Dargo2
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Well, then I can only suppose you were never a big fan of Granny Goose potato chips either, eh?!
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>Dargo, I really can't recall those Rozsa scores. But, assuming that you're correct and they're impressive, they deserve mention because Rozsa was one of the best.
WHOA now, Tom! You're tellin' me THIS baby doesn't ring a bell with ya?!!....
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Yep, and Phil Carey starred in the short lived 1959-60 "Phillip Marlowe" TV series, also.
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Btw clore, thanks. I didn't know about Joy Harmon's later career here.
And who said "There are no second acts in American lives", huh?!
(...oh, that's right...Zelda's husband said that, didn't he)
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>"anything that innocent just has to be named Lucille."
Great line from "Luke", alright. However, I'm not so sure that the thought holds true..
Ya see, Blues great B.B.King named his guitar after a woman named "Lucille" because of an incident in his youth in which the nightclub he was playing had burned down because of fire started during a fight between two men and over a woman named Lucille.
(...and if two guys are fightin' over a woman, I'd say it's probably a sure bet that she wouldn't be "innocent")
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I don't know if by 1944 Powell was all that "pretty" anymore, dpompper. It seemed to me that by the mid-'40s that baby-face of his was startin' to show a little character.
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Ooooh! I LIKE it!
Give us
ideas here, clore!!!
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Yeah, I suppose usin' either one of those two "Women Kick Azz" movie franchises would've worked, huh!
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ROFL!!!
I gotta say clore, that THIS might be the funniest and clever mixing of two threads I've ever read around here!!!
(...though I think we should give TB a break...like I said in that other thread of Tom's, maybe he's just finished watching a "Laura Croft" marathon)
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Well, I certainly hope you're entertaining the idea I brought up here about the "Taylor/Rozsa" connection, Tom.
(...'cause I think that that just might run a close second to your whole Flynn "theory" here, my friend!)
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Yep, Tom. In hindsight, and now knowing of Powell's soon to emerge into his new accepted roles in Noir, I too think he would have been an interesting choice for the Neff character.
And while the following named actor would within a few years after the 1944 release of Double Indemnity would go on to make a veritable "cottage industry" out of playing the guy who is led astray by the classic Femme fatale, I was always of the mind that it was kind of a shame that Wilder didn't make this film a few years later and after Robert Mitchum had emerged into being a major star.
(...oh, and another actor I've always thought might've made a pretty decent Neff was Robert Ryan)
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Well, ya know Tom...maybe TB has just finished watching a "Laura Croft" movie marathon, and so maybe this whole "Feminist Agenda" thing was still fresh in his mind and he just wanted tio express some thoughts about it in your thread.
(...ever think o' THAT?!)
LOL
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slayton, in reference to your take on the new F-type here:
>it looks like every other super power plant with names that end in "i."
...and if you might be referring to some resemblance to the latest Maserati GranTurismo model(in particular) here:
...then I have say you have a very valid point.
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Tom, besides the "Harrison Ford/John Williams" connection I mentioned in your "Zorro/Don Juan" thread, I'll add the connection of Robert Taylor/Miklos Rozsa here, what with the latter's memorable scores of Taylor's starring roles in 1951's Quo Vadis, 1952's Ivanhoe and 1953's Knights of the Round Table.
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>The movie was Blazing Saddles. I thought the Randolph Scott reference, coulpled with the African-American actor would give it away fer sure.
"Excuse me while I whip this (mea culpa) out", but yes slayton, I have to admit that that was an excellent clue for the Cleavon Little picture, and one which should have helped me think of him. I probably missed it because I've always thought of Mr. Little as the young and vibrant Sheriff Bart character in that comedy, and his appearance in the picture you posted as an older man didn't register with me at all.
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Funny story about the car wash there, VX.
(...though not surprising at all, given Mr. Lucas' "sterling" reputation, huh!)
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The ZAZ looks a lot like the old Fiat 500s, wouldn't ya say, Sans?
And I'm only guessin' here, but I'll bet your first car, the 407, was probably considered somewhat luxurious back in the day there, right?!
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Aah yes. I LOVED watchin' Crusader and Rags back in the day!
(...though btw, for some reason, "Crusader" Rabbit never caught on in Islamic countries!...go figure, huh?!)
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Yeah VX, I had heard Durwood was not amused or flattered with Jay Ward's play on his name.
That might have been the norm with celebrities back in that era. However today, I think most all celebs might be a little more accepting to something like this. Wouldn't ya say?
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 27, 2013 1:21 AM
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>Randolph Scott wouldn't have been stumped.
Well, according to SOME sources, THAT would've all depended upon how close in proximity Cary Grant was to him at the time.....if ya know what I mean!
LOL
Okay, now that I've gotten THAT easy joke out of the way, I'm gonna assume that the gentleman in question here was in one of Scott's Technicolor Westerns.
(...lemme know if I'm gettin' close here!)
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Very good point about Flynn possibly being accompanied by some of the best, or maybe better said, some of the most stirring music scores, and more than any other star. But then again, that could of course primarily be due to the thought that the Swashbuckler genre almost demands music of the "Fanfare" variety, and who doesn't like the occasional bombastic fanfare?
I listened to all those links you suppled, and what I noticed was that Korngold's music seemed to me to be very similar in tone, whereas Steiner seemed to be able to absorb a little more "local favor" into his works, such as in his They Died With Their Boots On score, and where he incorporates some Western themes reminisence of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony.
Of course, in Korngold's defense, his scores were primarily for films situated in "Old English" style.
And, I've been wracking my brain to think of another actor in the history of cinema who might have had the same quantity and quality of stirring music accompaniment as Flynn seemed to enjoy, and the only actor I could think of that might come at least a little close could actually be Harrison Ford, and with John Williams of course supplying the music for his screen daring-dos. Though of course, there's probably a few other of which I'm overlooking.
Which, come to think of it, this very premise of yours might make for an excellent separate thread topic in itself.
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It's funny, but I've always had mixed feeling about that TZ edisode. While I love the usual Serling-esque irony of it, I've always found it somewhat different than almost all of his other TZ teleplays, in that almost always Serling has his most obnoxious characters getting their comeuppance, but poor ol' Mr. Bevis always seemed much too nice a fellow to end up with the fate he received.
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Well, I gotta admit that THAT sounds like a lot more fun than what I'M doin' here...typin' away on this freakin' keyboard!!!
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>I might live out in the middle of the desert, but I know what century I'm in.
Yeah, Fred?! Then why are ya still dressin' like it's 1955 there then, HUH?!
(...oh...wait...that's Spence there, not you, huh...sorry...never mind)
Which Actor/Actress' Films Had the GREATEST Musical Acccompaniment?
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>OMG! I'm beginning to spell like a Canadian!
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Yeah Fred, ya gotta watch it! Those superfluous British/Canadian "u"s will occasionally jump out o' nowhere on ya sometimes!!!