Vautrin
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Yvette doesn't look overly concerned.
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5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
YOU KNOW IT'S WEIRD. I'm usually the first person here to take issue with a script element being heavy handed or clunky, but I didn't mind it at all, I did think the actress in the scene was a little stiff, but I imagine that was how she was told to play it (Asian women in classic movies are nearly always stoic and placid in classic movies.)
Oh, I really didn't mind it very much, but it did seem a bit separate from the rest of the
movie. I can certainly understand why Foreman put it in there.
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They sure wrapped up the ending quickly. They met after the war in Japan and
had counterfeit money or something. It blew by so fast I never caught the
details. A pretty good flick. The Japaneses war widow thing was pretty heavy handed,
however appropriate. I recall another noir with a similar plot . A vet in a hospital
gets out and meets a girl who works in a Chinese restaurant and some kind of
mayhem ensues. I'll have to go back and see if I can find the name of the movie.
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It was Wilmer practicing his ventriloquism skills just before he slipped out the
back door.
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The Miracle of the Bells. One of the best underrated comedies of all time.
Ding dong, ding dong.
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4 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Yeah, I guess at a certain angle, Bronson could look a bit like Garfield. In fact, if one watches old kinescopes even a young Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show could look like Garfield, with all those wavy lines undulating and getting thinner and fatter as he sings.
Hey, they both had dark hair. Good enough. At the time, I didn't really know
who John Garfield was. Funny the minor things one remembers from years ago.
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6 hours ago, Dargo said:
This fight scene Clint has with the equally large and imposing Leo Gordon in an episode Cheyenne is also pretty memorable I'd say...
Yeah, they're really going at it. Not only did Leo lose the fight, but he destroyed quite a
lot of his property too. I don't think I've seen Cheyenne since I was a kid, so I don't recall
the episodes very well. I do seem to recall they were sponsored by a cig company with a
trail of smoke coming from the coffin nail.
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11 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
I guess not. Or were you watching on an old Philco and the horizontal hold was off, Vautrin?
I always thought Peter Falk looked like Garfield. Thanks!Of course it wasn't a big screen flat TV, but perfectly acceptable for the time. In defense of dear
old mom, from certain angles and not watching too closely, I can see a slight resemblance. I never
thought that Falk looked like Garfield, but next time I see him on screen I'll check it out.
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I remember as a kid watching Cheyenne with my dad. The only episode I can recall
was one where he had to fight a big bear in a cave, or maybe it was a big Indian
in a cave or maybe both in a cave. Yeah, pretty catchy theme song too.
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For a minute there I thought Doc, the "brains" of the outfit, was going to rob the
bank with that cig holder still in his mouth. Fun to see the coppers gun the old
fool down. I noticed when the crooks were synchronizing their watches, they all
had Hamiltons. Coincidence or an early example of product placement? Timothy
Carey was very effective, but I don't know if I paid that much attention to him as
a lot of these movie heist gangs have one member who has some rather noticeable
mental problems. I usually think of Dub Taylor as playing a slightly shady character
with a pronounced southern accent, at least when he appears on TV shows. And
Hayden played the kind of dumb cop that almost makes you root for the crooks, even
with his kindness at the end. The best part of this flick was the on location shooting
which made it more entertaining than the typical robbery movie.
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I remember as a kid watching Master of the World starring Vincent Price and
Bronson was in it. My mother walked past and mistook Bronson for John
Garfield. She wasn't much of a movie buff.
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6 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Not always necessarily. Sometimes ONE sorta obscure personal view can override the majority if the individual tries to claim allegiance to one camp of ideology and finds that view is the only one widely accepted by them. I've known people that abandoned many "long held personal views" due to them NOT wanting to be thought of as "liberal" or "conservative" or whatever.
Sepiatone
My experience is that people usual follow their personal values and views in their political
life. Of course there are exceptions and not every liberal or conservative is completely in
agreement with every liberal or conservative principle, but most tend toward one direction
or the other.
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9 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Which of course would then mean it's ALL TRUE!
It tickles me how these kinds of discussions quickly degenerate into "Liberals v Conservative" kind of nonsense. And it's typically those who claim to be "conservative" that head in that direction. And it's sad because many of those who make the claim of being "conservative" aren't really. But just more or less "illiberal".
And the problem I have with either camp is that once one claims to be one or the other, they then allow those philosophies to overtake their own long held personal views in order to NOT seem out of place among the others in those groups. It's like they're lying to both themselves AND all around them. There once was a group from some university in the late '60's (or early '70's, I forget just when) that printed the principles of the U.S. constitution and the Bill of Rights in modern day and simpler vernacular and went around taking a sort of "poll". Asking people, "How would you feel about living in a country like THIS?"
And a surprising ( but maybe not) number of American citizens claimed they would actually HATE to live in such a country! With comments like, "What! A country where EVERYBODY is thought of as the SAME? God FORBID!" or, "It'd NEVER last. Nor SHOULD it!"
It was quite the eye opener.
Sepiatone
Of course you have to use your own experience and judgment when assessing things on the
internet. Wikipedia is a good source, not perfect, no source is, but it usually gets things right
and also provides notes and further references.
I would think that most people's long held personal views play a large part in their political
affiliations.
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My Son John. A laugh a minute anti-commie flick. Okay, maybe a laugh
every three minutes. I love it.
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1 hour ago, Gershwin fan said:
Yeah, she attended Communist meetings in the 1930s. This was long before the red scare though.
True, but that didn't look good later on in the late forties and early fifties.
Apparently her grandfather was a socialist, NTTAWWT.
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Most of the time, HUAC already knew the names. So "friendly" witnesses did not really
supply new information, they just had to go through the ritual of ratting out their
former friends. There will always be dirty rats who will do just about anything to save
their own skins.
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On 5/15/2018 at 4:13 PM, CaveGirl said:
Let's not even go there. Trump might have asked FOX news to ban all "I Love Lucy" episodes due to that "better dead than Red" aphorism!
Beside the red hair, I remember reading that one of Lucy's relatives supported or was at least
registered as a left wing party member. For whatever reason Lucy also registered with this
party, perhaps just as a matter of convenience or she wanted to go along with her relative.
This caused her a bit of a problem later on. I'm sure the details can be found on the internet.
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4 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Yeah, you've got their number, Vautrin! Note how often Ben M. keeps repeating the mantra about how he's not surprised anymore about the young ages of some of the TCM fans!!! I guess not, since the programming of the Trangressing Chaste Minds hypnotic trance mode is daily supplying new addicts.
My bet is that if one slowed down those horrid wine commercials with Muller, there are a bunch of subliminals with images of penile objects suspended in the glass reflections of the wine bottles in close-up shots, doing many obscene things. Also just like Chanel did in that famous tv ad, the images overlap in ways that make objects appear to be animated and part of the homunculus in flagrante delicto. I think it's not much of a reach to figure out that the neck of a wine bottle is similar to what inspired the lyrics of the song, "Chantilly Lace" with its long necked goose tidbits. All these supposedly married wine couples on the ads [probably swingers] trying to find recruits for their product too, by making the wine for the film "Beach Blanket Bingo" appear innocent and how they coupled it with food, like a Pasta Primavera is an obvious seductive technique. If one is trying to get innocent teens to indulge in wine though, I think Muller may have to touch up his greying sideburns, because the Danny Thomas look never is attractive to young females or males for that matter.Yep. Mank and Muller are subtly but still pretty obviously trolling for the little 'uns. Just because
they use adult language fools nobody. Mank even has that little pop up thing for the movie club.
Right. Soon they'll be co-hosting Little Rascals festivals at midnight in their basements. Parents,
get on YT and watch some of those old 1950s shorts about the weird guy riding around or sitting
on a park bench. Nothing much has changed, they've just moved from the park bench to
the TV studio. Sad. (In an emergency a quick application of black shoe polish will hide
that grey. Just sayin')
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"If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me."
Holden Caulfield didn't like movies, maybe Salinger felt the same way.
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3 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Let's not even go there. Trump might have asked FOX news to ban all "I Love Lucy" episodes due to that "better dead than Red" aphorism!
With Trump's disregard for the truth and being prone to fall for any idiotic idea that
comes along, he likely would have been an excellent red baiter. He just happened to
be born too late.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Just think, now...if the Hollywood Ten were alive and writing tales with a Red Slant for films, they might get an invite to the White House, and Scott Pruitt would send an enclave of security officers to protect them on the way from the airport, Vautrin.
Now that the Russians have shed communism, even if not some of communism's ways,
and are no longer reds, they are welcomed to the party. If that hadn't happened, they
wouldn't be. One can just imagine how hysterical an anti-communist Donny would have
been back in the day.
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Maybe the OP also has a different vantage point on the Holocaust, one as
clueless as his vantage point on the blacklist. The Hollywood Ten were, just
like some others, victims of the anti-Communist fanaticism that overtook the
U.S. after WWII. Once these things start, they're hard to end quickly. The
Ten posed as much of a danger to the U.S. as a pack of Boy Scouts. But
the hysterics were temporarily in charge and so they did what hysterics usually
do.
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One of my favorite pics from the HUAC hearings. Dalton Trumbo and his
wife. Pretty well dressed for a communist. Even better is Bertolt Brecht
seated behind Trumbo and puffing on a cigar. If you want a good laugh
read Brecht's testimony before HUAC. He had those dumb pols so confused
they didn't whether they were coming or going.
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The idea that a small group of red writers and directors could turn the average
moviegoer into a devoted commie has always been absurd and proves that HUAC
was nothing more than a bad joke. Thank goodness it is dead and buried. Not
to be a nitpicker, but the Communist Party is usually abbreviated as CPUSA not
ACP.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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I thought Virginia was a hoot and very easy on the eyes to boot. Some of her lines
were good too. When she goes with Teresa Wright to the restroom she says
something like The sign on the door says Ladies. but I go in anyway. And when
Fred Derry is talking about new job opportunities, she says Yeah, they have
drug stores everywhere. What a dame. Maybe after leaving Fred she found some
rich old guy to marry.