Det Jim McLeod
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Louis Calhern was in The Asphalt Jungle with Sam Jaffe
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No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
Next-Beyond The Door (1974) -Juliet Mills double feature
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Absolution (1978) 6/10 DVD
A pretty good British suspense film about a priest in a Catholic boarding school, he deals with a resentful student who may or may not have committed murder.
Richard Burton stars as the strict Father Godard and he is excellent. The film takes a long time to get going though it's only 95 minutes long. It was written by Anthony Shaffer ("Sleuth") so you can expect some shocking plot twists. The movie was filmed in 1978 but not released in the USA until 1988, 4 years after Burton's death. While it's not great it is worth seeing for Burton and a good ending.
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I always loved "The Day The Earth Stood Still", below is one of most "noir" moments in it. Plus it was directed by Robert Wise, who had made one of the toughest noirs a few years before "Born To Kill"
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13 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Hey did you know there a sequence or two of 14th Street and Astoria Park South in Kiss Of Death, it's one of Astoria's few Noirs.
That's my favorite gangster/noir film of all time.
There is a great shot of the Hell Gate bridge in there.
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4 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Cool, what street?
I grew up on 8th street and Astoria Blvd, the projects. I'm further up now, rather not say exactly where.
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9 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
born and lived in Astoria, Queens
Me too Joe! I'm still there and will never leave.
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On 6/25/2019 at 8:10 PM, CinemaInternational said:
Reese Witherspoon was good in the gritty Wild, as a woman determined by hiking to turn her life around. Laura Dern appeared in flashbacks as her mother. Both were Oscar-nominated.
A good movie, but "Into The Wild" (2009) was a better wilderness film.
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Judy Garland and Robert Walker losing each other at Grand Central in "The Clock" (1945)
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Coleen Gray was in Kiss Of Death (1947) with Victor Mature
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This was a nice chance for Poitier to do a romantic comedy, Abbey Lincoln was very good. Though my favorite thing about it was seeing Carroll O'Connor as the family patriarch, just a few years before he became Archie Bunker.
Lincoln and O'Connor would later reunite on a Season 9 episode of "All In The Family"
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3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Did anyone consider JOHN CASSAVETES for FACES?
Sepiatone
The Academy did not, but they did give supporting performance nominations for Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin.
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The Steel Helmet
Next- a movie which mentions the then current US President
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On 7/5/2019 at 7:18 PM, Gershwin fan said:
White Zombie is a good Karloff film but the ending was too rushed.
That's actually a Lugosi film. He is at most creepy in this one, with many shots of his hypnotic eyes.
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A first time viewing for me, I am sorry now that I waited so long to see this cult favorite.
Jeff Bridges is The Dude, a slacker mistaken for a rich guy with the same name of Lebowski. He comes across many weird characters when the real Lebowski's trophy wife is kidnapped. I knew at the beginning that I was going to like this one when heard the narration from Sam Elliott's gravelly, weary voice. Way too many funny lines and scenes to mention. A great soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kenny Rogers And The First Edition. It almost makes me want to try a White Russian, though the thought of vodka, Kahlua and cream makes me nauseous.
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These are stars who autographed their books for me:
Kirk Douglas
Charlton Heston
Tony Curtis
Robert Vaughn
Darlene Love (singer of "He's A Rebel" and appeared in "Lethal Weapon" movies")
Michael Palin of Monty Python fame
Betsy Blair (ex wife of Gene Kelly and Oscar nominee for "Marty")
Gene Hackman
Grace Jones (singer and Bond villainess in "A View To A Kill")
Mary Wilson of the Supremes
Here are some stars I met at autograph shows and got signed pictures:
Ingrid Pitt -from Hammer horror films
Frank Gorshin
Hazel Court-another from Hammer films
Anne Francis
Kent McCord
David Hedison ("The Fly" and "Live And Let Die")
Candace Hilligoss (from "Carnival Of Souls")
Linda Blair
At a Dark Shadows convention in 1988:
Jonathan Frid (Barnabas)
Lara Parker (Angelique)
Roger Davis (Jeff Clark)
I think my most prized autograph is one I got from Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz, I was 10 years old and I sent several letters to him and got a few pictures of the Peanuts gang. I sent some drawings of mine to him and finally got an type written letter from him with his autograph. He said it was good to hear from me again and said that the pictures looked real good.
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Choose who you would have voted for from the actual nominees with your reason why.
THE NOMINEES
Anthony Harvey for "The Lion In Winter"
Stanley Kubrick for "2001 A Space Odyssey"
Gillo Pontecorvo for "The Battle For Algiers"
Carol Reed for "Oliver"*
Franco Zefferelli for "Romeo And Juliet"
*= actual winner
I would have to go with Kubrick on this one. He created a literal out of this world experience with this film. It is one of the most unique films ever made, some have tried to imitate it but never gotten close.
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Here Come The Co Eds
Next-Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (Lon Chaney Jr co stars with A&C in both films)
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Farley Granger in The Prowler (1981)
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All About Eve
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Death Becomes Her
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3) Francis McDonald plays John Wilkes Booth in this film
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These Thousand Hills
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I loved this Disney attempt at a Hitchcock type suspense film.
It was the first time I had seen it since my childhood, but some scenes stuck with me.
Hayley Mills (becoming a lovely young lady at this time, no longer a little child) is an English girl traveling in Crete with her aunt. She meets an young Englishman (Peter McEnery, he was Dirk Bogarde's boy toy in "Victim") who is in danger from a menacing criminal (Eli Wallach).
The windmill escape is still thrilling, the locations is beautiful and Wallach is excellent. It always makes for a better film when the villain plays it straight, not as comical buffoons like in other Disney films. Hayley's next and last Disney film "That Darn Cat" also had 2 mean and scary bad guys played by Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.
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Name 10 Facts About This Actor
in Games and Trivia
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8. She had an overbite