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  1. Thanks very much, gagman. I didn't know that the Big Parade's love theme is not an original composition by Carl Davis.

     

    He's hardly the first film composer to encorporate another man's work into his own score, though. The music that accompanies the sea battle scenes in the 1935 Captain Blood, for example, were borrowed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold from Franz Liszt's Mazeppa.

     

    Renee Adoree is such a sweetheart in The Big Parade. The bubble gum chewing scene between herself and Gilbert was, I believe, a largely unrehearsed quite spontaneous moment that Vidor kept in the film. It's such a marvelous sequence, with such totally natural facial reactions by both actors.

     

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that little gem of a scene just naturally developed between the two actors or, at least, became more extended than originally planned. I can't recall the particulars. In any event, the scene works!

     

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  2. gagman, thanks for the impassioned writeup on one of the truly great films of the silent era. (Though I also appreciate that film is one of the strongest anti-war films of any filmmaking era). And a film which highlights the triumphs of that time enjoyed by director King Vidor, who also helmed The Crowd, as contrasting a film as you could find to the epic scale Big Parade.

     

    This film has John Gilbert's greatest performance, without doubt, not to mention a touching characterization by Renee Adoree. The departure scene between these two as Gilbert heads to the war front is one of the great moments of silent cinema, particularly if the version shown tonight has the musical accompaniment of Carl Davis, whose score truly heightens the emotional impact of the scene.

     

    Here's hoping that TCM does show the 2004 restoration, though I also hope that the Carl Davis score is also a part of that presentation.

     

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    Everyone knows, of course, how John Gilbert's career suffered with the talkies, and his early death in 1936, barely a decade after his greatest triumph in The Big Parade.

     

    However, I also want to take note of one of Gilbert's co-stars in this film, big Karl Dane, who plays one of Gilbert's two buddies on the war front. Dane's Swedish accent would make him eventually unemployable during the talkies, and he would tragically die by his own hand in 1934.

     

    And there was also the lovely leading lady Renee Adoree, who would be reunited with Gilbert in a few more films before passing away from TB in 1933. She was only 35.

     

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    That's Karl Dane on the left.

  3. Love Me Tonight is probably my favourite musical of the '30s. I wonder how Ernst Lubitsch felt when he saw this delightful concoction clearly based on his own comedies of the recent past and saw that, if anything, director Rouben Mamoulian had created a superior film to his own efforts.

     

    Marvelous direction and camerawork, infectious Rodgers and Hart songs, including the classic "Isn't It Romantic" and with a great cast of stars. I understand why some may regard Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald as "acquired tastes" but I think both are marvelously right for their roles in this film.

     

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    Everyone, of course, loves Myrna Loy and this role, too brief as it is, was still one of her best opportunities prior to the Thin Man stardom, a wonderful showcase for the lady's comedy finesse and timing.

     

    I love that moment in which Charlie Ruggles, searching for a physician, encounters man-hungry Myrna in a room and asks her if she would go for a doctor.

     

    "Sure," she replies, "Bring him in."

     

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    There are too many great moments in this film to select just one. However, I have to make reference to the film's climax, with Jeanette on horseback, racing after the train carrying Chevalier. It's a sexual role reversal, of course, with the woman chasing the man.

     

    But what a brilliant series of shots and edits, from the train wheels to the horse's hooves, from the train's engine to the horse's nostrils. And then, finally, with Jeannette and horse passing the train, surging ahead briefly before planting herself proudly, defiantly on the tracks, a low angle shot of her facing the oncoming train which then screeches to a stop just before striking her.

     

    Finally, there will always be a special place in my heart for any film allowing us to see and hear C. Aubrey Smith in his jammies singing "Mimi." This may well be the cutest that Sir C. Aubrey ever allowed himself to be on screen - the big pussycat.

     

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  4. She may not be the oldest but pretty starlet Mary Carlisle is still with us today, at age 101. She first appeared in films in 1930 and played, among other parts, the giggling blonde honeymooner who arrives at the end of Grand Hotel, as Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford pass by her.

     

    She would later play frightened heroines in Murder in the Private Car and One Frightened Night, as well as being spooked by George Zucco in Dead Men Walk (her final film). She also appeared in three Bing Crosby musicals.

     

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  5. Well, a lot of Ontarians would have had access to Elwy on TV Ontario. I'm not certain how much Canadians outside of Ontario would have seen him. This is really a question for other Canadians on this message board, as well. He clearly increased my passion for old films with the often wonderful TV Ontario double bills that he had on Saturday nights.

     

    Here are a couple of YouTube links to interviews of Elwy's:

     

    with Greer Garson (Part 1):

     

     

     

    with Greer Garson (Part 2):

     

     

     

    with John Candy (in character as Dr. Tongue):

     

     

     

    with Eleanor Keaton (Buster's widow):

     

     

  6. Thanks for the news, twinkeee. I particularly remember thinking that that Garson interview at her New Mexico home was a particularly good one. She comes across exactly as you would hope Greer Garson would be in real life. Completely unaffected and down to earth, just like Elwy.

  7. I don't want to derail any thread devoted to Robert Osborne, but I, too, was largely raised on golden age Hollywood films brought to Canadian television by Elwy Yost. With his avuncular personality and, being a former school teacher, Yost was always "Uncle Elwy" to me because of the warmth that he emitted and enthusiasm for films. Elwy Yost felt like family, without ever even meeting him.

     

    However, one day I did meet him. A friend of mine had called TV Ontario, the channel for which Elwy worked, for some programming information. Yost answered the phone himself, they talked a bit and Elwy made an invitation for my friend to drop by any time for a visit. My friend asked if I could come along, to which Elwy was agreable.

     

    When we showed up one day (bearing gifts, a couple of video tapes of films we were pretty sure Yost didn't own), it soon became apparent that Elwy had forgotten about his telephone invitation. However, he was as gracious as could be desired, inviting us to join us in his office.

     

    We talked for about a half hour or so, and I noticed that Elwy, always a humble man who said he would gladly welcome any viewers in if he met them, allowed my friend and I to do a lot of the talking. At the end of the conversation, Elwy gave us an invitation to drop by his home some time for a beer.

     

    We always assumed that he was just being polite, so never tried to follow up on it. A few years later, though, my friend had a conversation with a good friend of Yost's, making passing reference to the home invitation. The friend said that Elwy was a shy man so that if he made an invitation of that kind he probably really meant it.

     

    And that was rather nice to hear, that Elwy liked us enough to do that. But then, Elwy was, sort of like Will Rogers, I guess, as Dargo suggested, the kind of man who never met a man he didn't like, and never saw a film of which he couldn't find some good things to say.

     

    Sorry for the ramble. But seeing Elwy Yost's name made me want to pay a brief tribute to a true movie fan who was able to convey his enthusiasm to thousands of other Canadian movie buffs, bringing them films that they probably wouldn't have been able to see otherwise at a time when only a few other stations were showing the golden Hollywood studio system nuggets.

     

    Good ol' Uncle Elwy!

     

    (By the way, Elwy often travelled to California and other spots in the 80s and 90s, doing probably hundreds of interviews with those involved in the movie making processes of Hollywood - everyone from Jimmy Stewart to Bob Hope to Greer Garson to Henry Fonda, among so many others. I wonder what has happened to those interviews).

  8. It's always good when you come across an interesting little film like The Long Haul, which you've never heard of.

     

    A '50s British attempt at street realism, with noone, including its leading man, any kind of saint. But Victor Mature succumbing to the temptation of Diana Dors only made his characterization more believable, as far as I was concerned. He's still an essentially decent, honourable guy for whom the audience wants to cheer.

     

    Furthermore, I liked the dramatic touches in the film's musical score, particularly under its opening titles.

     

    The Long Haul might not be anyone's idea of a classic but it is a more than decent little effort.

  9. No, I didn't catch The Whole Town's Talking on this broadcast, mrroberts, but I've certainly seen the film in the past. It remains a strong showcase for Eddie G.'s acting range, to be so utterly convincing in two such disparate roles, one as a meek clerk, the other in his then-patented cold blooded killer part.

     

    This was, I believe, the first time that Robinson played a mild mannered part, not to be repeated for almost another decade when he worked with Fritz Lang in Woman in the Window.

     

    In Jean Arthur, I also feel that Eddie had one of his most sympathetic leading ladies. Arthur is excellent in this film. It's fun to see shy little Eddie bring out the actress' mothering instincts. At the same time, though, she can stand up to Robinson when he's playing it tough. I strongly wonder if Frank Capra was influenced by her performance here before casting her in a similar role in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town the following year.

     

    Perhaps because of Arthur's casting this film for some reason always makes me think more of Capra than it does the picture's actual director, John Ford. I could easily envision Capra having taken this material and bringing more humourous touches to Eddie's mild mannered clerk sequences, or those in which his character, machine gun in hand, confronts the gangsters at the end.

     

    In any event, The Whole Town's Talking, made on loan to Columbia, remains one of Robinson's better films of the '30s, I feel, more effective in many ways than a lot of the stuff he was doing on the Warners home lot then.

  10. Tyrone Power as an ambitious, amoral carnival hustler who, in the film's final reel, becomes an alcoholic side show geek in Nightmare Alley certainly qualifies as effective casting against type, in my opinion.

     

    Another illustration would be Errol Flynn in Uncertain Glory. While his character still possesses charm, it masks the manipulative activities of a petty thief and murderer. The film's ending, in typical Warners fashion, has his character have a change of heart and turn self sacrificing and heroic, blunting the credibility of the characterization. But that is a flaw of the script. Prior to that it is still effective counter casting.

     

    Another illustration of it with Flynn would be when he played a cold, stuffy member of Victorian society in That Forsyte Woman, a man devoid of charm.

     

    A third illustration of an actor cast against type would be Gary Cooper in Bright Leaf, playing an ambitious business buccaneer ready to ruthlessly trample over people around him. I think that Brant Royale is one of Coop's least likable characters.

  11. William Holden's own considerable physical attributes of good looks and charm make Joe a more attractive character, even when he is at his most self serving, than he might have been in the hands of another actor.

     

    Ultimately, when Joe, out of self disgust with his own behaviour, shows Nancy Olson the life of depravity that he had led, in doing so sending a girl who might have been his salvation out of his life, and then tries to emancipate himself from the increasingly demented Norma Desmond by walking away from her and her riches, only to be shot in the back, he becomes a tragic figure of sympathy to the audience. The first time in the film that he tries to do a truly decent thing and he dies because of it.

     

    The audience had earlier seen those scenes of jocularity between Holden and the wholesome Olsen, and had a very strong glimpse at the Joe that he might have been.

     

    Ultimately Joe, rather than being a cad, is a flawed human being who, at the end, did the right thing. His tragedy is that, as things would turn out, it would cost him his life.

  12. mrroberts, it is a shame that Robinson and Cagney never did have a great co-starring vehicle, as Eddie G. would enjoy with Bogart in Key Largo. I've never seen any indication, however, that either Warners or the actors themselves ever tried to make a project of that nature become a reality. However, your speculation about Cagney possibly having done so during his financially shakey independent period in the mid-40s is interesting.

     

    As for your statement of Robinson having resigned himself to playing supporting parts, the reality is that he only did it once during the '40s (Double Indemnity). Key Largo had him getting prominent second billing to Bogart, which really doesn't qualify as such though, admittedly, getting second billing is not the same as top.

     

    I've heard that Robinson expressed regret about having accepted a supporting role in 1955's The Violent Men. He felt that it permanently impacted studios' perceptions of him as a lead actor afterward. The reality, though, is that the '50s and the unofficial blacklisting of Robinson from major film projects had put his career into a dramatic slump. Whether getting top billing in a "B" or support in an "A", Eddie G.'s reign as a Hollywood heightweight was clearly a thing of the past by then.

     

    The one time during the '50s that Robinson did get to co-star with another big star was when he appeared in Hell on Frisco Bay. It was made by Alan Ladd's own production company, Jaguar, to be released through Warners. Ladd was still big box office then, even if his films were usually dismissed as programmers.

     

    Considering the political climate of the time during that McCarthy era, and how much Robinson's name had been tainted by it, I've wondered if it wasn't a bit of an act of courage on Ladd's part to give Eddie G. such a large co-starring role in one of his own productions. Courageous artistically, too, since Ladd was always painfully aware of his own acting limitations. In any event, it did give Robinson the opportunity to shine once again in a gangster role, and he easily walked away with the picture.

  13. So, James, I gather that you don't know of any femme fatale parts for Scott other than the two I named.

     

    I always assumed that Scott's brief time on top as a star in the late '40s was based on the similarity of her appearance to Lauren Bacall, including the husky voice.

     

    I believe that Bogart wanted his wife to be co-starred with him in Dead Reckoning but, for whatever reason, it wound up being Scott instead. She's as close to a Bacall substitute as you could get.

     

    Having said that, I believe that time proved Bacall to be the superior actress. Interestingly, though, Bacall, unlike Scott, never was a femme fatale.

     

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    Scott and Bacall, or, is it Bacall and Scott?

     

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    They sure were photographed to have the same "look."

  14. Lizabeth Scott is primarily associated today with film noir. Yet the lady had a relatively small output of films, with, arguably, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers her most famous (and that's really a Stanwyck film).

     

    Pitfall, good as it is, is a little known film. I can only think of two films in which Scott was that favourite of film noir expressions, a femme fatale, Dead Reckoning and Too Late For Tears. I thought she was particularly effective in the latter film.

     

    Martha Ivers and Pitfall both have her playing decent sorts. Can anyone think of another film in which Scott was a "bad girl", and, if so, would you recommend the movie. It would appear to me that Scott's femme fatale reputation hinges on only a couple of films. I guess it's a tribute to how good she is in them, though I suspect that most viewers have even yet to see Too Late for Tears. I think she was limited as an actress but that performance really worked for me.

     

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    Too Late for Tears - Scott teamed with another film noir icon, Dan Duryea. These two were really excellent in their scenes together. I hope that a decent print of this film surfaces some day.

  15. Thanks for the link to that hilarious Lone Ranger anecdote from Jay Thomas, Dargo.

     

    And, considering Clayton Moore's well known obsession with his role, I do find his final declaration of "They'll believe ME, citizen" to be, ahem, Tontoly believable.

  16. Ray, that's very interesting. By any chance, can you tell us anything about the scenes that were cut?

     

    I have read that Warners Home Video has a copy of John Garfield's own 16mm version of the film and, therefore, they have the rights, I assume. However, they were searching for a better quality version of those cut scenes. That was a few years ago, though. Who knows what, if any, plans they have to release The Sea Wolf now.

     

    Enough of the searching, I say, let's see the stuff, imperfect as it may be.

  17. *slaytonf wrote: So, in this one very exceptional instance, it may appear an argument can be made to justify Holmes' actions, they will always be morally reprehensible.*

     

    Thanks very much for your well articulated dissertation, slaytonf. However, with your final statement, it appears that you appreciate the pragmatic reasons for Holmes' actions, morally repugnant as you may find them.

     

    If this man is technically and morally a murderer, taking into account the extraordinary circumstances for his behaviour (he did so in order to try to save the lives of some on board the lifeboat, rather than taking the chance, nay, probability, of losing everyone), should he have gone to prison? And, if so, was the short sentence that he received appropriate?

  18. Maybe Burr would have tried to physically force Scott and maybe he wouldn't have. We don't know. Scott's case of self defense would have been more clear cut if she had waited before pulling a gun out on him.

     

    Quite frankly, two bullets in a man's back does not look good on the lady. That would be a problem for any jury, I suspect, no matter what the emotional circumstances of the shooting.

  19. But Burr WASN'T kidnapping Lizabeth Scott, VX, nor was he trying to take her by physical force.

     

    He was trying to emotionally overwhelm her into becoming compliant and leave with him. That is hardly the same thing.

     

    Morally, we know that Burr deserved what he got, but Scott is still going to need a good lawyer to avoid a long stay in prison or trip to the death house, depending upon the state (California?).

     

    The woman shot a man in the back.

  20. Arturo, Power had money of his own invested in the Solomon and Sheba production. That, in turn, is why he didn't want a real medical examination done before production even began though he had been showing signs of possible heart trouble. It's possible that he was afraid that he would be uninsurable if there was an issue.

     

    Tyrone Power paid the ultimate price for that decision.

     

    Here's a link to a couple of scenes from Solomon and Sheba featuring Power with George Sanders. These are among the last scenes that the actor ever filmed:

     

     

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