CaveGirl
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Okay, I'm now going to try what you are telling me is the proper way to respond.
I'm used to just hitting a common "post reply" icon on boards like this which leaves the posts laid out in accordion form, so would not have known to do it this way.
Thanks, lavenderblue19 and sorry, Finance if I was making you crazy.
Did not retreat to my cave was just on vacation...
It all looked the same from here!
Re: Casting against type
Posted: Sep 23, 2013 4:48 PM in response to: CaveGirl
CG, there is a reply icon on the right side of the page, looks like a lilac flower. If you want to respond to someone's post you press that icon on the post you're responding to. So to respond to finance's post to you, go to his post, press the flower icon next to the yellow triangle and voila, your post will be addressed to finance.
What finance is referring to is where it reads "in response to" your posts are responding to CaveGirl, rather than the poster whose post you've been responding to. ( hope that makes sense)
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I was lucky enough to catch this precursor to "NOTLD" wherein dead bodies are resurrected only to create havoc in a panicked community.
Handsome Richard Denning, a kind of more sensuous Robert Young type, is investigating some violent murders. He discovers that a man who has vowed vengeance on some local men, has recently engaged the services of a famed German scientist* to insert electrodes in deceased bodies to do his bidding and his bidding includes murder!
Sure, these corpses leave the operating room with a giant gash, suture line halfway up and laterally located on their foreheads, but since the movie is set in 1955, male hats abound to cover the scars so no one is the wiser.
Favorite parts for me included the film footage section of an electrode-injected puppy accompanied by the dialogue stating something like "Here we see a contented dog. Would you have guessed he has eighteen electrodes embedded in his skull?"
I also dug the part where formerly lovable but now deadly due to electrodes, Uncle Dave destroys Denning's daughter's Sweet Sue dolly, which looks like it was drawn, beheaded and quartered...yikes!
Gamma rays abound in this brilliant expose of how trusting the outer appearances of humans, can result in disaster. Sort of foreshadowing 1956's "IOTBS" and later atrocities like the Keating scandal or all stories featured on the tv show "Greed".
Another great Atomic Age film! Who else watched?
*No he was not Mengele but I bet he was a Nazi on vacation from Buenos Aires!
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"True to Jersey roots"!
Oh, this has got to be bad if anyone here is a fan, or even casual viewer of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Table flipping, fake licenses, hiding tax money and that's just Teresa's family.
The highlight recently was finding out that her very Americanized hubby, Juicy Joe isn't even a citizen and may be deported.
If that's NJ I may stay home.
Just kidding for those not liking humor in threads!
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Excuse me?
"You always claim to be responding to yourself. You don't associate with us?"
Not computing...
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"Who?" you ask, Sepiatone?
Why the great William Beaudine who is almost as great as William Witney.
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I want to thank all the TCM members who are stimulating my brain cells with their astute posts AND their great movie monikers!
When I first saw that the mystical Miss Wonderly was here and also Fred Dobbs I wondered if I would encounter other characters like Doctor Praetorius and the most sarcastic Waldo Lydecker, who once said wittily "If you come a little bit closer, my boy, I can just crack your skull with my walking stick."
A man close to my heart...
Gotta love him and speaking of Doctors, did anyone ever notice that Doctor Louis Judd appears as a character in both Tourneur's "Cat People" but also "The Seventh Victim"?
Weird but interesting.
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Dargo, wasn't Audrey Dalton in Mister Sardonicus?
I'm too lazy to look it up. Always thought she was lovely...
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Akira...what a great director!
I noticed that on last night's TCM showing of Hitch on Dick Cavett show, Alfie mentioned that Bunuel was one of his top two favorite directors.
I'll second that!
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You're so right, John!
This "Dust on the Bible" thread is starting to make me want to watch "Paper Moon" again.
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I like your style Miss Wonderly. This is a good test!
Thanks to all for the very interesting answers to my original survey.
I think some took it personally even with my disclaimers.
And roverrocks asks if reading and male noir fans are incompatible concepts.
Uh...elementary my dear Watson.
I've known male noir authors who barely read!
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Why thank you, roverrocks I so appreciate your thoughts on this matter and thanks for such a complimentary post.
Unfortunately being that no Venetian blinds were apparent in the Ozu film, there is no noirish connection but you did manage to weave the topic in marvelously!
P.S. I don't really love "wussy men" but I do think they make the world go round especially in their filmic vagaries!
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Speaking of Nancy Olsen, how could people forget Mrs. Olsen:
Sorry...I am new here and don't know how to post pics!
By the way, Mrs. Olsen was also a doppelganger, and ended up like her uncle and with the seed pod folks in IOTBS.
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But...isn't that tree in The Wizard of Oz still alive and kicking.
Or I should say...yelling at people to not take her apples.
Notice I say "she". That book called...geez, uh, oh, "Separated at Birth" has a photo of it and then a photo of older aged Bette Davis as its counterpart which influenced my thoughts.
As for Sternberg, I love BV and have always been impressed with how he almost got a 3-D effect in his films with all the frontal veil and object overlays.
Plus he looked great in jodphurs [sp?].
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Sans Fin, you are dead on!
Last line of Harlan's doggie tale...grrrrreat!
Gabin was fab and I can see why Dietrich liked him. And I like LC and watched it on TCM the last time it was on. Fun costumes and Kim looked good coming down that stairway as Lylah.
I remember reading something about EOLM once, saying they had reversed the film in one part in the eye scene. Interesting...
Looking forward to Jean this Saturday...thanks! Also Viva Maria and TBP. And by the way...I really don't think there was anything wrong with poor John Gilbert's voice.
What a travesty losing his talents due to this legend.
Edited by: CaveGirl on Sep 23, 2013 1:48 PM
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Geroge/Cary...uh, I own Populuxe but you are right, it is fab!
Thanks to casablanca and Sans Fin for great choices, lavender for the Wright house, Dargo for NBN and CMIYC.
Though I've seen all the films mentioned that does not mean I totally remembered the furnishings or architecture as what I'm into now I was not into when I originally saw those films.
Thanks to mrroberts for the Truman suggestion as I would never have thought his home was MCM. Also the Tex Avery nod sound fab, Valentine!
Dobbsy, the house in the Tati film was one of the reasons I first got interested in the MCM style and it blew my mind. The spouting fish, the egg maker, the off the wall furniture and that garage door. All atomic heaven!
Much thanks to lzcutter as I hardly remember PB and have never seen KKBB so that's one to really watch for...
I so appreciate all the suggestions and now need to rewatch these films. Like I said...the very modern look of the 1950's was not used in all films of that era so it is a crap shoot sometimes looking for it. If I see a film was made from 1950-1959 I always give it a look just to check out the interiors.
Edited by: CaveGirl on Sep 23, 2013 1:40 PM
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Some great choices and I've always had a thing for Steve Cochran!
I agree Lavender, that Gene Nelson was a doll; what a fine dancer.
I like Bobby Van too for that, and he is kind of cute as Dobie Gillis.
Thanks to all for some great and overlooked "hunks".
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I don't know about that as I've seen many "so called bibles" in people's homes that they've never seemingly opened.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
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Decided to stay up last night to watch this Ozu film and it was wonderful. Kind of had a feel as if Jacques Tati met up with Monty Python in Tokyo to come up with the plot and comedic elements.
The storyline of the little brothers going on a silence protest till their parents relented to buy them a tv was adorable. Now I've seen many dire films of Ozu but not many comedies so this was a delight. And the color was beautiful and eye catching maybe due to a sort of Pasolini type limited palette being used.
I realize it was a rehash of his older film shown last week on TCM but I liked this one better. It did have a very American slant to the extent that the younger brother actually kept reminding me of Opie of Mayberry in his behaviour in some scenes.
Interestingly the boys and even their fathers looked very modern, but the mothers looked like they were from another planet with their skirts so hobblying them and their cute shuffling walking patterns. But the mothers conversations seemingly over the simulated back fences was just like a Lucy and Ethel morning koffeeklatsch chat.
The bits with the grandma who forgot to give her daughter the club money and the inebriated hubby going to the wrong house first at night, then hitting his correct home and when the wife says "You're drunk" he retorts something like "Now I know I'm at the right house" were hilarious.
Anyone else watch?
Only complaint... watching all that sitting on the floor and kneeling was giving me premature arthritic pain...ouch!
Edited by: CaveGirl on Sep 23, 2013 1:22 PM
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For me, it has to be Au Hasard, Balthazar by Robert Bresson.
Simply divine!
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Miss W, OTOV is a fun film!
Speaking of Donovan, have you ever seen "Don't Look Back" that tour film about Bob Dylan by the Maysles Brothers? I'm sure you've seen it.
It has thatgreat scene in the hotel with Donovan kind of competing with Bob in playing for the friends and visitors. He looks starstruck when Mister Zimmerman sings I think It's All Over Now Baby Blue after he does his bit.
I think he must have started smoking something after that and Mellow Yellow was the result.
Oops forgot...my favorite soundtrack is from the film Badlands.
Edited by: CaveGirl on Sep 21, 2013 5:17 PM
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Doing research on this pressing subject matter.
Anyone here think that male noir fans are always like their filmic counterparts in being wussy?
Just curious.
All the woman noir fans I know are dominant forces to contend with and the male noir fans are...well, not.
Prove me wrong. I can take it...
Please don't be personally offended if you are a male noir fan. Mayhaps you are that very rara avis who breaks the mold.
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I refuse to celebrate all ethnic heritages because I simply hate Transylvanian food and found the Borgo Pass Hotel to be very inhospitable.
So there!
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Merci beaucoup!
How does one post pics here anyway?
I tried the way I usually do online but it did not work...
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The "bro code"?
This reminds me of a code I made up that I call the Catholic Girls Code.
If a guy asks you out that you don't care for at all, and he has dated anyone from your class...then you tell them you can't go out with him, due to the CGC..
Ergo, something like this "Uh, you dated my friend Laura and for that reason I just could never go out with you, sorry."
I used this on some guy when I was in my twenties and the fool believed it. Apparently he told my friend that he had previously dated and asked her to explain it and she was flummoxed, but never let on that it was bogus.
This shows that just following a code that ostensibly SEEMS honorable, can be used for evil purposes.
Re: Male Noir Fans
in Film Noir--Gangster
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In answer to your quest to have me define "wussiness" for you, I'll paraphrase the Louis Armstrong quote about jazz wherein he states quite unequivocally that "Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Man, if you have to ask what wussiness is, uh..well, you'll never understand it.
I will say it's not about eating quiche which I'm sure even Sean Connery might taste occasionally.