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Thursday, 3:15 PM ETWay Out West (1937)My favorite Laurel and Hardy film, with top-notch support from James Finlayson (as "Mickey Finn").The scene in which Sharon Lynn tickles Stan to retrieve a deed always has me rolling on the floor. Great fun.
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NEWS!: Salma Hayak was first on the scene, witnessed events backstage.
Her harrowing firsthand account included.
(link includes a waist-up pic of Salma that I KNOW many of you men will thank me for steering you towards, Hell, even I stared for about a minute.)
Thank you.
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Anyone remember him in Bogart's The Enforcer (1951)? Not only does he portray his usual cold blooded ruthless hood but he also (very unusual for this actor) has the opportunity to play some scenes in which his character is afraid of retribution from the "Big Boy" who runs the mob. And he's damn good, at it, too.
The Enforcer is a really good film, but I can't remember the last time it was on tv. Does anyone know if there is a rights problem with this film?
de Corsia is also very good as the baseball manager in It Happens Every Spring, showing he could do much more than just play hoods.
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Inside The Mafia (1959) youtube
Mildly entertaining crimefest, with a bunch of non-Italian actors culturally appropriating my heritage.
The film opens with the Blues Brothers pumping four bullets into mob boss Ted de Corsia, but he manages to survive, at least for a few reels. His lieutenant, Cameron Mitchell, decides to get even with the big boss. What follows is non-stop lack of action as Mitchell and Robert Strauss take over a house at an airport, hold everyone hostage, and wait for a plane carrying the head man from Italy. This sequence is just a ripoff of Suddenly, which at least featured a real Italian guy.
The supporting cast includes Ed Platt as another mob boss, and James Brown (not the Godfather of Soul) as one of the most useless cops in film history. Frank Gerstle plays a hitman – but at least his suit fits for a change. Louis Jean Heydt runs the airport. The characters have names like Chins, Augie, and Julie (yes, that’s a guy).
The climactic shootout at the mob meeting is something you’d expect from The Naked Gun. The narrator then tells us this may be the end of organized crime. Yeah, right. Apparently he never heard of cable companies.
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4:00 p.m. "Strangers On a Train" (1951)--One of Hitchcock's best films.
Agreed.
One flaw in the film, however. When Granger meets the inebriated John Brown ("My name's Collins ... Delaware Tech") on the train, Brown brags about a lecture he just gave on integral calculus. The concept he mentions to Granger is something that is routinely covered in Calculus I, so I have to wonder who his audience was ... certainly not fellow mathematicians. Brown also seems surprised that Granger understands what he is talking about. But back then, a college-educated person may well have taken a Calculus I class as part of a liberal arts curriculum ... instead of the watered down "quantitative" crap they take now.
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The standard version does exist, but director Stanley Donen was forced to re-film several scenes to accommodate a smaller screen.
For instance, it was obvious that the avalanche sequence could not be filmed in standard format, so Donen had the crew toss snowballs at Howard Keel to simulate the effect.
The barn-raising sequence lost its luster, because all that could be seen was Keel nailing a few boards.
Even the songs were affected. Instead of Keel droning on with "Bless Your Beautiful Hide," he simply said "Hey, nice buns," to Jane Powell.
The overall result was a disastrous film which had to be retitled "One Bride For One Brother."
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Thanks for the info, I kneaded that.
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I am still trying to figure out what a blocknead is.
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progressive viewings slowly began to reveal to me just how overblown the whole thing is.
There is the problem. Next time, try conservative viewings.
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"The Mad Ghoul" (1943)--Starring George Zucco, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey, and David Bruce.
This is one I still haven't seen. Zucco has a way of taking anything remotely crappy and making it entertaining. I love watching the guy.
He was a treat as a policeman in Lured, which showed his flair for comedy. I wish he had done more of that.
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Pro wrestler George "The Animal" Steele has gone to the great wrestling ring in the sky. Turnbuckles across the country are sighing in relief.
Steele portrayed famed thespian Tor Johnson in Ed Wood.
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Jigsaw (1949).
The most curious aspect of this low budget production are the various three to five second cameos made by a number of "A" list stars. There's Burgess Meredith as a bartender, Henry Fonda as a waiter, John Garfield as a newspaper reading street guy and Marlene Dietrich as a patron leaving a nightclub, that nightclub appropriately called "The Blue Angel." I also spotted Marsha Hunt and Everett Sloane.
Exactly why these stars briefly appear I'm not quite certain, though in the case of Garfield it was as a favour for pal Franchot Tone. It was probably much the same kind of thing with the others.
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What's health got to do with it?
Health Kitchen with the Dead End Kidth ith one of my favorite movieth.
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The Wereth Eleven (2001) Amazon Prime
Gut-wrenching documentary, combining real footage, re-enactments, and interviews, about a little-known atrocity during World War II.
At the outset of the Battle of the Bulge, the first American unit to come under fire was the all-black 333rd Field Armor Battalion. Overwhelmed by the Germans, the battalion was reduced to fighting hand to hand with knives, before finally surrendering. Those soldiers that could not stand were shot. The others were marched off.
Eleven prisoners escaped when an American plane strafed the march, while the other soldiers were sent to prison camp. The eleven reached a farmhouse in the town of Wereth, Belgium, where they were given food by a Belgium family. Unfortunately, they were found by the SS, and you can guess the rest.
A few historical notes, not mentioned in the film:
- When the survivors of the battalion were on a train coming home, they were forced to stand in a rest room during the trip, even though one of the cars was completely empty.
- The SS officer who ordered the massacres was sentenced to hang, but his sentence was commuted after serving about 10 years. He moved to France, where he was eventually killed in a house fire (set intentionally).
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Stanley and Livingstone (1939) FXM Retro
Entertaining account of Henry Stanley’s trek through Africa in the late 1800s to locate Dr. Livingstone. Spencer Tracy, as Stanley, gives his usual solid performance. Kudos to Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as Livingstone, who more than holds his own in his scenes with Tracy. Great collection of supporting actors (Walter Brennan, Henry Travers, Charles Coburn), with Nancy Kelly and Richard Greene looking very attractive.
Best exchange: When the search party hears a white man is in the vicinity, they discover he’s actually an albino. Brennan: “Is that a black white man?” Native: “No, that’s a white black man.”
You might get sick of hearing “Onward Christian Soldiers” every fifteen minutes, but you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Hardwicke directing the native chorus singing it in four-part harmony.
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#1 is Alma Kruger
#2 is Robert Morley
#3 is John Barrymore
#4 - not sure yet
#5 is Cora Witherspoon
#6 is Joseph Schildkraut with Gladys George
#7 is Gladys George
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oh god.
i just watched an episode of the current British sci-fi anthology series BLACK MIRROR- the very first episode in fact.
you should stop reading this now.
the premise is that a popular member of the British royal family has been kidnapped and she will be killed unless...
seriously, stop.
the Prime Minister has sex with a pig on tv.
Alright, I'll sink this low ... are you sure this wasn't a new game show called "Let's Make a Squeal?"
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If 'scsu's post was apropos to almost nothing, then I can honestly say this post of mine is apropos to completely nothing. And I'm proud of it. But, hey, it does pertain to the IMDb. → I am the person who corrected the IMDb title listing for the ultra-cheap and sleazy 1975 porno "Winnebango" (it takes place mostly in a motor home -- get it?). See, originally the IMDb title listing had it as
"Winnabango" which was incorrect. When the movie starts the title card pops up with an 'e' in the title.
Was this "movie" filmed simultaneously with Wet Wilderness?
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Apropos of almost nothing, Berkeley is named after the Irish mathematician George Berkeley, whose name was actually pronounced "Barkeley." Berkeley was known for criticizing Newton's calculus, which led to mathematicians forming a better, logical foundation of the topic.
OK, go back to the fighting.
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There is an interesting, but very brief, scene in this film, where Michael Rennie is helping Billy Gray with his homework. Rennie says "first you find a common denominator, and then you divide." I used to show this clip to my students, and ask them if they ever divided fractions by finding a common denominator. None of them had ever heard of this method, because they were taught the mindless "invert and multiply" procedure. So I showed them how this method worked, and it actually gave them a better understanding of division of fractions.
We can learn so much from aliens.
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Yeah, or when even before that, Cuddles Sakall becomes so overcome by Bogart's generosity at allowing the broke young husband to win at the roulette table, he walks up and kisses Bogart on both cheeks.
And thus in this case, the first glimpse at seeing that Rick is actually, and as Renault later calls him, "a sentimentalist".
Jeez, and all these years I thought that was gay subtext.
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This is an outrage!; you cannot cure abuses of freedom of expression by curtailing freedom of expression.
Visit a university some time.
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Saturday, February 4
11:30 a.m. Bound For Glory (1976). Terrific Hal Ashby film about Woody Guthrie. With Carradine ... David Carradine as Woody. Not John, Keith or Robert ... David.
Thanks for clarifying that it's about Woody and not Arlo.
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TOXIC OSCAR SHOCK FLOP! MOONLIT BEATS TRALALA LAND!
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That is not true. They are being deported.