Sgt_Markoff

I've seen 'Fer-de-Lance'. Long since forgotten though, that it was a David Janssen feature. Thought it was Ben Gazzara if anybody. Certainly "Herb Tarlek from WKRP", is more memorable than anyone else from the cast. Anyway its a funny kind of submarine (in that poster art) which has ...windows? A better TV movie about a US sub is "Assault on the Wayne" with Leonard Nimoy as the captain. Now that had some genuine suspense.

does this mean that a period of a few months will ensue (on this classic movie website) when people will return to discussing classic movies? a few months at least?

This little chat has suddenly veered off Morbid Lane onto Gruesome Drive.

H'mmm, well then, this is something I do not understand. 'Juggernaut' was 1974; his face should still have been fine unless he was on drugs. When I view him in 'Islands in the Stream' (1977) and 'Power Play' (1978, lead actor) he still looks good to me. Only in '79 does he suddenly appear almost as a whole other person due to a weight gain of probably 100 lbs,

Hemmings still looks very good in 1978's excellent war story, "Power Play' (opposite Peter O'Toole); but in 1979's nifty Australian vampire flick 'Thirst', he looks terrible. Something must have happened that year, he ballooned up in weight and girth.

'safe as houses'

I like it. You can see a little reference to it in a fun little romantic, (might even be a TV movie) flick called: 'Once in Paris" starring (of all people) Wayne Rogers opposite Jacqueline Bissett.

Here's a completely un-convincing low-life; (well, he's unconvincing in any role as far as I'm concerned)

Chevrolet company made Monza I thought

Maybe any country with a name which can in any way be used as a 'slur' (Italy / Italian, Germany / Germans, Ireland / Irish), should just change its name to a string of numbers. Italy could be called 3692654, for example. Nothing offensive about that. People from the country formerly known as Italy could then be called ...3692654's.

Nicely summarized. I hadn't remembered that the director was also the lead actor in this movie. Thanks for that!

'Panic in the Streets' -- one of the sweatiest movies ever made eh?

Swithin, no offense intended but those stills you posted look more like Calvin Klein ads. Look at those babyfaces! Look at those tender complexions! What little cherubs! This is the kind of thing I think of for 'low life' characters...

--JJG 'Oh, bother' sighed Pooh Without taking any 'side' in the changing of a specific name, it should be clear to all that our civic environment is always a quality-of-life issue whatever the specific controversy may be.

'Advise and Consent' has several underhanded characters of dubious stature Burgess Meredith --always solid--turns in a fine little part playing a mentally unbalanced witness

aeons ago, LawrenceA hissed It's a quality-of-life issue; such intangibles often do not fit such narrow, abstemious, confines...

I would ask them: what has his politics got to do with it? He's a legendary American actor; for this reason alone the airport should be honored to bear his name. Its outrageous. Why don't these whining, cringing curs have anything better to do with their time than go around fussily rearranging stuff like this?

The situation is nigh well the same when it comes to books. Peer-compliance, wanting-to-be-hip, herd-behavior --combined with an industry where popular books are often united with highly-promoted cable tv series and movie franchises --all this is making for myopic readers who are highly attuned to things like 'Game of Thrones', 'Hunger Games', 'Divergent', 'Harry Potter', 'Fifty Shades of Gray' and 'Twilight'. Almost entirely fantasy and nothing else. You have to remind them that this detritus is barely even a knock-off from richer fare; ya gotta be able to tell them what the literary precedents were, where these authors copied from, in order to evoke any interest.

Disquiet on sets, as Hollywood tries to reduce costs with digital content rather than pay live actors. An ugly trend. This article from AdAge. https://tinyurl.com/yxvn9eum

Eh. Gotta demur slightly from that POV. There's no fake means of engineering class into a person, nor courage, nor heart. Just as you can't shape the bones in someone's face or give them musical talent if they haven't got any. What 'engineering' from the big studios did Chaplin or Keaton or Dietrich ever benefit by? Mickey Rooney was in vaudeville as a toddler, did a plastic surgeon have any hand in that? How?

--Mrs. Tiki-Soo Me, I came to this honest and heartfelt conclusion before I was halfway through my teens. So, if what you're saying is that its an "age-related thing", like ..."you young whippersnappers don't know what it means to trudge nine miles to grade school every morning dragging farm equipment up a cliff in the middle of a snowstorm with a butt full of porcupine quills!" --I disagree. Its not necessarily anything to do the habit of people to valorize the past. It may sound surly and grumpy and dismissive but it can also be a matter of conviction and perspicacity and taste.

And if these fools are action/adventure fans, remind them that only in classic movies can you see live-filmed (and very dangerous) actual stunts performed by professional stuntmen (and very often stars themselves). Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, raced cars in their personal lives and incorporated that into their roles at times. The James Bond films made a point of doing car and boat chases 'for real'. Yves Montand and James Garner drove Formula One cars in the movie 'Grand Prix' with no insurance. And then, horse stunts too. Many a classic actor could sit a horse well. Ben Johnson, former rodeo champ. Fighting: Bruce Lee. Basil Rathbone and Christopher Lee, accomplished fencers. Dancing and singing.,,,musicians...sailors...Burt Lancaster, circus background. These stars were talented people all around, they were world-beaters, in addition to being able to deliver a line and look great doing so.

Another gambit one can offer (I've used it myself) is to play on hormones. Remind kids in their 20s that the men and women of the classic studio era were the most glamorous and gorgeous ever photographed. They outshine today's cheap trash eight ways from Sunday. Who does not know --even dimly--what the name 'Cary Grant' stands for? Class and style and charisma. At the very least, besides talent too. Its just one example of a real man, not a boy movie star. If your friends are female, tell them how much they're missing out on. Tell them they don't know how a real gentleman behaves or what suave really looks like, unless they see a few of his films. If your friends are male, same thing. Tell them that they don't know from nuthin' about women unless they at least know one Marilyn Monroe film. Or one Rita Hayworth. Or Ava Gardner. Audrey Hepburn. Sophia Loren. Jackie Bissett. The hottest women of the century. Not pathetic, floundering floozies like J-Lo and Li-Lo and all these other sad sacks, these walking disasters. Bottom line: anyone with a libido should know what classic beauty is.

Barry Fitzgerald plays a scurvy ship's cook in the 1941 version of 'The Sea Wolf'. What a scallywag!

TB sez: Maybe I'm misreading this sentence. In all the parlance I've ever heard, a 'whelp' it is what you call any members of the offspring in the litter itself. A whelp is a young pup. I suppose it could be used as a verb though. That's clever, if so. Then, substituting 'Wellllp' instead of 'Well...' when making any remark? This is more like just a gentle "poking-of-fun" at the way rural folks enunciate their words.