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Add MURDER SHE WROTE's Jessica Fletcher in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and I'm sold!
Consider it done.
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Re: Heaven Can Wait - this is a good example of how a similar title about the same kind of idea (Heaven or Hell and life and death) can get people confused and think they are going to be watching a remake of a movie that really is not a remake.
The Warren Beatty movie Heaven Can Wait is a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, not the Don Ameche movie.
Beatty changed the sport from boxing to football because he had played football.
W.B. took Montgomery's role.
James Mason took over the title role from Claude Rains.
Both films are enjoyable.
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William Holden is one of my favourite actors of all time. My favourite movies of his include Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17, and Sunset Boulevard.
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Not that odd. I have a habit of skipping opportunities to view many esteemed classic films in lieu of something stupider. It's always, "The Grapes of Wrath? Aw, I could watch that any time- Hey! Here's a George Formby movie on YT!"
Sounds like my movie watching between 1970 -1994 except for John Hughes films.
The famous films I have seen are few and they rely upon my being interested in the actors in the movie.
Meanwhile, I don't think I have seen a George Formby film before......
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Happy Birthday, Laffite!
Yes, Happy birthday, Laffite!
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Hey, CMR;
I just revisited your Actress page to comment on the re-introduced Doris day at number 5. My top favourite is still Audrey at number 2.
I just love reading all these ideas on who could be or should have been in the top 25.
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As Tom said, everyone should be able to give you some ideas as to what to watch in 1940. Between all of us, we certainly are getting a lot of ideas.
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1940 was an exceptional year. My top 10 would be something like this, with the first three very close:
1. Rebecca
2. The Letter
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. His Girl Friday
5. Remember the Night
6. The Mortal Storm
7. The Great McGinty
8. The Great Dictator
9. Waterloo Bridge
10. Johnny Apollo
Great list. I need to see The Great McGinty and The Mortal Storm again. It has been a long time.
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"Camelot" (1967)--Waay Overlong (three hours), but beautifully scored, sung, and acted film. Frederick Loewes' music is beautiful, Alan Jay Lerner's lyrics range from fine to adequate. Franco Nero acts his part well, and is well dubbed; Richard Harris is surprisingly good as King Arthur (although he seems to be wearing a pound of blue eyeshadow in some shots). Vanessa Redgrave plays the medieval femme fatale and does her own singing; she gives a good performance, despite a small vocal range. The mood of the movie darkens considerably after the "Intermission", and Lerner never totally solved the problem of the screenplay; there are swamps of spoken plot to be waded through in the second half of the film. Still, because of the music and performances, 3/4.
You give it a higher rating than I would, Film lover. I might be mistaken, but I think I remember that the actual Broadway musical is shorter considering the amount of time is actually spent on the story itself.
The score is gorgeous. In the original Broadway version from the 60s, Robert Goulet played Lancelot, Julie Andrews played his leading lady, and Richard Burton played King Arthur. I've got a set of six recordings by decade of various Broadway and Hollywood musicals, and my Early 1960s tape has Goulet singing "If Ever I Would leave You" and Burton singing "Camelot."
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Your thinking of the other Titanic film A Night to Remember (1958), this one did have the rockets shot off, but didn't show the crew of the Californian just 10 miles away thinking they were celebrating something, nor the ship the Carpathia that got the radio signal and was steaming towards the Titanic.
That's the title. Thanks Cigarjoe. I thought that someone would come up with the title for me.
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Love Me or leave Me
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2) Bonita Granville played Nancy Drew on the screen.
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Peckfan, I hope you get a chance to see "Titanic" again. It's really quite good.
I hope so too. I really enjoyed this version. I enjoyed the film that looked at the disaster from the perspective of the other ship that actually saw them but thought that their use of fireworks to get their attention was actually just a party.
They did not realize it was an S.O.S.
Webb had quite a long career and I've enjoyed his performances most of the time, even when the overall film did not impress me. There are several actors and actresses who give good performances even when the material is lacking. Webb was one of them.
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Thanks, Tom and Bogie for the discussion of The Biscuit Eater.
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And THE STAR has nowhere near the budget or pedigree (in terms of direction and cameo appearances) that SUNSET BOULEVARD does. Seemed like such an obvious knockoff that I could see why Bette's film career went into decline after ALL ABOUT EVE...if this was the best that was being offered to her. And I didn't feel she had much chemistry at all with Sterling Hayden. Someone else can come along and disagree, but sorry to say I wasn't seeing any sparks there. I think the story needed to have a bit more romantic energy to make it come alive and show she was still a vital woman.
I believe that Bette Davis did the movie because she believed that it was meant to make fun of Joan Crawford.
I have seen the whole film, and I believe that has everything to do with it. As for Sterling's performance, well, he had great performances and not so great performances.
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Ingrid Bergman who fell out of favour with American audiences for a while but eventually came back to American films.
Sinatra reinvented himself several times.
Buster Keaton had a career resurgence after being totally forgotten.
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It seems the spammers have arrived in general Discussions again.
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In the past few days, I have seen Robert Mitchum in two different films-- Cape Fear and The Night of the Hunter. I never really gave Mitchum much thought. I was somewhat indifferent to him--he just seemed like another one of those performers who was around at the same time as people like Gregory Peck, William Holden, Kirk Douglas, to name a few. However, I was very impressed by him in both 'Fear' and 'Hunter.' He plays the creeper role very well. But what I especially liked about him in these two roles is how terrifying he can be without saying a word--his eyes were a major asset to him in these two films.
I never really thought of Mitchum as attractive (note, I didn't think he was ugly), and in comparison with some of his peers, like Peck and Holden (before the booze caught up to him), he looks a little rough around the edges. He's a much more rugged form of attractiveness. However, his rugged exterior, combined with his deep voice and bedroom eyes, I can see why women would dig him. I actually thought he was kind of attractive in both 'Fear' and 'Hunter' even though his character was reprehensible--perhaps that is what makes him an even more dangerous villain. It is easy to assume that women could be easily swayed and charmed by him, only to realize the truth when it's too late. Look what happened to the drifter girl in 'Fear'.
I have seen Out of the Past and I really enjoyed his performance in that film as well.
Looking over his filmography, I didn't realize he had so many uncredited roles. He apparently appears uncredited in Saboteur and in a couple films on my DVR: Cry Havoc and The Human Comedy.
Looking in my DVR, apparently I have a lot of Mitchum films recorded, I didn't even realize it:
My Forbidden Past
Home From the Hill
Where Danger Lives
Crossfire
The Racket
The Sundowners
Macao
His Kind of Woman
The Locket
Angel Face
Undercurrent
The Lusty Men
Rachel and the Stranger
He obviously appeared in a lot of noir, because I went a little insane last year during Summer of Darkness and I think that's where most of these films came from.
Mitchum is considered one of 'THE" film noir actors and I have seen all the movies you have mentioned that you have recorded to see.
Interesting what you say about his rugged looks. One of the things that makes Cape Fear so frightening to me compared to the remake is that Mitchum often does indeed look attractive in the film. To me, Deniro never looked attractive in the remake.
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here's all the st-tas underscores tacked together. this just might be the best presentation of the tas music we'll ever gonna hear.
Thanks for posting this clip. It brings back a lot of memories.
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Stephen McNally in Johnny Belinda
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
June Allyson
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David Hemmings as Mordred in "Camelot" (1967).
David Hemmings in Eye of the Devil
David Hemmings in Camelot
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My choices for the Juvenile Acting award for 1940 are
Billy Lee (Lonnie McNeil), The Biscuit Eater
Virginia Weidler (Diane “Dinah” Lord), The Philadelphia Story
Okay, that is the second time I've read about The Biscuit Eater which I have not seen. Could someone talk about it in detail, please?
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I noticed while compiling my lists that 1940 may be one of the only years from which I've seen no foreign-language films, I'm guessing due to WWII breaking out all over the place.
That is quite possible. I know that the production of German films slowed during WWI according to the documentary From Hitler to Caligeri which I started to watch as it aired then decided to record and watch at another time.
Chances are the same thing happened in WWII. Britain and Canada and Britain's other commonwealth countries all joined in 1939.
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Speedracer and I are so on the same page about: 1) the opening of THE LETTER - possibly the best opening of any movie ever - and
Worst Casting Decision of 1940 - "Hey, we need someone to play a Frito Bandito Mexican outlaw. I know--Humphrey Bogart!"
Does anyone remember Joe Bob Briggs and his drive-in movie reviews? He invented one absolutely essential critical term: the Stupid White People movie, as in nobody would behave this way except . . . Stupid White People.
Stupid White People Award: Irene Dunne, MY FAVORITE WIFE
Apart from this, 1940 was a great year with many outstanding performances.
I love My Favourite Wife. I prefer the movie The Awful Truth for the lead's pairings, however.
I think I put up with things more than others regarding "stupid white people" in movies because I often see these movies meant to entertain audiences who are worse off financially. This was in 1940, but during the 1930s screwball comedies were based upon the idea that people wanted to see *rich* people acting stupid.
We know ahead of time that Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are going to end up together again.
I remember the first time I saw Bringing Up Baby being annoyed that Kate was interrupting Cary's life all the time. The person who was watching it with me told me that they were supposed to be together because they were the stars of the film. So then I just allowed myself to enjoy the film.
I noticed you did not bother to list a specific film for June...
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