Dargo
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I just heard from Frau Blucher, she spoke very highly of "Wictor Mature" . He was "her boyfriend".
HEY now, Mr.R! It has been brought to my attention recently that making fun of how some people talk isn't very nice!
(...and so...PLEASE go on!!!)
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Another success here, Rich!
(...btw, if ya really wanna know what time is it, don't bother asking Robert Lamm or anyone else in that musical group named after The Windy City...they don't know either!)
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Okay, and now back on topic here...
rosebette, could you please expand a little more on what you meant by this film being the most "modern" of WWI-themed films, and as per your thread title?
I'm not exactly sure what you meant by this, and would be interested in more understanding your intent.
Thanks.
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Love IT! Great segue back. Tom!
(...the woman looks a little like an adult Surely...err...I mean Shirley Temple...okay, and maybe with a little Ann Blyth mixed in)
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I can't agree with it because I don't remember it. I must say, though, that I thought Mansfield brought a child-like vulnerability to her role in The Burglar which surprised me and I thought added to the film's effectiveness.
Hey, we've just sidetracked your thread once again after I got it back on course with that great pix of Vic!
Decent enough thought about Jayne's "child-like vulnerability", I suppose. Yeah, okay, I'll buy that.
(...though your attempt to "re-track" this baby with what I'm going to assume was a still from "The Long Haul" didn't post, ol' buddy)
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Much as I like The Burglar, I have to say that Mamie Van Doren made ZERO impression upon me in that film.
Mainly because it's Jayne Mansfield that appears in the film. You and that brunette thing of yours, Dargo. All those blondes bombshells really do look the same to you, don't they?
(Ditto for jamesjazzguitar, too, and his Martha Vickers thing, since he's started it off by listing Van Doren in this film).
FACE PALM!!! Dang you're RIGHT, Tom! It WAS Mansfield not Mamie!!!
James, you're a "bad influence" here, dude!
But yeah Tom, you're right again...Mansfield, Van Doren, really not much of difference anyway in my book, though I DO have to admit that Jayne MIGHT have been a little better with comedic material than Mamie.
(...THOUGH, bottom line here, Jayne's last line reading in that movie WAS gawd awful, you have to at least admit THAT, now doncha?)
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James, I think it's YOU that picks up a little steam anytime Martha Vickers comes on screen.
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Well Tom, I'm pretty sure James AND myself have by now made it perfectly clear around here that neither of us are all that into peroxide blondes, and so NATURALLY Martha's gonna "steam up" US much more than Mamie!
(...right James?!)
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OH, and btw...for the more timid around here who might wish to say somethin' about Victor Mature but somehow feel they can't now after I sidetracked "my own" thread here...here's all ya gotta do:
Start out by saying, "And now back on topic", and then say whatever ya wanna say about Victor.
(...simple, HUH?!)
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...At least once Martha is in the movie the movie picks up a little steam. Before that I felt there was too much focus on Van Doran.
On Van Doren's "what", James?
'Cause besides your very valid point about Vickers, I gotta say I remember Mamie's final scene in this film being about as bad a piece of acting as I can remember.
(...well, OTHER than maybe O'Neal's, Ryan that is, little line reading HERE....)
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HEY!!! Btw here! Who the heck sidetracked "my" thread with all this talk of George and Dan and Hedy and Susan anyway, HUH?!
Oh wait, that's right...I guess I kinda did that myself with that "Samson and Delilah" pic featurin' George and Hedy, huh.
Never mind then, and please continue in any vein that you wish here, folks.
(...I'm hopin' to get 10,000 views in this baby too...I mean, this IS a 'contest' around here, isn't IT?!...and as usual, I can't afford to be picky!)
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If one should eventually come to accept that which they'd prefer not, would that be called "cognitive resonance"?
Yeah, and isn't that one of those famous "Seven Stages of Grieving"???
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How did this thread get so off track? Was The Dawn Patrol on the afternoon Tea Time Movie?
I'll give ya three guesses here, Mr.R.
(...and in this case, Vautrin AND/OR finance don't count, nor should be counted!!!)
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I believe that you must learn that your fingers are helpful and reliable. Each time you have a difficult mathematics problem you can count on them.
Well lady, I don't know about YOU, but I SURE ain't got no 2,016 freakin' fingers!!!!
(...though there WAS that one girl I once dated who said I was "all hands"!!!)
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So who's gonna volunteer to tell Mr Duryea he ain't gonna be SOTM?
Eeh! Dan's the kinda guy I'm not really scared'a.
(...well, NOT unless I turn my back on him anyway!)
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I just wanted to put in a plug, Dargo, for The Burglar which, along with Victor Mature's aforementioned The Last Haul, is one of the best of those little crime dramas of which few people have ever heard.
Yeah, I know.
I too remember being impressed with Dan and that movie when TCM showed it a year or so ago.
(...still love that scene where the camera was placed inside that opened safe and the tension it created)
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I must wonder if it was an omen of things to come that TCM aired: 2001 in 1998 and: 2010 in 2008.
Will they air a 2016 movie before the end of this year?
Sans my dear, you're confusin' me here with all this Math!!!
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Not completely. Don't forget that good little '50s crime drama, The Burglar. Excellent minimalist performance by Duryea, who is the star.
Very true Tom, and I agree that Dan's performance AND the picture is one not to miss. However, for the most part, I still have to agree with James here.
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So they no longer use the Carson scale out there. Out of sight.......
No, not anymore. But actually as you probably know, the old "Carson Scale" in California was primarily used to measure how big a comedian's career was gonna be.
(...get invited over to the couch after your first appearance, and baby, your career was assured)
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As you know I'm a big fan of Dan Duryea, but I wouldn't make him SOTM if I was in charge of programming. Like George Sanders, Dan's best performances are in movies where he wasn't the lead male star.
Yep, I have to agree with ya here, James. If(not saying it should OR shouldn't be here, btw) the criteria for SOTM boils down to having a more lengthy "A-picture" filmography in which the proposed star IS "the star" of the movie, then in that case, Vic would have to go before both George and Dan here, I would say.
(...though I think ALL of them could AND should maybe be honored with this thing eventually)
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My money's all on Richard Widmark for SOTM, then maybe Dan Duryea. How about Jean Peters?
Yeah, I like "the looks" of that last one mentioned of course.
(...BUT of course that cutie doesn't have a lengthy enough filmography to ever have this happen, as you know)
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Not so modern that it wasn't too hard to figure out that Flynn would go
on the last mission and knock off Von Richter. Wonder where they
came up with that name?
I dunno. Maybe from that scale they use out there in California to measure....
(...oh never mind)
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So now we have Victor, George, and Hedy (or is that Hedley?) all on the list for future SOTM. That just pushes Susan further down the waiting list
Well, maybe you can..ahem.."finance" some kind of arrangement with TCM to help keep her at the top of that list, Mr.R?
(...I'm certainly not adverse to seeing Susan get that honor before my boy Vic gets it, and just as long as both they and George AND Hedy eventually attain it)
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Hmmmm....ya know finance, you're right.
And sooooooooo....
HEY TCM!!! ARE YA LISTENIN' HERE?! HOW ABOUT VIC GETTIN' A SOTM TREATMENT, HUH???!!!
(...I ain't gonna hold my breathe though...I know JUST how slowly the wheels turn around this place)
Btw...speakin' o' which...
"Well, my lovely. I'll wager I'M TCM's Star of the Month before that muscle-bound head-of-hair you seem to be so infatuated with lately!"
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I think whenever I saw "Command Decision" I saw it as a "boredom drama." It just can't compare to Flynn and Niven drinking it up and matching each other for self-sacrifice.
So rosebette, you're sayin' my guess was pretty much on target here then, eh?!
Gotta say while I somewhat know what you mean, I've always liked CD'S script(and the acting by all), and always "really got into" the whole idea that the dramatic "friction" or "tension" in it was solely supplied by means of the verbal.
TCM going 'blah'?
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Oh, I dunno about THAT, Sans. I've lost a WHOLE lot of that there "cognitive dissonance" stuff in my day, meanin' I think that I'm not absolutely sure about more and more things every single day, and yet I'll bet nobody 'round HERE is ever gonna say that I'M "mature"!
(...hey, speakin' o' which, how's about talkin' about "Mature" in my thread about him, HUH?!...I've always loved your take on things, ya know!)