Dargo
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Hibi, on 24 Jun 2014 - 09:13 AM, said:
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The reason Sarah Miles has such a small part in the film, slaytonf, was because she was also bored and wanted out of the movie, so they let her go midway during production. (LOL) Says a lot about the movie......Or you.
Well stayton, I DID just call this flick a "Rorschach Test", now didn't I?!!!
(...though yeah, I DID misspell it the first time)
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Don't worry, Ma. Anybody that dares call YOU a 'dame' will have to come through me first!"
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HEY! Can I get in on this TOO???
Wherever there's a need for a really bad pun or a lame joke...I'll be there, Ma!
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Thanks, Dargo. I confess to being in the "great" camp on this one, though curious what it might have been. But I'll take it, as it.
Well, I suppose in a way, the finished product as it stands CAN act as some kind of "Roschach Test" anyway, eh?!
(...though of course just as in that test, even the "answers" to it are still open to a number of possibilities and interpretations)
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Yep, and the Phillip Morris Co. evidently liked it too, as it helped make a particular brand of their product the best selling in the world!
Me?! Well, give me Jerome Moross' "The Big Country" theme, though Elmer's "Magnificent Seven" theme DOES come in a good close second in this..ahem..horse race.
(...and, I still say all western movie score composers owe a slight debt of gratitude to Anton Dvorak and to parts of his "New World Symphony", as I've always felt these symphonic motifs began there at the turn of the 20th Century)
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I would never use the ignore feature to blank out a member, but the one option I wish the ignore feature would provide is to not see certain avatars.
And I would never join any group of people who wouldn't place me on ignore.
(...or somethin' like that anyway)
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One of my favorite parts in it is when the husband of the woman who Robards is puttin' the moves on suddenly shows up, and how he then fast-talks his way out of getting pulverized.
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The link worked fine, GayD. Thanks for posting this very interesting inside look of this film's production. Ronan O'Casey's recollection seems to have explained the reason this film has confused many if not most since the day of its release.
(...it was just never completed, AND it seems if one confessed to not either liking NOR understanding it, "they just didn't appreciate how 'great cinema' can ask us to think of reality in different ways"!!!) LOL
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THE SEVENTH VICTIM is the only title from the morning slate that paid tribute to Satan.
Yeah, well, speakin' o' which....when you figure out what the lame THE STORY OF MANKIND "paid tribute to" lemme know, would ya, TB?!!
(...well, other than Irwin Allen's ability to get a lot of big names to say some really lousy dialogue, anyway)
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This continuing disregard for many sci-fi genre films and it's stalwarts like Franz and Reason is in part a major reason why some viewers are turning to other outlets like MOVIES! and Me TV.
You might be right about that.
And regarding this "culling" which the MOVIES and MeTV network might be doing from the TCM "herd"...I have to say since I switched from DirectTV to cable a few months ago and am now receiving both of them, I have been using them as my new "fallback" option when TCM is showing a movie that I'm already well-versed in, or for whatever reason have little interest in viewing.
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He lent some fine support in movies like Sands of Iwo Jima and The Caine Mutiny and he was a real life pow who escaped from a WWII prison camp
I guess that that was my point, ND...In supporting roles, Franz might have been just fine, but in a lead role???
(...and thus the reason I made that pointed little joke there...though this DOESN'T mean I'd automatically pass on watching that movie if TCM would show it, as per your request...who knows?!...Arthur COULD surprise me and hold my interest in it)
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"There is a wealth of information that our fans bring to the message boards and even though it may look like we are not paying attention, rest assured we are."
Then we can expect to see The Flame Barrier starring Arthur Franz and Kathleen Crowley scheduled for a tcm airing real soon. Yes?
Hmmmm...can't say I've ever seen this one, ND.
(...so tell me...does Arthur Franz light-up the screen like he always does in movies???)
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Yes, but wasn't our heroine a young girl who'd come from a Mennonite farm? Hardly think she'd have a 20's "fashion" hairdo. The bangs she was sporting would be typical of teen innocence and the long tresses the result of pulling out the hairpins.
I thought about that, dark, but I'm STILL seein' mostly a "Julie Christie/Darling/Carnaby Street" thing goin' on here.
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Thanks for the support(I THINK) of my point here, Andy. However, I think you should have included a shot of the prototypical 1920's women's hairstyle in order to help make my point here too. And so...
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You obviously are more familiar with the history of women's hairstyles than I am. There is nothing obvious to me about the most appropriate decade for ANY women's hairstyle, although I underatand that the beehive was big in the 1880s.
C'mon now, finance. Even the most casual observers of women hairstyles would or should recognize Britt's cut here as more from the decade in which you and I were in high school and seein' many of our female classmates at the time sportin' THIS 'do, than the decade in which drinkin' a potent potable was strictly frowned upon by our government.
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And can I just say how appreciative I AM of your latest pic of Kate here, hepclassic.
(...she was never more beautiful)
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...and that director Friedkin was able to get the city of New York to delay its planned demolition of parts of the Lower East Side for urban renewal so he could use it for location shooting to more accurately represent the NYC of 1925.
(...though SOMEHOW Britt Ekland's obvious 1960's hairstyle in this thing was COMPLETELY missed by him!...by Friedkin that is...though I have my doubts about Bob pickin' up on this TOO...but I'll bet my HOUSE that our FredCDobbs sure as heck picked up on this, remembering as I do his chief complaint about "Cabaret" about a years ago or so, and that went on and on and on and on and...)
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Yes, I do, lavender...especially between Sawyer and Tully.
And now....these two may have been posted before, but...
John Mills
...and...
Denholm Elliott
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But here's the question: How many of those earilier romantic pairings matched couples with a thirty year difference in ages? In Love in the Afternoon, Cooper was 28 years Audrey's senior. In Funny Face, Astaire lapped her birth certificate by 30 full years. In Vertigo, James Stewart was 25 years older than Kim Novak. If you can think of any early sound era films with that sort of age gap in movies that featured either romantic endings or romantic obsessions, and not just gold diggers and sugar daddies, please let me know. I can't think of any.
Well Andy, I can get close to those with a 23 year age difference between Walter Huston and Mary Astor in 1936's "Dodsworth", and as you know, this film is neither a comedy nor a mystery.
(...though once again, I think for the most part your "theory" is correct)
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Funny but at first I was going to post something like: no way, how about Grand Hotel!
But you have that clearly covered with your golddiggers and dirty old men line (as well as saying 'primarily').
So I'm going to have to really think to find examples of movies that featured male actors already in their 40s or 50s in movies done in the 30s, that had true romance with a age difference say, over 20 years.
I'm thinking there are some MGM movies with Frank Morgan and various younger actresses (e.g. Crawford), but one could say these fall more towards the dirty old men area.
While I'm not discounting Andy's "theory" here, I can think of a '30s era film with an almost 20 year difference between the female lead and her co-star..."CHAINED"(1934), with Joan Crawford in love with her married boss Otto Kruger, and who's not portrayed as a "dirty old man", btw.
(...though yeah, eventually she DOES end up with Clark Gable at the end)
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I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dusty!!!!
Oh yeah Holden, I do too!
In fact MY favorite Dusty Springfield song was always, "Relieve Me".
WHAT?! You say you don't remember that ONE? SURE you do! It went like this...
You don't have to say you love me,
just take off your clothes
You don't have to hold it for me,
I know where it goes
Relieve me
Relieve me
Relieve me
(...yeah, sorry...we made these lyrics up in Jr. High, and to this day, every time I hear this song on the radio I STILL think of 'em...yeah, yeah, some kids never grow up, I know, I know!!!)
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Is ir Staphanie Power's birhday next Sunday, or just a coincidence that theu scheduled PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND and The Rockford Files episode on that day?
It appears it's just a coincidence, Arturo, as Wiki says her birthday is November 2, 1942.
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Tcm oughta compromise. Put the frenchy stuff on between midnite and six in the morning so most viewers don't have to be burdened with watching it.
That's exactly the time slot I was going to suggest for John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Elvis Presley, and just about every musical made after Footlight Parade and before The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
And lemme guess here, Andy! THIS is because THAT WAY as the sun rises at YOUR house, THIS scene in a "certain" Musical will ALSO be showing on your TV at the same time, and so YOU can welcome yet ANOTHER beautiful day WITH it, RIGHT?!
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Sylvia Sidney laughing and having fun?
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Yeah, yeah. You're right again.
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Yeah Kay, I think that was the line, alright.