Vautrin
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The most surreal thing about this flick is Pat O'Brien playing an art critic, even one on
the conservative side. I saw Crack Up on YT about a year ago. Except for the art angle
and the method in how Pat's temporary madness came to be, it is rather pedestrian,
though with a few nice touches. At the beginning of the movie I figured that Ray
Collins might turn out to be a shady character as he often was. Then I sort of forgot
about him as the movie progressed and then he did indeed turn out to be up to no
good. Not surprised.
When O'Brien unveiled what he considered that surrealist horror it reminded of
this Dali painting:
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On 12/1/2018 at 7:30 PM, mr6666 said:
Noir AlleyVerified account @NoirAlley 29m29 minutes ago
TONIGHT! See CRACK-UP ('46) hosted by
@EddieMuller on#NoirAlley !
Forget about Gainsborough, someone's making Maltese falcon knockoffs.
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It's Moor fun to compute.
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So many that Tiny Tim is now running track at Oxford.
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3 hours ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, I suppose so.
(...but wouldn't a "REAL man" have to order it without that foo-foo-y whipped cream on the top?)
The whipped cream allows the macho man to blow it off and stomp on it on the floor.
Topics like this one always remind me of that hilarious Rolling Stones' lyric He can't be a
man cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarette as me.
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One vote for Irish coffee. Coffee with booze in it. What could be
more masculine?
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3 hours ago, hamradio said:
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I got E.T. when it was first released on VHS in 1988. Still remember the fanfare about how it's the best anti-pirate copy ever made at the time. The case is a green / black design. I will never part with it.
Cool. I had never seen E.T. before, believe it or not. While it certainly is entertaining and Spielberg
knows how to push all the buttons it was a little on the thin side for me.
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5 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
That is one un-intentional funny scene. The only one I can like of where the Cook character gets picked on more, with jokes that are very demeaning, is by Spade in 1941's, The Maltese Falcon.
That is the example that comes to mind first, and besides the jokes there is the scene where
Spade grabs Cook when he has his hands in his pockets and delivers him to Greenstreet that
way. Ouch. I'm sure there are other examples, as Cook so often played a loser who practically
had demean me written on his forehead.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, Marie gets all the good lines in the film....
And for the most part she does so effortlessly. Of course Cook got the last laugh...
by a few seconds.
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That was a nice gift from DirecTV. The only problem was trying to figure out which movie
to watch when you have about twenty or so different channels to choose from. I saw Meet
the Fockers, The Invasion, Charlie Wilson's War, E.T., Alien:Covenant and a few more. Alien:
Covenant was pretty good, even if a lot of it was just a rehash of the original Alien movie.
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23 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, the scene is very tightly edited. I may have to pause it......
Plus the guy who shoots Carey is on the edge of the scene. One of the funniest scenes is
when Cook first comes home to Marie and she zings him enough to have a comedy act.
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1 hour ago, TheCid said:
Not sure, but I think I saw a movie that indicated the state gaming laws required that the tracks had to have enough money to pay off lots of winners. Then add that to what was bet and it probably adds up. Or maybe that was about Nevada casinos?
You could very well be right about that. It just seemed like that was a lot of cash to
have on hand in 1956 dollars. In the end it didn't matter anyway, it all went up in the air.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
Something must have Triggered him.
Could be. Another hint was that he would yell Hi-Yo Silver in his sleep.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
LOL! I'll have to watch that scene carefully the next time (Not Jay C. but the parking lot!)
The scene of Carey being shot only lasts a few seconds so it's hard to tell, but one thing I
noticed is that the man who shot Carey is wearing a tie while the black guy's tie is tucked
into the collar of his shirt and also the shooter looks white. Carey probably should have
found a more secluded area if one was available.
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I don't see a gay subtext, just a bestiality one. Flippen is into man horse love. That's why he
shows up at the track drunk. He had just been rejected by Red Lightning and that had to
hurt. Another minor point that I pondered over. Would a racetrack really have 2 million on a
single day in 1956? Sounds a little far-fetched, but I don't know anything about the economics
of horse racing. YT has The Killing, though in a mediocre print. The guy who shoots Carey looks
like another guy and not the black dude, though the black guy did throw the horseshoe on the
ground that might have impeded Carey's getaway.
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Just now, TheCid said:
The Cook-Windsor marriage doesn't make sense except as she points out it was for money. There was that scene where she told him he promised a different car to drive every day, living in a fancy apartment on Park Ave., etc. True they were only promises, but considering where the Windsor character came from that was probably as good as she was going to get.
I think it was interesting that Muller did not comment on Vince Edwards (AKA Ben Casey). To me appeared clear that he really didn't care much for Windsor in reality and would probably have dumped her soon after getting his hands on the money. Guess she was supposed to be blind to this.
Granted that he made all those promises, but Marie's character seems too smart to believe that a
loser like Cook could ever get close to making them come true. Maybe she was just satisfied for
Elisha to be out of the house working so she could sit on her behind or go out on a date with
Vince. Yeah, I don't think Vince had much of an interest in Marie. Too old. She was just a time
filler until something better came along and if the money had come through, he would have cut
her out PDQ. Elisha started out with a hole in his stomach and Marie ended up with one in
her's.
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Things would be more confusing without the narration and the narration is kind of funny in
itself. At 2:15 pm Johnny bought a ham sandwich and a coke at Morty's and then secured
his gun in a flower pot. Yeah, Hayden plans everything down to the last minute and then goes
and buys a a cheap suitcase from a pawn shop. Duh. What a freakin' genius. Something always
seems to go wrong in these heist flicks anyhow. And why not take the car instead of an airplane?
Duh. The Cook Windsor marriage should be categorized as sci-fi not noir. What the hell did a
good looking dame like Windsor see in a runt like Cook? I just don't get it. When seen in profile,
Cook reminds me a bit of Michael Redgrave's dummy in Dead of Night. Of course the dummy is
about ten times as smart as Cook is. I've seen The Killing four or five times before but it's always
worth another look. I much prefer the ending of this to that of The Asphalt Jungle where Hayden
goes to the horse farm so can can give a horse one last kiss before he dies. Cornball as all get out.
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Holy ****. I'm going to have to turn in my Brucie torn leather jacket. I had forgotten
there is no In in that song title, it's just Candy Darling's Room. Actually it's just
Candy's Room. I am so sorry Boss. But I still like your Clash tribute song I'm So Born
in the USA.
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44 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Now that's one guy, Vautrin, who definitely isn't gay.
Well, don't forget the song Candy Darling's Room.
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It's going to take time just to get all the schedules in gear for all those channels,
but I did see some new movies that will be available.
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I think the one color episode was a test for going to color for the tenth season,
but of course PM was cancelled before that could happen.
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Fetv on DirecTV runs four episodes of PM, two in the afternoon and two in the evening.
Of course they are edited for commercials. I often watch the two in the evening. I don't
think they would be much more easy to follow even without the ads, especially when
they add in crimes what were committed years ago, illegitimate children, twins, folks
who changed their names, folks who were thought to be dead but aren't, etc. Perry and
Paul seemed to be a little shadier in the late 1950s episodes than in the later ones. Still
an entertaining program.
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22 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
But in the Islamic nation of Turkey, drinking coffee is tightly intertwined with masculinity (and femininity in the making of it).
Guess what else? Surprisingly enough, the ancient game of backgammon. Every cafe table has a backgammon board.
One more reason, though a minor one, not to live in Turkey.
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Since it's unlikely that the paths of Albrecht Durer and Noir Alley will cross
very often I thought I'd post one of Durer's wonderful self-portraits.