CaveGirl
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According to IMDB he was on an episode of "Lights Out!" so I shall look for him in an episode in the dvd set. Thanks TB!
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I always liked Oscar Levant's comment about Doris Day, saying he could not watch her movies since he was a diabetic.
We all know the other comment he made about her state of purity so I won't go there.
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Tom Cruise playing himself in anything, which is all his movies!
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I decided to set my alarm to watch this movie in real time on Sunday morning and I am so glad I did!
I thought I had seen all of the films with Welles as actor or director, but this one must have been less often shown. It was a masterful retelling of the legend of Cagliostro, who was born to poor gypsy parents who were hung, and this creates a vengeance to pay retribution to the Viscount who sent them to the gallows.
The film was in magnificent b&w and also starred Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese, with Berry Kroeger I think as the author, Alexandre Dumas [Pere] and Raymond Burr as A.D., Fils!
The storyline about Cagliostro as a child meeting Doctor Mesmer, was well, mesmerizing. The court intrigues about Marie Antoinette and Madame Dubarry were fascinating, and Welles was young, slender and magnificent. This film was a perfect blend of romance, intrigue and spectacle.
Anyone else watch?
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There's a long line of entertaining (to one degree or another) horror/suspense anthologies. Of course, you have Dead of Night (1945). Here are a few others:
Waxworks (1924)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Black Sabbath (1963)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Kwaidan (1964)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Gallery of Horror (1967)
Torture Garden (1967)
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Asylum (1972)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Vault of Horror (1973)
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Creepshow (1982)
Nightmares (1983)
Twilight Zone...The Movie (1983)
Cat's Eye (1985)
Creepshow 2 (1987)
From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Tales from the Hood (1995)
Three...Extremes (2004)
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
V/H/S (2012)
Great list, Lawrence!
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I own all but seven of those titles.
The Leni one, all the Amicus and Hammer ones and well, I did say I liked anthologies didn't I?
They're all great but particularly "Kwaidan". Did you mention "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black. It's so creepy too.
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For those who like the combination of horror with comedy, there are very few better than Polanski's "Dance of the Vampires" or as it is called in the US, "The Fearless Vampire Killers".
TCM will be showing it this weekend late Sunday nite [check schedule].
Though not all directors know how to combine the laughs with the chills, when done properly both elements seem to create a tension that aids both sides. Scares become scarier and laughs more abundant. Why, I don't know perhaps due to being always in a state of flux for the viewer.I also think "Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is a great example. Any others you can think of will be appreciated.
Here's the synopsis for the Polanski film, which definitely does not do it justice. Some scenes are quite eerie and very memorable!
FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, THE (1966)A bumbling professor tracks vampires in the wilds of Eastern Europe.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack MacGowran , Roman Polanski , Alfie Bass .
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Yes, I fear and dread that anthology films will cease to be made and they are one of my favorite genres.
I enjoy things as melodramatic as "The Story of Three Loves" or as sublime as anything filmed from a Somerset Maugham tale.
If you are into anthology films which ones stick out in your mind as being the best of their genre?
My personal faves are things like "Tales from the Crypt" which was an Amicus presentation and I still cringe in horror when I think about the best tale of the five in the film, the one actually taken from an EC Vault of Horror comic called:
"… And All Through the House (The Vault of Horror #35)
After Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins) kills her husband (Martin Boddey) on Christmas Eve, she prepares to hide his body but hears a radio announcement stating that a homicidal maniac (Oliver MacGreevy) is on the loose. She sees the killer (who is dressed in a Santa Claus costume) outside her house but cannot call the police without exposing her own crimes.
[spoilerS AHEAD!!!]
Believing the maniac to be Santa, Joanne's young daughter (Chloe Franks) unlocks the door and lets him into the house, whereupon he starts to strangle Joanne to death."
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She and Eli Wallach were such a cute couple.
Sorry to hear of her passing.
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Seems you're a bit stumped here, eh CG?! And so, I'll give ya a little hint as to who this guy is.
His first name is "Leslie".
And no, the last name isn't either "Banks", "Howard" OR "Van Houten".
(...the last one ironically just making the news today about "a second act" she might get after spending the last 47 years in the California Prison System)
Uh, he didn't have the nickname of Squeakie, did he?
I know, Leslie Robert Hope?
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"Shirley..ahem..surely you know a particular 1980 comedy would transform my acting career from being
mostly known as a dramatic actor to one primarily then after known for comedic roles and perhaps even
greater success and notoriety."
Uh, let's see is that Eduard Franz?
Or maybe John Lund or William Lundigan.
I'm stumped, Dargo. Wait, I know it's Charlie Rich, the Silver Fox right?
I had no idea that he starred in any movies though, so thanks!
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Not to besmirch the Barrymore family reputation, as if I could do it any more damage, but wasn't there controversy about the real reason that Lionel had to be in a wheelchair in films, TB.
I seem to remember, maybe from the Gene Fowler book on John, something about Lionel having a morphine addiction that restricted him to the chair. Some said this morphine was necessary for an extreme case of arthritis or a hip injury, but others discounted it.
John had more problems with liquor while carousing with friends like Fowler, Decker, Flynn, Carradine and such but even that did not stop him from being a good judge of character. As I recall after marrying Dolores Costello he once said something like that the only book she'd ever read was the Butterick dress pattern book.
Whatever is true, Lionel was a true trooper and genius onscreen! Thanks for the synopsis, TB.
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How about Don Ameche. He became a big.star at Twentieth Century Fox in the second half of 30s, where his mellifluous radio-trained voice and debonaire image made him second only to Tyrone Power until he left in the mid 40s. He continued in films.freelancing, but by the 50s, devoted more time to tv, with only the occasional movie. In the 1980s, a role in TRADING PLACES gave him a second wind in films, and with movies like COCOON, he was once again a boxoffice force. I believe he finally received.an Oscar.as well. Quite a comeback.
Right on, Arturo!
Ameche is a great choice, thanks.
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as a lifelong couch potato, there is music I have patiently awaited someday being commercially released to the public like oliver nelson's six million dollar man underscores as well as alotta 1960s cartoon music by filmation studios.I've always been particularly fond of the underscores to The New Adventures of Superman which debuted on CBS in 1966.it's all gone thanks to Hallmark, the people who care...
Well, having had relatives who worked at Hallmark's main headquarters it was said that Mr. Hall the founder was one of the meanest men who ever lived. Although he came up with the slogan "When you care enough to send the very best" apparently he was not the best person in terms of temperament.
It may be apocryphal but supposedly that saying is on his tombstone.
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Since I've mentioned him about 1000 times in my 13 years as a member here, I'll just say it again--Dean Stockwell. Starting as a young child actor, to a few outstanding films as a young man, he was pretty much an actor to fill guest spots on tv shows throughout the 60's & 70's. Then in the late 80's & early 90's, he got an Oscar nomination and was the co-star on the cult tv classic Quantum Leap. He's worked on the big & little screen a lot since then.
Well, I love Dean Stockwell too so your choice for his second wind as an actor is well deserved.
I thank David Lynch for reviving many older actors careers in his movies, like Stockwell.
Thanks, Helen!
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I'm not sure they're cases of "falling out of favor", but a few might be.....
Not seeing him in anything for a while, then seeing VINCENT PRICE show up in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS was a delight.
Same with what seemed a long absence of EDMOND O'BRIEN in movies then catching him in THE WILD BUNCH was nice.
Or ARTHUR O'CONNELL in THE PODEIDON ADVENTURE.
There are probably others, but they escape me for now...
Sepiatone
Oh, yes! It was so wonderful to see Price in ES.
I had forgotten about O'Brien and O'Connell so thanks for the great submissions, Sepia!
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The harbor town looks as impossibly gorgeous as the cast members.
Hey, I watched it too. This film was an incredible concoction of fluff, that was as beautiful as a rainbow parfait and as light and breezy. I'm guessing that just like Demy did in "TUOC" that the harbour town buildings were repainted to colors that brought them to life onscreen,
Deneuve's sister, Francoise Dorleac was gorgeous and her early death is a loss to films. Her meeting on the street with Gene Kelly was masterful. All the dancing and singing were lovely and I actually liked that they seemed very natural and were not micro-synchronized but in the scenes with Gene, all the dancing was picture perfect with him on point, and my guess is that he engineered and choreographed them himself.
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It would seem that often a star of the silver screen starts big, but then either their career dies off, or they are relegated to minor B-films, or perhaps they go back to Broadway or Europe from whence they came. What I enjoy is seeing these folks in the second phase perhaps of their careers.
One of the people I enjoy seeing after her major heyday in films is Alla Nazimova. Born in Russia and one of the original students of the Stanislavski Method, Alla cut a wide swath in silent films in the US in the early 1920's, with things like "Salome" and "Camille" with Valentino. Her films were not accorded their just praise in those days due to them being so highly artistic and experimental, but now have achieved cult status. After being off the screen during the first years of the talkies, she did come back in a few features in the mid-1940's and still exhibited her amazing thespian talents with moving portrayals in things like "In Our Time" with Paul Henreid and Ida Lupino and in "Since You Went Away". Luckily one could see that she was an incredibly fine actress in speaking parts also and not just silent melodramas, before her death soon after her final performances on film.
In a different type scenario, actor George O'Brien never really went away from films after his early successes in things like Murnau's "Sunrise" but just wasn't seen in many A-films, which made it all the more enjoyable to view him in Ford's "Cheyenne Autumn" in 1964. He was still striking and made a real impression on film.
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I'm wondering if Warren used his own pee or flat
ginger ale to mimic Hughes' mason jars full of
urine.
I wonder if Warren let his fingernails grow really long too!
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Well CG, maybe Warren felt he hadn't watched ICE STATION ZEBRA enough in order to really flesh out his title character until fairly recently?!
(...you know how those Method actors are, doncha?!)
You guys sure do stick together, Dargo!
But I guess there is always a method to men's madness.
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I read somewhere that there was a movie star (or perhaps multiple) who would play the piano at parties, without using his hands...
Probably Steve Cochran or maybe Forrest Tucker?
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For me, it is the ending in "Vertigo".
Though probably the most depressing ending in film history, being that it appears that Scotty has managed to twice cause the death of the woman he loves, the ending creates a cyclical effect on the viewer making one want to start the film over while hoping that this time things will turn out differently.
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I think instead of calling this the Warren Beatty "long in the works" epic about Hughes they should call it the Warren Beatty "long in the tooth" movie.
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Ethel Barrymore was one of America’s leading stage actresses. A New York theatre named in her honor proves it. She went to Hollywood in the early 1930s and made a motion picture with her brothers John and Lionel called RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS. Of course, she played the Empress in that production. But she would soon return to the stage where she was a real star. By the mid-1940s, producer David Selznick had lured her back to the movie capital, signing the highly regarded actress to a long-term contract. He persuaded her to give films another chance, and lucky for us she did. She soon earned an Oscar as Cary Grant’s mother in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART. There were additional supporting roles in the 1940s that brought with them more Oscar nominations. She was quickly typecast as the elderly invalid, which she played to great effect in THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, PINKY and KIND LADY, where she has a lead role. In the 1950s, she still took on movie parts, but she also appeared on television. Near the end of her life, she hosted a TV anthology program. And in 1957 she made her last film, JOHNNY TROUBLE, as a den mother of sorts to a group of college fraternity boys. She would pass away two years later, just before her 80th birthday, having outlived both her brothers.
Ethel Barrymore present and accounted for..!
I remember reading in that book about John called "Goodnight, Sweet Prince" many stories about Ethel and the Drew family. It is a great read if one is interested in the whole family of acting giants and all their stage experience. Great post, TB!
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And what would you like to wish upon these S(L)UTS, O Cave Girl?
It wasn't what I would "wish" upon them, but I was curious what they would "wish" for themselves.
Frenchman's Creek - Take A Look At A Direct Comparison Of the DVD As Opposed To The TCM Print
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I thought the movie was beautiful but so overlit. It looked overexposed and I really did wonder what was going on.
I had hoped there were better copies available since it was a wonderful film.