nakano
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18 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
SPENCER TRACY was on all kinds of 'pills' for years besides the smoking and drinking and lack of sleep from what I've read. He also carried around enormous sums of guilt from his marriage, his son, his acting career and who knows what else.
He had a lot of problems on top of what you listed his bisexuality was a very big one apparently.And he and his wife were Catholics.
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On 10/10/2021 at 2:06 PM, shrinkwrap said:
Thank goodness we Canadians have Silver Screen Classics which recently presented THE 3rd MAN, although one has to endure minimal commercial interruptions...
Hello Silver Screen were awful several years ago,the quality of their prints was not good.I remember a film with Bela Lugosi splitting on the screen I think it was Postal Inspector !( it is cheaper to broadcast pd films) they are a bit better now several providers are not broadcasting tSilver Screen now and it is understandable they show usually 3-4 films a day repeated in the evening shift and they come back every 6 months.,You should definitely check CHCH in Hamilton I think-I'am in Quebec not in Ontario I discovered by pure luck in my basic Bell package-the normal cbc's etc. They show great prints of classic films every night-late at 2 am so set your dvd,many of them are not showed on TCM,They played Naked Alibi with Hayden & Gloria Grahame, 3 weeks ago,This movie never played here at TCM .They have a great selection of films and they always surprise me. You should check the channelThey have a few ads every 30 minutes but so what? They do not cut the movies and there is no stations like this in a basic general package.They broadcasts good old tv series during the day( the Prisonner etc) but the movie at night I always pre-booked in my dvd recorder schedule
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The book I have on Wanger is a hard cover titled 'Hollywood Independent by Matthew Bernstein with a foreword by Robert Wise 1994 a thick book close to 500 pages.
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Thursday, October 14 at 1h00pm In Canada only the original uk Gaslight with Anton Walbrook, not showed often(The 1944 Gaslight with Bergman & Boyer was a remake of the UK one) In the USA they have OBSESSION aka The HiddenRoom . For once we have a very good substitute in Canada the best one imo.
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I will have to read his bio again,but Walter Wanger lost a fortune in the Cleopatra fiasco and not only 20th Century Fox,when he died he had almost nothing and he was very successful for 20 years. The financial stress put a final nail on his marriage then.
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RE 5 Fingers. A very good moviea-a true story- and one of his best roles.,I think Mason favored that role. I have not read my bios of him in a long time though.
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'A Millionnaire For Christy is scheduled on at 10.00 pm in December.It is a good comedy.
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From what I have seen they also scheduled many very early Swedish films,that's good.
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I do not know who he is.. but I surely watch CHCH they present classic films every night (late) and the ones they show are rarely on TCM,They showed Naked Alibi last week,I have seen it elsewhere 2 months ago,just to show what to expect,always good stuff.
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I like her very much,she is good in a delightful comedy from 1951 titled 'A Millionnaire For Christy,I have seen almost all of her films,she is very beautiful in Technicolor, .She looked fantastic in The Naked Jungle & Scaramouche..The photo is from George Hurrell and I'am looking at it right now,from 1942,just starting her career, best photo I have ever seen of her.
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1 hour ago, jameselliot said:
I was amazed they didn't get injured shooting that fight.
Yes it is an amazing fight,one of the best I have ever seen by memory ,it is also the last great role for Connors unless Iam mistaken
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15 minutes ago, King Rat said:
The 1949 Gatsby makes it clear that Gatsby was a bootlegger who learned from long-time criminal Henry Hull. TCM showed this at one of the festivals, and I'm surprised it hasn't been on TV. Macdonald Carey is a bit dull as Nick Carraway, and Betty Field is miscast as Daisy (too neurotic, not beautiful enough, though interesting), but everyone else is really good. The directing isn't brilliant, but it is competent and enjoyable.
You are right in the opening minute of the film we see Gatsby shooting-killing cops.Something not in the 1974 version.I did not like Betty Field she acted like a teenager.Nugent directed the film at the last minute substituting for somebody else I do not remember who right now.Carey is always a reliable actor always dull...
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5 minutes ago, Citizen Ed said:
And they still make Ladd look like the quintessential Noire antihero on the poster😂
Yes but I think the Gatsby's background is very Noir with Daisy the Femme Fatale in a way.
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4 hours ago, midwestan said:
That is surprising that "Passion" has never been shown on TCM.
As for the other films you've reviewed recently, it will probably be 'never' when we get to see "Pony Express" since it's a Paramount film. Same goes for "Spawn of the North". Not so surprisingly, the 1949 version of "The Great Gatsby" (another Paramount film) has never been shown on TCM. Interestingly though, the other two renditions of "The Great Gatsby", from 1926 and 1974 have only been shown a whopping 3 times on TCM! The silent version aired just once in November, 2004. The version most people are familiar with (Redford & Farrow) last aired in January, 2015 (the first time was in November, 2012).
I,am doing these mini reviews for my personnal pleasure and I watched them all in the days I posted them.I hope, maybe foolishly , that TCM 's programmers might look at what we watch or want, No purpose for me here to give my small opinion on NBNW. About Gatsby there was a tv movie done in 2000 with Mira Sorvino but I have not seen it.. Now read this: Shortly before releasing The Great Gatsby (1974) in cinemas, Paramount Pictures suppressed the distribution of nitrate prints for The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Great Gatsby (1949) in order to deter theaters from playing those earlier versions instead of their upcoming 1974 version. This decision led to prints for both films being lost. Decades later, in 2012, a print of the 1949 version was rediscovered. The 1926 version, however, is still lost.From IMDB. ADDED Then the 1926 version was found also since it played here in 2004.
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Spawn of the North 1938 Paramount. Directed by Henry Hathaway. George Raft Henry Fonda Dorothy Lamour John Barrymore Akim Tamiroff. Good action film set in Alaska,a war between fishermen and poaching,it turns deadly.Hathaway filmed 14 weeks in Alaska for real footage,the actors were not there.Special Oscar for special effects to the whole crew,Iam not sure if the category existed then but it is a very good tribute to the crew there.Hathaway did a great directing job with Raft & Lamour.Tamiroff is the best of the lot .In one scene sitting at a table near Barrymore,Fonda is smiling,I'am sure this was not in the script.Barrymore looks inebriated the whole movie ! 110 minutes. 7.25/10
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Passion 1954 RKO.Directed by Allan Dwan. Cornel Wilde Yvonne De Carlo Raymond Burr Lon Chaney jr, Stuart Whitman appears unbilled. Good western ,well a good average one.. with a sort of family feud a la The Big Country . De Carlo plays identicals twins both in love with Cornel ,this problem gets resolved during the film, Great Technicolor, a movie done or finished at the very end of the Howard Hughes tenure at RKO. Surprisingly this film never played on TCM. 84 minutes 6.5/10
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Pony Express 1953 Paramount . Directed by Jerry Hopper.Charlton Heston Rhonda Fleming Jan Sterling Forrest Tucker. Good western about the origins of the Pony Express with Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok.Nice cinematography in Utah & Arizona. Historical nonsense but as I said a good western. 101 minutes .7/10
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The Great Gatsby 1949 Paramount. Directed by Elliott Nugent.Alan Ladd Betty Field Macdonald Carey Ruth Hussey Barry Sullivan Howard Da Silva Shelley Winters. This is the only film version made under the code. So a lot from the book was removed or seriously toned down. Despite that, it is still very enjoyable,it has great sets,costumes by Edith Head. Very good acting from all the actors.91 minutes 7.25/10
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from the Guardian in 2002 Brando later wrote that Magnani attacked him physically. Building on a wild kiss, she put a bite on the actor. She was drawing him towards bed and he - poor lad - escaped only by pinching her nose until she freed him. One monster wrestling another. During the filming of The Rose Tatoo :Lancaster claimed Magnani was directing him, upstaging him, and intimidating him by forgetting to bathe. Her rueful eyes widened, she assured the world she adored Burt. She took him off one night and did all that a woman could to reassure his ego. Then she told anyone ready to listen that he wasn't much to speak of in that department.' I have read in a book Ido not remember which one_I have too many- her hygiene was so so. It is a vague memory but it might be very true unless I mixed it with the Lancaster account. of their filming together
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It is still my favorite Bond song.
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48 minutes ago, Katie_G said:
I Brando claimed she kept sexually harassing him.
This is true,she took the role to be 'near him,"and she was upset because he rejected her advances,something she was not used to.She was a great actress in many films:Mamma Roma,the Golden Coach,The Rose Tatoo and many others.
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I' ll Never Forget You 1951 20th Century Fox aka House in the Square. Directed by Roy Ward Baker.Tyrone Power Ann Blyth Michael Rennie.I was happy to watch this one,it is a remake of Berkeley Square.The opening credits were in black & white and then my jaw dropped as I was reading 'Technicolor consultant so & so' and everything was in b&w. Finally the Technicolor arrived when Power was in the past .Sorry for a little spoiler.I enjoyed the film as I had never seen it before this week.Nice sentimental film. 90 minutes 7/10
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16 hours ago, Katie_G said:
I loved Carol Reed's The Third Man and Fallen Idol so Odd Man Out is bound to be right up there. I've been devouring anything James Mason lately, and now knowing Newton is in it too only adds to the anticipation.
It is very good,I'am a James Mason completist,I just watched is very first film 'Late Extra' it might be available on Youtube
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OBSESSION (1949) aka THE HIDDEN ROOM
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I got it on the net last year and it is not very good,there is nothing else.