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MORE FAVOURITE MOVIES WITH FREQUENT MALE STARS IN HITCHCOCK: 2 or more films
Gregory Peck in Spellbound
Robert Cummings in Saboteur
Charles Laughton in Jamaica Inn
John Forsythe in The Trouble With Harry
Farley Granger in Strangers on a Train
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Favorite male performances & stars (most) not mentioned, chronologically (more or less):
Ivor Novello in "The Lodger" (1926).
Herbert Marshall in "Murder!" (1930) & "Foreign Correspondent" (1940)--FC is favorite performance.
Robert Cummings in "Saboteur" (1942)--an actor usually cast in comedies, Universal forced his casting, and Cummings turned out to be very good.
Gregory Peck in "The Paradine Case" (1947)--Underestimated film and performances.
Charles Laughton in "The Paradine Case" (1947)--Overacted with a Reason--more tomorrow.
James Stewart in "Rear Window" (1954) & "The Man Who Knew Too Much"(1956)--Favorite JS performance.
Peter Fonda in "Family Plot" (1976)--Lightweight film was Hitchcocks' last; Peter Fonda was a fine comedian/actor for FP, IMHO.
Favorite film is "Notorious" (1946).
I don't remember Peter Fonda being in Family Plot. Are you thinking of Bruce Dern?
Thanks for your list. I love Notorious too.
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I like so many of them. In fact, there are very few that I didn't like at all. I guess I'm particularly fond of :
Psycho
The Birds
Strangers On a Train
Shadow of a Doubt
Notorious
Rear Window
Foreign Correspondent
Rebecca
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Frenzy
The 39 Steps
Because I do not own a copy of the movie and it does not air in Canada, it has been a few year since I saw Foreign Correspondent.
Interesting thing about me and the first two movies you list. I thought that Hitchcock made horror movies specifically because I had seen famous scenes of The Birds and Psycho and since I am not a fan of the horror genre, had not seen any films of the director.
Then Raymond Burr died. He is my favourite Canadian-born actor of all-time and I loved watching Perry Mason. I had seen him in several movies and I knew he hated always playing the bad guy in movies and that Rear Window was the only big screen movie he was proud of making. I decided that I could not consider myself a true fan of Raymond Burr and not see Rear Window.
I became a big fan of everyone involved. I started watching Hitchcock movies with the same artists in Rear Window and went on from there.
Eventually I saw Rear Window on the big screen in Vancouver. It is the only time I have seen a Hitchcock movie on the big screen. It was glorious.
I find I am not able to watch Vertigo like I used to watch it. It is fabulous, but due to what happens to Scotty I have been unable to watch it since certain tragic things have happened in my life.
Among Hitchcock movies I've yet to see, the most famous is his version of The Lodger.
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Despite my love for Agatha Christie mysteries, I could not get through Ordeal of Innocence starring Donald Sutherland. It was more depressing than anything else and bleak.
Sutherland has been in some fabulous movies, but also really bad ones. Another movie I tried to watch recently but gave up about 30 minutes into the movie was Steelyard Blues.
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TCM will no longer be showing the original versions of any movie in any language. Instead, it will air only the most recently made versions of any book-uh, I meant comic book.....
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I am a big Hitchcock fan. I've seen nearly all of his movies, including titles that you never think of off the top of your head.
What are your favourite Hitchcock movies, artists, sub-genres, movies with frequent stars, movies based upon books, and really any aspect of Hitchcock in general?
I'll start with his most frequent male stars and my favourite movie of all time. Then I'll look at different aspects on different days so that it is a long running thread but not one where I am posting several pots in one day with no replies in between etc.
My favourite Hitchcock movie of all time is Rear Window.
He worked with two male stars 4 times each - James Stewart and Cary Grant
James Stewart 4 Movies: Rear Window is my favourite.
Cary Grant 4 movies: North By Northwest is my favourite.
Among character actors, Hitchcock made the most movies with Leo G. Carroll. My favourite of his collaborations with Hitchcock is Spellbound.
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Oh, I missed so many great posts last night when I was watching The Great Escape and Bullitt. Oh, but then I went to sleep.
I do not know why when I press the button to view new content I have to go through all sorts of off topic chit chat to find new posts in noir categories.
A lot of people say about Noir: I know it when I see it. Then they cannot otherwise define it.
There are a lot of my favourite Noir films that are in the first half of the 1960s. I've been looking at the lists of titles both of you have been mentioning and making a mental list of which ones I have already seen and which ones I haven't.
regarding Dark City the original-I've discovered that there is no way for me to see it where I live. Sigh.
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Sounds like I better see THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS sometime, thanks for mentioning it here.
I just finished watching CONFESSION ('37) the Kay Francis film that recently aired recommended for Basil Rathbone's evil role. It certainly fits the criteria: over the top acting, inplausable situations, emotionally driven shootings & dramatic courtroom scenes. It certainly was meaty watching with Kay Francis as a blonde nightclub singer!
The lighting, sets & costumes made it feel like a German noir but the situations were all American soap. I especially loved the plot point of being marked a horrible wife just for getting drunk & falling asleep at a party! (ok I suppose infidelity is implied, but really)
This was especially clever for the same scenes played from different points of view.
This movie reminded me of the ultimate soaper MILDRED PIERCE, mentioned earlier. I think whenever you get a drama queen & a daughter, it's a recipe for disaster. Bonus if the mother is Joan Crawford, Bette Davis or even often cool Kay Francis.
The rare male drama queen can sometimes be spotted, but the drama always revolves around wimmen or career. THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL comes to mind. My favorite Kirk Douglas scream is in that one, "Maybe I like being cheap once in awhile. Get out....get OUT!"
Confession was an American remake of a German movie which was based upon a real-life event.
I've gotten to know a lot of Kay Francis due to TCM. Her fans liked to go to her movies for a good cry.
Regarding Basil Rathbone, he is a great example of how some artists who have two separate movie identities will be thought of by some fans from one perspective and by others another. I know Rathbone is most famous for playing Sherlock Holmes, but I've rarely seen his Holmes movies compared to the films where he is the bad guy. I think of him always as an evil swordfighter, Nazi, cad etc.
The Bad and the Beautiful is one of my favourites too.
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TCM will be launching a Sister channel which will be devoted to movies about sisters.
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FEBRUARY 11th:
Happy 80th birthday to Burt Reynolds!
Today was also the birthday of Leslie Nielson and Eva Gabor.
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Late tonight/tomorrow morning I'll be recording THIS LAND IS MINE. Don't know if it's any good, but Renoir directed, and the cast is good.
I'm recording it too. Anything with that cast and director is worth a look. I am not familiar with this title.
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Feb. 11, The Letter (1929) is on again, a mesmerizing film with a seedy feeling. Jeanne Eagels' nervous, frenetic performance is something to behold. I've never seen the more famous remake.
More Somerset Maugham later with The Moon and Sixpence (1942), starring George Sanders. It's my favorite role of his, as an unhappy man who abandons his domestic life to become an artist. His biting conversations with Herbert Marshall's character are the best ever.
I want to see The Son of Monte Cristo (1940), following up for a George Sanders double-feature. He plays the villain, which is already enough reason to watch it, but also the hero is an actor I've been trying to see more from, Louis Hayward, (his The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) follows this.)
With The Letter, for me it is the opposite. I've never seen the original.
So The Moon and Sixpence is your favourite of Mr. Sanders. I enjoyed that film, but I cannot decide what my favourite of his is.
The Son of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask are both fun.
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Oops! Bear with me. Everyone has been a good sport about my annoying habit of....
At the end of a line I have a 20 plus year habit to hit the Return button to make the text look balanced. This makes for the line cutting off in the middle of the page on the next line! THis time I caught myself in the above line and will try not to do it (I am a former Secretary from the 70's and 80's and always typed so fast so as to balance the line to fit with the next one. Now I see what I have been doing! On the Typewriter we could do it successfully! But not with Computers!
When I get to the end of a line I will try really hard not to hit the RETURN button! After we had computers installed all went well.
Just recently I have been out of the workplace (due to a medical condition with my spine which prevents me walking) and went back to the old, annoying habit! Will try to cool it .. for awhile!
For the sake of all my TCM Message Board pals I will work on it!
Thanks Everybody!
Take care.
Don't worry about it.
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Actually, Laura is one of the best murder-mystery melodramas I have ever seen. Another great melodrama / murder mystery is
Leave Her to Heaven! What a coincidence that the marvelous talents of Gene Tierney and Vincent Price graced the screen in both!
There is another one called Corridor of Mirrors which is an outstanding British Film Noir of the 40's. Eric Portman and Edana Romney are the stars and it is a wonderful combination of a melodrama and a murder mystery.
About ten or twelve years ago I found a great catalog from a company that specialized in these films. I randomly chose this film. I was getting into British Film Noir, so was lucky to find the wonderful Video Yesteryear that had many British melodramas. of the 40's and 50's. Well, they went out of business not long after. Sadly, they would (or could) not sell their VHS tapes, though I offered to pay the old price of $15 apiece for a few. I would have transferred them to DVD. After calling and writing, I gave it up.
After that an ad for another company arrived, but it was not quite the same. Luckily, I have found a few 40'5 and 50's British "mellows" and they are good too. So I keep an eye out and have a lot of "NEW" favorites including Jean Kent, Jean Simmons and Guy Rolf films. There is also a poignant murder / melodrama with Dirk Bogard as an "accidental" killer on the run called Hunted from the early 50's. Another from '55 is the suspenseful Footsteps in the Fog, an intriguing (Color) murder / melodrama. Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger are outstanding in this film.
Some of these movies have more than a murder mystery to tell; included for us to find are often interesting character studies . Many of these tales are timeless and have quite a story within.
I have seen some of these movies but not all of them.
Laura is one of my favourite movies of all time.
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TCM will be taking polls from Canadian viewers to find out what our favourite movies are. Following this, they will decide upon which titles to make sure they do not have available for the 2017 TCM Canada schedule.
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Double features from Kiarostami, Antonioni and Fassbinder, plus what I think is Minnelli's last film.
Tiny font....
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Ted Turner's colorization films from the 1980's to play on TCM. The new series will commence in June with the never seen colorization of the first 20 minutes of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
No plans to colorize the ending of The Wizard of Oz?
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Another director of noir films that hasn't been mentioned is John Farrow; The Big Clock, Calcutta, His Kind of Women, Night Has A Thousand Eyes and Where Danger Lives.
My favourite of his is The Big Clock. I haven't seen Calcutta yet.
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DIRECTORS:
Who are your favourite film noir directors?
Edward Dmytryk has not yet been mentioned (Murder My Sweet, Crossfire)
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GregoryPeckfan, here's my list:
Alfred Hitchcock--Amazing noirish camerawork in "Rope" (1948), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), and "I Confess" (1953), to name just three.
Robert Siodmak--"Christmas Holiday" (1944), "The Killers" (1946), & "The Spiral Staircase" (1946) among others.
Jules Dassin--"Brute Force" (1947), "The Naked City" (1948), "Night and the City" (1950).
Robert Wise--"Born to Kill" (1947), "Blood on the Moon" (1948), "The Set-Up" (1949).
Jacques Tourneur--"Experiment Perilous" (1944), "Out of the Past" (1947), "Berlin Express" (1948).
Billy Wilder--"Ace in the Hole" (1951), "Double Indemnity" (1944), "Sunset Boulevard" (1950).
I still haven't seen The Spiral Staircase, Blood on the Moon or Christmas Holiday. The Spiral Staircase is set to air as part of the look at Ethel Barrymore during the Barrymore spotlight. Hopefully it will air in Canada.
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Turner Classic Movies will devote the Summer of 2016 to showing movies that have a continuous Commentary on Behind the Scenes movie making that cannot be shut off given by people who never met any of the artists involved.
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Besides Gregory Peck- of course
:I can't get enough of Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford or David Niven.
Movies I can't get enough that don't include these artists above include but are not exclusively
Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Great Escape, Laura, and Some Came Running.
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Well, whaddaya know. Turns out I was given the "no movies Canadian schedule" when I clicked on the OP's link.
Very funny, TCM. Good one.
Anyway, I clicked on "U.S." and now I can see them.
Yes, I found that funny too.
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TCM to start new, original programming with hip reality competition "Get Your Facts Right", wherein host Ben the Mank reads movie intros, and contestants have to figure out what he got wrong.
Also, a three-camera sitcom entitled "Ben!" starring Ben the Mank as a lovable schlub always getting into trouble with wacky neighbor Betty White.
Finally, TCM is proud to present "Cooking with Ben", in which Ben the Mank orders food and wine from a rotating panel of celebrity chefs, then consumes his meal while watching a movie on a small television. A bold step forward in meta-tv.
I heard that Ben the Mank was going to star as Robert Osbourne in a biopic ..
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This is a Louis Jourdan of have never heard of before. Somehow, the name Louis Jourdan and 'Swamp Thing' don't fit together in my mind.