GregoryPeckfan
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Panic Room
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Sidney Potier in To Sir With Love
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I see While the City Sleeps on a regular basis. He was an important link in the Barrymore chain as he was the only son of the siblings who had that last name.
Thanks for the recommendations of other titles of his work.
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Well, there was no NEED to comment "in depth". Just mention it as a movie with a "supernatural" element( Tracy as the spirit of a dead pilot) the lover of Dunne's character who gets interested in and is found interesting by a newcomer pilot played by Van Johnson. The frustrating thing about this movie is....
None of the principal characters are NAMED Joe!
A GUY NAMED JOE is a pretty good movie, but that fact, although it doesn't ruin anything for me, is one of it's poignant peculiarities.
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Joe and Charlie were stock names that foreigners would give to American military personnel when they did not know their name. At one point before he dies, Tracy's character is addressed as Joe who turns around.
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Re: Beery-
He hated working with Jackie Cooper and was nasty off screen. Yet they had this wonderful on screen chemistry.
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Not sure if you are asking about vinyl or any version of it;
Here are *some* of my favourites that I own;
Bonanza TV show
Dirty Dancing
Grease
The Wizard of Oz - movie
Lady and the Tramp
Chicago -Broadway cast with Joel Grey
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat - Broadway cast with Osmond
Jesus Christ Superstar - 1982 Prince Rupert, B.C. producer (my aunt was in the orchestra)
Showboat - Broadway with Stritch
I have a six volume set of Broadway and Hollywood musical excerpts that are broken down by decade or part of decade
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PART II OF MY TO-SEE LIST - now that I have looked back at other posts
Dark Victory
The Spy in Black
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Of Mice and Men
The Light That Failed
The Real Glory
Let Us Live
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1939 TO-SEE LIST:
Midnight -long been on my to-see list
Sweepstakes Winner
Rules of the Game
Miracles for Sale
Daybreak
*these are only the titles I can see on this thread without opening another window; I know there are more.
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While I'll admit that I haven't seen Gone With the Wind in it's entirety, though I know all the famous lines and scenes, I will say that Clark Gable has one of the all time greatest f-you lines in history.
SCARLETT: "...Where shall I go? What shall I do?"
RHETT: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Burn! Rhett doesn't mince words.
I'm waiting for a really crappy rainy day to dedicate 4 hours to watching this film and with plenty of sleep so that I don't fall asleep. This weekend looks like sunshine, so this will not be the weekend. It's supposed to rain all week, but I don't know if I'd have it in me to watch this film after work.
Yes, it requires a lot of time. This is also how I found time to watch Lawrence of Arabia, The Ten Commandments, etc.
I prefer the version that is seen in the film. I do not agree with who wrote the sequel. I want Butler to stay away.
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On the Beach.
I actually watched this last week, but I haven't had time until today to provide my thoughts on it. I'll admit that I haven't always been the biggest fan of Gregory Peck. Not so much because of any issue with him persay, it's just that I always found him kind of dull. As I watch more of his films and especially after having seen his interview, Conversation With Gregory Peck, I realized that there is more to him and now I actually find him somewhat interesting. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think it's his deep voice that conveys the idea of "woodenness." His voice is so deep and so authoritative, that it always sounds rather serious. However, as I've seen him in comedies like Roman Holiday and Designing Woman and other films like On the Beach, I can see that there is more to him and that his deep authoritative voice is an asset in many of the roles he plays.
For example, in On the Beach, Peck's character is a Captain of the last remaining submarine crew in the US Navy. It makes sense that a Captain would be an authority figure with a strong, authoritative voice. Anthony Perkins, while an excellent actor, has a somewhat simpering, nervous quality in that you almost feel that he's scared or that he's hiding something. While watching the film, I couldn't help but feel like Norman Bates was in the Navy in Australia because many of Perkins' character's mannerisms reminded me much of Bates' in Psycho.
My favorite characters in the film were Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire's. Gardner seemed to be playing somewhat true to life in that she was the perpetual party girl, but I liked her pairing with Peck. It seemed to me that she was drinking most out of fear of the inevitable end of her life, so she was drinking as a way to avoid reality and also to make the most of her remaining days. Peck's stoic, yet vulnerable manner made a nice counterpart to Gardner's extroverted, yet scared party girl character. One scene between Peck and Gardner that I found particularly effective was the scene in which Gardner finds out the truth about Peck's wife and children. Both Gardner and Peck played the scene beautifully. She knows she cannot compare to Peck's wife, and Peck doesn't want a replacement for his wife.
Astaire was a true revelation in this film. I have only seen him as a song and dance man and I half expected him to break out into a jig in this film. I am happy to say that he did not, because it would have been very out of place in this film. Astaire's character, a former lover of Ava Gardner's character and also a scientist who is keeping track of the radiation levels was very interesting to the plot. He is the one person in the film who is truly aware of the level of danger that the citizens of Melbourne, Australia are in, as he's the one tasked with measuring the radiation levels. The scene of him in his garage at the end of the film was very powerful.
The only character I didn't care for was Perkins' wife. I just found her annoying. Though I did sympathize with her plight and her emotions. I still found her annoying though. However, I imagine if I were in the same situation, I'd be really annoying too.
The ending of the film was very bittersweet and very poignant. Stanley Kramer did a great job with this movie.
3.5/4 stars.
Peck did have a rather stereotyped role here, which could have gone the Only the Valiant route, but he and Ava were great co-stars.. I love this movie, but it is more for the entire cast and the haunting melody of Waltzing Matilda rather than a single performance - that is, outside of Fred Astaire. This is a must see film for Fred Astaire fans.
Fred Astaire was revelation in this movie. It is in my top ten favourite movies of his career. Regarding Anthony Perkins who was in this movie: This film was made and released just prior to Psycho, and it is interesting to ponder what his career might have been like if he had a few more years before that Hitchcock film.
He had a college basketball comedy with Jane Fonda called Tall Story which showed another style to his acting.
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I have not read it, but I know that a sequel as written for it where Rhett and Scarlett end up together after all. This shows, perhaps, that depending upon who is actually reading it and seeing it, the focus of the movie may be completely different from that of others.
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Young Dr. Kildare - as it aired tonight.
This was the first in a series of movies starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore.
Lionel had over 200 movie credits. I have not yet seen over half of them yet.
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I thought that Gregory Peck should have been April`s SOTM due to his 100th birthday on April 5, 2016. The same old reason was probably used because Greg was under contract to 20th Century Fox for a number of years. A missed opportunity IMHO.
That would have been great having him as Star of the Month, but having his movies shown for 24 hours a day on his birthday was still great.
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OMG. I had to read Great Expectations in the ninth grade as part of my Honors Humanities class (why I was enrolled in that class, I have no idea, lol) and it may be the most boring book I've ever read. I liked Miss Havisham, because she was bonkers and I liked Mrs. Joe because she was mean to everyone.
Is the film possibly better than the novel?
Should 31 year old Speedracer revisit the novel? Perhaps she'd like it better than 14 year old Speedracer?
I'll admit I have trouble with 19th century British literature-- perhaps this is the problem.
I think you will enjoy the movie regardless of the fact you did not like the book when you were a teenager. I was enrolled in honours classes too and read a lot of books and plays that others in my grade did not. Your opinions of movies change as you get older anyway.
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Osborne's interview with Gloria Steinem will be broadcast NEXT Tuesday...April 19.
Next, Tuesday? I'm getting my weeks messed up. Thanks for the correction. The 12th tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow would have been my father's 73rd birthday.
Looking at the films that are airing tomorrow night, I have not seen Juke Girl yet.
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I'm not sure how many people have seen Eye of the Devil. I hate this freaky movie.
Kerr and David Niven star in this horror movie that also includes yes, you guessed it - David Hemmings.
Sharon Tate also appears in this movie.
Pagans make human sacrifices in this movie.
There is a weird necklace in this movie that I believe is the title of the film.
I saw this movie the first time really excited because I love Kerr and Niven's other films together.
Oh, well.
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I don't know about the "spiritual", but two of the scariest "supernatural" movies I've ever seen are ghost stories: The Innocents and The Haunting. I'm surprised they've not yet been mentioned on this thread.
I agree with TikiSoo. I love ghost stories, movies that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up; but I dislike "horror" movies, which to me are not at all the same thing as ghost story films. The two I mentioned above have to be among the most chilling, frightening, eerie movies I've ever seen.
Everyone knows The Haunting is incredibly scary ( of course I'm talking about the original 1963 version). But for some reason The Innocents, (based on a novella by Henry James, )gets short shrift.
Spoiler ahead:
I get kind of annoyed when people want to explain away the ghosts in this movie; "Oh, the Deborah Kerr character is psychologically unstable, it's all in her mind, blah blah..."
Why? Why is it so hard to accept that the governess, the children, and in fact the entire estate where they are living is haunted by the ghosts - the malevolent ghosts - of Peter Quint and his lover, the former governess?
This is a very well-done, uncanny, ghost story, and I do not understand why it is not more well-known.
1) The Haunting - This movie in particular is scary because Julie Harris is so convincing in it and she had a hard time separating herself from the story when the movie was not filming.
2) The Innocents - I love this movie. I have not seen it is a long time. I don't watch it before I go to bed. Not all ghosts are Casper.
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7) The title refers to the length of time because it runs the length of a weekend and nothing is really resolved by the end.
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Shrek - he had a friend who was a donkey
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Fellow Canadian Jason Priestley
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4) Liza's most famous film is Cabaret whose co-stars include Michael York and Joel Grey.
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Treasure Island - Lionel was only in the beginning of the film.
I just love watching Jackie Cooper movies. He and Beery did not get along in real life, but they had great screen chemistry. Of course, their ultimate film together was The Champ.
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Tuesday, April 12
Ann Miller day.
9:30 a.m. Tarnished Angel (1938) Sounds interesting
2 a.m. Body and Soul (1947). John Garfield’s signature piece. Replaced in Canada with The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933).
Great daytime movies.
Tuesday night will be guest programmer and Robert Osbourne interviewed Gloria so this will be a real treat. Even if I have seen the movies I am recording them as I have choir.
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ONE MAN'S JOURNEY (1933):
I watched this as TCM aired it tonight as Lionel Barrymore night on TCM. Joel McCrea plays his grown up son. McCrea met his wife Frances Dee making this movie.
Lionel is a country doctor during the great depression who gives a lot of his life to his patients.
I don't want to give much away as far as plot for people who have not seen it before.
However, much was discussed in the introduction about the fact that Lionel lost two daughters in infancy and did not have any more children and that he was gentle and loving with the children in this film.
Wonderful movie.
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8) Liza Minelli appeared as one of the guest speakers in the movie That's Entertainment which spawned two sequels of MGM clips.