Bethluvsfilms

Martin Sheen

Richard Harris

Awesome, looking forward to THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING. Twice of Edward G. Robinson is twice the fun.

I would love to see this film. It's no secret that James Cagney has always been my favorite classic era actor and I adore Art Carney as well. That is one terrific pic that Cagney did too, I must say.

John Sheehan

Sally Starr

Cliff Edwards

THE PEOPLE AGAINST O'HARA

AMBUSH

No doubt you're right. As a matter of fact I looked up the set, I still have DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY but MEET JOE BLACK I must have 'misplaced' somewhere down the line. I won't go out of my way to look for it.

Think I've seen just about all of these except 1221 and 1223. I've been overly hard on 1222 in recent years, but having rewatched it recently, it's actually a dang fine film, thanks to the acting of the two leads. 1227 is a pretty good action film thanks to Gene Hackman's amazing performance but I don't really find it all that award worthy (though it's hardly the first time I've disagreed with the Academy's choices). 1228, while Christopher Reeve wasn't exactly a favorite of mine (aside from the first two SUPERMAN movies), I thought he and Jane Seymour had great chemistry. The ending is both tragic yet still strangely happy. 1229....you couldn't pay me to sit through this film a second time. The rest are all rather good.

Can't argue with that. And it wasn't an impressive piece of work of Susan Hayward's career either, nor the careers of the rest of the cast.

APRIL LOVE

It would be nice to see DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY on the line-up, but I do have it on DVD (as a double feature of the deadly dull MEET JOE BLACK), I got the set because of DEATH, which I have watched a 100 times but not but as of yet have not wasted my time a second one watching JOE BLACK (nor do I intend to anytime soon).

BATTLE AT BLOODY BEACH

How could I forget about Errol? He's just so dreamy. He's especially so in this pic.

Has to be 101 DALMATIANS (love Glenn Close but nothing beats the animated feature).

Don't feel guilty. I was a HUGE Monkees fan as a kid and I didn't like HEAD one bit. Maybe you had to be 'out of it' on substances to be able to appreciate it (much like a lot of folks were stoned when watching 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) but it was too 'far out' for me to make heads or tails out of it. Still like their music though, even if it wasn't really them who were performing the songs (at least not on their TV series, not sure about the movie).

THE QUICK GUN

Haven't seen this one. Not exactly an admirer of Melanie Griffith (although I did like her in WORKING GIRL and PACIFIC HEIGHTS) but maybe I will check it out.

Yeah, but in 1939, even though there were a lot of women making strides in government and other areas of social signifigance , this country still had as much as a sexist mindset as it did racist. Women were still considered the stay-at-home types and the men the breadwinners of the family. It was the way it was thought of back then, not just by the filmmakers of the 30's but in a lot of other fields of employment at the time. I'm not saying this was right or fair by any means BTW.

I just like to add the 1974 original THE LONGEST YARD beats Adam Sandler's atrocious 2005 remake by a landslide (though the remake's one saving grace was casting the original star Burt Reynolds in the Michael Conrad role in the 2005 version).

I admit at one time I wasn't particularly fond of VERTIGO, but it's grown on me in time. Likewise MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. MR. SMITH strikes me as being a bit too idealistic in the way Stewart's character Jefferson Smith manages to win over everybody in the end but what the hey, it was 1939.

That would be a more adequate way of putting it. I admit I wondered if it sounded more like a summary rather than a bland description. I admit I hesitated attributing anything to this thread because I don't have much of an imagination. Oh well, I tried.

Sal Mineo