GregoryPeckfan
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What series? What "television series" are you talking about? You do that a lot, talk about a film or show or whatever without naming it. You shouldn't assume that we all always know whatever it is you're referring to at any given time.
Wouldn't it make sense, if you 're making the effort to post about it on the boards anyway, to take an extra few seconds and name whatever movie or show you're talking about? To just say "that show that he directed with Matt Dillon", as though everyone here knows what it is, is kind of annoying.
Well, that shows how few people actually saw the show.
I was talking about Wayward Pines.
I was in the pilot episode originally just walking down the street and eating at an ice cream shop- this was all in Agassiz -, but there was this flower shop and the flower girl did not know it was going to be an all-day shoot and had childcare only until 3pm. So she had to go home.
Meanwhile, Matt Dillon had to keep filming the same scene past us so the visuals did nit match.
That was in August 2013.
They came back in October to shoot more scenes, but I did not go anymore.
Meanwhile, it was put on the shelf for I do not know how long until it was finally released - I saw the pilot episode and there was only a brief shot of someone I remember seeing looking straight at the camera.
I watched a few episodes but people kept getting killed off in weird ways.
I remember being told that apparently, everyone in town had lobotomies. That is why everyone was living in the past.
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In Stalag 17 - - at least three of the actors in the movie were also in the play. So I imagine they knew how it ended.
Oh yes several people in the movie saw the play. And of course the person playing the spy knew who it was. But they wanted there to be as much realism as possible because of the surprise identity.
Let me give you an example from a television show.
You remember the television series M*A*S*H*?
The first Captain on the show was MacLaine Stevenson. When he decided to leave the show , Alan Alda decided to kill him off on his way home. His plane was shot down and there were no survivors.
Well, they shot the whole episode with everyone believing that there was a happy ending for the character even though the actor was leaving.
Then on the last day of shooting that episode, everyone got the script for the final scenes. MacLaine cried. Everyone cried.
Alda said that this was about war and people die in war. So that is how the episode was filmed. The scene where he says goodbye and in the operating room when Radar gives the news had a realistic feel because the actors and crew did not know.
I do not know how many people in the cast and crew who were not in the play Stalag 17 saw the play. But I know from the DVD and commentary from people who worked on the film that some of the people were shocked.
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This one should be easy for Star Trek fans:
What Star Trek movie reunited Canadians William Shatner and Christopher Plummer who had appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company in Ontario together? What play were they doing when Shatner had to go onstage at the last minute due to Plummer's medical emergency?
Hint Number 1: two parts
Movie: Plummer was a Klingon
Shakespeare play: it was a History
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George Sanders was in Rebecca with Judith Anderson
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The Raymond Collection:
1. Raymond Burr in Perry Mason
2. Everybody loves Raymond
3. Raymond Massey in East of Eden
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The Titanic (preferably the Stanwyck version)
Next:
The remake is better than the original
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actually, FULL METAL JACKET is pretty good, although it's been a loooooooooooong time since I saw it. PATHS OF GLORY is also excellent.
I adore Paths of Glory. It is one of my favourite anti-war films of all time.
I also love Dr.Strangelove, although it is less satire than before.
I will keep Full Metal Jacket in mind. I have seen some violent war movies like Apocalyspe Now because I am a fan of the star of the movie (In A.N., it is Martin Sheen).
hmmm. I never spell Apocolypse correctly.....you get the idea..
Edit: I am looking at my DVD cover for Apocalypse Now Redux. So I can spell it. Sigh. What I buy because I love martin Sheen and he nearly died making it...
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Thanks for the update, Barton.
Knowing how Burt Reynolds has had health problems ever since breaking his jaw when a stunt man picked up a real chair instead of a breakaway chair, I wish him well.
Faye Dunaway will be a wonderful addition to the festival.
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I'll expound on this somewhat if you don' mind, although (and Miss Wonderly will back me up on this) every time Kubrick enters the conversation, things escalate and we're at each other's throats before you can say "Redrum."
I do not like Stephen King, I think he is the hackiest hack who ever hacked, and I am amazed to think of all the incredibly talented people out there who just cannot bring themselves to commit their thoughts to the page because of crippling self doubt, yet this glue-sniffing moron never had a Nyquil-induced fever dream he didn't feel the need to commit to a thousand pages or turn into a screenplay.
that said, THE SHINING is one of the verrrry few books of his that has any nuance, anything going on deeper beneath the surface than just a book about a killer car or killer machines or killer clowns who live in the sewer and turn out to be space aliens**. to me, its a book about ALCOHOLISM and how ADDICTION can haunt even the best of us and bring forth monsters far more horrific than any imagined ghost or boogeyman.
the ghosts in the hotel are a metaphor for Jack Torrance's alcoholic demons, hes actually a good guy, he doesn't want to lose his mind and kill his family, he struggles and fights these desires.
all this is gone in the movie. there's literally no transition scene from Jack being normal to a sudden tight close-up of him staring out the window, clearly in full psycho mode. that's all the development we get. he seems like a real jerk from the beginning, there is no struggle.
in short, it boggles my mind that there was ACTUALLY NUANCE TO BE EXPLORED IN A STEPHEN KING NOVEL, and Kubrick just foregoes it because, as usual, he's too busy falling madly in love with all his light and camera tricks.
Now, let the brawls begin.
**I'm not kidding. That's seriously the plot of IT.
I am not a King fan either. I don't read his books. I think that I love The Shining because of Jack Nicholson.
As for Stanley Kubrick - it really depends upon the movie for me. Some I love. Some I hate. Some I tolerate. Others I have never attempted to watch and I don't want to try (can you say Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut?)
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Besides Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, how about a pitchfork to Miss Wildwood, the thumping bore? Timber!
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Oh, yes you are right, he does look like Trump. Oh dear. I hope this does not ruin my viewing of further Albert Finney films.....
Granted, the movie where he looks for Picasso in a film based upon a Ray Bradbury short story was a bad movie....
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For me, she'll always be Mildred Krebs
I love this show. It had the first season with a different synergy with a second male detective and a young woman answering the phone as Miss Fox that Steele always called Miss Wolf. But they soon realized that this triangle would not work and in came Doris Roberts. Nepotism would come into play as Brosnan's real life wife and Bond girl - Cassandra Harris -would appear as a long lost girlfriend and threat to Laura. In addition, Zimbalist's father E. Zimbalist Jr. would be on the show and eventually revealed to be a very important man in Steele's life...
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Two For The Road
I wanted to watch this mainly because I’m a fan of Henry Mancini. Now I am a fan of this film. Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn are superb as a married couple shown at various stages of their courtship and marriage. The script is witty and adult. I found myself smiling at times, and frowning at other times.
The film is a bit confusing early on, since the scenes are not sequential, but if you stick with it, it’s well worth the effort.
Audrey gets to wear some magnificent clothes, while Finney gets to wear short shorts. In the “younger” scenes with Finney, his hairstyle eerily conjures up visions of Donald Trump.
If you are not familiar with Mancini’s theme, you will be by the end of the picture. It’s played more often than “Waltzing Matilda” in On The Beach. And it’s much better.
Two For the Road is an excellent movie and Mancini's music fits perfectly into the movie. Mancini was wonderful at scoring for a variety of genres.
As for waltzing Matilda, well, that is a folk song from Australia which is why it was in the movie On the Beach.
Mancini and other composers composed brand new music.
I will have to watch Two For the Road again to see if I see any unwanted images of Donald Trump. I promise to love the movie even if it does.
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If Ethel Merman was alive today and she looked the way she did in 1960; people would say she was 65 years old.
But after all in the theater, you do know that women play men and men play women, the young play the old and the old play the young--again. It's called theatrical conventions - -
So I don't think it would be a stretch for Barbra to play Mama Rose in Gypsy.
After all, when somebody is as gifted and talented as Barbra Streisand, you more or less have the sense to let her do what she wants to do.
Oh, I remember the big stink when Yentl came out-- a woman like her cannot star in the show and direct too. Oh my God she's going to play a man.No woman has ever done all that before--yada, yada, yada. LOL
But Yentl did all right and Gypsy will too, if Barbra chooses to do it.
Hey, this sounds like 1963 all over again. Oh my God, Barbra Streisand's too ugly to be a famous singer. Oh my God, she's actually recording Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf. Oh my God, she's going to star in a Musical on Broadway about the life of Fanny Brice. She's too young to play Fanny Brice. LOL
History does sometimes repeat itself.
I played all sorts of ages of characters on stage, especially characters decades older than myself like Mrs. Bedwin in Oliver! when I was in my 20s.
Stage and movies are quite different. The most obvious is that it is live and done chronologically and there is always a chance that the audience could change the way a performance is going like the person who interrupted Joan Rivers when she made a joke about Helen Keller in a personal appearance that was put in a documentary.
But a movie and TV shows are filmed out of sequence much of the time. The editing process is long.
Stalag 17 was filmed in sequence because some of the cast and crew had not seen the play so they did not know who the spy was and they wanted to make sure that the reactions were as realistic as possible.
Cowboy was filmed in sequence for a completely separate reason: time saving. Both Jack Lemmon and the character he was playing had never ridden a horse and so Jack was taught as his character was taught.
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I figure the pitchfork was invented with the thought of encountering this character in mind.
(But be careful, before he sticks it in you first).
Truly as vile a screen character as I've ever seen. Apparently it had a lot to do with the casting, too, since Gregory Peck stated that, for whatever reason, he quite intensely disliked this actor while making the film. I figure for Peck, a man renowned as a nice guy, to dislike him so much that he even commented upon it later, Anderson must have done something really special to earn that contempt.
Well, you know that Robert Duvall aka Boo aka Arthur knew what to do with him....
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I'm also not a good swimmer. I can relate to her.
I am not known for my swimming either. I remember going down a waterslide at a birthday party and scrambling to the side of the pool.
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NickandNora - you may want to check out the TV series Ironside as well where Burr plays a police detective in a wheelchair.
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Decided to start watching Perry Mason for the first time, before watching those other films I mentioned before lol. I am thoroughly enjoying it. I didn't like Raymond Burr's character in Pitfall (1948) since he was a man who had an eye for the ladies, and constantly tried to get Lizabeth Scott to go out with him (to no avail). But he's great in this.
Raymond Burr fought long and hard for the role of Perry Mason. He hated playing the bad guy all the time and the only big screen title he felt proud of making was Rear Window.
Warren William was not at all physically what Gardner had in mind for the role. He was in the movies.
Regarding the author:
He was on the set of the casting for the television series when in walked Raymond Burr who had been told that the producers were considering him to play Burger. Burr did not want to play Burger.
When Gardner saw Burr walk into the room he stood up and said clearly:
"That's Perry Mason"
I love this series and Burr is my favourite Canadian born actor of all time.
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For those of you who get Grit TV, The Sea Wolves (1980) with Gregory Peck plus Roger Moore, David Niven and Trevor Howard is airing tomorrow (4/20) at 10PM EDT. And again on 4/26 at 12AM EDT and on 4/30 at 3PM EDT.
I have yet to see this movie but, between the cast and the genre, I suspect that this one will be right up my alley and, therefore, I hope to catch one of these showings.
Thanks for alerting people to this film who get GritTV, Liam. I don't, but I have seen The Seas Wolves and I must say that it is indeed worth seeing this great cast. It is a strong film for such a group of actors who were nearing the end of their careers along with some "younger" actors like Roger Moore.
It is a fun seafaring film.
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Sherlock Holmes
William Gilette, the ultimate Holmes on stage.
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Boomtown
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Lee Marvin was in The Big Heat with Gloria Grahame.
Gloria Grahame was in In a Lonely Place with Humphrey Bogart
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Catherine for sure.
Next:
Rex Harrison or Richard Burton?
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No question, the villain! Heroes are boring to play.
next: do a stunt jump off of a highrise onto an air mattress, or do a stunt drive off of a pier into frigid water?
An air mattress, because I cannot swim and I do not drive either.
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Appear in a silent film with Keaton or Chaplin?
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Yes, she was a very powerful woman. I look at her films with this in mind, though I try to just enjoy watching the movies.