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Believe it or not, I'm not a particular fan of westerns. But I follow the actor or actress, so I've seen a great many Gary Cooper westerns.
There were two that were kind of rough to watch-- but they were good.
I'm talking about Vera Cruz and The Hanging Tree. If it's ugly, it was probably in one of these two movies.
I was wondering what people thought of Coop's characters in these movies - - particularly his character in The Hanging Tree--also in terms of his character's character.
The Hanging Tree is a great example of how Cooper and fellow Western favourites Joel MccCrea and Randolph Scott could play complicated characters in westerns.
The Hanging Tree was more enjoyable for me than Vera cruz.
*editing note. In re-reading this I see that spell check allowed me to have McCrea's first name as Jowl.
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I scrolled through this thread twice, and I can't find any mention of Hilary Swank, surely the only two-time Best Actress Oscar winner not to be included thus far.
Yes, she was missed. I think her work in Boys Don't Cry in particular was worthy of mention.
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9) Michael Caine for the longest time did not have a drivers licence. Usually he was driven by his wife. It was not much later in his career hat he admitted on the Dick Cavett show that he finally got one.
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The Western Musicals .... "Yes we sing and dance, while evolving civilization west of the Mississippi!"
The Harvey Girls
Annie Get Your Gun
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Oklahoma
you add Paint your Wagon to this list.
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My beard is an icepick and will help to chisel rock
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I noticed that The Spiral Sraircase in Canada is stil listed a for as those with optic TV, Where they changed their minds or decided that that wanted to try to gets the rights and leave it for the last minut to if they can.
I saw it online..
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I saw Desperate Journey recently on PVR from February but had not seen it yet.
It was a delightful during the war adventure, Flynn and Hale Je, did do some great some great movies over their career opposite each other. And to add Reagan and Arthur kennedy in the mix was fun.
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I'm sorry I missed that.
I wonder it the clips can be found on this site somewhere or on youtube???I checked to see if it was, and I could not find them specifically. I have seen other Robert Osbourne interview clips. I think there was one where he and Dame Collins were at the same event, but I don't know if it is still up.
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CMR - I'm glad you enjoyed it. I appreciated that you sought out my thoughts on the 25 member list before it was completed. I noticed that you did indeed include Anne Bancroft after all and that Maggie Smith just missed it.
As always, I love that we can talk movies, genres, performers and directors and compare how many we have seen.
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Earlier tonight I watched Young Frankenstein again for likely the 100th time. I just cannot get enough of this film.
It's the perfect spoof movie.
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Thanks for letting us know, jakeem.
The Dirty Dozen is one of my favourite movies of all time. I have the DVD of it and I watch it several times a year.
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I love your schedule, lydecker.
I love especially that Mrs. Danvers is the Guest Programmer. And I would love to see lots of Robert Preston.
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I've seen the Sabu version as well as the animated version. I am looking forward to seeing the new version.
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Hey, CMR.
Glad you have enjoyed doing both the Actresses list and the actors list.
I loved going through both pages and considering the order and inclusion of certain names.
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I understand. I wasn't implying that everybody must love Friends like I do (reading what I wrote before, it seems that way). It's funny when I first started watching Friends, my parents and brother were like, "All they do is sit in a coffee house or the apartment. How great can if be?!" I got them all to watch it, and lets say the laughs started instantly. Every now and then, I catch my parents watching reruns of Friends on TBS. (Whenever my Dad hears bad singing in a movie, etc., he'll say, "I think smelly cat is better!") (My Mom refers to Friends for comparison to real life events!) I got them hooked!
I watch a lot of the episodes now and then. I remember there being a cassette tape I have of music based upon that show.
I watch a lot of things now that I did not before, and vice versa.
You did not misunderstand my post. I watch them by myself.
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Continuing with my watching of Agatha Christie's Poirot on Netflix. I am only just starting Season 2, as each episode is almost an hour long.
I love David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. Great picture
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Hitchcock made two classic movies in 1940:
Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent - both are excellent.
Unfortunately, TCM Canada does not own the rights to air F.C. in Canada and I don't own a copy of it.
It is one of my favourite movies of 1940, but it regards to Bogie56's thread, I have not seen the movie recently enough to remember anyone enough other than Joel McCrea and George Sanders.
Since George Sanders appears in both movies and is fabulous in both movies, George Sanders is my favourite actor performance in a Hitchcock movie male or female.
The other nominees besides McCrea and Sanders were all from Rebecca;
Laurence Olivier
Joan Fontaine
Judith Anderson
Nigel Bruce
Reginald Denny
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My favourite top 10 Movies of 1940 - in no order:
1. Rebecca
2. Boomtown
3. The Great Dictator
4. My Favorite Wife
5. I Love you again
6. His Girl Friday
7. The Mark of Zorro
8. The Shop Around the Corner
9. Too Many Husbands
10. Foreign Correspondent - not seen in years as it is not aired in Canada; would love to re-watch it
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I think the two Capra movies are the best things Coop ever did, along with High Noon and the General Died at Dawn.
But this lady's choice are 2 movies where Coop knows how to romance the ladies:
Bright Leaf-- the two ladies there are Patricia Neal and Lauren Bacall
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Saratoga Trunk opposite Ingrid Bergman.
Honorable mention goes to Garden of Evil with Susan Hayward.
Richard Widmark, Coop, and Hayward make a great team in Garden of Evil.
I have not seen Bright leaf for ages.
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I am a Gary Cooper fan who prefers his westerns. I do watch other genres, though
My favourite Cooper movies are;
High Noon
Garden of Evil
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Man in the West
Alias Jesse James where he makes a cameo as himself
Pride of the Yankees
Ball of Fire
Design for living
A Farewell to Arms
Love in the Afternoon
Tops of My To-see list are:
Wings
The General Died at Dawn
North West Mounted Police
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Dallas
Starlift
Springfield Rifle
The Real Glory
I'm not exactly sure how many of his silent I have not seen.
Great thread, Lawrence.
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Really nicely put, Tom. I hope each week when I make these actor spotlight threads, and write those initial bio sketches, that others will jump in and elaborate on some aspect of the performer, either about their lives or careers.
Here's the Cooper films I haven't seen from 1940-1961. There are 25+ from before 1940 I have yet to see. Feel free to comment on any of them:
North West Mounted Police (1940)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Distant Drums (1951)
Blowing Wild (1953)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Naked Edge (1961)
I went through the list of movies I have seen of Cooper and some of them I have seen you have not.
Regarding the list of films you have not seen:
I love the Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell. It is one of my favourite Peter Graves movies. It is absolutely fabulous. I recorded it off the television one year on VHS and I have it somewhere.
You will love that movie.
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I have been watching a lot of PVR recordings lately.
I also recently saw Fear in the Night starring Deforest Kelley. I watched it as it aired on a channel in Canada here that I nearly missed but caught as I was going through the channels and recognized him. which was the original version of Nightmare which I saw earlier this month on TCM. Fear in the Night was on Silver Screen Classics as part of the "Condensed Classics' program they have. That is when they take a movie in the public domain and condense it into ah hour long program with ten minutes of commercials and do Svengolie-like commentary in the middle.
They take all the main parts and air them.
I am glad I saw Nightmare first so that I had seen the entire film.
I enjoy both films on their own merits.
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Webb plays sort of the same type of character as the husband of Barbara Stanwyck in a film I watched yesterday Titanic (1953).
I've seen that version of Titanic, but not in a few years. I'd forgotten that. I will have to re-watch it.
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That is a lot of work, Bogie. What a fascinating list of performances from the 1930s.
Thanks for starting this thread.
I wonder it the clips can be found on this site somewhere or on youtube???
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When I first read the title of this thread I misread the first word and thought they we were being asked for our wish list for *Animal* SUTS choices - like Lassie or Rin Tin Tin or Asta