Bogie56
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I am curious to see at least one, if not a few of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's films. He was an Argentinian filmmaker who had some International acclaim in the 1960's.
I have been unable to locate dvd copies of any of his films.
These are perhaps his better known works :
The House of the Angel (1957)
The Fall (1959)
The Hand In the Trap (1961)
Summerskin (1961)
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Speaking of WWI ...
Serbs in Bosnia who are obviously stuck in 1914 have just erected a monument to Gavrilo Princip.
Get ready for a monument to JW Booth sponsored by the K--K--K--:
a monument to C Guiteau sponsored by disappointed political office seekers;
a monument to L Czolgosz sponsored by the anarchists;
a monument to LH Oswald sponsored by the communists;
and a monument to JW Hinckley sponsored by rabid fans of Jodie Foster.
Oswald was a fake defector and not a communist. He was trained by Army Intelligence to speak Russian.
Sorry, I'll shut up. A JFK conspiracist is sure to get this thread shut down.
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John Frankenheimer. In May 1975 the Ontario Science Centre film programmer, Gerald Pratley invited John Frankenheimer to a screening on his own new film, The French Connection II and there was a Q&A afterward. Frankly the Q&A was a tad embarrassing as some of the questions from the audience were just patently absurd. You could see that Frankenheimer didn't suffer fools gladly.
I got the chance to meet him after the screening and had brought along a Variety page with the poster from this film which he signed. I spoke to him ever-so-briefly about his other recent film, 99 and 44 100% Dead which I had really enjoyed but had flopped.
I was working a summer job at the CBC at the time and as was my custom I checked out who was the guest on Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date and low and behold it was John Frankenheimer. So, as in other occasions when Elwood would have someone interesting on his talk show, I went across the street to watch the live show and eat my bagged lunch.
Next thing you know, Frankenheimer is standing beside me in the wings waiting to go on. He remembered me from the night before and we had a good old chat. I told him that I worked there so he didn't think i was stalking him!
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Ths is the only film in which Anders was a great character and actor..... I think it was because of Welles direction. Anders was so creepy and just great.
Great shot Fred. I'm going to have to learn how to attach pictures.
I looked at the how to attach file that is pinned and as a Mac user I was a bit perplexed. Everything I do just turns out as thumbnails.
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'Where's Poppa?' has reduced me to laughing so hard I had coughing fits. "Get away from the door or I'll choke your child!"
( Anyone remember there's 2 endings to "Where's Poppa?").
If you liked Where's Poppa? You might like to search out another book by the same author, Robert Klane called The Horse Is Dead.
It is much too racy to ever be filmed I would think. Even for today.
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Charles Laughton seemed particularly adept at playing megalomaniacs.
He was the crazy Dr.Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932)
His King Henry in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) for Alexander Korda earned him an Oscar. He was certainly full of himself.
He followed that with Captain William Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
and with his Inspector Emil Javert in Les Miserables the same year. One of my favourites.
Even his Commander Charles Sturm has a megalomaniacal streak about him in Devil and the Deep (1932).
I can't think of any other actor at the moment who has had such a string of crazy and varied roles in such a short period of time.
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John Wilkes Booth in Richard III.
And his master of improv cameo in Our American Cousin.
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Any relation to Judy Parfitt, the actress. She was wonderfully unsympathetic as Mildred Layton in the BBC production, The Jewel in the Crown.
Judy Parfitt is his mother. David started out as a child actor and later became an Oscar winning producer with Shakespeare In Love.
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The late comedian Richard Jeni had an utterly brilliant bit about the movie Jaws: The Revenge, I think the original footage has been lost, but here is a youtube video someone did with a computer generated voice reading a transcript of Jeni's rant (it is hilarious):
I think his words apply very much to LYLAH CLARE as well.
Wow. Thank you Lorna for posting that video. I recommend that everyone take the time to watch it. Very funny.
The hot dog at the bottom of the pool? Priceless.
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Probably any number of films would apply but none of them seem to come to mind. I have had a strange, out-of-the-blue, other-worldly, an obsession of sorts, no let's call it an uncontrollable desire to see a movie with an actor by the name of Tor Johnson in it. Where this came from is completely unknown to me since I am hardly aware of such a person but I'm sure he exists because when these feelings come over me it always has a germ of truth to it. And so, if there is someone who has a name as weird as that, I would appreciate a recommendation. Anyone? (Deadly serious, I would like to know what the best movie to start with, assuming that he exists and someone just didn't make him up.) Thanks.
Wow. Tor Johnson has made it into the Bucket List thread. Hallelujah!
Maybe you should start at the beginning with Registered Night Nurse (1934). I could start there too. I had no idea his illustrious career stretched that far back. When I first read about Tor in that film in another thread I thought they were just joking.
I don't think Tor has the title role in that film though. That would have been interesting casting.
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You're not planning a.Caitlin.Jenner style.makeover are you?
I want to look devilishly handsome. Like, like, ... like that MovieMadness fellow.
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both Ron Leibman and Rae Allen as Sidney and Gladys Hocheiser in Where's Poppa? (1970)
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Someone in here has had an amazing makeover, even Dr. Jekyll would be jealous, lol.
Mine is a work-in-progress. You must be referring to Tor's not so gradual weight gain?
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You're not planning a.Caitlin.Jenner style.makeover are you?
That would cost much more than I can afford I'm afraid.
Besides, it would only confuse my wife even more.
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"If'a I said 'good morning,' that would not be acting"
- Lando Buzzanca in After the Fox
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TCM has no reason to limit itself to airing only theatrical movies all 365 days a year. There's loads of interesting old made-for-television films just itching to be aired again! ABC, CBS and NBC likely have little use for scores of their '60s, '70s and '80s television movie productions. Maybe TCM could make a deal to air some of them. Those tele-films are doing no one any good sitting around collecting dust . . . or worse! (Vinegar syndrome, anyone?)
I won't list any made-for-Tv films I'd like to see which I know has been made available on homevideo, because I wanna see TVM's I can't find anywhere. On the +PLUS+ side I've been able round up some 500+ made-for-Tv movies for my humble video collection. ► I've always been acquisitive . . . when I could afford it!
And I've got more TVM's to collect before I'm through. I've cast my jaundiced eye upon the VCL release of "The Killing of Randy Webster" (1981-Tvm). Of the made-for-TV films I've seen listed on the thread I've found a few of them for my stash:
EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK, The (1974-Tvm) MCA/Universal Home Video
NIGHT STALKER, The (1971-Tvm) Magnetic Home Video (also released on CBS/Fox Video and other labels)
QUESTOR TAPES, The (1974-Tvm) CIC Video (England) a PAL-format VHS release
FIRE! (1977-Tvm) Warner Home Video. I have 2 copies of this. One in a Warner clamshell (1986 release) and the other in a small box from the '90s. Ty Hardin is on-screen for more than a minute, btw.
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Here are 12 made-for-television films I'd like to see sometime and in one case to see again with better sound:
SMUGGLERS, The (1968-Tvm) C-97m. w/Shirley Booth, Carol Lynley, Gayle Hunnicutt. D: Norman Lloyd.
DAUGHTER OF THE MIND (1969-Tvm) C-90m. w/Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Don Murray, Ed Asner
BLACK NOON (1971-Tvm) C-73m. w/Ray Milland, Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Gloria Grahame, Lynn Loring
DEVIL AND MISS SARAH, The (1971-Tvm) C-73m. w/Gene Barry, James Drury, Janice Rule, Logan Ramsey
ISN'T IT SHOCKING? (1973-Tvm) C-73m. w/Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Gordon, W. Geer
KILLER BEES (1974-Tvm) C-74m. w/Gloria Swanson, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Craig Stevens
TELETHON (1977-Tvm) C-100m. w/Polly Bergen, Lloyd Bridges, Janet Leigh, Red Buttons
BIG BOB JOHNSON AND HIS FANTASTIC SPEED CIRCUS (1978-Tvm) C-100m. D: Jack Starrett.
DEFECTION OF SIMAS KUDIRKA, The (1978-Tvm) C-104m. w/Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence
THADDEUS ROSE AND EDDIE (1978-Tvm) C-100m. D: Jack Starrett. w/Johnny Cash, Diane Ladd, Bo Hopkins
AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE DIXIE BAR AND GRILL (1979-Tvm) C-100m. Written & directed by Joel Schumacher
I, DESIRE (1982-Tvm) C-100m. starring David Naughton. Where did this go? I saw part of it one time, but I've never found it or seen it on Tv since. I do recall this was a straightforward thriller as opposed to Naughton's 1981 movie "An American Werewolf In London" with it's tongue-in-cheek attitude.
I have a copy of "Black Noon" on tape, but the sound quality is so bad it's very hard to hear anything without jacking the sound up to ridiculous levels. It'd be nice to watch this movie where I could hear it better.
Re: Post #17. The Tv movie you're referring to, ChristineHoard, is 1984's "Something About Amelia" with Ted Danson. The 1981 Tv movie with Danny Kaye was called "Skokie".
I remember seeing Daughter of the Mind when it was first on in 1969. As you say, it features Ray Milland, Gene Tierney and Don Murray.
I was sort of into those kind of films when I was that age. Not sure how it would stand up now. There is a pretty crummy copy on you tube that I haven't mustered the time to see as yet.
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The funniest part is that the third category actually has happened on these boards.
I hope that moderator joins in the regular conversations now and then. Sounds like an astute observation.
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Yes, amazing what shaving your head and consuming 10000 calories a day can do for someone
Be careful when you sit down on that toilet seat, my friend.
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Love what you've done to your face, bogie
That's kind of you. I'm having some work done.
Preparing for my new disfigurement movies thread. There is a whole sub-genre of these films.
You don't look so bad yourself.
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To peach, or is it peech (not sure) is an old English term meant to inform on someone.
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A number of films during the studio era were filmed to be told chronologically, but during post production, the decision was made to cut the film and have the narrative incorporated flashbacks. Often new footage would be added, or new dialogue inserted, to bridge any gaps in the storytelling.
In Lydecker's submission to the recent programming challenge he included a mini tribute to Slavko Vorkapich the Russian editing master who ended up in Hollywood. He was responsible for a great many of the linking montages we see in the old days.
Usually they were montage segments in films that covered a lot of story and got you from A to B in a hurry. But occasionally they were the reverse and told you a lot of back story in a hurry.
I believe the term was to 'Vorkapich-it' when you needed such transitions.
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All I know is I would have loved to be able to read that full inbox, lol.
24 hours later and I bet it is full again
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Interesting that you should mention this. It has recently come to the attention of American Psychiatric Society and the suspicion is that this might represent a new strain of psychopathology. Studies are underway and it has begun to appear that the affliction that arises with this phenomenon can be quite serious, causing chronic megalomania as well as sever delusions of grandeur. Psychologists are fascinated with the discovery that many so afflicted contract severe carpal tunnel syndrome associated with using the same finger to tap on a computer key. The connection is under study. It has been projected that an official diagnosis of the malady will be created in the near future so that an effective remedy can be developed, although some health care professionals are saying that the condition might very well be hopeless unless those afflicted can become cognizant of their condition thereby becoming an active participant in their own recovery. There are also indications that self-help groups, such 12-step programs, are cropping up. Conventional medications are also being sought, which include among other categories, a whole array of anti-psychotic drugs.
Perhaps the Society should visit this site for their studies.
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I see Tor has a life mask for sale on ebay
And I've got more TVM's to collect before I'm through. I've cast my jaundiced eye upon the VCL release of "The Killing of Randy Webster" (1981-Tvm).
The worst possible cast selection.....
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Nijinsky with Tor Johnson