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"There will always be an England," says Noel Coward as the captain of the destroyer HMS Torrin in the film "In Which We Serve" (1942). This WW2 movie is rife with British patriotism and pride for "our island nation."
At another point in the film when the Torrin is damaged by Nazi torpedoes and the crew must abandon ship, Coward says briskly, "Nothing like a good swim after breakfast." This is when the few surviving crew members are clinging to a raft for hours and hours, without food or water or rescue.
It's this particularly witty understatement that characterizes many other British films, whether they are war stories, dramas or even romances. I'm thinking of "This Happy Breed" or "Brief Encounter."
What other British films carry this jingoism (but not in the bad way) about Merry Old England? That "stiff-upper-lip" stuff that is unique to these films. Do you have favorites that have some great lines to quote here?
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Joong-ki Song
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My mistake here I though you wrote J.S. Sorry everybody
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I think of the final scene in The Third Man when I think of great cemetery scenes:
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Denholm Elliot
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Michael Wilding
Jack Haley
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Zita Johann was in "Raiders of the Living Dead" with Scott Schwartz.
Schwartz was in "The Toy" with Jackie Gleason.
Gleason was in "The Hustler" with Paul Newman
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1 minute ago, DebraDancer said:
I just watched some of their interaction on On Demand. Kingman appeared to me to be drunk or on some kind of drug. Maybe she took something to calm nerves but took too much?
That never occurred to me but now it makes a lot of sense. After the first intro/outro to "The Elephant Man" she just continued to get more and more tight-lipped and also to repeat herself. You might be right. She sort of slurred her words, too.
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Farley Granger was in Stranger on a Train with Robert Walker
Walker was in Since You Went Away with Jennifer Jones
Jones was in The Towering Inferno with Paul Newman
This is my first attempt at this. Hope this is enough degrees...
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Jean-Louis Coulloc'h
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The Champagne Murders (1967) as part of the last day of the Anthony Perkins SOTM. I won't go into too much detail about this standard whodunit with Perkins playing an is-he-crazy or is-he-not post Norman Bates role and Maurice Ronet playing the French version of that same character. They were like twins...but were they killers?
SPOILER ALERT AHEAD
What I liked about this movie was the dual role played by French actress Stephane Audran. With a little black wig, brown contact lenses and buck teeth, she played the mousy secretary Jacqueline. With her natural blonde hair and blue eyes she played seductress Lydia who ended up as the culprit.
I recognized her from some of my favorite movies: Babette's Feast, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Le Boucher and the Unfaithful Wife. She is a great actress.
Nobody else in the cast was very effective except for Audran and it was interesting to see her as a lovesick chick-on-the-side to the married Perkins, and as the faithful, bland secretary who gratefully took the orders of her mistress, Perkins' wife.
The final scene was staged uniquely by director Claude Chabrol and it was very effective. As Ronet, Perkins and Audran fight for a gun to kill each other for a variety of reasons, the camera pulls away from inside the red-carpeted bedroom where the three are wrestling around. The camera continues to pull away until just a small red square with the three writhing bodies is center-stage around a black border that just gets bigger and bigger. Then the Universal logo appears and that's the end.
You don't find out who won the fight and it makes for a great ending to, as I said. a pretty standard "who-is-the-killer" movie. It's worth watching for Audran's performance, though small in number of scenes; and for that last fighting shot.
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Jean Simmons
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Amy Irving
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1 minute ago, Stevomachino said:
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much. It did. I have never noticed that black box. My posts will be greatly improved thanks to you. I always have this huge quote box when I just wanted to pick out something specific. Again, can't thank you enough
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9 hours ago, film lover 293 said:
"Frenchman's Creek" (1944)--Starring Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, and Cecil Kellaway. Directed by Mitchell Leisen.
I found a copy of the film that is NOT washed-out on archive.org. The copy is from a television broadcast, but is MUCH better than the copy TCM showed in 2016. Colors are shown, nothing is whited out, the details are a bit fuzzy, but this copy is the best I've found on the Net, until a better copy is found , or until TCM broadcasts a much better copy.
In 1600s England, Lady Dona St. Columb (Fontaine) fights with her husband Harry (Ralph Forbes) about going to a party. They go, and while there she is cornered by Lord Rockingham (Rathbone) and kissed. Her husband allows this because he owes Rockingham a large sum of money. The next morning, Dona moves out, with her children, servants, and luggage and goes to their Cornwall estate. There, while exploring in the woods, she is kidnapped by a pirate, who delivers her to the ship of his captain Jean Aubery (de Cordova). The two flirt and fall in love/lust.
The film is truly beautiful to look at, with stunning art direction and costumes. It's obvious why the film won the Oscar for Best Art Direction. The fashions of Restoration England suit Fontaine, and she looks wonderful. She gives a performance radically different from her previous work. She's a delight as a born flirt, and makes the movie enjoyable. Rathbone manages to be menacing, even in a long curled wig, in clothes with almost as much lace as Fontaine's. De Cordova is not much of an actor, but his flirting with Fontaine is fun to watch. Kellaway is good, as always.
A very enjoyable piece of romantic nonsense. When watched on a good print, film is most worth seeing. 3.1/4.
Source--archive.org. Archived as "Gaivota Negra 1944". Will be the only result.
Wanted to thank you for posting about archive.org. I went to the site after I read your post and there are some great movies there, particulary some foreign films that I couldn't find anywhere else online or on Netflix DVD. I immediately signed up and started watching....again, thanks. It seems like a good source for classic films and some oddities too. sorry for the huge quote couldn't get the last line of your post to "quote" without getting the whole thing. I haven't watched "Frenchman's Creek" yet...but I plan to cause of your post.
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Tuesday Weld in "Pretty Poison" (1968) filmed right here in Great Barrington and North Adams MA. That's how we grow 'em out here. Better WATCH OUT!
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The Devil's Own (1966) has to be one of the most insane witchcraft in small-town England movies ever made. Joan Fontaine is purportedly the star of this picture, but it is English actress Kay Walsh in the second female lead who really monopolizes the picture and brings it to its crazy end.
Walsh was a preeminent English actress, married to David Lean at one time, and starring with Sir Alec Guinness in five films, including Oliver Twist, Last Holiday and Scrooge. She first made an impression in In Which We Serve and she won a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in The Horse's Mouth. She even collaborated with Lean, helping to write and edit his movies, and acting in several.
I'm not sure how she ended up as the kinky head of a devil worshipping cult, wearing a buck's horn headdress, chanting some foreign language and preparing to sacrifice the town's teenage virgin, so that she (Walsh) could extend her life as a young and beautiful girl again.
The choreography, if you can call it that, was incredible: Walsh in her crazy robes and horns shouted commands to the hypnotized townspeople who responded by writhing on the floor, lifting first one arm then another, lifting right leg then left; eating sacred slithery mud that Walsh has blessed and thrown to them; then simulating **** on the floor with the nearest member of the opposite sex.
This movie has to be seen to be believed. It has just enough fanatical elements to move it along: Fontaine suffers a nervous breakdown in Africa due to voodoo, then moves to England and finds a local cult in the tiny country town she has come to recover in. Walsh and her cracked brother take her in and there she learns about the local cult. There's a crazy grandma who works her own kind of magic with potions; a sadistic butcher who skins and guts rabbits at the counter of his shop; someone putting voodoo dolls in the trees; and somehow it all comes together and works.
The final sacrifice scene, which Fontaine succeeds in foiling, is worth the price of admission. Though there are lots of these witchcraft genre movies that are terrible, this one stands out.
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Shelley Duvall
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Eleonora Duse
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Carol Channing
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Just trying something...
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I love the Studio Ghibli movies and really recommend them to an animation lover.
Some of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki titles are: Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, My Neighbor Totoro, and his latest The Wind Rises. If you love animation pls. give these a try. They are magical and the stories, characters and colors are amazing. Miyazaki and his studio still do it all by hand and you can see the genius of these artists on screen.
I've never liked animation, sorry, neither Disney nor Bluth, but I do love Miyazaki's films.
WELCOME. We're a pretty good group, I'm kinda new here too and I really enjoy these boards cause they're all about FILM and how much we love it.
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GIVING IT A TRY. THANKS. THIS IS FUN.
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Yeah, like Lawrence A. said. Me too
The Man Who Fell To Earth
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Can't use two emojis on one post. So I thank you for the article. And "like" your post. The interview was fascinating and continued on to Deeley's reminiscences of Blade Runner. All three parts of the interview were worth reading for any classic sci-fi fan.
And "Blade Runner" and "Man Who Fell to Earth" are two of my favorites.