Bethluvsfilms

George E. Stone

Big surprise there, hehe. Though in all fairness I like the Duke too. The one I admire though, in his personal life as well as his career, is Jack Lemmon. In addition to being a great actor, he was, in my view, a very humble and wonderful human being. I understand he had been an alcoholic in real life at one time, but he was able to beat the habit and stayed sober for the rest of his life. I really admire him for that.

Dan White

THE GANGSTER

RISE AND SHINE

THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING

MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

THE INVISIBLE MAN

Actually I quite like this film as well as Kirk's performance in it. Since John Wayne (whom I felt gave the best performance that year in THE SEARCHERS) wasn't nominated, it would have been nice if Kirk had taken home the prize. Would anyone really have been crying foul if Yul Brynner had never won an Oscar?

THE OLD DARK HOUSE

Don't think I've seen 867. The rest I have. I really like 865. The others I am kind of lukewarm on.

CASABLANCA

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

Yes, I have to admit she did have better chemistry with Malden, but I still enjoyed Glenn Ford, even if I thought he was a jackass for treating the good Bette sister in A STOLEN LIFE the way he did.

DRAGON SEED

I saw THE TOY in theaters as a young one. At the time I thought it was actually a cool flick, but once I grew older, I didn't find it as hilarious as I once did. Same with STIR CRAZY, loved it as a kid, but now my funny bone went silent when viewing it years later as an adult.

Triple dose of Bette in two different films! Love it. Though I think I like A STOLEN LIFE a bit more, DEAD RINGER does offer up an interesting twist at the end.

THE FLAME AND THE ARROW

Hate it when movies with such an impressive cast turns out to be such a horror. Having said that I also didn't find THE SWARM all that terrible. It's not a classic by any means, but there's something about it, its' corniness, the ridiculous scenarios, the overacting that somehow puts it in my view in the 'so bad it's good' category.

Is this a serious question?

Howard Morris

Leo Genn

Hugh O'Brian

I guess I did phrase it badly. Sorry for the misunderstanding. What I was really trying to say is the only thing that Noah really wanted was to get his hands on Katharine, and unfortunately by the end of the movie he does, despite Evelyn and Jake's best efforts to protect her from him. I know Robert Towne's original ending had Evelyn and Katharine escaping but Polanski won out on filming the more darker ending. If this had been 1934 or 1944, because of the Production Code, no doubt the studios would have stuck with Towne's version.

Philip Ober