[Farewell, LUMPY!]

I don't think the specifics of Ward's employment were ever mentioned, Hibi, but I recall he was portrayed as some sort of a "White Collar Executive" type.

 

(...and unlike Ozzie Nelson, who's life's work was ANYBODY'S guess!!!)

[GREATEST CRASH AND BURN ENDING - LONESOME RHODES OR JETT RINK?]

Andy, while I realize your thread title's intent was probably meant more in a figurative(a protagonist's mental breakdown) and not in a literal manner, however being a Gearhead, I just can't resist mentioning the ending of 1971's Vanishing Point, as I believe there may not have LITERALLY been a better "crash and burn ending" to a movie since Barry Newman's Kowalski drove his white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum right into the blades of those two bulldozers.

[Cinema's Most Gorgeous Star]

>Who was Belinda Lee?

 

Now c'mon finance, SURELY you remember those hits, "I'm Sorry", and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", don't YA?!

 

 

 

(...oh...wait...sorry, never mind)

 

[Farewell, LUMPY!]

>I'm not surprised that my post has stopped this thread in its tracks.

 

LOL

 

Well, truth be told here ol' buddy, try as I might to come up with somethin' even more outlandishly juxtaposed as the thought of buttoned-up Pat Nixon sportin' an attire like that, I just couldn't top it!

 

(...and thus it really wasn't any kind of "shock factor" which might've "stopped this thread in its tracks", but just a plain ol' simple thing like...YOU WIN!!!)

 

LOL

[What is your definition of a movie star?]

Ya know TB, this is a good question and one which I'm not really sure has a definitive answer to it.

 

BUT, it appears this guy HERE knows the difference between a true thespian and a "movie star", anyway...

 

 

 

 

 

 

(...sorry...couldn't resist...this is one of my favorites of O'Toole's roles)

[Farewell, LUMPY!]

So finance, I gotta ask: Was Pat wearin' her "good Republican cloth coat" that day?

[NAME A MOVIE GEM THAT DESERVES TO BE BETTER KNOWN]

I'm gonna go with somethin' a little newer here and suggest what I consider an excellent film adaptation of one of Joseph Wambaugh's powerful crime novels about the LAPD and the justice system, and which contains the breakout role for actor James Woods, who plays his sociopath role of cop killer Gregory Powell so masterfully understated and yet effectively chilling, in 1979's The Onion Field .

 

(...Woods' Powell always reminded me of a more subdued version of Richard Widmark's breakout role of Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death)

[Miracle it was even made at all]

Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Frank Morgan (best known as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz) was cast as Wild West legend Buffalo Bill Cody in the screen version of this Broadway musical. Just days into filming, Morgan died and was replaced by Louis Calhern. But in the scene where Buffalo Bill first rides into town, when the audience sees Cody from a distance, the actor on horseback is Morgan. The actor in the close-up - and from then on - is Calhern.

 

And how can we forget...

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) - Often called the worst film ever made, but Director Ed Wood was able to hire horror movie icon Bela Lugosi because the actor was 73, past his prime, addicted to morphine, and up for anything that paid. Wood cast Lugosi as "the Ghoul Man." After compiling just a few minutes of footage (with no dialogue because Wood hadn't actually written the script yet), Lugosi died of a heart attack. Not wanting to lose out on the publicity from having a recently departed screen legend in his film, Wood shot the rest of Plan 9 with Tom Mason, a Los Angeles chiropractor, standing in for Lugosi. To account for the two men looking nothing alike, in all of his scenes, Mason held a black cape over his face.

[Cinema's Most Gorgeous Star]

Hmmmm, speaking of Trapeze and Sophia...

 

Has anyone in this thread yet mentioned that other Italian beauty here?...

 

 

[Move plot: reluctant adult, inconvenient kid]

 

(...one of the most entertaining movies made within the last few years with this premise...or ANY premise for THAT matter!)

[Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?]

LOL

 

Nope, played my usual round of Friday tennis, then took one of my motorcycles for a little spin, then had dinner with the wife at one of the nicer restaurants here in Sedona , and now I'm sittin' behind this here keyboard with a nice single malt whisky beside it.

 

(...yep, life is tough, alright!)

[Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?]

Yep, I liked "Harry O". It reminded me of another "P.I." themed series in which the lead character lived by the beach and wasn't the usual "heroic" type..."The Rockford Files", of course.

 

Now THIS guy I know I've seen before, but I don't recall what films or TV shows I've seen him in...which is usually how I decipher their names.

[Cinema's Most Gorgeous Star]

 

..with..

 

 

...a VERY close second!

[Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?]

Anthony Zerbe

[*CANDIDS* 2]

>Jane Wyman & Ronald Reagan at the Trocadero. Captain Reagan is attached to the Air Corps, stationed near Hollywood in 1944.

 

Now why is that after readin' that, my thoughts turned to paraphrasing that classic line the late great George Gobel once told Johnny on "The Tonight Show" about how because he was stationed at an Air Corps base in Wichita during all of WWII, we can personally thank him that no Japanese aircraft ever made it past Tulsa!"

 

(...but of course in Ronnie's case, I was thinkin' of substituting the town of Tulsa with "Culver City"!!!...okay, or maybe "Inglewood"..which sounds funnier to you?..."Culver City", RIGHT???!!!)

["The Devil and Miss Jones" - Fri., April 19]

And to get this baby back on track...

 

I have to say I've never seen this Jean Arthur flick, but seein' as how I've always really liked her, AND that the premise sounds entertaining, I'm lookin' forward to watchin' it tomorrow.

 

(...or at the very least, record it so I can watch it later)

["The Devil and Miss Jones" - Fri., April 19]

Nope, those bed bug haven't made their way out here to Southwest(US) yet!

 

(...but we're expectin' that latest Chinese bird flu thing to hit us any day now around here!!!)

["The Devil and Miss Jones" - Fri., April 19]

>...what, did a 'bad' dream wake you up?

 

 

Now Twink! Considering the detour I've momentarily taken this thread on, shouldn't your inquiry here be if I've just awaken from a "WET" dream????

 

LOL

 

(...though in EITHER case, the answer would be, no)

 

Edited by: Dargo2 on Apr 19, 2013 12:01 AM

["The Devil and Miss Jones" - Fri., April 19]

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!!! They're gonna show WHAT on TCM???!!!

 

(...oh...wait...you said "AND Miss Jones", not "IN Miss Jones" here, didn't ya...sorry...never mind...funny what a difference one little change from a conjunction to a preposition can make sometimes, isn't it!)

 

[Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?]

I'm thinkin' it's Michael "Something" Jr.

 

(...sure wish I could remember his last name, though)

[Ray Harryhausen Critters...]

Yeah, yeah, Sprocket ol' buddy, BUT seein' as how you're usually such a freakin' stickler for other peoples' spelling, grammar AND syntax, the LEAST you could've done was to give dpompper a little slack for how well she did in THOSE departments in her responses to you anyway, RIGHT???!!!

 

ROFL

[WHAT WAS THE MOST PERFECT ENDING IN MOVIES?]

Good pick here, Tom.

 

Reminds me of the look on the little Italian boy's face here...

 

 

[WHAT WAS THE MOST PERFECT ENDING IN MOVIES?]

Yep, Miracle on 34th Street has a great warmhearted and perfect "punchline" ending to the film all at once, alright.

 

Switching gears again(so to speak...and you'll soon see why I've used this particular expression here ), here is one I've always thought was a "perfect ending" to a film because of how its presentation reflects so perfectly upon the beginning of the film.

 

As T.E.Lawrence is being driven in a British Army staff car across the desert after being dismissed by his superiors, and with a look on his face a combination of many emotions but perhaps primarily with looks of disgust and disillusionment in evidence, a British soldier riding a motorcycle passes the staff car and Lawrence's gaze focuses upon it...and thus this nicely bookends the opening scene of Lawrence of Arabia in which director David Lean has previously showed the manner in which Lawrence would meet his death while riding his Brough Superior motorcycle sometime later in his life.

[WHAT WAS THE MOST PERFECT ENDING IN MOVIES?]

>Yes, that's what I was saying. It's subjective, what makes that perfect ending. If an ambiguous ending, that leaves one to think about the film...

 

Hmmmm...speaking of "ambiguous endings"...Does Cagney really "turn yellah" as they're strappin' him into Ol' Sparky, or is he doin' one final good deed for his boyhood pal O'Brien?

 

(...yep, I'd say this is one of the great ambiguous endings in all of film)

[I am Kafka (Jozef of IMDb)]

Wow, that DOES sound a little draconian there, Richard. I'm wonderin' why that website did that to ya???

 

Oh...wait! THAT'S right. I hear they have some new Admin over there by the name of Gerald, and word is he has it out for anyone who uses the moniker of "Kimble" ANYWHERE on the Net.

 

(...sorry, couldn't resist this here, "Doctor" ...I loved that show)