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2 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Wednesday, June 24
1:30 a.m. The Blue Lagoon (1980). The 1949 original with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston was scheduled to be shown at BFI Southbank London but was cancelled due to covid-19. Each month the BFI curator shows a film for the ‘Projecting the Archive’ series. They pick a film from a list where the rights to replicate on dvd are not available. I’ve seen a few Elisabeth Bergner films this way including Escape Me Never (1935).
I barely remember this movie (except the ending). I do recall seeing Christopher Atkins turn up later on DALLAS as another of Sue Ellen Ewing's put-upon lovers.
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12 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I came across TWINS OF EVIL (1971)- a HAMMER HORROR i has heretofore not seen- on AMAZON PRIME.
It was- most unexpectedly- an AWFULLY FUN FILM, I liked it even better than VAMPIRE CIRCUS and I like VAMPIRE CIRCUS. As someone who has seen almost all the HAMMER HORRORS, this film played like a portmanteau of most of the standard HAMMER TRADEMARKS- with a dash of WITCHFINDER GENERAL thrown in for funsies. There is LITERALLY a sequence where it's just A POUNDING SCORE as HEAVING BOSOMS and CRUCIFIXES are HURLED AT THE CAMERA- if COUNT FLOYD ever managed to get the rights to this, he would DIE ON THE SPOT of SHEER DELIGHT.
A PETER CUSHING that I have never seen before plays the local VILLAGE RELIGIOUS NUT, I lost count of how many scenes there are interspersed throughout the film of RIDICULOUSLY SEXY peasant girls being burned at the stake, you'd think after a while either they would move or he'd run out of women with 38 c's and hair down to their waists to immolate.
KATHLEEN BYRON has a role in this, she was so good in BLACK NARCISSUS.
This movie was also filmed at PINEWOOD and not BRAY studios in Elstree (where most of the HAMMER FILMS were shot) and the sets are vastly superior to a lot of those in most HAMMERS of the seventies.
The ending ventures into BLAZING SADDLES territory and frankly, I loved it.
One of the few Hammer films I have yet seen, but it does sound interesting. Vampire stories always interest me.
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I love Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, but their star power and combination could not save the dreadful THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL.
I don't object to Peck playing a bad guy (he was deliciously nasty in 1946's DUEL IN THE SUN) but he was way over the top for my liking in here.
And I just couldn't buy Olivier's performance either. The whole story itself was ridiculous beyond belief (and I usually have no problem suspending belief but this movie was really stretching it!).
Only saving grace at least this movie was neither one's final film. Would have been a horrible way to end a well respected film career on.
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Peggy Cass
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I loved the one with Laurel and Hardy on the NEW SCOOBY DOO MOVIES even though I knew the real Laurel and Hardy had passed on by that time.
I love anything with Laurel and Hardy in it. I'm surprised they haven't had a film biography done of either or both of them.
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55 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Tuesday June 23, 2020
Ann Sheridan comedies on TCM
I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE with Cary Grant
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER with Monty Woolley
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE with Jack Benny
More good choices with the best of Ann.
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Joanna Barnes
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6 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Speaking of Gregory Peck, what about Spellbound (I wish they would run it). Great visuals.
I was thinking of SPELLBOUND too.
It is a shame it isn't shown more often, but I can't really complain since I got the DVD. This topic is making me itch to pop it into the DVD player again.
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21 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I did get a kick out of Robertson in the finale trying to out Cagney Cagney
In the voice of the late, great Mr. T...."I pity the fool who thinks he can out Cagney Cagney!".
It was an okay film but Robertson was no Cagney regardless if he was trying to outdo him or not.
I've seen worst film noirs, but I've seen better as well.
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Jean Harlow
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Ethel Barrymore
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Louis Jourdan
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THE MUSIC MAN
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Tina Louise
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1 minute ago, TopBilled said:
Have you seen these classic films:
1051.
1052.
1053.
1054.
1055.
1056.
1057.
1058.
1059.
1060.
Not sure I've seen 1060. The rest I have.
1059 was okay but the book was much, much better. 1052 and 1056 are my top pics of the crop on these ones.
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Alan Marshal
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THE VERDICT, HUD, COOL HAND LUKE, THE HUSTLER he turned in Oscar-worthy performances in all these films.
I personally think he should have taken home the gold for either THE HUSTLER (1961) or COOL HAND LUKE (1967). Rod Steiger should have won the award 2 years earlier for THE PAWNBROKER.
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4 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Tuesday, June 23
6 a.m. Tiger Bay (1959). Hayley Mills break out film. The part was originally written for a young boy.
Don't think I've seen this one, and I thought I've seen just about all of her films. Have to check this one out.
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Barbara Read
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4 hours ago, EricJ said:
I don't remember the infamous "Space carrot" episode, but just wait till you get to the "Space Vikings".
Goofiness, thy name is Irwin.
(Although "Flight to the Future", where Will, Dr. Smith and Robot think they've gone through a 300-yr. timewarp, is a fun episode if you're watching at Will's age. Robot was simply one of the great icons of 60's TV. 🤖 )
I try to block out the memory of THE GREAT VEGETABLE REBELLION, the name of the space carrot episode in LOST IN SPACE. Man, what a really awful episode. The show really hit rock bottom by that point. As a matter of fact, with the exception of a couple of episodes, just about all of season 3 of LIS was really terrible.
The show was at its best in season 1 when it was striving to be a 'serious' sci-fi show. But it went downhill once it became the Dr. Smith show and changed the tone of the show to all-out camp.
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Hugo Haas
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1 minute ago, TopBilled said:
Monday June 22, 2020
Directed by Billy Wilder on TCM
THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR with Ginger Rogers
DOUBLE INDEMNITY with Barbara Stanwyck
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH with Marilyn Monroe
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON with Gary Cooper
SOME LIKE IT HOT with Tony Curtis
THE APARTMENT with Fred MacMurray
Awesome!
Especially looking forward to DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, SOME LIKE IT HOT and THE APARTMENT.Particularly the last 2 films since they both star Jack Lemmon.
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Milton Selzer
Laurel And Hardy
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Haven't seen it as of yet.
Still, I would have thought someone would have done a biography of them years ago.