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1 hour ago, Swithin said:
On Svengoolie Tonight, June 6, 2020: Back to the classics:
I just love BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
One of the very few sequels that actually surpasses the original film (and I really adore the 1931 FRANKENSTEIN).
One quibble....we see very little of the Bride, she has maybe only 4 or 5 minutes of film time (though Elsa Lancaster does appear as Mary Shelley at the beginning of the film). Otherwise it's a classic.
I know Boris Karloff didn't like the monster talking but I actually think it added layers to the creature and made him even more sympathetic.
This would be Colin Clive's last turn as Dr. Frankenstein (since he ended up dying 2 years later). Dr. Pretorius, such a weird, creepy, yet fascinating character and he's played brilliantly by Ernest Thesiger.
And Una O'Connor is a hoot as Minnie.
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3 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Well I prefer DVDs to streaming, although subscribing to Criterion Channel is tempting. I haven't watched more than 2 things on Netflix having it over a year. (MrTiki watches it tho)
The beauty of DVDs is sharing them with people who are interested in seeing a great classic movie. Plus if you fall asleep during a play, it's easy to go back a few chapters. Sadly, this happens to me just about every viewing these days.
I don't do a whole lot of streaming myself. I don't even have Netflix. Give me DVDs any day.
I still haven't gotten around to getting any Blu-Rays, I am quite content with my regular movies.
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3 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Sunday, June 7
2 p.m. The Philadelphia Story (1940). It’s well worth a watch once every dozen years, or so.
I love this movie. I can watch it every other day.
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On 7/26/2019 at 11:34 PM, speedracer5 said:
Wow. If discs are dead, I've got an enormous graveyard in three rooms of my house. I thought Warner Bros was doing a pretty good job of keeping their films "alive."
Heck, my whole room is a cemetery then…..over 700 movies in DVDs.
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We'll never know how Burt would have fared as Ben-Hur, but I do think he had the acting chops to pull it off.
Still, I can't imagine anyone but Heston as the title character.
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Welcome! Look forward to seeing more posts from you.
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Ida Lupino
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Fay Bainter
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Oh so many films, but here's my choices for films I can watch over and over again:
THE ROARING TWENTIES, CASABLANCA, WHITE HEAT, BRINGING UP BABY, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, KEY LARGO, THE LITTLE FOXES, ALL ABOUT EVE, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, A STAR IS BORN (1954), IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, SPARTACUS, OUT OF THE PAST, JEZEBEL, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, TWELVE ANGRY MEN (1957)….
I better stop now. But these are the movies that instantly came to my mind when I read this topic.
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Just now, TopBilled said:
I think HEAVEN'S GATE gets a bad rap. It's definitely too long, but there is considerable artistic merit and the performances are decent.
It has a great cast, I'll give it that. But I tried watching it 3 times and have yet to find any artistic merit to me.
Guess it was just lost on me.
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I enjoy Charlton Heston in a lot of his films. I concede he could be hammy in some of them, but he was always fun to watch.
I always love his "Get your damn paws off of me, you damn dirty apes!" line in PLANET OF THE APES.
I loved him in BEN-HUR but my personal favorite performance of his was in THE OMEGA MAN.
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11 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Friday June 5, 2020
Post-code westerns on STARZ
THE SHOOTIST with John Wayne
HEAVEN'S GATE with Kris Kristofferson
I do love THE SHOOTIST. HEAVEN'S GATE is another story though....
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THE ROCKET MAN
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There have been many film versions of LES MISERABLES and many fine actors who have stepped into the roles of Jean Valjean (Fredric March, Liam Neeson, Hugh Jackman, Richard Jordan to name a few) and Inspector Javert (Charles Laughton, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, Anthony Perkins, etc.).
The 1935 version with March and Laughton is my personal favorite of all the versions of the story.
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1 hour ago, spence said:
Not to get to personal, but are you a gent or lady? Because GOLDIE was & still s incredibally hot
She's not really legendary though, but HOT POPULAR! Especially after PVT. BENJAMIN (l980)
Her most adorable role, not FOUL PLAY BUT SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES from 1980
I'm a gal.
PRIVATE BENJAMIN is probably her most famous role, but personally I thought the other Army comedy, STRIPES, which came out a year later, was much funnier. I love Bill Murray.
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23 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
From Here To Eternity (1953) TCM on Demand 10/10
The troubled personal lives of a few soldiers stationed in Pearl Harbor just before the 1941 attack.
One of my top ten films of all time. I haven't seen it in awhile since TCM broadcasts it quite often and I wanted to wait till I was in the mood. I still love it, though I constantly hear everyone talking about the Burt Lancaster/Deborah Kerr beach scene and that this is the one Frank Sinatra won his Oscar. I always felt those were subplots, the main story is Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) being bullied by his superiors into boxing on the company team. I thought those scenes had the most effect, and one of my favorites was when Prewitt finally fights back against one brutal sergeant. Ernest Borgnine also makes a great impression as a hateful, grinning bad guy.
I agree that Prewitt plays a far more important role in the movie than some reviewers give it credit for, but it's hard to deny that the infamous lovemaking beach scene between Lancaster and Kerr outshines a lot of today's more explicit sexual scenes depicted on film.
Never saw the television remake. Don't think I'll go out of my way to look for it, even if it does have a decent cast to it. The actors in the 1953 version IMO would be tough acts to follow.
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5 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Friday, June 5
A Night with the Marx. Brothers.
10:45 p.m. Animal Crackers (1930). I remember seeing this in Atlanta when it was reissued, June 1974. My cousin and I sat through it twice.
I need to catch this one. How does it rate?
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I think I'll skip Goldie Hawn. She's never been one of my favorites, and I have never considered her a legendary actress by any means, Oscar or no Oscar.
I am looking forward to Sylvia Sidney, Maureen O'Hara and George Raft though.
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On 6/2/2020 at 2:19 AM, Dargo said:
Two others come immediate to mind here, Miles.
Byron Barr...
...who after being in only a couple of films, would change his name to Gig Young, and which had been the character's name he played in a film he had just been in.
And, Herman Brix...
...who'd change his name to Bruce Bennett after making a number of films using his Brix moniker.
I knew that Gig Young had taken his name from a character in one of his earlier films, had no idea that Bruce Bennett had changed his name before he made his mark in the movies.
Joseph Yule, Jr. went on to become Mickey Rooney until the end of his days.
And of course Marion Morrison once he hit the silver screen, would forever call himself John Wayne, aka The Duke.
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6 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
In the last two seasons, after a change in headwriters, the stories became increasingly more bizarre culminating in a silly send-off. The last scene in the finale revealed the whole thing had been a dream, which was hardly original after Dallas had already done that plot twist.
That's always puzzled me.....DALLAS was criticized up and down for coming up with the 'it was only a nightmare' scenario and erasing one season of the series, while NEWHART was praised for dismissing the entire sitcom with the 'it was all a dream' solution....go figure.
Best Endings & Beginnings in film history?
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That final scene always moves me. Out of many of Newman's many fine performances Cool Hand Luke is my favorite.
(SPOILER) Even though Luke ends up dying, his legend lives on. I always wondered if Dragline took up where Luke left off, judging by the irons on his legs.