Det Jim McLeod
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Eve Arden was in Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford
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2) His first Oscar nomination was for Rebel Without A Cause
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3 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Did you read the second book? It's called "Narrow Is the Way." It came out in 1987, two years after the first book.
No, I wasn't even aware of that.
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14 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I find B.D. a very interesting person. I don't agree with everything she's said or done, but I can understand that she had her own truth she needed to speak. And on some level I respect it.
I read her book "My Mother's Keeper", thinking it might be another "Mommie Dearest" but I found B.D. to be kind of whiny and nit-picky. Whereas Joan Crawford seemed like a monster, Bette comes off more like a cranky old broad. I mean, one of B.D.'s complaints was that her mother served cold cuts at a party(oh the horror!)
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not sure if anyone mentioned Inger Stevens yet
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10) He was on a episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where he played an elderly man who dates Mary.
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May Robson was in A Star Is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor
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Franklin Pangborn was in The Bank Dick with Jack Norton
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Sally Forrest was in The Strange Door with Charles Laughton
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6 hours ago, midwestan said:
Another TV movie from the '70's I vaguely remember my schoolmates watching en-masse was "The Voyage of the Yes" (I think Desi Arnaz, Jr. starred in that one).
I liked that one too, though I haven't seen it since the first broadcast in 1973. Mike Evans (Lionel on "All In The Family") is Desi Jr's co star in this one. Mike is on the run after killing a thug in self defense, the duo go on a sail boat journey, learning to work through their bigotry. They are also heard on the soundtrack singing the Simon and Garfunkel song "El Condor Pasa".
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The spooky sounding lullaby sung by Mia Farrow sets up "Rosemary's Baby" beautifully.
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Go Ask Alice (1973 TV movie) 7/10
This was the first time I saw this, even though I thought I saw all the great 1970s movies of the week, a period I consider a "golden age" of TV movies. I thought it was quite good with an interesting cast.
Jamie Smith Jackson stars as Alice, a teenager caught up in the drug world of that 60s-70s generation. Jackson soon guested on the TV cop show "The Rookies" and later married one of the stars, Michael Ontkean. William Shatner and Julie Adams play Alice's clueless parents. Andy Griffith shows up as a priest who takes in runaway teens and he encourages her to go back home when she runs away. Ruth Roman has a brief role as a doctor. Wendell Burton ("The Sterile Cuckoo") is a nice guy who falls in love with Alice. Mackenzie Phillips has a bit part as a fellow addict, she had her own problems like that in real life. Things don't get too graphic but there are some quick shots of disturbing scenes where Alice and one of her friends are menaced by a sadistic couple. There is music of the time on the soundtrack, including Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" though it is performed by a fake group, a similar one does the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations". I heard Lee Michael's 1971 hit "Do You Know What I Mean" which sounded like it was the original. The final scene is jolting.
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20 hours ago, TomJH said:
I never got into Secret Agent Man, as I knew the show, as a kid. But when it came to British TV imports I sure liked Roger Moore as Simon Templar in The Saint, as well as The Avengers during the two seasons that featured Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel.
I watched, off and on, all six seasons of The Saint (it took me two and a half years to get through the DVD box set) recently. The show is okay, but Moore's smoothness and aplomb is the best thing about the show. The writing is rather ordinary.
The Mrs. Peel Avengers episodes had far more imaginative story lines, some of them more than a little bizarre and "out there" but often with an endearing self spoofing sense of humour that was lacking in The Saint. Mrs. Peel in tight black leather outfits was the stuff of some very pleasurable dreams for me as a teen.
And, yes, sometimes it got a little kinky
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YUM!
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The Gold Rush (1925) 7/10
One of Chaplin's most highly regarded films and this was the first time I saw it. It seemed to me to be several great comedy bits strung together more than one coherent story. And the best bits are hilarious- eating the shoe, mirage of the chicken, dancing with rolls and the house on the edge.
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Rio Bravo
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Gary Crosby was in Girl Happy with Elvis Presley
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I Remember Mama
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1930's = Boris Karloff & Olivia de Havilland
1940's = Cary Grant & Bette Davis
1950's = Ernest Borgnine & Deborah Kerr
1960's = Sidney Poitier & Natalie Wood
1970's = Walter Matthau & Shelley Winters
1980's = Robert De Niro & Debra Winger
1990's = Tim Robbins & Emma Thompson
2000's = Jake Gyllenhaal & Tilda Swinton
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American Flyers
Tales Of The Darkside The Movie (Rae Dawn Chong double bill)
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Laird Cregar was in This Gun For Hire with Alan Ladd
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Helen Mack was in Kiss And Make Up with Genevieve Tobin
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Rhonda Fleming was in While The City Sleeps with Vincent Price
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2 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
My fan dedication film would be The Crimson Kimono dedicated to my Japanese mom. This 1959 noir film is set in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, and features many of the places my mom would take us kids to, so it brings back memories.
The film stars James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett as fellow L.A. Police detectives that fall for the same women, Victoria Shaw (who is white). This Samuel Fuller film has an interesting murder mystery that revolves around race relation issues and interracial relationships (which my parents had as well but 'flipped').
Solid movie with good performances.
Interesting choice. I am a big Sam Fuller fan ("The Naked Kiss" is my favorite). I saw "The Crimson Kimono" years ago at NYC revival theater, it's a bit hard to find. It has the usual Fuller ingredients of lurid crime and seedy locations. It was one of Shigeta's best roles and Corbett ( best known for William Castle's "Homicidal" )was good too. It was definitely ahead of it's time.
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Name the comedy
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There's That Woman Again
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