Vautrin
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I try to root for the commies every time I see the movie, but they are so inept and sadistic
that I have to stay neutral, though I do like Skip's you trying to wave the flag in my face
routine. I knew he would go soft at the end. They always do. And despite her rough-hewn
big city wit, I never like Moe very much. She's basically a money grubbing stoolie and they
deserve whatever they get. Plus most of her ties suck. Naturally dumb old kommie Kiley
shoots her when he has a whole headboard full of ties to strangle her with. Those are
minor nitpicks since the film is very entertaining and doesn't waste a minute of its running
time. And Jean Peters as Candy is one sexy dame. [Insert double entendre candy joke here].
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19 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
I got this movie in a public domain DVD collection.
It just occurred to me that George Raft was awfully old to be playing somebody's Sonny Boy, as his mom treats him like he just graduated from high school.
Still the movie is entertaining in a way. And I thought it was interesting that Victor McLaglen gave us some cheap imitation of "The Informer" near the end of the movie. That may have been the best thing in this movie.
But I still think it's entertaining, if for nothing else to look at the beauty of Ava and the gorgeous presence of Tom Conway.
Besides, when all was said and done I think I paid $0.50 for each DVD -- it was the Femme Fatale collection:
I also got "Blonde Ice", "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers", and the phenomenal "Too Late for Tears" and probably three more.
Sort of the original slacker. Even when George was playing a shady character he worked
at something, even if it was sticking up banks. Here he just sits around the house all
day and parties all night. What is also funny is that his parents don't seem to mind that
much. I didn't mention McLaglen because the synopsis was already getting too long. He
brings a little bit extra to the stereotypical heavy role. Though there's nothing very
special about this movie I found it to be pretty entertaining.
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Whistle Stop (1946) George Raft, Ava Gardner, Tom Conway. Overheated, half-baked, semi-campy
but enjoyable crime flick. Ava, Georgie's old flame, has just returned to their small hometown of
Ashbury from two years in Chicago. George is not happy to see her wearing a mink coat and
other costly trinkets given to her by her "gentlemen admirers" in Chi town. Raft plays what must
be one of the laziest characters in the movies. He lives with poor old mom and pa who give him
a few bills so he can go out at night and play poker and drink. During the day he sits around not
doing much of anything. Tom Conway is the well off owner of a nightclub and Ava pings pongs
back and forth between him and lazybones Raft. An employee comes up with a plan to rob Conway
with Raft as his partner in crime. This doesn't work out too well, but Conway is killed and this
leaves the door open for Georgie. At the finale he and Ava make up and hand in hand walk off
into the sunset and into a future that looks mighty ambiguous. If anyone is going to earn the
couple's daily bread, it likely won't be Raft. The paint by the numbers crime plot is aided by the
small town setting and the unintentionally humorous mega shiftless character played by Raft.
Ava looks very good in this early role and Tom Conway makes a good rival for George. George Raft
has grown on me, sort of like a benign fungus, and whatever his limitations as an actor, I enjoy
seeing him in a movie.
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18 hours ago, slaytonf said:
For me, the wisdom I have has come by accident, and in many cases despite my efforts to attain it.
I think that's part of learning, something along the lines of the lessons that life teaches us along
the way, lessons we weren't really looking for but can learn by. Something separate from "book
learning."
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We do sometimes lurch into wisdom, though I prefer a more organicized approach.
A wise man can be a wiseguy and vice versa.
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I don't remember if Sylvia got Joe to "man up" in Heat. But if anyone could do it, she could.
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I blame the lateness of the hour.
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
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5 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
That's off the top of my head. I'll have to look into that one some more for myself. But thanks for the kindly heads-up from the playground.
It was indeed confirmed though that the renovation crew hadn't been on site.
Also I forgot to mention above there was something about multiple fires being reported by early responders.
BTW that was Neil Cavuto from Fox News who shot down the early responder he was interviewing. I have actually seen hard footage of that. Very strange to see some establishment TV news guy in NY lecturing someone in France, on what will and won't be said on their network, when it happened. Or is it... That part is indisputable. Media driving the narrative once again. He should have shut up and let the guy speak.
It is hard for me to be anything but cynical, but again thanks for the kind thoughts.
At least the playground knows the difference between morning and afternoon. And
there was one company doing work on the cathedral that day. So first it happened
in the morning before the workers arrived. Never mind, there were no workers
there that day. Oops. Multiple fires would in no way contradict an accidental start
to the fire. There is often much confusion at the beginning of these kinds of events
that can be sorted out later when more information is available. I don't know why folks
don't take that into account and wait a while to see what happened. As of now there is
no evidence that the ND fire was an act of arson. Did they ever find out who was really
responsible for the Las Vegas shootings? The media story was just too uncomplicated
and dull to be true. No fun at all.
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Think of a dumb conspiracy theory and the wingnuts will dig one up.
The Notre Dame fire occurred a little after 6 p.m. local time.
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The G. Gordon Liddy Story: A Hunka Hunka Burning Hand.
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Sadly there were no cameras operating when this took place. Who wouldn't have loved to see
Townshend giving Hoffman the bum's rush. It would have been even funnier if Moon got
involved.
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
My friend got me the book Steal This Book. He was a clueless stoner but while in the local library saw the book and did as he was told! Since I was more into the protest movement I was well aware of Hoffman, so I was happy to get the book. I also had a Hoffman comedy album. Played that thing until it died (well when the parents were out).
Also, I meet David Dellinger, another member of the Chicago Seven, and close friend of Abbie, at a hotel bar the night after Abbie was said to have committed suicide. I got him a few drinks and he talked and talked; He said he had talked to Abbie the day before and Abbie wasn't depressed. Dave claimed the FBI or some other US government group did-Abbie-in (thanks Ms. Doolittle).
Wiki confirms my odd encounter with David (before he made such claims to the press, since when I meet him he had just come from the Airport to the hotel). "Among the more vocal doubters at the service today was Mr. Dellinger, who said, 'I don't believe for one moment the suicide thing.' He said he had been in fairly frequent touch with Mr. Hoffman, who had 'numerous plans for the future.'" Yet the same New York Times article reported that the coroner found the residue of about 150 pills and quoted the coroner in a telephone interview saying "There is no way to take that amount of phenobarbital without intent. It was intentional and self-inflicted."[41]
I stole a book or two back in the day when the security at mall book stores was pretty primitive,
though Steal This Book was not one of them. I wasn't that interested and I only took paperbacks.
I doubt the gov't knocked Hoffman off, though their general paranoia about leftists is well known.
On a more humorous note there was Hoffman's encounter at Woodstock with Pete Townshend.
Hoffman got up on the stage and got the mic and started a political speech and Townshend
kicked him off the stage. No substitute.
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I bought the three LP version a while after it came out. I think someone stole it somewhere
along the way, maybe Abbie Hoffman.
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Even taking into account of the rules for the old Hollywood hokum stuff the ending was
laughable. All Talbot's defense attorney had to do to bring in a not guilty verdict was
a) turn up the lights in the courtroom so it didn't look like the nightclubs Sheridan sang
in. b) have his client move closer to the witness stand so an easy ID could be made instead
of trying to do so half a football field away. c) kindly but firmly show the cops how dumb they
were to arrest the guy who was supposedly murdered for having killed himself. Then his
wife wouldn't have had to squint to recognize him. It's also hard to believe Sheridan wouldn't
have told Talbot's story to the authorities no matter how much he wanted to be a martyr or
that Bennett couldn't have figured it out, especially as the patient with the heart problems
disappeared about the same time Talbot did. Even with the nonsensical climax it was an
entertaining flick. I liked how the script had Smith and Sheridan gradually fall in love after
getting to know one another instead of rushing the point, with both of them being somewhat
hesitant to close the deal. Ann looked very lovely except when she was wearing one of those
awful hats. Bottom line, Kent got a raw deal.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, even though Gig would often play the second male lead back in the day, and like BB, KS and WC would in most cases, however contrary to those other three, and perhaps because Gig seemed a little more adept at occasionally playing in lighter comic roles than those other three who in my view seemed to primarily play their parts in a more "dour"(for want of a better word) and no-nonsense fashion, I think this might also differentiate Gig from the other three a bit.
Of course this is based on my imperfect memory and not any detailed look at Gig
Young's filmography. He seemed to be closer to having some success with the ladies
than the other three. Bennett and Smith seemed to me to be sort of middle of the road
types personality wise where I see Corey as mostly dour even when he's playing a good
guy. He doesn't seem to crack a big smile that often and he also played the villain every
once in a while. Carry on, gentlemen.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
I think my favorite BB role is his turn as Bogie's fellow tank soldier in 1943's Sahara, and where poor Bruce is asked to cross the desert on foot to find help.
(...and re your line, "I neither dislike or like Gig Young. He was effective in a certain type of role"...well yeah, and that "certain type of role" for Gig would often be the very same type of role that the aforementioned BB, Kent Smith and Wendell Corey would play...average guys who hardly ever "got the girl" by the film's end)
Yep, Sahara was a good picture and BB was good in it. I think Young was a bit more of the matinee
idol type, at least more so than guys like BB, Kent Smith or Wendell Corey. After all these years I
find it hard to get too excited about many of the stars of the studio era, though I appreciate their
various talents.
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6 hours ago, Dargo said:
Wow! Didn't know you were such a big Herman Brix..ahem..I mean, Bruce Bennett fan here, V' ol' boy?!!!
(...so, how do ya feel about Byron Barr..ahem..I mean Gig Young here, dude?)
Yes, Brix is not for kids. You have to be an adult to fully appreciate BB. I'm not a huge fan though I
enjoy most of his roles. He does turn up on a number of TV shows from the 1960s. I remember
him most from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre where the three amigos are about to plug ol'
Bruce when they are interrupted by gold hat and his buddies who do the job for them. Like a
lot of actors, I neither dislike or like Gig Young. He was effective in a certain type of role.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Actually Vautrin, don't forget here that there are TWO actors in Nora Prentiss who very often had roles like this in the movies back in the day!
Uh-huh...Bruce Bennett is in this baby TOO!
(...ain't it a shame they couldn't have somehow fit Wendell Corey into this thing, 'cause THEN you'd have the "Trifecta" of these sort'a guys ALL in one film!!!) LOL
No respect at all. It's tough out there, Johnny. Bennett also had a very distinctive voice. When he
appeared in TV shows from the 1960s I usually recognize the voice first.
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An ambitious doctor ruins a singer's life. Oops. I haven't seen this one in a while so I'll be
watching. I never watch the Sunday morning edition, too early in the day. Kent Smith
carved out a niche as mr. average guy who gets into various difficulties, like marrying a
woman who thinks she's a panther.
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Uncle Lon, I strained my
whosiwatsis. Can you
rub some medicinal cream
on it?
Yeah, McIntire's character is such a pompous smug jackass that you can't help to root
against him. I also felt a bit sorry for Cobby. I know he's kind of a cowardly sleazbag, but
I still felt sympathy for him. Hope he got a short prison term. Notice how many times
the city boys make fun of Hayden's rural background? They really like to stick it to him
with the country jokes. The character played by Anthony Caruso is so obviously
Italian I'm surprised he didn't wear a Kiss Me I'm Italian tee shirt.
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Monrovia, Indiana (2018) Directed by Frederick Wiseman. This showed up on my PBS station
last week which is fortunate since the chance of it coming to any local cineplex is zip. As in all
of Wiseman's documentaries there is no narration and no interviews. Monrovia is a small town
of a little over 1,000 residents in a rural area of Indiana. Wiseman shows various locales of small
town life--the town council, the barber shop and beauty salon, the restaurant where the old timers
meet to discuss events local and national, a church, a church wedding, a church funeral, farmers
going about their business, etc. Each segment lasts for five minutes or so. Interspersed
between them are picturesque shots of amber waves of grain, blue skies and white
clouds, and tractors going about their business. One of the weirdest sequences is of the
classic car get together at the local fair and flea market. Suddenly, over the loudspeaker,
comes Ike and Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary. The films runs a bit short of two and
a half hours but, for the most part, is interesting as people go about their everyday
business. While the small town seems nice, it's also a bit on the dull side. I was
reminded of those Talking Heads' lyrics--I wouldn't live there if you paid me, I wouldn't
live there no siree. I wouldn't do things the way those people do, I wouldn't live there if
you paid me to. But it's not a bad place to visit for a few hours.
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The pleasure was mine. Talk about
an understatement.
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I have a yellow Epic records 45 Tammy Wynette The Ways to Love a Man/Still Around.
Bought it at a flea market years ago. A Johnny Cash car song.
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Was Colonel Nicholson justified or not?
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I always figured Nicholson was one of those stiff upper lip, sun never sets type of limey who
would do anything to prove that the Brits were better than anyone else, even to the absurd
point of building a bridge that would aid the enemy. Mad dogs, etc.