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Yep, Eddie made his big mistake here by comparing Cruel Gun Story to the Coppola classic. And whereas what he SHOULD have compared it to was Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, but evidently I'm the only one who recognizes this. (...btw...I'm with Thompson here...I was very pleasantly surpised by how much I enjoyed this Japanese film)

Yeah, thanks James! Ya know, I was just thinkin' how much younger my sweet Stefanie was there than when she posed with another handsome older gentleman a few years back. (...but who of course modesty forbids me to identify by name) LOL

This is kind of out of the blue alright, and considering that he and Micky Dolenz just ended their farewell tour at the Greek Theater in L.A. less than a month ago.

And speakin' o' which. Gloria Swanson visiting the set of Stalag 17 approximately thirty years prior to each of their passings...

Question here: Would Otto Preminger telling his assembled Allied POWs in the film Stalag 17 that they might still get their White Christmas and "just like the ones they used to know", and then going on to complain a bit about the composer of that song stealing his name from Germany's capital city, qualify IT as a "Christmas movie" for anyone but ME??? Hey, it ALSO features a pretty funny Christmas party in it TOO, remember!...

Yep, I sure did NS, and during Groucho's resurgence in popularity in the 1970s, and when one of the independent channels in L.A. (KTTV-Ch.11 ?) started re-running You Bet Your Life late at night. (...although I did have vague memories of watching it as a kid with my parents when it was first-run back in the '50s)

Hey Mr. Sixes! Did you happen to catch that PBS Antiques Roadshow episode where a guy brought the actual Rudolf and Showman puppets used in this TV special and had their value appraised? It was for pretty big bucks. Something in the low 5-figure range as I recall. I think it was originally on about 6 or 7 years ago and then recently there was an update shown to this story. The expert who had appaised them at the time would go on to purchase them. (...and he claimed their value has only gone up since)

I know, and I've been waitin' for that "gotcha" moment for years now. And I'm sure I'll get a big laugh about it when it comes, and I KNOW it's comin', alright! (...but in the meantime, whenever I hear Carly Simon's "Anticipation" on the radio, I'll be thinkin' of you)

LOL So Sans, would those "words" end up appearing like THIS -> ****** IF you now attempted to post 'em here???

Yes yancey, unfortunately you ARE wrong about this. What TCM will ACTUALLY be showing is 1949's The Big Punch Bowl. And which tells the story of what happens at young debutante Ellen MacMurphy's (Deanna Durbin) cotillion after that no-good brat Johnny Mayberry (Dickie Moore) empties an entire fifth of whiskey into the...well, you know. (...and yes, I DO have way too much time on my hands lately...ya see, I've recently given up that little shuttle job down to Phoenix and back that I had)

As to your first point here James, thanks for agreeing with me and my basic point in this thread. However, and disregarding the thought that Ingrid Bergman WAS a great actress, I'll now take mild exception to your second thought here, as I would think and due to what Coop says to her a couple of times in the picture, "You're shameless", that the Maria character should have been played more as a firebrand and a bit more willful than how Bergman did and which came off to me as more languid than anything else. And in fact so languid that she started to remind me of how she played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, and that other than the love scenes she shares with Coop, she seemed to recede in importance to the overall narrative of the film in all other respects. And thus, perhaps NOT as "perfectly cast" as one might assume. Now, I must admit I've never read Hemingway's book and so don't know how he wrote her character to be, but somehow I've gotten this feeling, and think IF her character had been played more this way, it would've made for a more interesting character. (...and to your final point...yes, all the acting was first rate...and yes, including Bergman's)

LOL Nope KR, and even sportin' that mustache and as great an actor as Bogie was. But of course, THEN there was always Eli Wallach who COULD pull this off and DID pull it off a couple of times. And if you've ever watched Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! (aka: A Fistful of Dynamite) I always thought Rod Steiger pulled it off fairly well. (...and along with Brando in Viva Zapata!)

So then Sepia, you're implying here that I'm NOT your "average man"??? (...well THANKS...this might be the loveliest compliment I've received in YEARS, ol' buddy!) LOL

And in 1965, Dana Andrews got second billing after Jeffrey Hunter in what I've always thought was a bit underappreciated (and I understand even a few others have considered the last B&W film noir ever made) titled Brainstorm. (not to be confused with Natalie Wood's final movie) This one has shades of Double Indemnity and the later-made Body Heat, and with a fine portrayal by Andrews as the husband who becomes the target for elimination. There's also some interesting little plot twists that come about in it. Watched this one years ago one night on TV, and remember it impressing me more than I had at first thought it would. (...did I mention it also co-stars Anne Francis who's at the very height of her attractiveness?)

Saaay, maybe you've stumbled across somethin' here, Ari?! YEAH, perhaps all Ingrid really needed for this part in order to sound a little less Swedish and a little more Spanish would've been a short little elocution lesson like the one Donald and Gene here got in the movie and the scene you've just obliquely referenced here?!... LOL

Yep Ari, no question about it. Ingrid was a damn fine actress, alright. (...still say she was miscast in this one, though)

And btw...yes yes, I know there are fair-haired Spaniards in this world, but STILL... And btw again, Greek actress Katina Paxinou was great as Pilar, and definitely deserved the Supporting Actress Oscar win that she got. (...and btw AGAIN, great ending to this film...it ALMOST made up for much of the slooooow goings-on that preceeded it)

...it is only ME or was Ingrid Bergman TOTALLY miscast as Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls that I'm watchin' tonight on TCM ??? Sure, she gives it her all (and as we know, even garnered an Oscar nom for it) but of ALL the actors in this movie who aren't Spanish, SHE'S the ONLY one who I really can't buy AT ALL of being of that nationality. (...nope...nada...sorry...lo siento)

Oh, I dunno, CI. Have to say for the most part I enjoyed watching Sarandon and Lange goin' toe-to-toe as Davis and Crawford a few years ago, anyway. (...didn't YOU?!)

I've just done a little investigative research on this whole "Ask.fm" thing here MissW, and have I think discovered the very reason why no one there answered LuckyDan's question about who the great Fred Astaire was and thus perhaps because nobody there knew who he was. (...uh-huh, it's because I discovered the "fm" in "Ask.fm" stands for "freakin' morons", and so naturally.....)

The real Groucho visits the set of The Way We Were in 1972 and during the filming of the Marx Brothers-themed costume party scene...

Hey, and speaking of Natalie and her eyebrows, and who I don't believe has yet been represented in this thread...

"Yes, yes..vewy vewy funny! Ha ha!"

I have, Sepia. Yep, I have actually commented to others about a woman's eyebrows that I've found sexy, and especially if I've percieved them to be nicely arched. And the women I've commented upon in this regard are almost always brunettes, and because generally brunettes have darker and thus more pronounced eyebrows than do lighter-haired women. (...it's one of the main reasons I've always been more attracted to the darker-haired ladies out there, and why I've always found actresses such as Ava Gardner, Hedy Lamarr and Natalie Wood to be the most attractive)

Sans, I'm afraid you've been taken in by a fake Groucho here. Double take? Celebrity impersonators (timesunion.com) (...yes, you soytenly have)