CaveGirl
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Now I was going to say "Crappy Movie" but that appellation seemed a bit extreme, so let's just leave it at mediocre.
The movie that made me think of this was "Rome Adventure" with Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette.
Now you just know that it had to be the setting which was beautiful to view, that got Suzanne all nuts enough to go and marry Troy, so that is enough advertising of this movie's great travelogue qualities.
Other than that though, it is pretty rough going.
So name a movie which takes you on a great scenic trip, even if the dialogue and plot, well, kind of stink.
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Friday April 8, 2016
Tito Guizar's 106th birthday on Amazon Prime
BRAZIL with Virginia Bruce
THE GAY RANCHERO with Roy Rogers
I'm much more into this Tito, than the Jackson Tito so thanks, TB!
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PLEASE STOP TYPING THREAD TITLES IN ALL CAPS
PLEASE?
Just because Lieutenant Gerard won't let you type all in caps from prison, your love notes to female admirers on the outside, doesn't mean the rest of us can't, Richard!
Shoot, I'm on on probation.
I MEAN, PROBATION!!!
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I'll go with Gary Busey in "The Buddy Holly Story".
He not only "became" Buddy in spite of not really on the surface seemingly resembling him, but he also performed all the songs and was really effective musically.I think the movie was not looked upon as the type of material the Oscars saluted at the time, being about a rock and roll star so his performance, though nominated was overlooked.
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Have to say MY favorite guest of Cavett's was always a particular gentlemen who finished off his 1969 interview with a rousing song and dance routine to "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady", and all just a few months before this still spry old gentlemen was about to turn the big eight-oh.
(...yeah, I know...what a "surprise" in my case, huh)
I was just going to say that Cavett's interview with Groucho.
But my fave is Sean Connery with Babs Walters.
P.S. I forgot to mention that I was on Sean's side in his altercation with Barbara in that famous interview.
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Why isn't this thread labeled as "Hot"? It's got as many replies and views as a couple hot threads. I'm offended.
Sweetheart, the "HOT" designation is not based on the poster's degree of hotness, otherwise all Dargo's posts would be labelled as such.
I'm sure you are almost as "HOT" as he, but to aid your cause I shall add Pauly Shore to the BOP list.
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I was reading about copyright law the other day and found that Samuel Beckett and his estate are totally in control of how any of his plays are performed.
For example, purveyors of any of his plays cannot change lines or put differing types of people in the parts if it goes against the original idea of Beckett.
Now some might say this is being dictatorial but I say not.
Who knows better than the author how the play should be played.
Of course, he was a genius so why change his words or meanings. If the play was written by an idiot, then maybe change is good.
Nevertheless if Philip K. Dick had done the same thing, we would not have had to experience that abomination of a film, that was made called "Minority Report" in which the ego of Tom Cruise resulted in him changing the whole point of the book, just to make sure he had a bigger part.
Read this info on Beckett and his estate rules:
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that last one the car has always been underrated but maybe svengoolie can come up with some fun skits like the car gettin' him.
OMG, I love Rondo Hatton movies, so I can't wait to watch his tonite.
Thankfully I've seen "House of Horrors" before so I will try to stay calm when they keep interrupting the film with their forced inanity.
Thanks!
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Slaves were property. Therefore assisting a slave in escaping is a property crime and by default crimes are sins.
"Thou shalt not steal" certainly was a biggie in my catechism class. One would at least expect those in charge of morality, to return stolen property, if they are handed it from a crook.
Of course when Mother Teresa took money from Charles Keating who stole millions from innocent homeowners, she never returned any of it to the rightful owners.
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Around 1990 the British TV host Jonathan Ross had a TV series called The Incredibly Strange Film Show. Each episode was dedicated to a cult film figure: Ed Wood, John Waters, Ray Dennis Steckler, etc... One episode was about the Mexican wrestler El Santo, who starred in his own film series as a heroic crimefighter.
The ISFS episode can be watched on YouTube (search for "The Legend of El Santo"). It gives an interesting portrait of the Mexican film business, at least the exploitation side.
Santo!!!!!!!
He's the thinking woman's Roger Moore!
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Revolutionary film aethete or full of malarkey phony?
Influence on many filmmakers in a good way, like in movies like "Seven" or in a bad way like with Seth Rogen?
A case of the emperor has no clothes being taken in, or a sound filmmaker with insights and devolutionary concepts?
You be the judge.
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Cable?
What's cable?
My rabbit ears work just fine, as long as I put aluminum foil on them.
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After a long hiatus, Shane returns to TCM tonight. True to it's classiness, it doesn't visit us so often the glow of appreciation fades--unlike some other titles which shall remain nameless. And you know, gosh darn it (pardon my strong language), it just might be the best western ever made. Yup, think so. Ain't Alan Ladd the coolest? So cool he doesn't even know or care he's cool. Cooler than Captain Kirk. Cooler than Rick. Cooler than Steve McQueen. Clint Eastwood? He ain't even in the same universe. Ain't Jack Palance the meanest? Meaner'n Nurse Ratched. Meaner'n spit. Lee Van Cleef is good, but he's just a pup compared to him.
I love this movie. Now I know some don't like it because they think George Stevens was too exacting like waiting for the deer to raise its head and taking time to get the perfect sunset, but I think they are nitpickers.
Brandon de Wilde is so adorable in this and Alan is fab.
I always watch when it's on!
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She was billed as Tim and Irene.
The film was so bad - like they actively sought to bring it to the lowest possible level.
If Ann Curio was a famous burlesque dancer, you wouldn't have known it from this film.
Ann Curio was still doing her act into the 1960's and later as I recall.
But she was no Blaze Starr!
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I am not sure as to how many "organized religions" would have said that it would have been a sin to help Jim escape, and that the right thing to do would be to return him. "Treat others the way you would have them treat you" was the Golden Rule even in the 19th century.
Well, when you "are sure" how many would have said it was a sin, after doing your research for exacting and accurate numbers, please get back to us with the stats!
If it is only the Buddhists, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Let me state a perogrullada, a statement so obvious it really should not be stated: if you keep judging the past by the standards of the present you will always be dissatisfied with the past.
Nine more months, and the year 2016 and its standards will all be a part of the past, a past you all lived; will you be so eager to condemn a past that is a part of your lives?
Let's face it, a majority of people who object to things usually don't even know the background of the subject but just object in a shoot from the hip way.
You can't ever help a fool to see the light, so why try?
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Since that slur is so disturbing, I suggest all English speakers do what I did: read MT in Spanish, which does not have an equivalent of n---r.
Palmerin, do you remember the news story of a few years back where some town accountant or such was talking about the funds of the community and used the word "niggardly" and was fired because people there were so uneducated they did not know that it meant the definition down below. He was finally rehired when outsiders who could were more educated defended him and made them look like the fools they were:
Niggardly
ˈniɡərdlē/adjective- 1.not generous; stingy."serving out the rations with a niggardly hand"synonyms: cheap, mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching,cheeseparing, grasping, ungenerous, illiberal; More
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adverbarchaic- 1.in a stingy or meager manner.
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I've been thinking, it's strange that we've never had a thread about this. It seems to me (although I could be wrong) that TCM has done a theme about Mexican cinema at some point, not sure when (if ever.) But I don't know if there was a corresponding thread about it here.
Anyway, there's a few reasons I thought of this. Senor Trump's "Wall" suggestion, of course, got me thinking about Mexico. And the recent TCM airing of Touch of Evil and its depiction of that seedy corrupt Mexican border town.
And I realized that almost all my impressions about Mexico and movies about that country were not based on actual Mexican movies, but American movies depicting Mexico and its citizens. In fact, I think my first movie experience of a Mexican was that bandit in The Treasure of Sierra Madre snarling, "Badges ! ? We don't need no stinking badges ! !" And then he steals Fred's boots.
Then there's the sizzling hot black haired sexy senorita, swaying provocatively to some mariachi band, in distinct contrast to the white blonde American heroine; you can find her in any number of American westerns.
So, two thoughts so far come to mind: First, not to be all politically correct, but I have to say my early impressions of Mexicans were formed by American movies rife with mostly negative stereotypes about their neighbours to the South. But please, I don't want this to be some kind of forum for arguments about racism against Hispanic people.
My second thought was, damn, I don't think I've seen many genuinely Mexican movies. I looked it up (googling "Mexican films") and it turns out there are hundreds of them. A whole industry, and I'm barely aware of it. This despite the fact that I have seen many foreign films from other cultures (mostly European and Japanese.)
All I can think of off-hand is the 1992 film directed by Alfonso Arau, Like Water for Chocolate. I've also seen a lot of American / Mexican collaborations, such as those between Roberto Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
Any comments or suggestions about Mexican movies?
If I recall correctly, TCM did show a bunch of Mexican films in the last few years all on one day or so. It was fun to watch, but I could always watch more. I kind of think Dolores Del Rio was in some of them.
Being that I'm a big Bunuel fan, and I notice Lawrence also mentioned this, it would be fun to see things he filmed in Mexico like "Mexican Bus Ride","Illusion Travels by Streetcar", "Nazarin" et cetera.
Eisenstein's "Que Vive Mexico" would be wonderful too to be screened. I like your idea, Miss W.!
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Definitely a very interesting time, TB.
Enjoyed your synopsis of the situation. It is also fascinating to read not about who was blacklisted, but about the most virulent supporters in Hollywood of the committee, which included some major stars.
Thanks for reminding us of that time in your 1952 expose!
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That film has another distinction. It is one of the only film noirs in color and it is breathtaking to be sure.
I think it was done by famed cinematographer, John Alton.
I've seen it a couple times and it is wonderful on the big screen.
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I love the campiness of the original of House on Haunted Hill. I love the cast, too.
GPF, too bad you did not get to see it in its original incarnation in a theater, when the skeletons would come out over the audience and scare the heck out of the patrons.
Too bad William Castle is not still alive and perpetrating these stunts.
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This is a famous maxim and lately I have been thinking that life is starting imitate strange movie plots that one would not think possible.
The latest is the Dead Man Switch story that is going around about the lawyer for the D.C. Madam and the client list he is attempting to reveal.
I mean, really could even Raymond Chandler write something this good?
I'm bringing it up here not as a lead to discuss politics which I would put in the Off Topic Threads, but as a topic about things that inspire movies and plotlines.
Name a film which was inspired by such a scandal.
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I recall liking the film. I also enjoyed a cable-TV version done in the 90's with Anthony Hopkins and Kyle MacLachlan.
Hmmm, yes I really can see MacLachlan essaying that role, after enjoying him in "Twin Peaks".
Sadly I've never seen the movie version of "Metamorphosis". Thanks, Lawrence!
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I had to write it down to get the exact spelling:
Kirk Douglas was born:
ISSUR DANIELOVITCH DEMSKY
Well, that's a mouthful.
He probably got the dimple in his chin, saying it and someone socked him there.
Time to go get groceries, so bye for now, GPF!
Robert Mitchum and his peers.
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I like Mitchum in anything, just because. He is unique in looks, style and attitude so you always remember him.
I think he was very unlike most other male actors of his time. One performance of his that is way out of character that I liked was as the teacher in "Ryan's Daughter". He is quite believable but this is a part which is outside his wheelhouse for sure.
I'm sure Mitchum was in noir type films, because Mitchum's own life could have been a noir film.