Det Jim McLeod
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Have loved this film for many years too Jim, however one correction here. Widmark was nominated but didn't win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year.
(...Edmund Gwenn did for his turn as Kris Kringle)
Yes, I was typing too fast, I fixed it. It was an interesting year for Supporting Actor, another psycho killer Robert Ryan in Crossfire was also nominated. Thomas Gomez (Ride The Pink Horse) and Charles Bickford (The Farmer's Daughter) was the other ones. I think Edmund Gwenn deserved it.
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6 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
If the category existed and we assume GWTW was the winner and assuming just one category, what would the other nominees have been?
My list:
Wizard of Oz
The Women (nod to contemporary fashion )
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Goodbye Mr. Chips
I agree with those, it's possible there would have been separate color and B&W costume awards as they would later and already separate ones for cinematography.
GWTW won the color cinematography award, which I think was well deserved. This was the competition that year:
Drums Along The Mohawk
Four Feathers
The Mikado
The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
The Wizard Of Oz
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8 minutes ago, TomJH said:
The Villain (1979)
Combination western spoof and Road Runner cartoon, directed by former stuntman Hal Needham.
I never saw this but it sounds like a western version of Needham's later Cannonball Run movies. It does have some of my favorite comedians like Foster Brooks and Paul Lynde, I tend to start laughing the minute they appear on screen.
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13 hours ago, Rudy's Girl said:
Joseph Cotten as "Uncle Charlie" from Shadow of a Doubt has to be one of the best villains ever. An innocent, small town would never expect one of it's own to be a serial killer. His performance is so realistic and unsettling.
I totally agree on this. The most chilling thing about it was the villain was a well dressed, soft spoken gentleman, which is why he was able to get away with his crimes since no one would suspect him.
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Kiss Of Death (1947) TCM 10/10
A thief is captured and becomes an informer for the Assistant DA, a psychopathic gangster seeks revenge.
I have seen this many times, it is my favorite gangster/noir film. Seeing it again last night just confirmed my opinion, I was totally riveted from beginning to end. Richard Widmark's Oscar nominated debut as the psycho is still very frightening to this day. His skull like face and sinister giggle is still unnerving. I would like to talk also of Victor Mature, who has been underrated by critics (even by himself) but I have seen several of his films and I don't think he ever gave a bad performance. Actually in this one and a few others (like My Darling Clementine and Cry Of The City) he was excellent. My favorite scene in this one was the extremely tense one where Mature is waiting in a restaurant for Widmark to come from behind a curtain in the back. Mature sits nervously smoking while we see a small opening with Widmark's maniacal eyes staring through it.
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I have seen the trailer and I will not see it. It looks like a Lifetime movie version of the HG Wells classic.
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The Rookies (1972-1976)
next-favorite sitcom of the 1960s
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8. She appeared uncredited as the Virgin Mary in The Song Of Bernadette.
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The Drowning Pool (1976) sequel to Harper
next-The Sting (1973) more Paul Newman in the 1970s
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6) Sydney Greenstreet received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, the only cast member to be nominated.
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The scene where Deanie is very depressed at the dinner table and her mother acts silly just to cheer her up.
Next-favorite Sidney Poitier movie
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On 2/25/2020 at 8:56 AM, TikiSoo said:
..going back to what I JUST WATCHED:
I have never seen this, but I was curious about it. One thing I do recall was a trailer where the John Cleese character thinks "Valley Of The Dolls" sounds like a children's book. When he is told that the dolls were drugs, he says "Well a really cool children's book!"
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Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972), a wonderfully hammy performance that was just right for this role.
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15 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Yes. I think I saw Laird Cregar in The Lodger, but I fell asleep. I'll need to re-watch. If I remember right, Cregar looks rather thin, and I think this is his last film.
You must be thinking of Hangover Square. Cregar played a killer in that also and he was slimmed down and it did turn out to be his last film
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7 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
The book OR movie doesn't "romanticize" the Antebellum South any more than it "legitimizes" slavery(
And Hattie McDaniel's Mammy character was one slave that wasn't afraid to get mouthy with her masters!
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12 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
If anything, I was surprised NOBODY hit PRISSY(Butterfly McQueen) with anything harder than the back of a hand.
Her voice could be a bit annoying but I thought she was funny. In the scene where she begs Rhett Butler to come down as he talks to her from a window, you can see he is quite amused by her.
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I like to see the villain get what's coming to him, like the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry. He is a disgusting, nasty violent creep who murders just for the thrill of it. He is also a racist and abusive to children, so he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The final showdown with tough cop Clint Eastwood is very satisfying.
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I just watched this again for the second time all the way through. I give it 10/10, still a stunning achievement with excellent acting, engrossing story, great color, sets, costumes.
I would like to talk about some of the more surprising and even shocking moments in it.
First of all the character of Scarlett O'Hara and the performance of Vivien Leigh. many have said she is just a spoiled. manipulative brat and they don't like spending 4 hours with her. I was fascinated by her, she may not be the most likable woman but you can't help but root for her in many of the scenes. She goes through a lot in this story, it may be hard to tell if she has learned anything, but so what, I enjoyed the ride with her. And I think Leigh's performance is the greatest by any actress in film history.
There is some shocking scenes in this as well. There is the scene of a wounded soldier needs a leg amputated, and the doctor has no chloroform for anesthesia, so he must do it without it! Of course it is not shown but just the suggestion of this in a 1939 is a grisly moment, we also hear his pleas and screams while Scarlett looks on in horror. The most memorable scene for me was when Scarlett is menaced by a Yankee deserter and is forced to shoot him in the face. The bloody scene is shockingly violent for it's time and still provides a jolt today. Scarlett is attacked in another scene while she is riding in a horse drawn cart. A black slave Big Sam comes to her rescue and knocks out the white man attacking her, giving a black man a rare heroic moment in a 1930s film.
What are your thoughts?
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John Wayne
next- West Side Story-Natalie Wood
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Diana Dors
Next-favorite scene from Gone With The Wind
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Cavalcade (1933)
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Double Happiness (1994)
next-Sideways (2004) 2 with Sandra Oh
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Arnie (1970-1972)
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Tony Curtis
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Name A Film Character You'd Like To Know
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Probably Private Robert E Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) in From Here To Eternity. He seemed like a stand up guy and would be a good drinking buddy. I think I would be a better friend to him than Frank Sinatra's Maggio, whose big mouth and drunken antics would get them both in trouble.