NipkowDisc
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people doan like the ending.
"you ungrateful tomatah...and it's too late to apologize!
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12 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
IMDB has it listed as 1955. Somebody probably got it wrong on the TelePrompter.
they would.
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Duke gave the public what they wanted from him and became a cinema megagiant and that just eats away at some.
too bad.
https://www.metv.com/stories/john-wayne-secretly-appeared-in-wagon-train-star-wars
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1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:
Some actors actually "act", some of them tend more to project a similar personality from film to film. Sometimes those personalities are very winning and engaging, sometimes for a very long number of years I think I read a quote from Frederic March suggesting he wasn't as well-remembered as some of his contemporaries because he was actually a different person in every film. I recall a quote from Kirk Douglas which may have been on TCM. He had a party after the premiere of Lust for Life, and everyone was there, including Wayne, who insisted he step out of the balcony with them. I'm paraphrasing all the following, but he conversation went something like this. Wayne had had a bug up his rear all while watching the film and had to know why Douglas would play such a morally weak character. "We've got a reputation to uphold. The public expects us to be heroic" the Duke said, according to Douglas. Douglas told him, "John, I'm an actor. That's not me up there on the screen. I'm pretending to be someone else. That's how I see my job. I'm not doing this to be admired or worshiped" The Duke grunted and stalked off, still disgusted with the whole spectacle.
Duke just didn't like van gogh irritating the **** out of Gauguin.
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somebody please let me know when yanni turns 70.
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William Campbell
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1 hour ago, Mr. Gorman said:
In regards to NORTH TO ALASKA (1960) I watched it for the first time about a month ago. It's rather a wild Wayne movie. He's rather animated in this one! Ably supported as well by a good cast of familiar faces.
I think Joel McCrea appeared in one more movie called MUSTANG COUNTRY in 1975 or '76. I can't think of any other Randolph Scott movie appearances after 'High Country'.
wouldn't surprise me if capucine fell in love with him.
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of himself wayne said he did not act but reacted. few actors had his ability to react on screen as he could. when as tom doniphon he realizes he's lost Hallie is reaction is totally believable.
plus duke had an innate sense of what he was good at. playing the tough no-nonsense hero often as a rugged individualist and it worked for five decades.
"when I want to know how to act tough, I just look at the Duke." -Steve McQueen
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1 hour ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Watching Dark Shadows on Decades last week (weekdays 9:00 PM PDT); As I posted above some of the episodes are in B&W due to the lost of the color ones.
Well I'm watching where Dr. Dave Woodard and Maggie Evans' father are trying to figure out who kidnapped Maggie. There are many episodes with Roger Gerringer playing Dr. Woodard, the town's physician. Well all of a sudden, there is another actor playing the Doctor. I just read that Gerringer refused to cross the picket line during a technical strike so he was replaced by Peter Turgeon.
What made me make this post was the major mistake made by the actor, Anthony George, as Burke Devlin. In the first episode where we see Turegon in the role as Dr. Woodard, Devlin calls him Dr. Hoffman. (yea, as in Julia HOFFMAN). Hey I was already really confused wondering 'hey,, who is this new character who appears to be a doctor,,, I don't think I have seen him before???). Then there is that scene. I assumed this new-guy was Julia Hoffman brother or some other relative! Instead it was just another goof that the director didn't feel was bad enough to do a re-take for! Yea, they were that cheap!
PS: this was in B&W so maybe the lost color one didn't have this mistake.
peter turgeon who replaced Gerringer as Dr. Woodard was the annoying passenger in Airport. the one who doan like kids and the priest has to slap to shuddum up.
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4 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
GAWD!
well I'm sorry.. maybe alotta you haven't seen it. it's posted on youtube along with that horrible cruise into terror.
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5 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
NipkowDisc: Did you smoke some special kind of HOT SPELL-brand toilet paper before typing out the above?
Or are you doing an impression of 'spence' trying to type stuff out using the worst grammar and sentence structure possible? And where's the capital letters at the beginning of the sentences?
Back to 6th Grade English for you!
In regards to CRUISE INTO TERROR, I find it a lot of lunatic fun! I know 'Leonard Maltin & Co.' gave it a 'Below Average' before he pruned all the TVM's from his Guide and you don't find it amusing, either. But I rather liked it. Sure there were some silly TVM's made in '70s. That doesn't mean they can't be entertaining! Like THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET. That was fun, too. And given a 'Below Average'.
To date, of all the TV movies I've watched the worst is NOWHERE TO HIDE (1977). A good cast is unfortunately let down. That said, I'll probably fish out my tape of it and watch it again just for the hell of it!
I thought I might like cruise into terror enough to burn it on a CD but I found it way below average and you gotta ask yourself why marshall thompson agreed to appear in it.
about the most deadly thing the sarcophagus does is slam into someone after the ship lists...or is it roll? it is certainly the best 2,000 year old Egyptian demon baby movie ever filmed.
"why am I in this?"
the star
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one bad tv-movie and I mean bad is cruise into terror to cash in on the Damien omen antichrist wave. I've never expected too much from tv-movies but this one is truly poor. Ray Milland is on board and has reasoned that some Egyptian antichrist baby sank in the gulf of mexixo on board an Egyptian galley that made it's way to that part of the world 2,000 years ago. the irritating assorted passengers shoulda maybe tried for Catalina. you got Christopher George and his unhappy wife Lynda day along, also two babes traveling together for some reason.
somebody's wife is it's bodyguard and she is kinda hot. milland manages to intrigue the others to go diving for it. the underwater sequences are boring and only drag the film even more. the Egyptian antichrist baby is revealed as a golden sarcophagus with nice colored paint and it pulsates indicating that it enjoys a unholy breathing life after 2,000 years submerged.
this turkey starts out with Hugh O'Brian receiving his sailing orders in a warehouse from a white-haired Marshall Thompson who must've really needed a paycheck maybe to finance White Dog?
right after O'Brian departs some wooden crates fall on Thompson to crush him into silence.
Why?
who was he gonna tell? the crates?
oh yeah, the woman bodyguard is married to John Forsythe who plays a clergyman.
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filmed by the noted nieve condes guy some spanish director. screen debut of Ingrid pitt and the ill-fated soledad miranda. the one about the treasure hunters blasting in a greek mountain cave for WWII goodies and releasing some petrified dinosaur eggs and one hatches. the gimmick is the beastie can cloak itself with invisibility and saves a lot of f/x money. saw this within a few years of independent stations abandoning their late nite and weekend film slots. saw it one nite I think about one thirty in the am on channel 5 outta nyc. it works because the shriek is scary and the treasure seekers seem genuinely scared. they just can't win. everytime they try to go back into the cave and the shrieks and the dragging footprint sounds start they gotta start running only the 2nd time it follows them all the way back to their cottage.
not a bad little effort unfortunately no good prints are out there so I do what I can to spruce it up with virtualdub and enjoy.
this shot shows the outline of the shrieking critter.
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19 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
For me Widmark was a much better actor than John Wayne. When it comes to their off-screen behavior as well as over all personality, Widmark was miles ahead.
yeah but wayne was never contemptuous of his public.
he gave them what he knew he was good at and that's what his fans wanted so he never let them down.
did it matter to widmark that his fans wanted him to reprise Tommy Udo? it did not.
when your fans adore you in a certain performance an actor should never forget that.
The Duke never forgot that.
i mean would it have killed widmark to play Udo a 2nd time?
film actors shouldn't disregard their fans.
it ain't nice.
"widmark that squirt! he's lucky I lettum play me."
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there are so many clips around that watching it on cable simply is not necessary and who wants to subject themselves to svenstupid singing a stupid song about it?
Got you, little worm!
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no way duke wayne coulda been a physical coward..
1. he was a star football player
2. he clobbered a Sinatra goon with a chair to quiet down ole blue eyes' party
could Sinatra have confronted wayne about hitting his goon with a chair? sure he could but he didn't.
you just didn't mess around with the Duke.
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4 hours ago, Moorman said:
John Wayne for instance, made movies that paralled what his character REALLY is. Widmark is a example of a man who made a POINT to seperate art from life because he didn't want it misconstrued that the art was who he really is. John Wayne NEVER did that...
yeah, but sometimes an actor should keep his fans in mind and give them what they want instead of deferring to personal ego like Widmark did.
Duke gave his fans what they wanted but egocentric Widmark never gave his fans what he had to know they wanted...
a reprise of his indellible character...
"yeah, widmark that squirt only gave um the delooxe short dinner.
I'm with my pal nip on this."
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you know I guess I'm supposed to admire Peter Bogdanavich remaining Peter Bogdanavich after being burned out as a filmmaker after so many years but I don't.
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you know, I liked mitchum a lot but one movie of his I will not watch again is Killer in the Family. I'm sorry but mitchum and his cohort slaughtering a helpless man, woman and child in the back of a car with a shotgun I just will never be able to stomach. I think the filmmakers underestimated the shock value of that scene on viewers....
and I feel the same way about Kirk Douglas in Mousey.
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13 hours ago, Rudy's Girl said:
Alan Silvestri never disappoints.
oh poo! Michael Douglas thinks he's Harrison Ford.
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tcm are slackers who have overlooked tons of fare past 1950 like HOT SPELL one of the few Shirley Booth films and they also need to show the early peplum Attila with Anthony Quinn and a young gorgeoue Sophia Loren and how about the mexican Azteca-Churubusco studios horror classics with guys like Abel Salazar and German Robles. we need to see The Bloody Vampire and it's sequel Invasion of the Vampires. those two gems give us the saga of (drum roll) Count Siegfried Von Frankenhausen!
hordes of stuff that tcm could be showing but they remain the cheapskate slackers that they are.
2 movies they need to show on their underground fare....
1. psychic killer (1975)
2. Homebodies (1974)
slackers they are and slackers they no doubt will choose to remain.
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somebody's wife is it's bodyguard and she is kinda hot. milland manages to intrigue the others to go diving for it. the underwater sequences are boring and only drag the film even more. the Egyptian antichrist baby is revealed as a golden sarcophagus with nice colored paint and it pulsates indicating that it enjoys a unholy breathing life after 2,000 years submerged.
John Wayne Why Did He Dominate As An Actor So Long.
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and Duke was such a symbol of America that Stalin put out a contract on him.