Dargo2
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Twink, no offense here, but I think you might been hangin' around your 'babes' Fred a little too much lately, 'cause I'm startin' to see that very same trait of "NOT BEING ABLE TO ADMIT YOU MIGHT BE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHIN' around here, in you TOO!
LOL
THOUGH, I think in THIS case the issue might be that you're having a little trouble expressing the thought you don't recall Jimmy playing the "HERO who sacrifices ALL, including his LIFE" in a film before.
(...now wouldn't THAT be what you're really trying to say here?)
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HOLY CRAP! Kinda makes "Apollo 13" look like a walk in the park, doesn't it!
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>This is a Biblical story with all the trappings of a soap opera.
Wow! Who knew DeMille was THAT influenced by Griffith!
LOL
(...ya see, THIS is the reason I hang around here to learn stuff like this!)
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Okay, so it appears ya wanna stick to your argument here, huh..err..EH?!
Well SURE, once someone is DEAD, I suppose IF you don't want to examine and correctly classify the METHOD of their death, it's "all the same" then.
(...I didn't know you were such a "Bottom-Line" type here, Twink!)
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Nope Twink, once again, there is a BIG difference between "committing suicide" and "sacrificing one's self for the good of others"!!!
(...I mean would YOU say that all the people who ever received posthumous medals for valor during wars, "committed suicide"???... think NOT, my dear!!!)
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Hey! Leave Tobias alone here, dude! I thought his French-Canadian shtick added a nice touch!
(...sure beats, "Shut up and go back to sleep, Gladys, and leave that Stevens family across the street alone, once and for all, will ya?!")
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It was probably from was all those cigarettes he bummed!
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Twink, re-read my previous post again, as I've now added a line about your apparent misunderstanding about him "committing suicide" in this film.
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Well, it had been a long long time since I've watched this movie and thus I had sort of forgotten how Jimmy lies in THIS one. But, when FlyBack kinda sorta let the ol' cat out of the bag earlier in this thread about the ending, it didn't surprise me at all that he'd go out in a blaze of glory like he did there. Remember FlyBack's "E.G. Marshall" reference earlier?
And btw, Jimmy doesn't "commit suicide" in this baby. He sacrificed himself for the good of his fellow RCAF flyers and so they could all make it to England. There's a BIG difference there, my dear.
(...though even still, you HAVE to admit that you've seen Cagney die in at least a COUPLE of other times in movies over the years, now that you think about it again, RIGHT?!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Sep 5, 2013 1:45 PM
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Yeah, Sepia! Leave the man alone, will YA?!
I mean just THINK how "subtle" the man was while pressing his points TOO!!! Uh-huh...like that final scene in "Intolerance", where all those soldiers cease their fighting and drop their weapons after seeing all those angels up in Heaven!!!
(...ya can't get any more "subtle" than THAT, now can YA???!!!)
LOL
Edited by: Dargo2 on Sep 5, 2013 1:33 PM
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>As I mentioned before, I was so shocked to see Cagney fly into the enemy's plane in Captain Of The Clouds. Not only was I not expecting that but I have never known of Cagney to die in a movie.
REALLY, twinkeee?! Okay, while I'll admit purposely flyin' an airplane into another airplane is a pretty novel method of Jimmy to bite the dust in a movie, wouldn't ya say upon further reflection that Jimmy actually ends up dyin' in almost HALF of the movies he was ever in?
Like say, walkin' toward the electric chair while feigning he's "turned yella", or say goin' up in a big blast of fire while atop a refinery located in Wilmington California, just for starters?!
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Well, at least we know...
"Whenever TCM decides to show this movie, I'll be there, Ma."
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Isn't that actually the opening shot of the movie, Jake?
(...not that I ever would complain about looking at a Brough Superior SS100, mind you)
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You're welcome, Holden. This particular cameo of Hitch's does seem to be one of the easier ones to miss, doesn't it.
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Oh...of COURSE! Gordon Sumner!!!
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Gotta say Fly, you weren't far off in that whole "German pilot lookin' like E,G, Marshall" thing you mentioned earlier!
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Nope, actually this one's somehow gone unknown to me all these years.
(...gotta say though that them there five Limey fellas in their youth sure were good doin' the Mississippi Delta Blues sometimes, weren't they?!)
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This reminds me of the first time I ever watched "Lonely Are The Brave", which was right at the time Carroll O'Connor was such a big hit as Archie Bunker.
Every time in the movie it switched to a short scene of him driving that truck on his way to that fateful final scene on the highway, all I could think of was why was he there so far away from the borough of Queens and didn't he drive a forklift instead?!
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LOL
Still ticked-off about that, are we?!
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Yeah, I suppose that COULD have worked out that way in Los Angeles, California.
'Cause IF this whole thing would've taken place in Phoenix ARIZONA, you can almost BET poor ol' Smiley there would've ended up with a chalk mark around his body as fast as you could say "Don't shoot!"
(...not that I'm implying Arizona cops are trigger-happy here.....much)
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Well, he certainly couldn't have been all THAT bad a guy, now could HE?!
I mean they DID end up naming a big ol' park after the guy in L.A., didn't THEY?!
(...sorry, couldn't resist...and yeah I know it wasn't the same guy)
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Yeah, but word is he was Hitch's second choice for the part...and after George Putnum turned down the role.
(...maybe ya gotta be an Angeleno to get this one)
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>Cagney gets a little profane at the end. Keeps calling the kraut pilot "Heiney".
HEY! I thought you said that German pilot looked like E.G. Marshall...NOT George Brent!!!
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Joisey, eh?!
So in other words you DO at least pronounce the word "third" with the"h", as in "thoid", and NOT like Gorcey's Brooklyn accent withOUT the "h" then, as in "toid",
(...is THAT what you're sayin' here???)
PSYCHO
in General Discussions
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Both Wiki and IMDb in their webpages show the budgets of most films ever produced.
Here are the ones that have been brought into this discussion:
"Vertigo"-$2,479,000
"North bt Northwest"-$3,101,000
"Psycho"-$806.947
And so, yeah, while "Psycho"'s budget wasn't exactly Monogram Pictures level, compared to Hitch's previous two films, it could be considered relatively "low budget".