Dargo

Here. I'll save ya the trouble...

So, you're sayin' you're also not familar with 'Dead Man's Party'? (...cool song)

Ya know, you're gonna have'ta at least add Bobby's two biggest hits to your collection, 'Mack the Knife' and the previously mentioned one, in order to do modicum justice to his career, don't ya?! (...btw and re Oingo Boingo...can you tell me why so many people seem to be unfamilar with their 'Dead Man's Party' song?...I've always thought it one of the best Halloween-themed songs out there and right up there with MJ's 'Thriller', and yet when I mention this to people, I seldom get a nod of recognition about this...could it be because Danny Elfman's group was mostly known on the West Coast at the time?)

Sure, and considering that these two recordings hit the charts within a year of each other (1958 and 1959) I suppose this might be the case here. (...oh, wait...you weren't around yet at that time were ya, kid...never mind)

Remember here sewhite, The Four Preps specifically sang "26 MILES across the sea", and not "SOMEWHERE beyond the sea" like Bobby Darin did! (...and so I'm still havin' a little problem understandin' your confusion here, my friend)

Or even since Thomas moved far from the madding crowd.

SAY! This one's pretty good, Mr.G. But for MY money, the earlier mentioned "Chinaman" joke that Nicholson tells in the movie ChinaTOWN is STILL a little bit funnier. Of course then again, this COULD be because Jack's comic timing in that one is so damn good! (...okay, and now were we here?...oh yeah..."wokeness"...as you can maybe tell here, I don't let that sort'a thing affect me much...and even THOUGH there's NO way in HELL I'd PERSONALLY tell EITHER one of 'em NOW days!) LOL

Okay, but Boo-Boo WAS a bear TOO, now wasn't HE?! (...he twern't no aardvark, ya know)

Really? C'mon now, Sepia. I mean, he's already got on the TIE, and so all he needs is a HAT and don't ya think Hoskins here could've EASILY played Yogi Bear in some live action version of that old Hanna-Barbera cartoon series?!!!... LOL

Yep. Thanks Cid, but I did know this, and only included that for those around here who might not have known the difference between the traditionally applied terms of "sedan" and "hardtop". (...however, and considering that most all of those who frequent slayton's thread here probably already knew this, I suppose this little bit of info was probably, ahem, "superfluous" on my part, wasn't it)

Have to say I personally only ever had ONE thing against Peter Lawford. Uh-huh, ya see this English dude became an American citizen in 1960, right?! BUT even after that AND until the day he died, word is the guy STILL persisted in spelling certain words with that REALLY needless superfluous letter 'U'!!! (...there, I've said it AND I'm glad I've finally gotten this off my chest once and for all!)

Oh, it could alright. In 1965 and when I was 13, my father purchased a very nice used '62 Caddy Sedan Deville (four door hardtop with no B-pilar) just like this one here in Burgundy red metallic paint and white leather interior... ...and during that summer, he and my mom and I hopped in that big ol' boat and cruised effortlessly from L.A. to Yellowstone N.P. and back.

Interesting, as it sure popped up on my computer screen again and after just now coming back to your thread to see what your reply to me was here. Maybe try refreshing your display. (...and once it DOES show up on your screen...am I RIGHT?!...she DOES look like Don Grady there, doesn't SHE?!) LOL

When I was growing up in the L.A. area circa the 1960s, I twice took what was called the Great White Steam Ship... ...from San Pedro to Avalon. It took around an hour and a half for this old rust bucket which was built in 1924 (and sunk off Ensenada, Baja Mexico in 1997), to make the 26 miles ("across the sea, Santa Catalina is'a waitin' for me, Santa Catalina the island of romance, ROMANCE, romance, romance"...c'mon, SURELY someone here remembers that 1958 Four Preps hit recording, RIGHT?!!) one way trip there. By that time the island of Catalina and it biggest town Avalon had pretty much seen better days, BUT I've recently heard that they've done a very nice job of fixing up the place in recent years and now makes for a great day trip or for a stay of a few days. (...the preceeding has been brought to you by: The Santa Catalina Tourist Bureau AND by the recollections of this old f*rt here)

And speaking of big (and I mean BIG) and bright red American "boats" (or sometimes also referred to as "Yank Tanks")... Lindsay Crouse (yeah yeah, I know...doesn't she look like Don Grady from 'My Three Sons' fame here??? LOL) stepping into (or maybe out of) a 1962 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible in the 1987 film House of Games.

Does the term "hirsute" ring a bell, Sepia? Or maybe, the idea of a stocky and hairy man such as was Bob Hoskins, being "bear-like"? I'm pretty sure that this was PhillyCinephile's implication here. (...and IF it was, they could of course have also referenced Ed Asner)

Maybe CJ, but don't we now primarly think of the term "The Man" as meaning "the police", and not so much in regard to it meaning some kind of "Mr. Big" in the underworld? (...btw, I enjoyed The Lineup as well. and like Vautrin, I think I too remember seeing it many years ago...the ending jogged my memory of this)

Dissenting vote to follow....well okay, kind'a sort'a anyway. Truth is, I like 'em both, and although I DO have to admit the original is a bit better overall. I've always thought Sinatra was especially good in the role of Mike the reporter. And, I think what saves this musical remake is the singing "duel" between Frank and Bing, THE two biggest recording artists of the mid-20th century at that time, in the "What a Swell Party This Is" number done in the mansion's study. Always have considered this number the real show stopper of the film. (...c'mon now, HOW can you not like it when Bing sings his signature "Boo boo boo boo" during it, and in immediate reply to it Frank sings "Don't dig that kind'a croonin', chum", and to which Bing then says "You must be one of the newer fellas"...c'mon, ya GOTTA appreciate THAT at least for cryin' out loud, RIGHT?!!!)

Well Tom, I DO have to admit that I've at least always admired your (ahem, and if you'll pardon the expression here) "fighting spirit" when it comes to this issue here, anyway!

Well, and not to rub it in here Brian, but then I guess I was very lucky to have first caught this film and gain a great appreciation for it during my teenage years back in the late-'60s and when it was telecast on the old ABC Sunday Night Movie series. (...or else I too might be beating myself up like you seem to be here) LOL

Good insights here, Tom. Your first paragraph reminded me of one of the responses I got and after I recently started a thread titled something such as "I noticed The Big Country has finally gotten its much deserved four star rating on my channel guide". The response I speak of here and from a regular to these boards but who at the moment I can't recall exactly who it was, was that they called it more a "soap opera than a true western". I then stated that to some degree this might be true, but went on to say that I thought this aspect to it made it an even better film, (...and come to think of it, I think you even offered up the "pacifist" thought in it too, but I think I then reminded you that when push came to shove, Peck's character didn't shy away from fighting)

Okay Katie, and seein' as how you've asked here. My favorite on-screen bear was a lot less threatening a beast than Bart here...and always wore a hat and a tie. (...and whose lone threat to humans was his constant search of acquiring a pic-a-nic basket or two from the unsuspecting camper)

Hey Mr. G. The fight scene in Night of the Grizzly between those two massive men, Clint and Leo, is pretty good, but do you remember this fight scene they did in Walker's Cheyenne '50s western television series?...

Uh-huh, and I think I might have also mentioned a few times the Brits (and Canadians) use of that OH SO superfluous letter 'U' in their spelling practices too.

Actually Shank Asu, I really was mostly kidding here about liking Fred less and once I heard he was a noted tightwad in real life. (...and btw, your surprise at later learning he could also play the more underhanded sort in films, isn't a rare thing of course...seems after people first watch him in The Apartment or Double Indemnity or The Caine Mutiny, and after only knowing him from his old long-running sitcom, many people are surpised and have a similar reaction to yours here)