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5) This movie centres around a group of men on a supply boat who feel like they are sitting out the war and led by a man who is constantly asking his commander for transfer to a war ship.
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Here is the imdb entry for Ethan Peck, grandson of My Darling Greg who is 10 years younger than I am (ouch):
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Time for new post in this thread.
I have added a Favourite Hitchcock actor male or female in the Favourite Performances thread so I can have fun with Hitchcock besides the "serious" main category themes.
For 1934 my choice was Peter Lorre in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
1934 continues to be the theme until this Sunday.
I will add my choice for each year's winner of this made up award in this thread as well as in Bogie's thread because, well, I love Hitchcock and I want this thread to be up to date.
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Glad to hear Four Frightened People is not a horror film to avoid before bedtime.
I would love to "like" all of your lists, but I have come to my quota for the day (what after an hour?)
Here are more movies on my to-see list which all of you have kindly reminded me of their titles:
THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA
THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE
THE GODDESS
SIX OF A KIND
NO GREATER GLORY
And as I mentioned earlier, due to power outages during a wind storm, I was unable to record Fog Over Frisco.
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Oh, Mr. Brynner I will have a lot to say about you!
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The stickie section was high traffic yesterday due to our talk about changing/choosing pictures for our aavatars.
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Oh, we will keep you in mind for sure.
I know I neglected to say what my favourite musicals are because CMR already knows this, but as this is another site, this is my taste in a genre where I've seen about 90% of musicals in English
Favourite of all time: Singin' in the Rain
Favourite about theatre; The Bandwagon
Favourite Astaire/Rogers: Top Hat
Favourite Gene Kelly after SITR; An American in Paris
Favourite Kelly/Sinatra: On the Town
Favourite Sinatra overall: High Society
Favourite Astaire/Hayworth: You Were Never Lovelier
Favourite Musical with French cast: Lilli and Gigi tied
Favourite musical with Debbie Reynolds after SITR: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
I could go on forever, but this is a small sample.
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Re: ending of Madigan
Without giving anything away:
This is reminiscent of Davy Crockett with Fess Parker, although we did know prior to the movie what would happen.
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I don't plan on seeing any movie this year that will be released this soon- I tend to watch movies that are independent film festival type - but I would love to read Lorna's review.
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I can tell you why Kay's did - Bette Davis came on the scene and started to get the A scripts.
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There are lots of people deserving of an AFI award and it would be great if they could get them when they are still well enough to attend such ceremonies. I'm glad that a composer -any composer - is being recognized now so that maybe more will be in the future.
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Every war movie made DURING the war in which it was set -specifically WWII - has an open ending - they had to be open endings
As for Gone With the Wind, someone who did not like the parting of Rhett and Scarlett wrote a sequel to it where they get back together.
I have not read it.
I like the idea that we are allowed to use our imaginations sometimes, but I was NOT AMUSED when the murder mystery was abandoned in Blow Up so that we could watch boring or weird movie actor participant David Hemmings be fascinated by a tennis game.
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Richard Widmark movies that I own on DVD, not just PVR recorded:
Down to the Sea in Ships
The Frogmen
The Sell-out
Madigan
My Pal Gus
Red Skies of Montana
The Street With No Name
The Trap
a tribute DVD made by a fellow fan that has several appearances of his made shortly after he died.
Of course, I have lots of VHS too. But I won't mention these.
I bought a lot more movies before TCM became available in Canada. Now I don't need to buy as many movies.
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The worst biography I ever read was about Jeremy Brett written by the woman who lived with him when he died.
It was not sanctioned by his family or his friends.
It was into extremely unnecessary frank detail of what he did when he was in manic states of his bipolar disorder.
It was made to sell books. It made me cry and throw the book at the wall.
Now I check very carefully to see who wrote the biography and how and when that person knew the subject or family of the subject. If I think it is only to exploit that person, I do not read it.
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The windy weather in B.C. will be designed around movies which will be available to us to calm us down.
These movies include:
The Wizard of Oz
The Wind
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Limey:
You should be able to find The Richest Girl in the World on TCM sometime. I saw it for the first time not that long ago thanks to TCM. Because I'm a Joel McCrea fan, I have things to be recorded - well, recorded.
I then watched it when was ready to watch it.
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Yes, that is right.
Burt Lancaster is the classic star who made a strong last appearance.
I met Mr. Kinsella at a Young Author's Conference when I was in grade 12. I wish I was a better Scrabble player because I could be in his scrabble club. They meet on Thursday nights.
He was very gracious and read everything we wrote and gave us great ideas.
He is the one who told me - and everyone else there - that if we are reading a book for a class then we must read it no matter what we think of it. But if we are reading for ourselves and we can't get into it after the first chapter or 20 pages, then put the book down. You are not required to read a book just because it is famous.
Your thread.
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1) Claire Trevor had to sing live with no practice in Key Largo with Bogart, Bacall, Robinson, and Barrymore right in front of her. She was a bit daunted, but it is excellent.
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2) Henry Fonda plays the title role opposite co-stars James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, and in his final appearance, William Powell.
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SansFin:
ClassicMovieRankings LOVES WHAT HE DOES.
He is a stay at home Dad (and grandfather) who loves movies and loves talking about them. If you check his page on Gregory Peck, you will find that his "interesting facts" is named after someone else -me in fact. You will find my real name on that page.
I "met" him and a man from England who calls himself Steve Lensmen on a website called Hubpages five years ago.
We are constantly running a "race" to see who has seen the most movies of a given star or genre. Recently, other people have entered the race. In general, I come in first for musical and classical stars. CMR comes in first for movies made in our lifetime (CMR just turned 49 and I am 40). Steve comes in first for horror and science fiction.
This time is not wasted. He is constantly looking for new ways to talk about movies and get recommendations of what films to see that are new to him.
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10) Forbidden Planet was a bizarre special effects noise which has a tendency to give people a headache.
(well, that might be a fact just for me)
Next:
Mr. Roberts
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Oh, I am a big fan of Richard Widmark too and if this thread did not exist already I would have created one like I did for Glenn Ford and My Darling Greg as I like to call him in the favourites section.
I became a big fan of Richard's long after I had seen him in my first film with him in it:
Murder on the Orient Express
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie AND I DID NOT KNOW that a movie star was playing the victim.
Years later I finally found a copy of Yellow Sky, the movie Greg was making when he broke his leg when the horse he was riding was spooked and nearly killed him running for the fence but instead fell on his leg. It left him with a limp. So I wanted to see it, and well actually, I want to see him in everything, but I digress......
While I was watching Yellow Sky I kept being distracted from Peck because of this man all in black. U could not take my eyes off of him.
So I said to myself - and I have related this story many times -
WHO IS DISTRACTING ME FROM MY DARLING GREG?
It was Richard Widmark.
I decided that anyone who could take my attention away from Greg was worth a look.
He is one of those actors who, like Greg - because he made so many war movies and westerns which are two genres I don't usually watch unless I am interested in the actors - I watch films I normally would not watch but the fact that he is in the films.
I've seen over 80% of his movies and TV appearances.
I own Madigan the movie, but I have never seen the TV series.
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Speedy:
I know you watch war films because Errol made a lot of them. Check Van Johnson out in these movies. Besides The Caine Mutiny:
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
A GUY NAMED JOE
BATTLEGROUND
WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (done while recovering from a near-fatal car crash though its a small role)
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The French Line (1954)
Well, Maltin's review on this one isn't far off the mark. Russell's much vaunted 3 dimensional assets fail to save this from being decidedly dull. I'd mentally checked out & found myself checking my email & the listings guide before the 30 minute mark. Even the bathroom scene failed to re-catch my attention. Things did perk up with the final song'n'dance number towards the end & with Roland (who for some reason, kept reminding me a frazzled looking James Garner) doing a repeated carry-on style invasion of the ladies dressing room, followed by an over-the-shoulder caveman carry of Russell.
It didn't help that the print image was somewhat indistinct in sharpness/detail, presumably a result of conversion back from 3D?
I just finished watching this. I had it recorded to watch another night then decided I wanted to watch it tonight so started to watch it about 40 minutes into it from the beginning.
It's not a movie I would watch a second time. And like you Limey, I considered not watching it, but hey I enjoy music.
It did remind me of a truth about genre movies where in real life you wonder why anyone would keep secrets so long but have to keep them secret or there is no movie. Would someone really on their honeymoon agree to pose as anyone to the point where they go to jail? Not likely. And who upon realizing that the person you have posing as yourself is in jail would spend time ib a musical fashion show instead of getting that woman out of jail?
No, no, no.
A much better film where an heiress tries to figure out if the man she really loves really loves her is a non-musical starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea called The Richest Man in the World.
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4) Claire Trevor was a favourite choice for bad girls in a variety of genres.