Actor Adam Williams' resolution, he who played one of James Mason's henchmen named Valerian and who threw the knife into the back of actor Philip Ober in the U.N. Building, ends up meeting his fateful end near the end of the movie, and while tussling with Cary Grant on the face of Mt. Rushmore and whereupon he falls to his death.
(...and I know this because I just watched this flick for the umpteenth time on TCM just a week ago or so)
Dang! Almost!
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1 hour ago, rosebette said:
One of my favorite precodes is Mandalay (1934) during Kay Francis gets away with murdering Ricardo Cortez and blithely goes off with Lyle Talbot.
Thanks for reminding me of that one! One of my favorite Kay Francis movies.
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I should have specified in my OP I meant during the code's era of enforcement. But I'd be interested in movies before then.
I still have this nagging thought there was another Hitchcock movie where someone commits murder and doesn't get punished. I looked through his filmography, but nothing rings a bell.
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ok. I think I'm getting closer. You saw this on a Whose Line fan site, but you don't know what the movie is. If it came from an actual show, you might be able to find the credits for the show. That will get you the movie title. Once you have the title, you can find the cast and perhaps identify the actors.
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Let me get this straight. You have a still or stills, and these are enlargements, so that's how you know it's the Fontainbleau without knowing what movie it is. Right?
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16 hours ago, LonesomePolecat said:
A year ago I would have said "Yeah right, so cheesy!"
Like life isn't?
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That is a surprise. It's easy to imaging how awful that tacked on ending is. The whole movie is built around that final moment of devastation.
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10 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
I don't know if that was that version that got approved by the Hays Code, but somehow it had been removed again by the time of release.
So it never showed in theaters?
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Under the production code, crime always must be punished--especially murder. But it doesn't always happen. Sometimes murder slips through the cracks. Most notably in Vertigo (1958). While everyone is paying attention to Scottie and Madeleine's perverted dance, Gavin Elster quietly slips off to "Europe", so he says. I think there is another Hitchcock movie where someone gets away with murder, but I can't recall it. And in Out of the Past (1947), the Kid hooks a line into Fisher's coat sleeve and pulls him to a rocky death in a Sierra creek. Now, you might say he was only defending someone from a bad guy, and maybe Fisher deserved it, and besides the Kid was deaf and dumb. But good people aren't supposed to kill bad people no matter what.
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A Star is Born (1937):
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4 hours ago, SansFin said:
Am I truly reduced to being a Foghorn Leghorn who must label their attempts at humor?
That is a territory I fear to tread.
But, that would be a good epitaph!
Foghorn--I say--Foghorn Leghorn's quote, that is.
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Another lamentable instance of the lack of an emoticon with its tongue in its cheek leading to misunderstanding with tragic consequences.
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1 hour ago, Fedya said:
So what we have here is a failure to communicate?
Now that's a good epitaph. And what movie is that from?
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14 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
That one however is a real mess. (Below is from Wiki)
Three cuts. Doesn't seem nearly like the mess GBU (or BBC) is. And it's an excuse to watch it three times.
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