Vautrin
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5 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The other drawback was that while he appeared interested in anything in a skirt I don't recall him ever succeeding with one.
I put that down to the show itself and not any lack of success with the opposite sex.
Paul Drake was a supporting character and the focus was on the murder and the
court dramatics around it, so there wasn't much time to delve into Drake's love life.
I imagine there were at least a few shows where Drake escorted a pretty thing on a
date during the finale.
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I always enjoyed William Hopper as Paul Drake. A little
hip, cool threads, nonchalant manner, might be a
party animal when not working 24/6 for Perry. Only
drawback was he often had a cig in his mouth.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Oh, shucks...you said the "c" word!
Sorry I have to go take some Syrup of Ipecac now to release the victuals that just came up unexpectedly, Vautrin.
Sort of like a hairball.
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I've just starting watching Perry Mason on DirecTV 323. It's now the 1962-1963
season where Perry sits alone in the courtroom at the defense table and has that
smile on his face. Who can blame him. He knows he's going to beat ol' Hamilton
for the umpteenth time.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Vautrin, you are no Ogg Oggilby sadly!
However difficult, I think I can learn to live with that fact.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Easy for you to say, Vautrin knowing that I am an original fan club member of the Joseph Stefano group who are bound to watch anything ever written by the Outer Limits genius, hence I have had to only watch when Gayle Hunnicutt was onscreen. "Purr-O-Vision" sounds like something that was invented for the Dwain Esper movie, "Maniac" during the scene with the one-eyed creature that's orb fell out during a horror scene. It was utterly horrid and the movie should be banned. If P-O-V was combined with Smell-O-Vision it could finally bring more people back to the movies I am sure.
I haven't seen it in decades and have forgotten most of the details, including that Stefano
wrote it, and that Eleanor Parker was in it, doing the Bette Davis horror movie thing. The
movie is not available on YT, but the trailer is and it gives a good idea of what it is about.
White cat with blood all around its mouth and this ain't mouse blood, my fellow humans.
Too bad it's too late for an Eye of the Cat vs. Willard movie. A rat is a cat is a movie.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
I heard he arrived foet first too, in a very painful birthing style, Vautrin.
I wonder how long this can go on...Safe at home. My favorite is The Bank Dick. I always get a kick out of the bank
president extending Fields a hearty handclasp, which is really neither. But I still
wouldn't purchase shares in the Beefsteak Mine.
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Strangely enough, I still recall the word ailurophobia from the 1969 thriller
Eye of the *a* which as far as quantity goes has more cats than most other
movies. Cave Girl, I think you would be wise to stay away from this movie,
especially the version shot in Purr-O-Vision.
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2 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Normally Babs has sex appeal to spare, but with that horrid wig which looks like it was made for George Washington, as Billy Wilder mentioned, I find her appearance in the film a bit disturbing. Her acting was on target though throughout. Yeah, Muller was talking about this week's film "The Man Who Cheated Himself". I probably could never imagine good old Margaret Anderson from "Father Knows Best" show as a femme fatale, even if she was hitting on Robert Mitchum. She is just way too much a stiff, straight-laced looking New England type of woman. Attractive, yes...sexy, no!
Even with the awful wig I find her fairly sexy. Maybe it's the anklet that Walter hones in
on. And stepdaughter Lola was easy on the eyes. I always got a laugh out of her boyfriend's
name, Nino Zachetti. Mobbed up? No way.
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Just like everybody else, Fields started life as a foetus.
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4 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Powell is dull as ditchwater, Vautrin. But Muller continually overpraises and overrates this routine film. One would think he has some personal attachment to its theme and I will say Muller looks a bit like a second string Dick Powell. Maybe this is the noir that Muller relates most to, hence he can't get it out of his head. Often one is drawn to films which relate to one's own life, and many men live lives of quiet boredom even if they are on television and touting less than Swank-y cufflinks and wine continually.
I seriously doubt that the fascinating Lizbeth Scott would go for either Powell or Muller, since she likes to drive her speedboat faster than ten miles per hour and would find both inducing somnambulance daily. No surprise, since Eddie thinks Jane Wyatt could be a femme fatale which is like saying Miss Jane from the Beverly Hillbillies could give Ava Gardner a run for her money in the allure category. These noir lover men who write the books and herd up old stars for their own aggrandizement at festivals, are just like the men in the noir movies they adore, lame-o and as interesting as watching wallpaper peel off in some dump boarding house!
By the way, Freddie boy as Walter Neff was as sexless as Jane Wyatt but at least he could play an instrument. Next time I'll tell you what I really think though...so excuse my reticence.Yeah, despite trying so hard, Powell never made much of an impression on me as a
tough guy, mainly because he looks like a medium wind could knock him over. He's okay,
but no big deal. This isn't because of the contrast between his noir roles and his earlier
persona as the grinning boy next door in musicals since I've never seen many of the latter.
There is likely a noir fantasy where instead of being the handsome good guy with a lot of
spending dough, it's one of lowlifes who swill booze, crack wise, and slap the women around
just for fun. Hey, whatever gets your motor running. I think Fred is a bit more sexy than
Powell if only because Barbara Stanwyck can't help but lend him a little bit of hers. Right
to the end of the line.
I think Eddie was talking about this Saturday's movie where Jane Wyatt plays a femme fatale.
We'll see. IMHO dishwater is duller than ditchwater. You can never be sure what you'll find
in ditchwater, whereas you pretty well know about the contents of cold dishwater.
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3 hours ago, ChristineHoard said:
SPOILERS: Except he got away with it. He should have/could have called the cops and didn't because he didn't want his wife to find out but, of course, he had to tell her. Now he'll have to deal with her wrath and distrust. At least Walter Neff was a single guy so it was only his own life he upended.
Yes, judging from the final scenes of the film, he will be getting the cold shoulder treatment
for quite some time. Can't blame Jane Wyatt for doing so. Walter was more of a planner,
though his plan didn't work out. Dick winged things. I really don't make much of the
characters in most films, but Dick Powell's character didn't have many redeeming features.
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Dick Powell beating the **** out of Raymond Burr? C'mon man. The suburban setting
is an agreeable change from the usual big city locations and the lowlifes who live there. I
think Burr stopped being subtle when he met Dickie in front of his garage and beat the
**** out of him. That I could believe. I found the Powell character to be just as tiresome
and dull as the other middle class folks he disdains. And then after all that tumult, it's
back to the salt mines. Tough break for the non-thinking man's Walter Neff.
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I did a little checking on the net and it was T&W, standing for the guys that
owned it, Terwilliger and Wakefield. Smart move to go with T&W. Local
brands are probably more likely to go out of business or to merge with
bigger firms.
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On 6/14/2018 at 6:52 AM, Sepiatone said:
Never heard of the brand. I'm sure it's good though, as most ice cream, especially chocolate, usually is.
Back to suicide....
What galls me is when the act is sometimes referred to as, "the coward's way out!". When truthfully, it would seem to me that doing that to oneself would take an incredible amount of courage. I mean, there have been times I felt suicidal, but it was the COWARDICE that's kept me alive.
Sepiatone
Maybe Friendly's is more of a regional brand, just in the East Coast, than I thought.
I remember as a kid there was a delicious chocolate chip ice cream made by a company
called T&W or F&W. Instead of having rather large chunks of chips scattered in the
ice cream, it has little pieces "pulverized" throughout the ice cream. Oh, was that
delicious.
I agree that it takes a fair amount of guts to kill oneself or even to try to kill oneself.
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John Mitchell. Just off the top of my head, with a little makeup, the late
Broderick Crawford could play the part. Whoever did would have to be
not allergic to pipe smoke.
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5 hours ago, laffite said:
...accompanied of course by that anemic, squiggly little melody as the main theme. Yes, I know, it's rather retrograde to criticize good ole Max.
The music was secondary to me. It was those endless moon shots. Okay, we get
it. Too bad Moonlight Becomes You wasn't written until after The Letter.
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Quicksand is a pretty good little flick. What I had to laugh at were some of the shots
of Rooney walking side by side with Jeanne Cagney. It looked like she might have been
his babysitter.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
It can be done, for example:
"Oh my, your new hat looks just like the shape of a samovar I saw recently in the Coco Chanel retrospective."
You are so right that the diseased lure of the sanatorium, does often beckon to one, after reading TMM. The rarified atmosphere that promises such languorous activities, and the chance to meet up with fellow patients out in lawn chairs, and discuss world activities and philosophies at one's leisure. I'd like to pass on getting the tuberculosis, but those sanatorium conversations reported in the book always seem so high minded and more interesting than when one is talking to healthy individuals, since imminent death probably does bring one to more profound thoughts. Poor Hans though was there for so many years he must have gotten bored a bit.Or, "Want to see my new samovar? We'll go in the troika to my place. It's only ten versts
from here."
Sort of a luxury hotel with a TB clinic attached. There were quite a few patients whose health
seemed to be fairly good, but they stayed there on and on and on. I can see it as a rather
enjoyable experience, minus the TB and the trips to that creepy basement for X rays. And
there is the suspicion that there was an effort being made to keep the clients there as long
as possible, though Herr Behrens was a jolly old soul. And yes, the concerns of those who
might be near death are more profound than those who aren't. I think Hans gradually became
addicted to that way of life and left somewhat reluctantly. A stay at the sanatorium sure beats
being killed in World War One.
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6 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Vautrin, I must have missed this sequel to "Old Yeller" called "I Am Curious Yeller".
I'll bet Alan Abel, the man who wrote blogs before they were called blogs, and wanted all animals to wear clothes and cover their nudity, would have protested this violation of that old yeller hound, as Travis [Tommy Kirk] used to call the poor thing before he got the hydrophobia or rabies and was put down.I've never seen Old Yeller. I'm not that big on dog movies. I remember we had a little coat
for our dog that we put on in winter, but that was a purely practical selection, not a moral
one.
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7 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
And, Vautrin look at all the new words you learn while reading good old Fyodor, with things like "samovars" and such. As a seventeen year old, this tremendously improved my vocabulary. I went on from reading a mass of Dostoevsky novels to reading Thomas Mann next. His appreciation for women's elbows in "The Magic Mountain" was impressive!
The only drawback is, how often does one get the use the word samovar, not to mention verst
or troika, in everyday conversation? Not very often.
Don't forget that little pencil. The Magic Mountain is one of my favorite novels. If I was truly in
good health I wouldn't mind staying for a time at the International Sanatorium Berghof surrounded
by my high end do dads and accessories, though I imagine the daily routine would pale after a
few years.
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To borrow a phrase from the wine club, Conflict is a modest little product.
Entertaining but no great shakes. I don't know if it would have saved her
life or not, but Rose Hobart should have lost that skunk do and slapped on the
black shoe polish. PU. This is a minor point, but I wondered about the ethics
of a psychiatrist not helping a disturbed person, but conniving with the police
to catch him. Seems a bit on the shady side, not that Greenstreet wasn't used
to that sort of thing and usually on a much larger scale. And then one has to
wonder about all the resources expended just to make Bogie believe his wife
might still be alive. It sure took a lot of time and trouble to do it, not to mention
how unbelievable some of the ruses were.
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I like Friendly's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, though I've never made
a milkshake with it. Very tasty.
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18 hours ago, Dargo said:
So Vautrin, are you saying ol' Fyordo WOULD or would NOT have found that old hockey joke, "Jesus Saves, but Esposito scores on the rebound!", funny at all?
(...kind'a sounds like you're sayin' he wouldn't have)
I don't think Fyodor D. would have found it funny, but Fyodor K. might have. Then again,
it's hard to judge how a hockey joke would have gone over in 19th century Russia.
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Noir Alley
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If I recall it correctly he also played Natalie Wood's dad in Rebel Without a Cause and the dad
of the lethal brat in The Bad Seed. I had forgotten about the tobacco companies sponsoring
many TV show back then. Perry would light up occasionally too, but I don't remember Della smoking.
Yeah, Perry really kept him on his toes. Paul, I'd like you to fly down to Antarctica and see if
you can get a footprint of big foot. Okay. From what I recall, in the first few seasons of the
TV program they were a little bit on the shady side if that was needed. After that they seemed to
be more strict in obeying the letter of the law. Perry and Della were even more hands off than
Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty.