Dargo
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...It is a very thoughtful film about the two cultures and where they had come to be in relation to one another in both the present and the past.
That is what I've always taken from RORG also, Lorna. However, in examining the Anglo-American relationship in this film, it definitely is a comment upon the contrasting cultures of the British Class System of its time against that of the concept of the American Populism system, and of course with this film ultimately siding with the latter of these two precepts as being the superior social model.
I've always loved these sorts of films which examine this relationship and contrasts between the U.S. and its "Mother Country", a few other examples of this being THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH(aka the American title of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN)
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Hi Speedy! Glad to hear you've got IWUS comin' your way. Besides hoping you'll more appreciate Vic after seeing this film, I'm sure you'll also be quite impressed with Laird Cregar's stand-out performance as the police inspector who's certain that Vic is the perpetrator. The interaction between these two is really what makes this film.
(...lookin' forward to hear what you think of the movie)
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The late New York Yankee Lou Gehrig looks like Alec Baldwin.
Yep Ham, but to get Alec to REALLY resemble Lou, you'd have to add a slight touch of George Tobias.
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Yep, that's a good likeness also.
But NOW I'm tryin' to figure out which actor ND's beloved water creature might resemble.
(...any guesses out there?...and no..."Lloyd Bridges" isn't it!)
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Dargo, do you realize how incredibly rare that still is? It's from the Mexican version of Ben-Hur, in which Griffith chokes out a female charioteer who abuses his horses.
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OH yeah, I THOUGHT I had heard somewhere that Wyler had added a few extra scenes in that flick just for the south of the border market.
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I didn't realize Hugh Griffith made Mexican films.
Ya know Rich, I think I have to agree with ya here. That DOES look even more like Griffith than it does EITHER of the Barrymore boys, doesn't it!
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Off topic question; I notice some people at this forum use 'theatre' and other 'theater'. Is this like how "color" is spelled differently by people in Britain? I know that would explain it but I see some people at this forum using 'theatre' and I believe they always lived in the USA.
Yes, one is the British spelling and the other the American(thanks to one Mr. Noah Webster) spelling, James. It would be similar to how the Brits spell the word "center" as "centre", and pretty much a carryover from the Norman-French language. And yep...pretty much like that "superfluous letter 'U' they also use over there.
And MY guess as to why some of us Yanks spell "theater" the British way, is 'cause in the back of their minds somewhere they STILL somehow think of Brits as bein' "more sophisticated" as as lowly 'Mericans, and so they think it's more highfalutin to spell it that way!!! LOL
(...JUS' kiddin'...well, just a little anyway)
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Wait now, Swithin! Are you sure that that's not REALLY Lionel Barrymore as Rasputin there?
(...or maybe his brother John after an especially hard night of drinking???)
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jamesjazzyguitar says the 2nd creature film is no good. Really? I, of course, have seen it many times throughout my life and Revenge of the Creature has only improved with age. As most couch potatoes easily know everything in american film science fiction is California. California, California, California and after that...even more California. Southern California to be exact. Sometimes it's the southwest (Arizona and New Mexico) Southern California has had more rampaging monsters per capita then any other earthly locale in history...
What, ND?! Ya know, SOME people can NEVER get enough of watchin' my old hometown gettin' periodically demolished???
(...in FACT, the way some people seem to constantly complain about the product which emanates from there and it's "negative effect upon their children", can you BLAME Tinseltown for givin' the people what they want to see???)
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Hmmmm...well maybe if we try hard enough, we can replace Bacon with Bendix in the minds of people around the world in that whole "Seven Degrees of Separation" thing???
Okay, I'll start...
Kim Kardashian
(...and no...just because both William and Kim had/have rather large rear ends, ya can't use that!)
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Glenn Langan
...and...
Leif Erickson
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I love "Moses Suposes" but my favorite number is the Broadway Melody number with Gene and Cyd Charisse. The dance where she's wearing the green flapper dress. The white veil dance is fun too; but not as exciting as their first number. In the "green dress" dance, I love the music they dance to and the story that Cyd and Gene tell through their dance.
I also really love Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" number. What an amazing dancer and athlete he was!
Couldn't agree more on both counts. But then again, anytime I catch Cyd in ANYTHING is a special treat for me.
(...'cause as I've said many times around here, Tony Martin was one lucky guy!)
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I have a ton of movies and a ton that I enjoy watching over and over.
If it features a favorite actor of mine, then I'm more apt to watch it over and over, unless the film was really terrible.
There are some movies, that while I love, I have to be in a certain mood to watch it over and over. Citizen Kane comes to mind.
There are a lot of people here who have disdain for musicals. I love musicals; but specific kinds. I enjoy musicals that feature lots of dancing. If the movie is straight singing, then it usually bores me. South Pacific was excruciating. I thought it was almost over and it turned out that I was only 30 mins into it. However, I love Gene Kelly and find his movies re-watchable. Fred Astaire's post-Ginger Rogers movies are fun too. I could watch Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire dance all day.
Absolutely, Speedy. I could probably watch a continuous loop of just the "Moses Supposes" routine from SINGIN' IN THE RAIN for hours on end.
And even though I've seen the famous mirror scene in DUCK SOUP countless times, I swear, when Groucho spins around but Harpo doesn't and then they both stick out their hands in that "tah-dah" like expression, I'm on the floor every single time.
And Yeah CaveGirl, I agree with your thread's premise. One of the joys of re-watching movies that one is already very familiar with IS the idea that you might spot something within it which you might have never noticed before, such as possibly an actor's subtle facial expression as they're speaking a line which you may know by heart due to having heard it numerous times before.
(...as mr6666 said, nice idea for a thread topic, CG)
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Actually of course, almost all of these so-called "sword and sandal" flicks ARE pretty much "empty calories"...Epics usually are. Their prime reason for being are not so much to convey deep thoughts about the human condition but to press a narrative usually containing elements of action and romance while lightly examining a particular place in time.
(...but they're still often fun to watch)
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Yes but didn't you find Hayward delicious in it?
Well Tom, I THINK James has made it clear by now that he finds this kind of thing filled with nothing but..ahem.."empty calories".
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Yeah Doc, I vaguely remember seeing this years ago on Dave's show. Piersall, never one to mince words, was true-to-form that night as I recall.
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Thanks for your wonderful addition to this thread, Laura.
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The only Newman movies I really love are The Young Philadelphians, The Sting, and my favorite, Absence of Malice, but he always gave us his best shot and he's certainly among the top actors of his generation. The only performance of his I find overrated is his Fast Eddie character in The Hustler, but that's largely because in that movie he handled a cue stick like someone who'd never picked up a cue before in his life, not because of his portrayal of Fast Eddie's character.
(And OTOH compared to Tom Cruise's pathetic cue artistry in The Color of Money, Newman looked like Efren Reyes by comparison, so I guess it's all relative.)
Well, if I recall correctly Andy, besides being a very knowledgeable movie fan, you're ALSO quite into our "National Pastime".
(...and so after readin' your thoughts about Messrs Newman and Cruise lack of prowess with a cue stick, I can JUST imagine what you might think of Tony Perkins' on-field performance as Jimmy Piersall in ANOTHER sports related film!!!) LOL
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Of course we can't all agree all the time. But we can discuss it civilly and with politeness. I think you and I discuss it that way, while other people like to rant and rave and roll around on the floor, kicking and screaming.
Uh-huh. And THEN there are those of us around here who "roll on the ground" 'cause we're laughin' so hard!!!
(...THOUGH of course NOT when somebody posts somethin' as lame as "Mason and The Dargonauts"...THAT'S just dumb!!!) LOL
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I always thought it was "DeNutrients And He's Glad He Ate Her".
FYI, tomorrow July 8, in the morning, FMC will air I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941), @ 7:15 am eastern.
Hopefully Speedy will see this and have FMC, and so she can maybe re-gauge her "Vic Meter".
(...thanks for the heads-up, Arturo!)
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Yep, it was funny. And he pretty much nailed The Robe and Demetrius as films in the process.
Yeah. Funny how he used the previously released film to give DATG a "backhanded" positive review, wasn't it.
Ya know, I had watched both of these movies recently when TCM showed them(during the Christmas season maybe?), and only having watched them in total years before I had always thought the sequel a bit inferior to its predecessor. However, after watching them recently, I DID start thinking about them pretty much as this "reviewer" saw them.
(...maybe it was just that I also started seeing the much more overt "reverence" in the former...I don't know...but then again, that's us agnostics, ya know...we DON'T know, ya KNOW?!!) LOL
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Good thing they didn't go with the original ending of this film, the one in which Caligula sentences both Victor Mature and Susan Hayward to live in the wilds, she's killed in a fall off a cliff and he's forced to turn cannibal in order to survive.
Kinda like the original title, though: Demetrius and He's Glad He Ate Her
Yeah, I know, I know, Dargo, I've read way too much of your stuff.
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Yep, you certainly HAVE, alright!!! LOL
(...btw, did you read that "review"?...pretty funny stuff, huh!)
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Yeah, well, I'm sure even Kay would agree that we ALL should keep some "mystery" in our lives...though she probably would have called it "mystewy".
(...I'm soooooo bad)
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Yeah, I knew my post was destined to that fate from the beginning.
(...BUT I'll bet there's a few OTHER folks around here who might just find some humor in it...though of course probably ONLY those folks with "poor taste" and "poor manners" like ME!!!) LOL
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Hmmmm....so Rich. Question here:
Do you think there could ALSO be some kind of button people could press that would tell the poster they're thinkin' somethin' such as:
"I think you're basically just stating your same premise and/or opinion over and over again but just using a slightly different selection of words each time." ?
(...yeah, I know...kind of a long and drawn-out thought for just one little button, huh)