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You mean McLaglen's character is an Irish Catholic, Right? As McLaglen himself was not Irish (and whose family has Scottish roots as well) and the son of a protestant missionary(and later Bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church) . And my mention of the Catholic/Protestant thing(each considering the other as a different "race") was me just trying to be facetious. Sepiatone

Is my memory that wonky? Or was THE FUGITIVE KIND on Mellencamp's list that night also? THAT'S one that doesn't get shown all that often. And one I've liked for years.(I still covet that snake skin jacket Brando wears.) Sepiatone(that is, if memory serves )

With such a short attention span you might try to stick to Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton shorts. None of them would be too long for you to keep up with. My only issue here is with the perpetuation of the misuse of the term "rip-off". Originanlly coined in the late '60's drug culture as a reference to the perpetration of a fraud(ie; selling vitamin C tabs as some recreational hallucinogen or such) it has been corrupted over time to refer to ANY basic theft. But, to keep on track... I like West Side Story, despite my not basically liking musicals in general. Of course though, it's not a case of watching it at every opportunity. Only when the mood, on not frequent occasions, strikes me. But I can see how someone else might not like it much. Or at all. Sepiatone

Well, that WOULD suggest a far different movie than it was, eh? Maybe the guy the protestant McLaglen is strangling is a Catholic, as in the UK(and the U.S. as well) the two denominations consider each other as different races. But, gotta wonder who the "hangman" is in this movie, and why a hangman would bother with personally strangling anybody. Sepiatone

Yeah, many do unfairly get typecast and make several films(and TV shows) that play o that typecast. And I'm always interested in seeing any movie in which an actor or actress is playing against type. THEN form any opinion as to the good or bad of the movie. Sepiatone

Ha! Yeah.... I recall it was Newhart's character in that running around trying to get that town smoking again. Running around passing out free smokes and carrying a lighter. Sepiatone

So, is it the Spaniards still living in Spain who don't consider themselves "Hispanic?" Or too, Spaniards living in the U.S. ? And are you suggesting TCM added Hayworth's name to the fray to try and make them look "Chicano savvy?" (a term my wife coined to describe "gringos" who only bother with things Hispanic on Cinco de Mayo and come to the "barrio" for the food, tequila and walk around mispronouncing all sorts of Spanish words). Far as that goes, many Mexicans don't consider themselves as "Hispanic" either. Just Mexican. But obviously, the word was coined in order to wrap all Spanish speaking people from ALL Spanish speaking countries in the same serape.( kinda pun intended). Like Poles, Romanians, Czechs, and other Eastern Europeans all put together in the "Slavic" bucket. Some resent it, others(like me) don't let it bother them. Szepiatone( )

You forgot; "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you glad to see me? " Sure. There's plenty of repetitious gags and tropes in mid-century movie making. But it doesn't stop there. There's plenty in second half century movies and even 21st century movie making. Especially in the "horror" genre. To whit; Demons with insect-like visages that open distended jaws while tilting their heads to one side like a curious puppy...... Then crawling up a wall and onto the ceiling. Interior shots of "haunted" houses that quickly cut to an exterior shot just in time to show it's windows blowing outward. Some "possesed" individual who suddenly(and for no given reason) shakes his/her head back and forth at a rapidly and blurring rate. Get used to it. If it's discovered enough people like these sort of things, movie makers will overuse them to death. Sepiatone

I clicked on a few of those "Sad life and tragic end" videos on YT only when trying to find a clip of said person from some movie. Yep, not always a tragic end or sad life, but still somewhat informative about their careers. I'm not sure about any other "misleading" YT clips as I don't go into YT until looking for something specific. Sepiatone

I Thought THE RUNNER STUMBLES was fair to middlin'. And I thought a topic that never got enough attention paid it as I figured it happened more than the Vatican probably wished it had. Sepiatone

Sure. I've always liked that "snappy come back" and forth dialog between Hope and Crosby. And sometimes too, the self deprecation from the two. In one small way maybe..... In one(forget which) Bing is telling the typically sarong clad Dorothy Lamour that he's anxious to get back to the States, "I'd like to see how the Pirates are doing..." ( some recall at the time, Crosby was part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team). Lamour replied in a surprised voice, "You have pirates in America?" "Oh, yeah, " says Bing, "But they aren't anything to be afraid of" obviously knowing the audience is aware that ball team was(at the time) and spent many seasons in the cellar. And in another (Morocco I think) Hope, seeing some guys rolling cigarettes at a table as he and Crosby try to sneak out of some evil sheikh's compound, remarks, "What are these guys rollin',...REEFERS?" Took ME by surprise at the time. Sepiatone

Here's a movie about another kind of "Hypnotic Eye". Sepiatone

Didn't much see GOD'S LITTLE ACRE as being a movie(or book) about religion. Not seriously anyway. But then there's that DICK VAN DYKE film THE RUNNER STUMBLES('79) with KATHLEEN QUINLAN about the parish priest and a nun having a love affair. Sepiatone

"Runned"? Sepiatone

Doesn't really make anything less ambiguous, eh? Sepiatone

I didn't quote the pics. Just the text. And that text gave the impression you didn't really include Brando as Zapata with that Newman-Wallach duo. Sepiatone

I'd say that person who did the killing was disturbed long before ever seeing the movie. Sepiatone

TIKI Been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to recall that "Star Baby" at the end of he movie is approaching Planet Earth, not a new, uninhabited planet.... Unless Clarke was trying to imply it was Bowman who'll cause the RE-INHABITATION of Earth after a future catastrophic event. I have a friend who firmly believes, since learning of the universe's continuous expansion, that the universe can only expand so far before it starts to contract and then, after it contracts so much as to crush all that exists, will start to expand again and everything will start all over again. He claims this explains that "deja vu" sensation we all feel occasionally. You know... That the expansion/contraction thing has happened several times already Sepiatone

Been a while, but is that the one that ends with Duvall's character preaching the gospel while chopping weeds in a chain gang? Loved that flick too. And we can't discuss movies about Religion without a mention of ELMER GANTRY, can we? I think it covers a lot of "soiled evangelists" ground. Sepiatone

I think(based on personal observation and perception) that it seems Randall gave his Asian Lao more dignity than Rooney did his character in "Tiffany's". Sepiatone

I love it when people say crap like that. I never understand though, how people can make claims like that which admit they just don't GET it. Like... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was SUPPOSED to be disturbing. That was the POINT! And the only disturbing thing I can find about 2001 is it's way too ambiguous ending. But seeing it in a cinerama theater on a hit of mescaline makes it more enjoyable. And what's with the hate for Andy Griffith? After growing up seeing him in his landmark TV show, his "Face In The Crowd" performance was astounding! And again, the "folksy sappyiness" of his tv show was the INTENT. What kind of rock covered candyland do some of y'all come from anyway? Sepiatone

Gotta wonder what the Hungarian-Polish Jew NEWMAN and the Polish Jew from Brooklyn WALLACH and the German-Dutch-English-Irish BRANDO pretending to be Hispanic has to do with "Hispanic Heritage Month", don'tcha? I would think movies with actors and actresses of actual Hispanic/Spanish roots and ancestry would make more sense. Sepiatone

And one of those "chix" being his DAUGHTER, y'know(who has that name ). Sepiatone

Me and some of my buddies would sometimes watch roller derby for laughs. That some people took it serious was the funniest part of it. Sepiatone

Yeah well, I read the book and STILL don't get the ending. But I do like the rest of it. Not LOVE it, but I don't mind looking in on it every so often. But I thought of another that many people are just "ga-ga" over(in here too) that really bores me to the bottom of my bowels.... BLADE RUNNER An excellent movie mystery in that it's a mystery to me why this swill is so popular. Sepiatone