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On 3/4/2020 at 11:03 PM, JakeHolman said:
tnt and tbs showed this jewel many a time ... sure it paid off ... some of the best movies i ever saw were on tnt and tbs ...
very good (***1.2) movie though
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8 minutes ago, spence said:
A :PT OPF THEM HUH, not pre4ssing you but if you had to combined who would they be?
On John Barrymore ever see the Blake Edwards comedy from l98l s.o.b. It's about 85 percent accurate, the Holden, Mulligan, Preston & Webbers segment, based ion fact about JB's death
I don't care what they say J. Barrymore deserved Best Actor for Twentieth Century
For once somebody picked THE KING OF HOLLYWOOD: GABLE most ow, especially millenials never even heard of him?
As one of my books outs it THE KING OS DEAD AND THERE WAS N0BODY TIO REPLACE HIM unquote
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7 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I haven’t seen Crowe’s version. Costner was a terrible Robin Hood. But I loved Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Crowe's & Ridley Scott's version is ok (**1/2) but slow Kevin has a problem with accents though
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1 hour ago, David Guercio said:
Carey Grant.
YES! & outrageously underrated by the ACADEMY Irony of ironies, in AFI's 100 Years 100Stars (l999 poll & tv special) they voted Archie Leach runner up all-time actor, yet they never gave him it's annual award???
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1 minute ago, DawnM74 said:
I have so many!
The ladies I love.......
Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Joan Blondell, Rita Hayworth, Claudette Colbert, Mabel Normand, Barbara Stanwyck, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino, Marie Dressler, Myrna Loy, Lillian Gish, & ZaSu Pitts
The men.....
William Powell, John Barrymore (before his alcoholism got the best of him), Lionel Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino, Errol Flynn, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Lon Chaney, Sr., James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Conrad Veight, Clark Gable, & Guy Kibbe
A :PT OPF THEM HUH, not pre4ssing you but if you had to combined who would they be?
On John Barrymore ever see the Blake Edwards comedy from l98l s.o.b. It's about 85 percent accurate, the Holden, Mulligan, Preston & Webbers segment, based ion fact about JB's death
I don't care what they say J. Barrymore deserved Best Actor for Twentieth Century
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On 3/5/2020 at 9:34 PM, Dargo said:
Yep RG, that's right.
I remember back in the mid-'70s, first reading of these very family dynamics of theirs in a book by author Joe Adamson titled "Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo".
(...I still have that book around here somewhere I think)
a keep sake pal! I still have a must old book title THE MARX BROS SCRAPBOOK, ever hear of it? It's around l971 & all Groucho talking about everything His bros by then were gone except for Zeppo, who wanted nada to do with them or yrs Do you know f SINATRA'S final wife Barbara, she was Zeppo's ex Barbara m,arx & typically of this era when soon after THE CHAIRMAN went in May of l998, her & FRANK'S mgr were mugged just walking down the street well, Rickles and everybody that knew about this crime asked ARE THEYSTILL ALIVE
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Looks like Mr. Errol Flynn is the leader thus far
& a few other insiders heroes Robert Osborne's was William Holden, Alec Baldwin same, Leonard Maltin's Chaplin, Richard Dreyfuss Tracy, Both Michael J. Fox and Michael Keaton Cagney, same goes for John Travolta, R.J. Wagner, Spencer Tracy, A. Lansbury, Tracy, Robert Duvall, also Tracy, The late great Don Rickles,Sinatra, De Niro, Brando, {acino, Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brando, Streep, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Mickey Rooney, Olivier used to say he learned more about motion picture acting then watching Tracy then anthing, & for the rcord TFM;s very own movie idol is Steve McQueen and then Lee Marvin, Sean Penn De Niro, Jessica Lange, Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacallthought B. Davis was IT & fmr president's was always James Cagneywhom he got to award the Medal of Freedom & though both are gone now Tony Curtis looked up to Cary Grant so much after seeing '43's Destination Tokyo he joined the navy & Glenn Close always idolized K. Hepburn
(CORRECTION: I meant Ben Mankiewicz in regard to McQueen)
TONS MORE, BUT I SEE THIS SITE IS AGAIN EATING THE WORDS?
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On 2/2/2020 at 2:26 PM, TomJH said:
I watched The Big Sleep again last night. Great film, one of my favourites.
And, once again, I took chilling note of Bob Steele's performance as the cold blooded killer-for-hire Canino. But in viewing the film it occurred to me that it's doubtful that Steele has much more than twelve minutes or so on the screen, all in the film's last half hour. But his is a performance of malevolence that stays with you. Elisha Cook Jr, as little Jonesy, in that same film also falls into the same category.
Has anyone else got any favourite "small" performances, small in screen time but big in impact.
Steele was a stuntman & even once appeared in tv's A & C show
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Looks like Mr. Errol Flynn is the leader thus far
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On 2/23/2020 at 10:23 AM, JakeHolman said:
Great crime caper on every level But L.B. Mayer detested it BIG-TIME! Haden was on the shirt list to play quint in Jaws 1st there was Lee Marvin But obviously Shaw turned out brilliantly
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On 2/22/2020 at 12:09 AM, txfilmfan said:
Powerful one (***1/2) especially as usual Robert Shaw Who saw the rehash with Denzel & Streep OOPS, I was wrong the remake starred Denzel & Travolta & was ok (**1/2) at best So fed up with remakes, sequels & comic books
I was thinking of yet another rehash of M. CANDUDATE instead GEE, who's gonna remember these remakes in 10 to 20yrs
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On 3/5/2020 at 2:24 AM, skimpole said:
Just took home Editing & Cinematography, that was of course the AMPAS year of Silence of the Lambs-(swept he top 5) Beauty and the Beast defeated this fr it's scoring
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On 3/5/2020 at 10:26 PM, JakeHolman said:
& just tink lost BP Goldto REBECCA? Which is exceptional filmmaking but who speaks of it now as opposed top Ford's enduring masterpiece My theory has alwas been Hollywood wanted to award Selznick a 2nd Academy award
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Love to check back in here to see wht TCM-ITES have selected, especially Jake
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On 3/5/2020 at 8:18 AM, cinemaspeak59 said:
Memorable Beginning: Jaws (1975)
Memorable Ending: Fail-Safe (1964)
Agreed on both
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On 3/4/2020 at 11:03 PM, JakeHolman said:
tnt and tbs showed this jewel many a time ... sure it paid off ... some of the best movies i ever saw were on tnt and tbs ...
On one of the NGO type of channels it showed 2 little guirls0(teens) that swam that water all the tie & were barely out of breath
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On 3/6/2020 at 10:56 PM, JakeHolman said:
Pretty good war-epic (**1/2) but the '93 Gettysburg was much stronger in everyway Duvall suffered during filming by breaking ribs falling of a horse
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Whenever the topic comes up most always cite MAX STEINER-(l888-l97l) as the all-timer@! Despite only winning 3 Oscars
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Who would I consider heroic?
Maybe celebrities that died in service, during wartime.
So using this criteria...a hero would be Phillips Holmes. A heroine would be Carole Lombard.
agreed upon What about Glenn Miller and L. Howard?
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7 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Bogie would probably be my favorite of the three... but that also might be because I’ve seen more of his films.
All three men are very versatile in different ways, perhaps Cagney is most versatile. How many actors can do gangster films and musicals??
if you haven’t seen it yet, watch Cagney accept his 1974 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award on You Tube.
Speedracer, I was an AFI member back in '92 though at lowest level & around 200 Chris Merrill then head og mgt & merchandizing sent me vids of 100yrs specials, posters, booklets,etc which I still of course saved *was liky enough to vhs several of the Annual awards>J Ford, Nicholson, rsese, Spielberg, De Niro but could never get CAGNEY'S? Your right check it out immediately fans He was just then coming down with diabetes, but not yet in hair It's a marvelous website to begin with
Most don't know why the likes of K. Hepburn, Garbo, Brando were never awarded it, recipient must accept it in person
Thwey oughtta be ashamed though not to give it to CHAPLIN, or JOHN WAYNE, not to mention CARY GRANT???
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CAGNEY all the way
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On 3/4/2020 at 9:17 PM, Dargo said:
And then speaking
And speaking of a film actor who could legitimately be called a true American patriot, AND who's name first came to MY mind when I thought of a "movie idol" here...
Allow me to introduce Brigadier General James (aka: "Jimmy") Maitland Stewart to you folks:
(...now HERE'S ya a guy who could act in many a varied role, and NOT just as the same type of hard***ed character over and over and over again)
A genuine Hero! went by his fmr house on Roxbury drive & even twice visited his grave right nxt to his sole wife Dolores in Glendale For dome reason he chose there vs Arlington?
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& wanted to cast 2 votes for others My mother's are by far>ELVIS & JAMES CAGNEY & my aussie girl Susan's also MADONNA
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On 3/4/2020 at 9:27 AM, laffite said:
Not sure at the moment, but Harvey Keitel is in the running. Truly.
Ever see Bad Lt. yet?
Best Endings & Beginnings in film history?
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This film is where Ford& Fonda literally came tio blows, fir Ford's speaking to Cagney. They kinda reunited but that was a real tear in their relationship Reason you have 2 directors here