AddisonDeWitless
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I think Kiss of Death is a terrific film, but it would be truly great one with the original ending and the scenes you mentioned involving Mature's ill-fated wife left intact (at least I presume.)
It makes an intriguing and slightly ironic companion piece with Fourteen Hours (1952) also directed by Henry Hathaway and also featuring a grim, shocking, brutally pessimistic *original* ending that was *changed by the same studio-* although there's a long and twisted backstory on that one I don't feel like gettting into now.
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...and I think the fact that she walked away from DER SPOTLIGHT -and QUITE WILLFULLY stayed away- is a *genuinely fascinating* story as well, so I'm all for a tribute.
ps- so long as it contains Christmas Holiday- a film I want to see for all sorts of reasons.
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Oh, BTW: Guy Who Started This Thread,
If you don't already, you should get a job in network news.
TONIGHT AT TEN: OMG: THIS THING IS ACTUALLY TOTALLY GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
~ps- well, not really.~
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}. There was time taken even though, IMO, *they still picked the wrong films* for the Rutherford tribute.
Yeah, they can be kind of bad about that.
The 2 1/2 minute(ish) TCM Remembers tribs they do when the person dies are great, and the end-of-the-year list they do is always done really well- I just wish that when it came to a 4 film or 24-hour period of said person's films being chosen to air that they'd really stop and think "okay what are four films that show so-and-so at *their best* even if we have to wait a little to show them?" or "what would *they* want to be shown as a fitting retrospective?" as opposed to "oh s***- what've we got that's laying around and paid-for?" or "what've they done that's in the PD?"
ps- I do note though, that one example of a bad tribute has been rectified by TCM. I feel like they picked some crummy movies to showcase Jennifer Jones when she died, but they've since acquired some new titles of hers and I believe Cluny Brown was part of Ye Festivale.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 16, 2013 10:27 AM
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Production values are an A.
Script/direction are a B.
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> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote}
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> *Keenan Thompson* has been there *ten years,* I wonder if he's is leaving too? (is Good Burger 2 in the works?
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*Synonyms:*nadir, bottom, floor, depths, dregs.
Ten. Years. Wow.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}It's called "Street Scene," composed by Alfred Newman, and was used in several Fox films.
Thank you.
It kindasorta has hints of Gershwin to me.
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whatever song it is that's played at the end of Kiss of Death, it's briefly whistled by someone in the opening credits of Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 14, 2013 10:05 PM
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I like Kiss of Death but I don't like the way the ending is handled.
And no: I do not mean that I expected there to be a *literal * kiss of death somewhere in the movie.
I just think the voiceover is weak and unnecessary and kind of cornball, and Colleen Gray is too flat in the rendering of it.
and The use of (am I right on this?) I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (or is is cribbed from Rhapsody in Blue ? and is it the same song used throughout Baby Face ?) Anyway, it's distracting.
and It would be more effective if Mature's character died...plus, I mean, he does get shot like seven times or something, no?
(But it's still a terrific film otherwise.)
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 14, 2013 9:56 PM
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 14, 2013 10:00 PM
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Possible double feature:
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> THE TAKING OF THE PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
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> ONE TWO THREE
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That would be awesomeness.
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I have never seen The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three but it's a great title.
I just have to play Buttinsky and come in to let you know it was directed by Joseph Sargeant, who years later directed Jaws: The Revenge.
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> {quote:title=FlyBackTransformer wrote:}{quote}Hated (Ruby Gentry). Heston was still disposable beefcake fodder and Jones was still in her gun phase started in Duel in the Sun.
I understand, it's an off-beat film.
Can someone be "beefcake fodder" though? I always thought one simply was or wasn't beefcake, are you saying he was the stuff that beefcakes are made of? I didn't really find him that beefcakey though...and his character was a *creep.*
Anyway, whenevs the subject of Chuck comes up I try to point out that he appears to have been an incredibly nice and decent guy in real life- but I rarely end up not watching his acting through parted fingers, hand across the eyes.
ps- *was just perusing the schedule and saw that Ruby Gentry is airing Fri. May 24th,* some time in the afternoon...They're having a whole day of movies titled with the lead female character: Kitty Foyle, Sadie McKee, Harriet Craig, Nora Prentice etc.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 13, 2013 4:13 PM
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OKAY, I REMEMBER NOW!!!!!
It was Ruby Gentry (1952)- set in my home state of North Carolina and featuring some *next-level fierceness* from Jennifer Jones, some strong support from Karl Malden (who would've been a great alternate to Rober Ryan's Ty-Ty) and some, um, less sterling assistance from a young- but creepy- Charlton Heston- whose character, it's worth noting, shows up with a gun-in-hand in his first scene. It's a glamorized take, but there's no denying it makes an inn-teresting study of rural goings-on and small town scandals.
It would probably pair better as a double bill with Flamingo Road (1949.)
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oogie boogie boogie!
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The same week that God's Little Acre aired (I think) TCM showed two other, more inn-teresting agro- noir type movies.
One was called Two Alone (1934)- released I'd say on the brink of The Code. It was on as part of the B-Day tribute to Beulah Bondi and it was *excellent.* Compelling as all get-out, touching, riveting- the acting was all terrific, MUCH more restrained than God's Little Acre (then again- what isn't by comparison?) It was the story of two "adopted" children who are treated as indentured servants and kept apart by *the most horrible family ever, ever ever.* Beulah was the mother, Mrs. Slag, Zasu Pitts was her daughter (I think). Both were borderline unrecognizable in their parts they *were so good.*
For the life of me, I cannot recall what the other film was, other than I thought about starting a thread about what an intriguing rural-themed, agro- noirish triune of films God's Little Acre, Two-Alone and said third film that I can't remember but I know it had a rural theme too- would make.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 13, 2013 11:30 AM
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> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote} To me at least, Haskell is one of the more knowledgeable and insightful critics out there, which is what I look for in a co-host. *Plus, I'm a sucker for southern accents, and she's got a beaut.*
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"Whah thaink yew and I cahn't bay gen tah say how grate full Hi ham to hay-uh yew say that. Ahve hall ways felt one off mah bay guest straingthks has bayen thah faict that Ah can stait uh ruhn of the meel, sum whut gen-uh-ruh-alized o-opinyun awn a fayelm an' it sayounds inn-tuh-resting baycause of it- *nawt that uh dawn't have uh-thuh thaings to say that are-uh-int inn-tuh-resting,* lack thah time I spoke of bay-in a ray-praist tain-aguh an' Ah saw Thah Fountainhaid, way-uh Garuhh Coopah comes out wayth *his big drill* ..."
ps- She's a fellow North Carolinian and *I like her.*
pss- sometimes though, she does give Camille Paglia a run for her money when it comes to making nutty, but fun, psychosexual observacionnes de cinema.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 13, 2013 11:06 AM
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Like most mothers, she was likely hoping to set you up also with a "good set of birthin' hips."
...or whatever the non-southern equivalent of those are.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}It's somewhat disappointing that 'A Thousand Clowns' is not being shown for Martin Balsam day. I think he received an Oscar nomination for that one.
He outright won the Oscar for it, Best Supporting Actor, 1965 (his one and only nomination/win, I think.)
ps- THANK YOU TCM FOR NOT SHOWING IT! It is a tedious, painful film and there was a period 4 or so years ago where it was on *a lot.* Like weekly a lot. Like I wanted to go all Elvis '68 on the TV everytime I heard that little brat start to sing " a thousand clowns... "
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 13, 2013 9:00 AM
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hee-hee. according to Joseph Cotten's autobiography, he referred to the film as Under Corny Crap.
Edited by: AddisonDeWitless on May 12, 2013 9:37 AM
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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}I saw it a few years ago while I thought it was okay I didn't quite what know what to make of it. Part of me thought it was going to be *a comedy and then not quite*. It is *an odd story.*
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Boom. There we go. Two better- or at least more apt- titles than "The Great Moment"
The tagline could be: " The movie you don't know quite what to make of."
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This is the BEST SUTS line-up I can remember. Ramon Navarro, Hattie McDaniel, Maggie Smith, and I actually said "oh yay!" out loud when I saw Mary Boland's name.
I'd give it a solid A, and *Lord Knows* I'm not easy to please.
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I think Woody Strode had a SUTS day two or three years ago...he was in The Last Voyage, right? Anyway, someone at the net really likes him because there are, like, 5 Woody Strode-related questions in the "Experts Only" section of The TCM TrIvia Book.


Back to Eden? Movies and GARDENS
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}GoodGuysWearBlack, I'm afraid I have not seen *Parrish*. Could you elaborate a little as to its "garden" allusions?
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> And that hot house at the beginning of *The Big Sleep* ! You can feel Marlowe getting hotter and sweatier and more uncomfortable as the scene progresses. And the General who's hiring him- all that talk about orchids and spiders.
> Yes, sometimes gardens are not the lovely, restful places we want them to be.
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wow,
there were a lot of good things in this post, but I'll address these two:
Parrish is kind of a silly film, *but* it is like a (rather valuable) lesson in Tobacco Growing 101, the far more interesting elements of the plot (at least to me) deal with the sensitive nature of growing tobacco, especially when it is in its early stages and highly susceptible to fungus and rot. I was kind of sorry when they got away from the lesson on sharecropping and got in to the silly soap aspect of the family drama.
Raymond Chandler is one of my favorite writers *of all time,* and it fascinates me how in every one of his six Phillip Marlowe novels, he makes a lot of references to the flora and fauna of Los Angeles- and in the first-person guise of the hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlow. Frequent mentions are made of the jacaranda trees and flowering myrtle that grows on the hills of the city...which helps to build on the sinister aspect of all the depraved things going on behind the ivy-choked walls and thick hedges of hibiscus.
PS- Suddenly Last Summer earned a richly deserved Oscar nomination for the art/direction set design.