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    5.  Clear Skies (1961) Grigoriy Chukhray, Russia

    I really liked this film.  It’s pure romantic melodrama in a Douglas Sirk vein.  Nina Drobysheva plays a young girl who is smitten by a dashing WWII pilot.  Several years later they meet by chance again when she is now a factory worker and thus begins a deep love affair.  Drobysheva is amazing.  My favourite scene was a simple snowball fight between the lovers.  Director Chukhray captures its essence by shooting onlookers who are spellbound by the sheer joy of it.  Clear Skies is very stylish.  It has a river ice breaking sequence that is a nod to The Mother (1926).  The music is pure Liberace, but hey.

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  2. 24 minutes ago, TopBilled said:

    Interesting. I suppose he fell in love with the Bahamas while filming movies there.

    Doris Day fell in love with Carmel-by-the-Sea when she made JULIE (1956) there in the mid-50s.

    Conveniently it also happens to be a complete tax haven if you are resident.  You get the best of everything.

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    Euphemia McBain McLean , mother seated next to Sean.  When he had some success, Sean bought his mother a home in Edinburgh.  I know this as my Uncle sold it to him.

    Born on Aug. 25, 1930, in Edinburgh to a mother, Euphemia McBain, who toiled as a cleaning lady, and a father, Joseph, who plugged away in a factory, Connery seemed destined for a far less glamorous life than the one he would later enjoy as one of the most popular leading men of his generation. Indeed, after leaving school at 14, he drudged through a number of blue-collar jobs, from truck driver to milkman — the worst of which, he would later say, was polishing coffins — before discovering acting.

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  4. Here are a few more late additions from films that I have recently seen or revisited that have made my top tens

    1943

    I’ve only just discovered that the imdv has moved The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek from 1944 due to its December 1943 release in Britain.  So I’ve moved my three performers from that film to 1943.  William Demarest and Betty Hutton fall into about the same ranking but this one was a significant change …

    Actor

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    1.  Eddie Bracken (Norville Jones/“Ratsywatsky”), The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

     

    1961

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    Actress

    3.  Nina Drobysheva (Sasha Lvova), Clear Skies

     

    1952

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    Supporting Actor

    3.  Ralph Richardson (Sir John ‘J.R.’ Ridgefield), Breaking the Sound Barrier

    [I saw this again and though it is a very close call decided that this was a supporting performance)

     

    1997

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    5.  Samuel L. Jackson (Ordell Robbie), Jackie Brown

    [I saw this again and moved Jackson into my top ten]

     

    1999

    Actress

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    9.  Catherine Frot (Pierette Dumortier), La Dilettante

     

    2012

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    5.  Denzel Washington (Captain Whip Whitaker), Flight

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  5. 1960

    and I’ve also seen …

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    The Avenger (1960) Karl Anton, Germany

    Another German Edgar Wallace crime film.  A low budget effort marred by a character straight out of a cheesy Bela Lugosi horror film, an African man servant who is half black man and half beast.  Klaus Kinski has a small part.

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  6. On 10/19/2020 at 3:21 AM, MovieCollectorOH said:

    To the newer posters -

    Here.  Bookmark this.  October through December.  And then January in due time, if it is meant to be.
    https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

     
    P.S. and if you don't like that, here are older saved copies of Nov and Dec.  But they are already or will someday be obsolete:

    Nov
    https://moviecollectoroh.com/pics_to_hotlink_on_TCM/broadcast_2020_11_pulled_2020_09_28.html

    Dec
    https://moviecollectoroh.com/pics_to_hotlink_on_TCM/broadcast_2020_12_pulled_2020_09_28.html

    Hi MovieCollectorOH,

    I think both of the schedules under Nov and Dec are for September.

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