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  1. NoraCharles, it IS frustrating as to how difficult it is to see a copy of State Secret today, especially since, 30 years ago or so, it was constantly broadcast on television.
  2. THE PROUD REBEL (1958) Alan Ladd is a star who has unfortunately been largely forgotten. He was the star of one film classic (Shane), a couple of decent film noirs and a lot of programmers, though a few of those are quite entertaining. The Proud Rebel is little remembered today, an intelligent, reflective little western with an emphasis (unexpectedly for a Ladd film) upon characterization rather than action. Michael Curtiz, in the last noteworthy film of his career, directed this surprisingly sensitive study of a Civil War vet who travels the west with his mute son (played by Ladd's real life son, David). He encounters a farm woman (Olivia de Havilland) and is hired by her to try to help her keep her place together. At the same time Ladd is also hoping to somehow find the funds for an operation that may cure his son of his speech impediment. All the cast is fine in their roles, with Ladd delivering one of his more emotive performances, while it is his son, in a touching characterization, that steals the show. There is a suspenseful action climax (what western would be complete without some gunplay) but the highlight scene is a genuinely tear jerking moment when Ladd must break the news to his son that he sold the boy's dog (for the funds for the operation). Both Ladds, father and son, bring an unexpected depth to this sensitive little moment, the son understandably upset and the father, wracked with guilt, trying in futility to make him understand the reason why. Jerome Moross' musical score is highly effective in this scene as, indeed, it is for the entire film. This lovely little western died at the 1958 box office and has remains, unjustifiably, a film with which few today are familiar. It is also, exasperatingly, one of the few Ladd films of the latter part of his career that TCM has NOT shown over the past few years. 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  3. I noticed that Rex Downing turned 88 today. He was the child actor that played the young Juan Gallardo during the first half hour of the lavish 1941 remake of Blood and Sand. That means that as of today Downing is exactly twice the age of poor Ty Power, who played the grown up Gallardo in the same film.
  4. STATE SECRET (1950). An expertly crafted British suspense thriller, lightly performed, written and directed by Sidney Gilliat, co-author of The Lady Vanishes and director of Green for Murder. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays an American physician lured to the small European dictatorship of Vosnia (behind the Iron Curtain?) who soon finds himself on the run for his life after he gains knowledge of the death of the nation's ruler. This is the kind of familiar material that Hitchcock could have directed in his sleep, but Gilliat keeps things moving briskly and amusingly. The cast is excellent, headed by Fairbanks, charming in his role, of course, but also bringing a certain common man quality to it ,as well, helping with audience identification. Assisting him more than capably are the charming, husky voiced Glynis Johns as a vaudeville performer who gets involved, Jack Hawkins, quite excellent, as the head of the state police determined to capture him, and Herbert Lom as an underworld scoundrel who reluctantly (make that very reluctantly) gets trapped into helping Fairbanks, as well. Lom's performance brings the film some of its best touches of humour. Playing a character who, as Johns says, would sell out his own mother, Lom is forced to help the doctor because the doctor makes a point of informing him of the death of the state dictator. Lom's possession of that knowledge, if the doctor is captured, would result in Lom's death, as well. At one point Lom agrees to help Fairbanks saying, "Alright, I'm a sportsman. I accept" Johns says, "You have no choice." "That's another good reason," Lom responds. Lom's role woud have been perfect for a young Peter Lorre, but with Lorre absent, Lom is a wonderful substitute. This woud turn out to be Fairbanks' second last film role before stepping back from his movie career to concentrate on television. State Secret remains, in my opinion, one of his very best roles and films.
  5. Cecil B. DeMille's UNCONQUERED. It seems a little strange to include a gargantuan production which was the biggest box office film of 1947 as a little known gem but that is the case since De Mille's reputation as a director has taken such a hit over the years. No director during the '30s and '40s seemed to have his finger on the movie public's pulse for giving them exactly what they wanted (all but one of his epics made huge money, each succeeding one bringing in more than the previous venture). However his films are often criticized for their lack of subtlety, at times tableau-like settings and grade school dialogue. Don't forget, though, that De Mille could also be a great story teller. Unconquered was the last of the director's frontier epics and salutes to the American nation-building spirit. This one deals with Indian wars in the colonial America of 1783. Nicknamed by some critics as "The Perils of Paulette" because of the serial-like woes that threaten to overcome heroine Paulette Goddard, it is a long, highly colourful, episodic adventure in which she is the object of desire between stalwart buckskinned hero Gary Cooper, frequently coming to her rescue, and villainous slave trader Howard Da Silva. The film has great costumes and sets, and a genuine feeling of authenticity in its recreation of Colonial America atmosphere. As melodramatic as the story might be, the visuals are just lovely. Beautifully lensed in Technicolor, the film boasts as one of its highlights an exciting Indian attack on Fort Pitt, brimming in the usual De Mille manner with explosions, massive smoke, Indians scaling over the walls and fire arrows, one coming, at one point, right at the camera. One incident took place during the filming in which a fire arrow accidently landed on a drum as the drummer was drumming away. The extra didn't lose his composure but kept drumming, much to the director's delight, and the moment stayed in the film. One of the great melodramatic highlights of the film, not to be taken seriously for a moment but still great fun to watch, is when Cooper and Goddard make their escape from the Indians by canoe. The Indians are close behind in their own canoes, of course, but our hero and heroine also have to battle rapids and, finally, a waterfalls which looms just ahead. Cooper and Goddard go over the falls in a remarkably edited sequence which helped to bring the film an academy award for special effects. And, yes, if you're wondering, De Mille does find an excuse to have a scene in which Paulette must take a bath in a wooden tub. Always best to add a little sex into the mix whenever the occasion arises. The main criticism of the film today, I feel, will be in reference to De Mille's portrait of Indians. And it is horrible sterotyping, blood thirty savages standing in the way of the director's idea of the white man's manifest destiny to conquer their land. Among the "Indians" are gangster actor Marc Lawrence as a medicine man, Noble Johnson (who played the native chief in King Kong) and, wait for it, BORIS KARLOFF (!!!) as Guyasuta, chief of the Senacas. Somehow, a real native actor was also cast, Iron Eyes Cody, having the opportunity to do what the director thought Indians did, torture the leading lady at an Indian torture stake (see picture below). If you can get past the Indian sterotypes in this very politically correct time of ours (as you must in so many other westerns), then Unconquered is great fun! TCM has yet to show this film but it has, fortunately, been released on DVD in an amazingly beautiful print by Universal. I can't recommend it enough, as long as you're in a mood for unsophisticated adventure. By the way, Robert Osborne does the introduction of the film on the DVD. That's right, Unconquered has the Osborne stamp of approval!
  6. CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS, a British production of 1948, may be dismissed by some as a pretentious "art" film. It's also an audacious venture that has the courage to try to emulate the huge success that director Jean Cocteau had enjoyed with Beauty and the Beast two years before. And just how many other Cocteau-imitators are there? Eric Portman plays a strange, to put it mildly, artistocrat living in the past, with a palatial home filled with furniture, statues and luxurious finery that are all tributes to the renaissance. He also, as it happens, believes that he lived in that period and has now in 1930s London discovered a woman that is the physical embodiment of a former lover from that time. The beauteous Edana Romney, who was also co-writer of the screenplay, plays that lady in a film of murder, madness and reincarnation. Terence Young, years before directing the first of the Bond adventures, has a frequently tracking camera movement, observing the lush surroundings, mirrored corridors and these not quite real people who inhabit them. The film boasts luscious black-and-white photography, many of the closeups of Romney looking almost like small paintings. Accompanying the film's strong visuals, and adding to the often dreamlike quality of the production is the moody, at times over powering musical score of Georges Auric, the same composer who had brought so much to Beauty and the Beast, as well. The film also has early screen appearances in a nightclub scene by both Christopher Lee and Lois Maxwell, years before the roles of Dracula and Moneypenny would be theirs. If you're ready to abandon logic and be caught up in a film of Gothic atmosphere that dares to be different (the confidence of these filmmakers is really impressive), Corridor of Mirrors will be the kind of dreamlike trip that you may well enjoy. Certainly I did. 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  7. *SansFin wrote:{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}TomJH wrote:{font}* *I was of the opinion that two gold prospectors, having lost their fortune, would NOT see the ironic humour of the manner in which they had lost the gold (the wind blowing it back to the mountain from where it came) as soon as Howard and Curtain do and almost immediately burst into laughter about it.* {font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*It is sad to say that I have seen similar reaction to being told of the passing of a child. It is hysteria in which the mind searches for any twist which will make it possible to bear the situation. It is like the person who grabs their alarm clock during the flurry of escaping a fire in the house. It is not logical in any rational sense but there are situations in which the mind sees no profit in remaining rational.* Well, SansFin, I hadn't considered the possibility that Howard and Curtain were having a case of the hysterics. It's certainly an interesting theory. Of course, that still doesn't explain all those Mexicans on horseback that joined in on the laughter but that is a nit pick on my part, I admit. Whether logical or not, that ending is truly classic stuff. {font}
  8. The world is full of those good little films (or good big films, for that matter) that few people ever talk about, probably because they never even heard of them. Well, here's a chance for you to name that film gem that you feel deserves a better fate. For starters, I will pick TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Heard of it? I thought not. This is a 1948 Columbia release starring Dick Powell as a U.S. Treasury agent on a round-the-world chase, Shanghai to Cairo to Havana, after international opium dealers. Presented in the semi-documentary style that 20th Century Fox had popularized after the war, it is a fast moving, hard hitting drama that leaps from one exotic setting to another. The film has atmosphere, there are a raft of colourful bits done by menacing character actors, and Powell, in the midst of the tough guy period in his career, is in great form. Oh, yeh, the film also has a great twist ending which I, for one, didn't see coming. TCM showed TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH once, a few years ago, in the wee hours of the morning. It's time to show this one again, and hopefully in a reasonable time slot!
  9. The Killing does have a very effective ending and you're right, MissW, to compare it to Sierra Madre (or, for that matter, a few other John Huston films like Man Who Would Be King or Maltese Falcon) in which the protagonists at the end are denied the long strived for treasure or, in this case, loot because of some unexpected twist). And, yes, as you watch that money literally blow around like its caught in a small cyclone in The Killing, you can't help but identify with the frustration that Sterling Hayden is feeling at that moment. When his character is then cornered by the police, Hayden looks like he really doesn't even give that much of a damn now that the money is gone. Stanley Kubrick gets my nomination as one of the most overrated of directors but I do enjoy his earlier works done on smaller budgets with fewer pretensions, such as The Killing and Paths of Glory.
  10. *filmguy wrote:*{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif} *Walter Huston gives the performance of his lifetime as does Tim Holt. That parting that you mention, when they are on horseback is intensely beautiful- these men have been through what will probably be the most extreme experience of their lifetime- they know they will never see each other again- this moment will return to them often in recollection- just as it does for us, the audience.* {font} filmguy, that's a beautifully written summation of the intensity of the relationship between Howard and Curtain in Treasure of Sierra Madre. You'te so right. Those two men will always be a part of each other's lives after that shared experience even if they never see each other again. Tim Holt, a limited actor, responded to the role with the performance of his career, while Walter Huston was, well, perfection. There are few performances that have ever given me the pleasure that I have derived from watching Huston in this film. 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  11. {font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}FredCDobbs wrote: I just love the the final scene of THE THIRD MAN.{font} {font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*It is so sad for Joseph Cotten. The girl doesn't even look at him.* And that's what makes the ending work so well - by pulling the rug out from underneath viewers' expectations. A truly great film.{font}
  12. Jake, The Hanging Tree is a great pick. This underrated western should be seen by more people, and the ending, as you indicated, is outstanding.
  13. The Public Enemy, with one of the most startling closing scenes in '30s movies, as James Cagney's body is delivered at his family's front door.
  14. Pretty much an impossible question to answer but if I had to go with one: Rita Hayworth in her prime as Gilda. \ \Rita in colour, even better
  15. *finance wrote..and, I previously mentioned, Wilder's LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON had a great ending. It appears Wilder was good at providing great endings.* You're right, finance. Love in the Afternoon, Wilder's tribute to Ernst Lubitsch, I've always found quite charming, though I'm very aware of the criticism it has always endured right from the time of its premiere. The film's ending, though, is its highlight, a beautiful collaboration of Wilder's direction, the fast editing, that buildup of the music on the soundtrack which seems to correspond to the increase of the train's speed and, of course, the remarkable vulnerability that Audrey Hepburn brought to the scene. And what other film has done quite so much with that song for lovers, Fascination: 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  16. lavenderblue, even some of Billy Wilder's films that perhaps didn't have great endings, per se, had aspects that could still stay with you. For example, the look of almost motherly concern that Marilyn Monroe has for Tom Ewell as he runs away to rejoin his wife at the end of The Seven Year Itch (I don't know if that look was because of Wilder's direction but I suspect it might have been). You made mention of three key Wilder endings, along with someone else having referred to the brilliance of the conclusion to Witness for the Prosecution. The following shot is from One Two Three. A one joke idea, perhaps, but one that stays with me, Jimmy Cagney's reaction, as a Coca Cola executive, to pulling his chief competitor's product from a Coke machine. (I'm sure that Joan Crawford got a great laugh from this one). 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  17. filmguy, there was another thread about the logic (or lack of logic, depending upon your viewpoint) of Treasure of the Sierra Madre's ending about a year ago or so. I was of the opinion that two gold prospectors, having lost their fortune, would NOT see the ironic humour of the manner in which they had lost the gold (the wind blowing it back to the mountain from where it came) as soon as Howard and Curtain do and almost immediately burst into laughter about it. (Nor do I understand why all those Mexicans on horseback join them in laughter - what, they all understood English or had one quick translation job done for them). Others, however, found the laughter credible. Nit picking, aside, though, I agree with you that the ending of that film is one of the most memerable in films, one that truly stays with you. One of my favourite moments of the scene is that moment at the very end when Howard and Curtain are both on horseback, having said their goobyes. It's the look in Walter Huston's eyes. As he pulls his horse away he drinks in all of Tim Holt's facial features. To me, it's the look of a man taking one last hard stare because he knows that he will never see the other man again. I love a lot of the performances in that film but none more so than Huston. He made Howard a wily, seasoned wise old bird, practical, very aware of the evil that can hide in men's souls, including his own, perhaps, with also with a large streak of decency. And when it comes to the "happy dance" that they like to talk about today in regard to lottery winners, no one ever did it better than Walter Huston does in this film when he finds the gold. One of the great happy dances of the movies: 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  18. Dargo, I agree with you. The Bicycle Thief has one of the most heart breaking endings I've ever seen in a film. I've never been able to watch it without tearing up. So NOW for a happy ending, the perfect conclusion to a swashbuckling fairy tale: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, with Robin Hood, Maid Marian clutching his side, shouting out to King Richard, "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, Sire!" of[/i]Robin+Hood.jpg] Actually, Robin Hood almost had a different ending. After the original one was shot, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland were called back to shoot a new ending in which Robin and Marian ride off happily ever after on horseback together. Producer Hal Wallis then changed his mind and went with the first ending, which is the one we see on the film today. A clip from the second ending, however, can still be glimpsed in trailers for the film.
  19. The unexpectedly poignant final shot in THE BREAKING POINT. As the film's hero (played by John Garfield) is returned, wounded, to his home port, a huge crowd gathers around, all concerned about him. In the midst of this crowd, ignored by all, is a little boy, the son of Garfield's shipmate, searching for his Dad. What the audience knows, but the boy doesn't know, is that his father has been killed. Garfield is taken away on a stretcher to the hospital, the crowd disperses, and the final shot in the film is of the little boy alone, still looking for his father.
  20. James, I was concentrating upon the uncertainty of Shane's future, as opposed to the reason why he left. Logic dictates that before riding off into those cold mountains he should have had a doctor treat his wound. The man chose to ride away with a bullet still in him, perhaps not the brightest of moves. But, then is this supposed to be symbolic of the fact that his breed of gunfighter is soon to be extinguished, anyway? The fact that the last time that the audience sees Shane his arm is hanging stiffly at his side indicates that the wound may have been a worse one than he originally thought. But, keep riding, cowboy, it makes for a more memerable ending than if he suddenly returned yelling, "IS THERE DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? I'M BLEEDING LIKE A STUCK PIG."
  21. Another ambiguous ending that I find haunting: SHANE. Little Jody (Brandon de Wilde) calling out to his hero (Alan Ladd) to come back as the gunman rides towards the mountains, from which his character first emerged at the film's beginning. You see Shane ride past graves (a foreshadowing of his future?), and in the final shot of him on horseback the audience briefly sees his left arm hanging stiffly from his side from the bullet wound. We don't know how badly he is hurt. Brandon de Wilde is remembered, of course, for his words, "Shane, come back" in this sequence. I love the fact, though, that when the film has only ten seconds left you can hear, very softly on the soundtrack, de Wilde's final shout: "Bye, Shane!" At the last moment the little boy realizes that his hero will not be returning.
  22. Dargo, while White Heat is my favourite Cagney film with the most stunning of endings, Angels with Dirty Faces would be a fairly close second. Cagney wrote in his autobiography about the ambiguity of the death scene, as to whether his character turned "yeller." Personally, though, I've NEVER thought there was any ambiguity. I've always thought that Rocky turned noble and faked his cowardice in order to do a favour for his priest pal so that those tough little street urchins don't idolize him. I mean, look at that last closeup of Cagney's face just SECONDS before he suddenly started to whimper. Cagney has a look of pure defiance. There isn't a trace of fear there. Cagney didn't play THAT moment for ambiguity, though you would tend to think that he thought he did the way he wrote about that scene decades later. Here's that last shot of Rocky before he tried to stop them from strapping him down in the chair. Based on this shot, there is NO WAY that Rocky was a coward. (By the way, if my interpretation of the film is correct, just think of all those wouldbe street punks who saw the movie in 1938 and left the theatre thinking "Yah, Rocky's my hero. I wanna be just like him!. I don't think that Pat O'Brien's character of Father Jerry would have approved).
  23. lavenderblue, while it's true that the ending of Vertigo does not resolve the murder (with a killer getting away with a crime), it is a film more about obsessive love than conventional thriller anyway. Therefore, I find Scotty's final actions leading to the actual death of a woman over whose fake death he had tortured himself, to be ironic and haunting. And that final visual image of Jimmy Stewart standing at the top of the church and starring down at her lingers on, combined, of course, with one of the great Bernard Herrmann musical scores. As for Lost Horizon's ending, I always wondered if it might have been even more haunting by being ambiguous, with Robert Conway searching the Himalayas for Shangri-La but leaving it up to the audience to conclude whether or not he is successful. Not the happy ending that Capra and company gave it, of course, but an ending that might stir more conversation. It would parallel the previous scene featuring those diplomats discussing Shangri La and the one who says he believes there is one because he WANTS to believe it. Likewise, viewers could feel that Conway finds his Shanghri La again (without knowing for sure) because they WANT to believe it.
  24. Swithin, since you mentioned John Ford, here's another indelible closing image from a Ford classic, THE SEARCHERS, a homage from director Ford and star John Wayne to character actor and cowboy star Harry Carey, who was known for this arm holding habit:
  25. Among films of the modern era, The Sixth Sense had a great twist ending which I didn't see coming.
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