CaveGirl

So funny! By the way, following that film they are showing Malick's "Badlands". Anyone who really enjoys noirish women should enjoy seeing the fictionalized story of serial killer, Charles Starkweather and his teen girlfriend, Caril Fugate. Though Charlie was convicted and executed for wanting to look like James Dean while also killing eleven people, his 14-year old girlfriend, basically got off with only serving 17 years, even though some think she was the trigger happy exponent. In the mid-1970's she was released from prison, changed her name and went on to live a normal life, though some say her perfect record at the prison only showed one thing in her twisted personality. That she would follow anyone or anything and had no mind of her own, so if she later hooked up with the BTK fellow, she would have also gone on a killing spree with him, just not in the Badlands. The movie stars Spacek and Sheen and the score is fantastic with selections from Carl Orff and Eric Satie amongst others.

I was just going to mention those films by Sluizer. Boy, talk about no comparison between the two. The original is incredible and scared the life out of me. The remake with Jeff Bridges is so horrid, I could hardly watch it. I blame not Sluizer or Bridges but the powers that be who probably thought the original was too dark. The original is a classic though with outstanding performances by a cast not very familiar to American audiences, but it is worth reading all the subtitles just to enjoy it.

They should have made the film bio when Bernadette Peters was a bit younger. I always thought she looked a lot like Mary.

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in Ford's "The Searchers". I have a friend who doesn't like him in the movie, because she says John Wayne is just too big to look at on the big screen, but he fills this role amply I feel.

Well, let's see...figure out that Chaplin films were prevalent in the early years of the last century and reached a peak in silents in the 1920's, even though of course he was still famous in the 1930's and beyond. That means his heyday was around 91 years ago just to make the years a sort of mid-range. Then figure out that this is around 68 years before this 23 year old guy was born. Now ask yourself, if you were born in let's say, 1970, if you would be cognizant of a famous entertainer whose heyday was in 1902. Sure, I actually agree with you that one must be living in a cave to not have ever heard of Chaplin, but some people are just oblivious to anything not more recent to their times possibly?

Oh, yeah...Cate Blanchett would be perfection!

It's funny, Vautrin I've seen that film many times, always enjoy it but only saw the bit in this latest showing where Loretta is dealing with the lady at the house, who drops down as if she is having a heart attack, preventing Loretta from going to the tower. I think I am prejudiced against Loretta, since her hysterics did start making me laugh. I always think she is gorgeous in films, but I'm not the biggest fan of her acting. But all in all, the film is a good one and Welles is always interesting as is Eddie G. so it is still worthy watching.

I love Dirk Bogarde and would follow him anywhere. Thanks, TB!

That scene looks incredible! I want to visit there too...

Is there still some treasure left from the mad, mad, mad, mad world hunt???

I hadn't gotten to your post when I wrote my post to Hoganman with pretty much the same sentiments, Dargo. Of course mine did not include Yvonne, as yours did . Why am I not surprised?

Pretty perfect fantasy, Hoganman! I do expect you to lead a rousing version of La Marseillaise if Major Strasser comes in though...

Well, a wish shared by many I would guess. Thanks, Midge!

I hope there's no ticky-tacky little boxes there for people to live in?

Interesting you say that since I think the costumes were based on ones from the FP movie.

That's what I like about you, Dargo! While the rest of us wallow in B-movie classics, or shop worn movies with ancient cliches, you stay true to form of only liking the most sophisticated fare known to man and it must be written by someone with a fine pedigree like Ben Hecht, newspaperman extraordinaire and script writer beyond comparison! I know that you are just saying it is the pulchritude of the Venusian women in this flick that held your interest, as you don't want us to think you are an elitist egghead who only liked the film really because of the Hecht connection and his brilliance in the Hollywood pantheon of writers. Bravo! P.S. I own the dvd, if you'd ever like to borrow it?

I would say that this is a fabulous wish, Emily. Just remember though, most homes like that in movies, with all those amenities end up having a murder victim lying dead in the library, with a few bullet holes in the area above their cravats! Don't put any of the really expensive Persian rugs in that room, just in case.

One of the greatest scenes in movies ever filmed!!!! Thanks, Nip and by the way I also think Yvette Vickers deserved some kind of award too for her role in this classic.

Don't ask the second Mrs. DeWinter her first name though, because she won't tell it to anyone!

And you would get to see Bert and Ernie too! And Violet before she became a prostitute...

Yes, while in London I decided to make a visit to Baker Street, hoping to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Hudson, or Moriarity or at least Mycroft Holmes leaving the abode, but alas no such luck and no such exact address. Trying to assuage my sadness I then went on the trek to find the Olde Curiosity Shop, which though only called that after the novel, still was thought to be an inspiration for the antique shop. They say that when Dickens wrote Little Nell's death scene, he cried, since he often did not know in advance his characters' fates. Personally though, Little Nell was a bit too saccharine for my taste. After giving up on seeing Holmes' home, I thought the next best thing was to visit the home of Samuel Johnson, since there was that one Basil Rathbone movie, where they hid the bank plates there in his library. Didn't see Boswell though, so it was a bust.

Hey, TB! I have no idea where I got that write-up, but shall try to refind it. It was not that I totally believe the article's validity, but it seemed to express my original belief that the one big difference between the "Man-Child" persona versus the "Woman-Child" one is that the term is used much more pejoratively in the male version. For example, one might say the character played by Yvette Mimieux in "Light in the Piazza" was a Woman-Child but she would still be seen as a much more appealing person than a character like some played by Jerry Lewis or Adam Sandler. I think women are allowed to be childlike and it is acceptable, much more than when the qualities are in a male. Just my take though, and I did think characters you mentioned like Baby Snooks actually are on the same strata as a Jim Carrey or other Man-Child in their motifs. Will try to find the original article I ripped it off from...

Also didn't you once say your grandfather made his fortune by starting the largest manufacturing plant in the world for Freon, in Freedonia? I guess that money he made wasn't imaginary, now was it, Dargo? Sylvania is nice, but Transylvania is where they have all the cross dressing trees I've heard.

I'm honored that we are so aligned in appreciating this movie. Loved reading your reasons why, and I totally concur, Miss Wonderly. The typical Mitchum persona was seemingly hidden in this portrayal and it was quite touching.

If I said I was older than Hermione Gingold, would that mean our engagement is off??? Now that would make me around one-hundred and twenty-two years old and being an ageist and still youthful, you'd probably rather date two women of only sixty-one years of age, wouldn't you, you cad!