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Another classic ending, Raoul Walsh's White Heat, with one of the most explosive final images that you'll ever see, along with James Cagney's classic declaration "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
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Dargo, it's interesting that Best Years, a post war "reality" film, chose to have a fairly upbeat happy ending for all the key characters involved. Yet I find it to be a pretty satisfactory ending, too.
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Okay, I guess it's a bit of a ridiculous question I posed because how can you pick just one. But you know what I mean. What was the ending in movies that made you laugh or cry or excite you the most? If you can pick just one. I'll start it off with one of my favourite closing scenes: The ending of MODERN TIMES, with Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard as the Little Tramp and Gamine holding hands as they both pick their spirits up and walk down that road together toward an uncertain future. Key to the effectiveness of this scene, I feel, is the combination of the poignance of the images of these two little souls as they disappear down the road, combined with the sweeping string accompaniment of the song "Smile (Though Your Heart Is Breaking)" which swells on the soundtrack. What also adds to the power of this ending, I think, is its ambiguity. Some may regard it as a happy ending, though I have a lot of difficulty doing that because the odds are that these two people will probably not have a great future, particularly in the middle of the Great Depression. Still, for the moment, at least, they are both picking their spirits up as they head down that road. P.S. : While it made for a memerable final visual image, did the Tramp and Gamine just have to walk down the MIDDLE of the road like that? I sometimes wondered if their future would be a very short one. But maybe that's just me, Mr. Worrywart.
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The woman in the photo between Bogart and Huston looks very much like Ann Sheridan (complete with cigarette in her hand, chain smoker that the lady was). However, Sprocket Man, Sheridan wears no costume like that in Silver River (certainly not in the final film version). Her interview in 1965 with Ray Hagen states that she DID do the prostitute bit in TREASURE. It's apparent to me, though, that she is nowhere to be found in the final edited film. I strongly suspect that that photo of her on the Sierra Madre set was in reference to the bit she later said she did that, for whatever reason, was not included in the final product.
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I believe that Raymond Burr and Laird Cregar had a certain similarity in their bulky appearances and, at least earlier in Burr's career, the occasional role that could have been cast with the other actor. Cregar's obessesive psychopath in I Wake Up Screaming had more than a few things in common with the creepy character played by Burr in a 1948 film noir, Pitfall. But, no, Cregar and Burr were not related.
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Who's your favorite classic movie actor?
TomJH replied to CmRetrospective's topic in General Discussions
Errol Flynn. One of the most exciting and charismatic actors in screen history, always underrated as a talent, the most versatile action star of the studio era, as he performed convincingly in swashbucklers, westerns AND war dramas. As a human being, he was a fascinatingly complex and contradictory person who, ultimately, became a self destructive tragic figure. Having said that, I also regard James Cagney as one of the great personality stars of all time who was also one of the greatest actors. Actresses? I like a lot of them but no one really leaps out as a particular favourite, though I do have a special affection for Ann Sheridan in her prime. -
willbe, I assume that you're refering to the Guilty Generation when you say that you think Karloff was miscast. Actually I don't think he's half bad in the film (after all, he was playing gangsters in a number of films at that time, including Behind the Mask and, most famous of all, Scarface). Those who remember smiling Leo Carrillo as Pancho in The Cisco Kid series or any of a number of comedy roles might be a little taken aback at seeing him play a gangster in the film. Constance Cummings, as Carrillo's daughter, always gave interesting, intelligent performances, I feel. It's a shame her film career ended as early as it did.
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Thanks for the info, clore. Since Robert Young's character in The Guilty Generation doesn't want the world to know that he is the son of a gangster, I don't quite understand the logic of Harry Cohn's complaint. However, since Young was a newcomer and Cohn was king of the lot, perhaps he didn't need to have logic. There are those who just enjoy being bullies, as well as the feeling that they haven't had a good day if they haven't had an argument. As far as ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN is concerned, somewhere I read (I can't recall the source, unfortunately) that Lon Chaney Jr. actually does one or two shots as the Frankenstein Monster in that film. I don't know if Glenn Strange had injured his back or what the problem was, but it apparently is Chaney (not Strange) that throws Lenore Aubert through the window in the film's climax in the operating room. Strange was great in that film, far and away the most frightening of the four men who played the Frankenstein Monster in the Universal series. Karloff, as we know, brought a sense of pathos and humanity to the role, which would have been totally inappropriate in an Abbott and Costello comedy. Part of the reason that film holds up so well is because all the actors playing the monsters are in peak form in their parts, and all are quite frightening. Strange had more screen time playing the Monster, ironically, in this film that kidded the Universal monsters than he did in his two previous "straight" outings as the Monster combined. So who was the bigger monster . . . Glenn Strange or . . . Harry Cohn
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A piece of minutia for those who care: For those who watched The Guilty Generation, a minor Columbia gangster drama produced in 1931 that TCM played today. Boris Karloff has a small part as a gang leader in this drama which was released before he became a star that same year as the Frankenstein Monster. In one of the film's earliest scenes Karloff first appears at the door of his son (played by Robert Young), with three henchmen behind him. Did anyone else notice that one of those henchmen was Glenn Strange, 13 years before he would inherit the role of the Monster in House of Frankenstein? Strange who later, of course, played Sam the Bartender in Gunsmoke for years, towered over Karloff. I found it amusing to notice Karloff and Strange share the same frame on screen, one on the cusp of stardom as the Monster, the other never achieving the same celebrity status but having a bit of film immortality himself in the same role, even if not as many are familiar with his name today. Strange's best outing, by far, as the Monster would be in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. That's Strange to the left of Karlof in the picture below: 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BingFan, if I remember correctly, Robert Osborne was quite effusive in his praise of The Cheaters while introducing it and expressed his hope that the film would become a TCM Christmas tradition. Unfortunately, that has not turned out to be the case as it was a one time showing only (so far). I found the film to be a lovely sentimental treat, with terrific performances from all the cast, in particular, Joseph Schildkraut. But, as you say, Eugene Pallette brought a lot to the film, too, in a role perhaps not too dissimilar from the one he had played in My Man Godfrey.
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Ten Commandments B.C. (Before Charlton) . . . There was Theodore Roberts in the 1923 silent De Mille adaption Ten Commandments A.D. (After DeMille) . . . 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There was Mel. Oy vey!!!
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For years I just assumed that Doris Day got an Oscar nomination for Love Me Or Leave Me so you can image my shock when I later discovered that she hadn't. I guess I can understand the thinking of the Motion Picture Academy at the time, though. She had never had a role previously with any of the dramatic meat that Ruth Etting provided her with. Therefore, this was simply an actress at the time that was NOT regarded as Oscar material, I guess. But Jimmy Cagney thought the world of her in that film in which she co-starred with him. Cagney hadn't become familiar with Day when they had made West Point Story together five years before, plus her part in that film had been a trifle. "But," Cagney wrote, "when we started on Love Me Or Leave Me, I saw something in her I hadn't noticed before, or maybe it was just coming into bloom. I don't know. She had matured into a really exceptional actress, and I told her so. I said, 'You know, girl, you have a quality that I have seen but twice before. There was a gal named Pauline Lord who created the title role in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, and I'm also thinking of Laurette Taylor. Both those ladies could really get on there and do it with everything. They could take you apart playing a scene. Now, you're the third one.' 'In thinking about Doris, Pauline Lord and Laurette Taylor, and the single quality they shared . . . and if I had to put that quality into a word, it would be 'unshrewdness.' It is that part of a personality that immediately evokes from an audience that response of 'Isn't that nice?' Walter Catlett had it too: wide open as a barn, no guile at all. Unshrewd. In all of these people there is a beautiful basic simplicity stemming from their lack of guile. And that lack of guile photographs.' 'I'm sure Doris Day has a better business head on her than these people, but she shares with them the quality that makes people seeing such actors say, 'Why, there's a person who wouldn't do anything to hurt me.' This quality, coupled with genuine acting ability, is irresistible to an audience. . . After Love Me Or Leave Me, Doris went into the Pillow Talk things, and I for one have always considered that one hell of a waste.'
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Bo Derek, Bo Jackson, Bo Hopkins. . . This is all coming across to me a lot more like Bo Jest.
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{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*I often get mistaken for Bo Derek.* The guys at the gym must get pretty excited when you show up. {font}
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The period in Doris Day's career that represented her greatest popularity at the time (the '60s) is, I strongly suspect, the least appreciated chapter today. (All those virgin jokes). I've always enjoyed her earlier film work. I liked her in those early Warner Brothers comedies she made with people like Michael Curtiz and Jack Carson. But, even more so, I particularly like the glimpse that she provided of her night club career before the movies, recreated by her great singing voice and the authenticity of her presence in Curtiz's wonderful Young Man with a Horn. Day's best work as an actress, I feel, was when she played Ruth Etting In Love Me Or Leave Me, standing up dramatically to one of the great actors of all time, Jimmy Cagney. What a memerable glimpse at the jazz world, with Doris Day's voice, Hoagy Carmichael at the piano and Kirk Douglas lip synching to Harry James' horn, in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN 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LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME - not only did Day recreate some great Roaring '20s tunes but she stood up dramatically on screen to James Cagney. Cagney received hate mail from some Day fans in 1955, so convincingly repellent did they find his obsessive gangster portrayal.
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I have to say that The Unknown is probably my favourite Chaney film and performance. Oh, I know it's a pretty sicko bizarre one, too, but the scene (SPOILER ALERT!!!) in which his character discovers that he had his arms amputated for nothing because the woman he desired, who previously had a horror of being touched, has now lost that fear of a man's arms, has a moment of acting from Chaney which remains seared in my memory. Burt Lancaster called the same scene one of the most emotionally compelling sequences ever recorded by an actor. You can't help but ache for Chaney in that stunning moment when he sees that Joan Crawford now had a new boyfriend, who has his arms wrapped around her. Chaney is in medium shot. It's all in his facial reaction to the news, with only a few cutaway shots to Crawford and the boyfriend. Chaney looks like he's starting to laugh, but the laughter turns hysterical, as it then becomes mixed with tears that he tries in vain to suppress. The cruellest trick of fate has just been played on him, and he is both laughing and crying at the same time. The incredible gut wrenching anguish that explodes from this actor in this scene makes this film virtually impossible to forget. It is profoundly disturbing, in the same manner that the same director (Todd Browning) would make Freaks an unsettling film experience for so many just a few years later. And can you just image if Chaney had had the opportunity (rather than the midget Harry Earles) to have played a love smitten circus freak toyed with by Olga Baclaova in that film instead? 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The Unknown: An impossible scene to forget
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Thanks, RMeingast, for confirming that it was an April Fool's joke. Even though I was very cynical about the legitimacy of the report, there is a part of me that is also disappointed that it was a rather cleverly crafted put on. As a film fan and Chaney fan, I'm like that international diplomat at the end of Lost Horizon who says that he believes there is a Shangri-La because he wants to believe it. Call me a sucker but I believe that there may be a copy of London After Midnight buried in a vault that has yet to be discovered because I want to believe it. 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Maybe . . . one day. Err, hope they make that sooner rather than later. I'm no spring chicken, you know.
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clore, if it seems too good to be true it usually is. This is hardly the first time that a print of London After Midnight has been "discovered." Hope my cynicism proves to be wrong. But, gagman, the next time you talk to Charlie Tabesh, it would be interesting to ask him if there's anything to the story. And while you're at it, you might mention While the City Sleeps, too (unless you've already done that, of course). Oh, what the heck, no harm in giving him a reminder.
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VX, I was referring to the credibilty on screen of Pallette looking like he could give Flynn a real duel. Thus, director William Keighley reverted to a lot of closeups because Eugene, in full shot, could hardly flash a sword like Errol. By the way, Pallette broke a finger during the duel, and also caught a virus that settled in his chest. There were a few long shots in the duel, like this one. For the most part, though, it was closeups and quick edits that made the duel seem somewhat credible. It's a fun sequence, though, with lovable bits of humour thrown in. Flynn and Pallette both gave film fans a good show.
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Eugene Pallette was always a joy to watch, in either comedy or drama. It's interesting to watch his duel as Friar Tuck in the stream with Robin Hood. Tuck was supposed to be a skilled swordsman, so much of the duel had closeups of Pallette and Flynn to make it seem credible that he could hold his own with the Sherwood Forest rogue. Otherwise, let's face it, it's a bit of a joke to think that Eugene Pallette could be a credible sword wielding opponent for a young, lithe athletic Errol Flynn.
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It's been a few years since I saw King of Kings but I recall being quite impressed by it. I believe it was DeMille's personal favourite of his career.
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{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*Think of the bright side. Rameses lives on every time a guy reaches for that brand of you know what.* And maybe some guys are thinking of Yul Brynner's macho dramatics when they use you know what, too. {font}
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Addison, after just seeing a scene in which the Red Sea has opened up and then swallowed all of Ramese's troops, I have no problem viewing a few theatrical dramatics by Yul Brynner in reaction to that moment. In fact, it seems very appropriate. To me, at least. (You know DeMille wouldn't have had it any other way). In any event, while I wouldn't call myself a fan of Yul Brynner (too many mediocre films didn't help), I have always enjoyed his acting in this film. He has screen presence to match that of Charlton Heston, and gives a much more persuasive performance.
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Thanks for the suggestions, gagman. But it's $77 in Canada on Amazon. Guess I'm still hoping for TCM.
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{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*Yul Brynner's horribly hammy reaction shot when the sea closes on the troops...* A "horribly hammy reaction shot" to one viewer is great DeMillian drama to this one. I've always thought that Brynner's performance was the best in this film. Sometimes Heston's Moses is just too stilted and booming voice grand for my preference. Somewhere I heard Heston comment that he thought Brynner was the best actor in the film. Spot on, Chuck! {font}
