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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Sunday July 26, 2020
Care for a drink? on TCM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE with Edward Everett Horton and two hospitable sisters
Love, love LOVE this flick!
Cary Grant at his manic best, Raymond Massey at his most sinister, Peter Lorre at the height of his haplessness and Jack Carson as the eternally clueless keystone cop....what more can you ask for?
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Have you seen these classics:
1381.
1382.
1383.
1384.
1385.
1386.
1387.
1388.
1389.
1390.
1385, 1389 and 1390 I know I haven't seen as of yet.
Not so sure about 1381, 1383 and 1384.
1387 and especially 1388 are my favorites in here. I also like 1382 really well.
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2 hours ago, jakeem said:
"You know what woke you up? You just had your throat cut." -- Outlaw Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) to Regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) in "The Missouri Breaks" (1976).
Great scene.
(SPOILERS here) This was Logan's revenge against Clayton for hunting down and killing all his friends. I think it was also partly for survival, Logan knew he was a marked man as long as Clayton was alive, but still his main motivation for slitting Clayton's throat was for Clayton's dispatching every last one of Tom's gang.
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1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Camelot (1967) TCM On Demand 4/10
The Lerner and Lowe musical about the love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot.
First time viewing for me and a big disappointment. For years I listened to the Broadway cast album with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet and loved it. I avoided seeing this film because of all the negative things I have read (Leonard Maltin gave the film *1/2 rating). Now that I have seen it I can understand why. Richard Harris is OK as Arthur but he talks and whines through the songs. Vanessa Redgrave is badly miscast as Guenevere and she clearly does not have the vocal range and doesn't even try, Marni Nixon would have helped immensely this time. I was about to praise Franco Nero's singing but I just found out he was dubbed! Other problems are the length (178 minutes) and deadly dull pacing. It seems like they were trying to do a serious historical epic like A Man For All Seasons rather than a lavish, tuneful musical. The music is toned down so it seems like an afterthought as times.
I agree, CAMELOT, despite its fine cast, was a real dud, and not the kind of movie I would want to see again.
Perhaps the movie might have worked better if they had tossed out the songs and just made it a big dramatic epic.
Frankly it's a real bizarre viewing experience watching Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave sing.
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11 hours ago, Swithin said:
I agree with you. It was a very competitive year. I think Rex Harrison was not the best choice. He was competing with Anthony Quinn as Zorba; Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove; Richard Burton as Beckett, and Peter O'Toole as Henry II in Beckett. Any of those gents deserved it over Rex. The Supporting categories were also very competitive.
Total agreement with you there. Rex, good as he was, was probably the least deserving of the nominees.
It's too bad that it couldn't have been Burton or O'Toole who won that year, neither man won any competitive Oscars despite later nominations (though O'Toole did get an Honorary one many years later).
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3 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Sunday, July 26
Here we go. TCM swapped nights with July 12.
10 p.m. Bedazzled (1967), One of my favourite comedies with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and the babe with the bust, Raquel Welch. Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation is not to be missed. Music by Dudley Moore.
Been awhile since I saw that one. Will have to catch that one.
Should be interesting to see Moore during his younger, pre-ARTHUR days.
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As far as the Best Actress of 1964 goes, my vote would not have gone to either Audrey Hepburn or Julie Andrews (Andrews made a great Mary Poppins but it wasn't an Oscar worthy performance IMO).
Both great actresses, but neither of them could touch Kim Stanley in SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON.
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5 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
This weeks Noir Alley features The Breaking Point; This fine adaptation of the Hemingway short story To Have and Have Not (and more faithful to that story than the Bogie \ Bacall \ Hawks version), is a first rate film.
John Garfield gives one of his best, if not best, performances as Harry Morgan. Patricia Neal plays the a women, Leona, looking for fun. It is a unique performance and one that is hard to put a finger on: strange and sexy. Phyllis Thaxter plays Harry's wife and helps ground the film. Her emotional scenes with Garfield are very moving without being overly sentimental. One great scene is in a bar where Harry and Leona are having a drink and the wife shows up. The banter between Wife and suspected mistress is one for the ages, with Garfield, claiming he doesn't understand what the women are up to, while they discuss what is going on, that he isn't even in the room.
Also in fine form is Juano Hernandez as Harry's sidekick as well as all of the gangster characters and slime ball middleman, played be Wallace Ford.
The director is Michael Curtiz. A first rate film by the Warner Bros. studio system's "A" unit: E.g. Max Steiner, Ted McCord (cinmatographer), etc...
Looking forward to Eddie's take.
PS: As much as I love the Bogie\Bacall version for their banter and romance, as well as Bogie as-hero wise cracking performance, overall The Breaking Point is the better film and one grity noir.
This weeks Noir Alley features The Breaking Point; This fine adaptation of the Hemingway short story To Have and Have Not (and more faithful to that story than the Bogie \ Bacall \ Hawks version), is a first rate film.
John Garfield gives one of his best, if not best, performances as Harry Morgan. Patricia Neal plays the a women, Leona, looking for fun. It is a unique performance and one that is hard to put a finger on: strange and sexy. Phyllis Thaxter plays Harry's wife and helps ground the film. Her emotional scenes with Garfield are very moving without being overly sentimental. One great scene is in a bar where Harry and Leona are having a drink and the wife shows up. The banter between Wife and suspected mistress is one for the ages, with Garfield, claiming he doesn't understand what the women are up to, while they discuss what is going on, that he isn't even in the room.
The director is Michael Curtiz. A first rate film by the Warner Bros. studio system's "A" unit: E.g. Max Steiner, Ted McCord (cinmatographer),
I love THE BREAKING POINT and I totally agree Garfield turns in one of his best performances. It's a shame he wasn't nominated for Best Actor that year. Patricia Neal also shines as does Wallace Ford as the sleazeball trying to arm-twist Garfield into going along with the mission.
I try not to compare POINT with TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, both great films in their own right regardless of which film was more faithful to Hemingway's story.
POINT does end on a bit of a sad note, I feel so sorry for the little boy.
Classic film all the way.
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