Det Jim McLeod
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14 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
The main things I recall Michael J. Pollard from besides Bonnie & Clyde are an episode of Star Trek (1966), Little Fauss & Big Halsey (1970) with Robert Redford, Dirty Little Billy (1972) as Billy the Kid, Melvin and Howard (1980), and Scrooged (1988). I've seen him in a lot more (Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, anyone?), but the above are what I remember him from.
Pollard was reunited with Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy (1990). Beatty of course played the title role and Pollard was Bug Bailey, a police wiretap expert. Estelle Parsons also has a cameo as Tess Truehart's mother.
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The Irishman 8/10 Current release
I finally got to see this, I don't have Netflix and luckily got to see it in a NYC theater.
It's based on the true story of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and the mob hitman Frank Sheeran who was a close friend. Martin Scorsese directed and has the dream cast of Robert DeNiro as Sheeran, Al Pacino as Hoffa with Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel in smaller roles.
It is a excellent film due mostly to the acting. DeNiro and Pacino have not been this good in decades. Just seeing them on screen talking to each other is worth the price of admission. It probably could have been trimmed a bit from it's 3 1/2 hour running time but it's never boring. It seemed to me like a much more low key version of the Scorsese mob classics Goodfellas and Casino, this one does not have the shocking brutality and raucous black humor of those. Any fan of the two stars can just sit back and let the magic happen.
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Janet Leigh was in Living It Up with Dean Martin
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2 hours ago, bdoon51 said:
Give me a break
Whoops! Careful newbie, your trolling is showing.
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11 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Nice intro and outro for The Hitch-Hiker, thanks Eddie.
I just saw this for the first time. 8/10
I liked that Muller compares it to two of my 1970s faves-Deliverance and Straw Dogs. The Hitch Hiker was a short, lean, mean exercise in suspense about two average non violent guys confronted with unimaginable evil. William Talman is one of most creepy, hateful villains I have ever seen in a film. His character not only wants to control and frighten his hostages, he seems to take a sadistic glee in humiliating and belittling them. Edmond O'Brien once again proves he is one of the more reliable character actors of his time, he is the more emotional of the two hostages. Frank Lovejoy was known mostly for playing tough, commanding lawmen in films like House Of Wax and I Was A Communist For The FBI. Here he is a victim, and is calm and thoughtful.
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Doctor Sleep (2019) 6/10 current theatrical release.
A sequel to The Shining (1980) with grown up Danny Torrance (Ewan Macgregor) meeting a young girl with similar powers, they team up to battle some demons.
This is a good film, not overly gory and very low key. It is overlong (152 minutes) and the lead villain is a bland looking actress (Rebecca Ferguson) with an equally bland performance, she is not very frightening. The film is a treat for fans of the original, it copies several shots from that one.
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6 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, she's quite good in it though she's a lot more butch/lesbian in this one than in her other films.
Well, I guess this could be an early example of "woke culture" then!
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21 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
TCM is airing the John Ford classic DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939). That's the good news.
The bad news is that it's airing at 1:45 a.m.
Why..? This is a classic 20th Century Fox film, rarely shown, that should be broadcast at 8 p.m.
Yes, that's a great one. I love the color photography. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert are a great couple though Edna May Oliver steals the show.
It's interesting that they are showing Dog Day Afternoon in prime time, usually the R-rated films are the ones that are broadcast after midnight.
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Long Ago Tomorrow (1970)
Next- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid -B. J. Thomas sings songs in both these films
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9) He appeared as himself on one of the best episodes of All In The Family
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33 minutes ago, laffite said:
I wonder how deep in the film we are before we find out that she's ... dying. I hope near the beginning.
About 30 minutes in. I hope you don't want me to stop posting reviews like Lawrence A!
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5) Betty Hutton gets top billing in this film.
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Shirley Jones, I would like to hear stories about husband Jack Cassidy
Next- Robert Young or Ozzie Nelson?
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12 hours ago, Dommy said:
Well in Angels With Dirty Faces, James Cagney didn't slap Ann Sheridan she slapped him.
The actor who plays the young James Cagney character does slap the actress who plays the young Ann Sheridan character, which sets up the scene you mention.
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A good year, From Here To Eternity is one of my top ten favorite films. I think Montgomery Clift gave the best performance of the year and one of the greatest of all time. House Of Wax is another favorite of mine from that year.
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Dark Victory (1939) TCM and a first time viewing for me. 8/10
Bette Davis is a dying socialite who falls in love with her doctor (George Brent). This is considered one of Davis' most iconic performances and I am sorry I waiting so long to see it, because I loved it.
Davis just goes all out in a spellbinding performance. The film is a manipulative soap opera but is so highly entertaining that it just draws you in. I enjoyed the supporting cast which included Humphrey Bogart as a lovesick horse trainer (though he struggles with an Irish brogue) and Ronald Reagan as a tipsy rich chum. I also noticed that some clips turned up in one of my favorite films Midnight Cowboy. They are seen on a TV during the Jon Voight/Sylvia Miles sex scene.
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3) Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have a cameo appearance
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Oliver Reed was in The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1988) with Uma Thurman
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10) Marilyn Monroe met future husband Arthur Miller while making this film.
Next- The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)
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WC Fields, since we never got to see what he was like in real life.
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John McGiver or Percy Helton?
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23 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
And in another thread there was mention of SANDY DENNIS as an actress and also of any appreciation of her as thus. So, did anyone in this thread bring up her teacher role in UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE? If so, I apologize for the repeat, but didn't feel like trudging through all three pages to check.
Yes, I mentioned that in my original post. It's my favorite of her performances, and the least twitchy.
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On 11/7/2019 at 9:51 PM, Forty-One said:
Morgan Freeman is great in that movie!
One of his best performances. He is just as hard on the teachers as the students in that film.
Just curious, why the name change from Jean Louis Gerdes to Forty One?
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One of my favorite Vincent Price films is Confessions Of An Opium Eater.
An exploitation film filmed in Omaha and released in 1991 is about a depressed loser who has no luck with women, it's called Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend.
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On 11/7/2019 at 4:13 PM, jamesjazzguitar said:
I have mentioned Patric Knowles since he was under contract with Warners and was in some major films
I remember him in the Abbott and Costello film Hit The Ice. Knowles plays a guy who grew up on the same street as Bud and Lou (both from New Jersey) even though he somehow acquired a British accent.
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The 100 Best Films of the 2010's?
in General Discussions
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I have seen 25 of them.
The highest ranking one I saw was The Master at #2. 6/10 I grudgingly gave it a thumbs up for the acting.
I was glad my favorite of the decade was included, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. It came in at #39
I am going to wait until 2019 is over before I make a list of my favorites.