Sepiatone
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I've only seen four on your list up there myself. All worth a look.
Metropolis (1927)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The first two silents offer stunning cinematography and effects, more so METROPOLIS. And if you like a lot of sad faced close ups, the Joan of Arc flick will fill that bill.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE, in my opinion, is probably Jack Benny's best foray into motion pictures.
WILD STRAWBERRIES is typical Bergman psychological gut wrench, but a good story if you find either a dubbed copy or can read subtitles fast enough as to not miss much of what was photographed.
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18 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Operation Rabbit (1952) Wile E Coyote wants to eat Bugs. Wile E speaks in this one, with that posh accent and egotistical attitude. (He introduces himself as a Genius, and later calls himself a "Super Genius". Many funny scenes as his plans blow up in his face. At the end he says "My name is mud!"
To which Bugs comes back with, "Remember, 'Mud' spelled backwards, is 'DUM'! Which too, is a good one for that "wisecracks" thread.
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I thought they worked well together in SOLDIER IN THE RAIN, so I wouldn't have minded if STEVE McQUEEN and JACKIE GLEASON teamed up again in something else.
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So.... THERE to YOU TOO!
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So, the first pairing of Lauren Bacall( 19) and Bogey( 45) in TO HAVE OR HAVE NOT didn't give you any "ick" factor? And Allhallows thinks both Bogey and Coop could have been Audrey Hepburns' grandfather? That would have made Coop a grandpa at 28, and Bogey grandpa at 30!
So how young must their sons or daughters have been? Example:
People always said me and my ex had our first child at young ages. I was 21 and she was 19. which means if either decided to have children, and waited until they were the same age as either of their parents were, I wouldn't have become a grandpa until I was 42!
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So THERE!
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19 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
George Eastman (and Angela Vickers and Alice Tripp) in A PLACE IN THE SUN ...(SHELLEY WINTERS underwater again - probably the first time her character winds up...)
On my PC all I got was a link to that image( I'm supposing) but once clicking on it was informed that I didn't have "permission"
to see it!
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Ha!
Looks like tonight and tomorrow afternoon are going to be good for me!
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2 hours ago, darrylfxanax said:
So many come to mind, but I’ll begin with Myra, portrayed by Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge (1940). Believing her love, Robert Taylor, has been killed in battle, she becomes a prostitute to survive. Upon learning he’s actually alive, she’s unable to live with the shame. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.
When I think of Vivian and a tragic character, I think of her Blanche DuBoise from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
And some might think it odd, but I long felt the monster that was crated by the mad doctor in FRANKENSTEIN was a tragic character based on the idea he was created from various parts from dead men, and given life at what might be considered an "adult" age, with no previous "upbringing" to internally inform him of right from wrong and to not live all that long before dying in such a tragic and horrible manner. (but really luckily living long enough to do all those sequels.
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I forgot about that. But then, I found that movie to be forgettable.
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I mentioned this a few years ago in some other thread, and it still bugs me I can't recall the movie(or the actors) but it's a Western, and the scene, in the typical wild west saloon, has one guy at the bar when a really mangy looking guy steps up right next to him, orders a beer and when it comes, he proceeds to drink it in such a sloppy manner there's much of the beer rolling out the sides of the mug and down his face and dripping off his chin. The first guy(a "dandy" kind of guy) says, "My good man. If you're not careful you might get some of that in your mouth."
And a huge fight begins.
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When I first heard of this movie being remade, I feared an "updating" with all kind of clumsy looking "Stomp The Yard" breaking to Hip-Hop. If it's a verbatim redux of the original, I might take a bit of interest. Can't say now for sure.
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Did good friends JIMMY STEWART and HENRY FONDA ever work together in anything else besides THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB?
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50 minutes ago, Shana Krenz said:
Thank you! I think they forgot to consider the movie was made in a different time when discussing. Shouldn’t they have kept the discussion within the context of when it was produced since that was a monumental line in the movie? I get what others said about it either being an uncomfortable discussion or trying to discuss the movie within today’s context. Unfortunately it is falling victim to today’s over use of race theories. The message between two generations was so key, so factual. I disagreed entirely with their conclusion that the movie was about the white man father controlling everyone. The movie was entirely centric around S T’s character and with him dealing internally with the decision of his daughter and fiancé. By making the white father the villain in the movie, they erased the beautiful underscore of the differences of black generations, and the momentum of the civil rights movement.
I never saw Tracy's white Father role in the movie as one of being the "villain". Realize though, much of the focus on his character was that it was centered around HIS daughter, and taking place in HIS house! And some see wrong in the idea that HE should maintain some level of control? And remember, the idea was his character( an influential liberal newspaper editor) has to face up to his daughter, brought up with her parent's liberal sensitivities fed to her for most of her life, falling in love and willing to marry a black man, and how, when faced with her bringing his assumed beliefs "back home", he deals with it. Leaving the audience to wonder if he'll show open arms or that all his liberal "tolerance" position was a lot of lip service.
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1 hour ago, NoShear said:
The Lateness of The Post: With "The Lateness of The Hour" still in mind and recent mention of the so-called cancer epidemic associated with THE CONQUEROR cast/crew without any further context, I want to mention one of the aforementioned episode's players, John Hoyt. Hoyt is one of the so-called cancer casualties associated with THE CONQUEROR , but his came much later (86 years of age) than most of the actors/actresses who lend support to the scary story. Also, John Wayne himself was more pragmatic about his bouts with cancer, pointing to a massive amount of cigarette smoking. Unfortunately, the stats for men in the United States who will develop and/or die from cancer are very close to the numbers seen from THE CONQUEROR sets.
Well, in that case you might well mention DICK YORK among that company, although emphysema got him before the cancer could. Not in THE CONQUEROR, but well.....
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Roy Scheider and Gene Hackman
And has William Powell and Irene Dunne teamed up on anything else besides LIFE WITH FATHER? I thought their chemistry was very good too.
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As elsewhere I mentioned I haven't seen but maybe two movies made after 2013, so what movie was Boseman nominated for? I'll have to check InDemand to see if I can find both it AND THE FATHER to see what I might think.
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Just looked at the clip on YT. Did the segment move that fast on the telecast? And what on Earth did all that preamble nonsense have to do with actors and other movie people who died last year?
I don't recall any of them dying because of hate or racism or such. Or did I miss something in the news reports of their deaths?
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I didn't watch because I've only seen two or three movies made after 2013. So.....
Did the people and movie that deserved to win actually win?
Or was it the "same old, same old"?
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There's really nothing wrong with that scene when considering .....
It's a MOVIE(remember?). Fantasy and escapism. If looking for any "realism" in the flick you'd have to realize the whole "John Doe" promotion wouldn't have gotten off the ground in the first place.
OUTSIDE of a movie, that is.
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Wow. Here's another who doesn't seem to like endings that refers to the strength of "the people". I imagine the two of them didn't read, or wanted to bother reading Sandburg's "The People, Yes".
But back to "Doe"---
In that scene near the end with Coop and Stanwyck on the top of that skyscraper, I kept yelling, "JUMP!" at my TV.
But at the time the movie was made, people( yeah, those fools again!
) preferred endings with a lotta schmaltz. So they got it. And so, what's the beef?
Seems that increasingly people on these boards are forgetting the golden rule of thumb when watching "classic" movies on TCM----
You shouldn't watch any movie made before the 2nd half of the 20th century with expectations based on 21st century sensibilities.
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17 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
He is hilarious as the hapless spy in The Glass Bottom Boat.
Actually, that's when I first saw and heard of Dom Delouise. And that was when that film came out. Loved him in that and ever since.
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15 hours ago, Toto said:
The actual film of the real 1906 San Francisco earthquake that was posted is incredible. The destructiveness of that earthquake made San Francisco look like one of the worst bombed cities from WWII. Thanks Tom.
That thought also crossed my mind while later watching THE SEARCH.
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Like KING KONG, the effects, for the times both were made, were outstanding. And too, for me "San Francisco" holds up in the FX category.
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To which Bugs comes back with, "Remember, 'Mud' spelled backwards, is 'DUM'! 
So how young must their sons or daughters have been? Example:
to see it!
Gloria Grahame. Damn fine actress.
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I've always considered it a "down to Earth" kind of beauty instead of just surface glamour.
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