Dargo
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2 hours ago, rjbartrop said:
I have to wonder, did people get this bent out of shape over Rosalind Russell playing Hildy Johnson, or is it just recently that people have become such a bunch of crybabies over this stuff?
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Damn good (and of course, pointed) question here, rj!
My guess would be that because there seemed to be a whole heck of a lot less crybabies in my parents' generation of the 1940s than there is now days, maybe not.
But then again, because the change of genders from Pat O'Brien in the original '31 version to Roz Russell in the 1940 remake was a rare thing done in films during the studio era, perhaps the Greatest Generation audiences of that time didn't see this as a trend challenging the male-dominated status quo of that time.
(...btw, I can't wait to see if the poster--who in my case shall remain nameless--and who offered up this little bent in this discussion, will ever reply to your post here...but if he doesn't, it won't of course be of any great loss)
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8 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
The 1973 movie THE LAST OF SHEILA had quite a good cast.
Was just gonna mention this one myself here, Mr.G.
(...lemme guess...TB's mentioning of those Agatha Christie movies brought it to mind, right?)
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11 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
"Goodnight, Boris" -- "Goodnight, Grisha"
"Goodnight, Boris" -- "Goodnight, Sergei"
Vicky: "I didn't say goodnight to Lermontov!"
I'm a devoted Anton Walbrook fan -- love his many delicious, over-the-top, I might even say expressionistic, performances -- in this film, the original 1937 version of GASLIGHT, THE 49th PARALLEL, and in particular, QUEEN OF SPADES, among others.
And don't forget Walbrook's terrific performance in this film, Bronxie. All brilliantly done in one long take. Gets me every time I watch it...
(...this was the film that first brought forth my appreciation of his talents, and later would come via the films you mentioned above)
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Great Escape (1963)
Executive Suite (1954)
Command Decision (1948)
Give 'Em Hell, Harry (1975...naaah, just kiddin' with this last one here, of course)
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18 minutes ago, Swithin said:
Incest is the theme of Angels and Insects. It's a complicated film, about zoology and human sexuality. Mark Rylance's wife has been sleeping with her brother. When Mark finds out, he says something like "That explains all those blonde children!" An eerie, creepy, complex movie.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/angels-and-insects-1996
So, kind'a like the Farkel family on Laugh-In, maybe?!
(...except of course with redheaded children. not blonde)
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21 minutes ago, ElCid said:
That must be in the second hour since I don't recall it.
Sorry Cid, but once again I was just kiddin' up there.
(...ya know if I keep this sort'a thing up, what little credibility I still have left around here will be TOTALLY lost, won't it!)
LOL
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What, Lily? No mention (other than his image) of Anton Walbrook in your OP here???
That guy was great in every movie I've ever seen him in.
(...and especially so in this film)
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7 minutes ago, TomJH said:
The charm of Max Showalter captured in one scene
"Somebody get out the fire hose! Yeee-yuck-yuck-yuck-yuck!"
"Oh, Max, you're so funny."
"Don't I know it. Yeee-yuck-yuck-yuck-yuck!"
Yeah yeah, I know they dressed her down in order for her to contrast even more against MM overt sexiness, but I've always found it hard to believe that a doofus like Max there could get as hot a babe as Jean Peters there to marry him in this flick.
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7 hours ago, ElCid said:
I caught the first hour of this when I had an hour to kill before Frankie Drake came on and it was mildly interesting. Would like to catch the last hour if convenient. Like so many of these documentaries, they take about 20, maybe 30, minutes of worthwhile information and expand it hour to twice as long as it needs to be. Having all the people comment on camera also stretches the time unnecessarily. Quote the few relevant ones and move on.
Yeah, I'd say including those interviews of ALL the Golddiggers in it was a bit too much.
(...I mean, wouldn't ya think having just one blonde, one brunette and one redhead interviewed in it would've been enough?!!)
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
I always find him annoying in any film I find him in! Plays the same type of characters.
I once had a dictionary in which if you looked up the word "doofus"......
(...yeah, you guessed it...Max -Casey Adams- Showalter's picture was right below it)
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6 hours ago, ElCid said:
Nor any male of draft age or most in the military for that matter.
It would be another two years for me to get to the point where I had to worry about this sort'a thing, Cid.
(...but my usual luck in life would again prevail...my Draft Lottery number wasn't pulled out of that bin until the 360th time)
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59 minutes ago, GGGGerald said:
On the other hand, a great man came into the world that same year. So its wasn't all bad news. 👶🏾 🥳 🎂
And some pretty good movies too !
LOL
Ya know Gerald, if you were implying the use of the third person format here, you really should have placed quotation marks around the words "a great man" here, ya know.
(...btw, sorry I missed ya at the Red Car again this year)
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11 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
Looks like you got the idea for a good trashy horror movie. First Pops scams the unsuspecting card players, then Mom dispatches them to avoid discovery.
(Now, I wonder how they get rid of the bodies?)
Maybe like the two old biddies did in THIS one?...
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37 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
Belle de Jour was released here in '68. Guess that's why it's on some lists of '68 movies.
King of Hearts it turns out was made in '66, and released here in '67. So I guess the list I got it from was just plain wrong. I have edited my original list.
Well, if it makes ya feel any better here slayton, there was always that movie titled SOUP de Jour that was released in 1968.
Uh-huh, you know. That early neo-noir message movie which pressed that old saw about never playing poker with a guy named "Pops" and never eating at any place named "Mom's".
It of course especially promotes the second part of this, as the soup served inside Mom's Diner in this movie is killer, and don't mean this in a good way. Nope, it actually kills people.
(...btw...don't take the time to IMDb this one either...I'm just kiddin' again here...well, I thought this was funny anyway, dude...but then of course I would, wouldn't I)
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55 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Not saying child prodigy here, Dargo, but I was only half-joking about television medicine: While other kids were recreating KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA in the sandbox, a friend and I were conducting "surgeries" on the playground...
For the both of us, Dargo, a loud lament - care of Steve McQueen's ill-fated character in THE SAND PEBBLES: "What the hell happened"?!
I dunno. Maybe it all boils down to that old saw which is often mis-attributed to John Lennon (he used a version of it as lyrics in a song he wrote), but which actually should be credited to American writer/journalist/cartoonist Allen Saunders (1899-1986):
"Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans."
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1 minute ago, NoShear said:
You started early then: Leave it to a young Dargo to come up "Cinerama, West of La Brea"!!
Well shucks, NS!
Okay, alright. I guess I do have to admit that back in the day I was sometimes called (among many OTHER things, mind you) a "child prodigy". Of course, MOSTLY by my mother, but THAT still counts, RIGHT?!
BUT, you know how it is. They say only about 1% of "child prodigies" ever live up to their true potential, and we OTHER 99% just end up coasting through life, and sometimes just ending up working for an airline...for 35 years.
(...oh sure, EASILY coasting through life because of being "child prodigies" and ultimately to a comfortable retirement like I have, but STILL, oh how I could've maybe changed the world for the better IF I had ONLY applied myself a little more!!!)
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2 hours ago, NoShear said:
Probably not thought of as a 1968 movie by most, KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA is said to have begun its exclusive engagement at the CINERAMA dome on May 14, 1969:
Experiencing the above came full-circle for me fifty years later when I attended a screening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD at the Dome.
Oh yeah, I remember this too, NS!
In fact, back when they were showing Krakatoa, East of Java (which btw, is actually WEST of Java) there, I was fond of referring to it as "Cinerama, West of La Brea"!
(...and even though IT was actually EAST of La Brea!!!)
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I thought Dick Powell was very believable in the titular role. I also thought every actor was on their game in this film. Also liked the direction, the cinematography, and even didn't mind what might now days in hindsight be considered "cliched" dialogue.
And sorry, but I don't get the idea that this film's narriative was "confusing" at all. Nope, it pretty much spelled out the idea that O'Clock had had a dallince with his partner's wife, had a vague idea but no comfired thought until later that his partner had killed the crooked cop and his girlfried, and that the later attempted hit on him was motivated because of the aforementioned dalliance.
(...in other words, it was in essence pretty much "A-B-C" as the story unfolded for me)
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2 hours ago, NoShear said:
Hitters didn't care for it much either:
Ah yes. The age of the expanded strike zone.
(...good point, NS)
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33 minutes ago, unwatchable said:
That makes as much sense as anything else I see from you. You mind your own business, and I'll do the same. I'm not jumping through your little hoops. Go find someone else to bother.
Absolutely! Don't know why I even bothered to communicate directly with you in the first place here.
(...as I had to know this would end up as it did when we first decided to keep our distance from each other a while back)
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Just now, unwatchable said:
Uh huh
And "Un-huh" is RIGHT here, sir!
(...like I said up there, TRY IT)
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38 minutes ago, unwatchable said:
I swear, neither Muller or Mankiewicz can ever get through an intro/outro without mentioning HUAC and Hollywood Blacklist if there was even a janitor on the set who was contacted by HUAC. Every freaking time.
And neither would ever admit that there is a Hollywood Blacklist going on right now, against anyone in the industry who dares to hold conservative views.
It's old and boring. For God's sake, STOP with the constant weeping and hand-wringing about 70 year old events.
I hear ya here, unwatchable. I too have now gotten to the point where I've grown a little tired of this.
BUT, what say we put to rest ONCE AND FOR ALL the idea that you've brought here about "there is a Hollywood Blacklist going on right now, against anyone in the industry who dares to hold conservative views."
Nope sir, there is NOT, and let me repeat this here, NOT anything CLOSE to a "blacklist" going on in Hollywood against celebs holding convervative views and like that which existed during the Red Scare era.
I invite you check out the IMDb filmography of some of these actors, say, actors such as Jon Voight and Mel Gibson, and see how much work film THEY'VE gotten in recent years. It's a LOT!
(...go ahead, DO IT, and then maybe THIS little lament I hear ALL the damn time coming from the more conservative element in this country now days might be lessened TOO and so I won't have to hear THIS damned sort of whinning anymore)
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38 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
Ernest kinda looks like Jack Elam in this shot.
Yep, except for the lack of a wandering eye here, maybe.
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Sorry to be the proverbial "wet blanket" here guys, but sure,1968 might have been a "good year" for MOVIES, but I doubt either RFK or MLK Jr. cared for it much.
(...hey, just sayin')
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BBC Asks: Is nostalgia killing cinema?
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Isn't it funny how the internet seems to know what might be of interest to us, James?
And by this I mean, today I was looking on YouTube for a clip of Anton Walbrook in the Col. Blimp movie in order to post it within the Red Shoes thread, and after I found it and ran it, the very next YT clip that came up on screen was a discussion which touched upon this topic and that took place on the Dick Cavett Show in the 1970s with filmmakers Robert Altman, Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich and Frank Capra...