FredCDobbs

Highway Dragnet

Dang you Edy!!!

In THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

The way I heard the story back in the old days was that those types of scenes weren't allowed because they might give some crazy guys ideas..... shuch as shooting up theater audiences, blowing people up with pressure cooker bombs, throwing kids in lakes, etc.

Yes, those scenes have been back in the films for 10 or more years.

According to what this guy says, some old films had scenes edited out, within a year or two after their production, so they would be more "appropriate" for later audiences, and apparently there are some rare copies of HANGMAN floating around that still contain the original scenes that were edited out many years ago. It's like the way KING KONG and FRANKENSTEIN had some violent scenes removed not long after the films were made, so they could still be distributed under the terms of the new movie Code, after the Code went into effect in mid-1934.

. Quote: . “Back in 2000 -- ten years ago, somebody get me off this carousel -- I was unaware of Kino Video's release of Fritz Lang's 1943 film Hangmen Also Die! until it suddenly popped up in front of me in a used bin in a neighborhood music store that friend Wayne Schmidt had told me about. Remember independent music stores? The disc's video and audio were rough but the movie was fascinating. Few morale-building studio films made during the war had the bite of this Lang epic, made by a refugee from Naziism clearly eager to use his craft as a political weapon. At its conclusion, the Kino disc suffered from a jarring jump cut that piqued my curiosity: whenever somebody gets sneaky and cuts something out of a movie, it's time to call in the film detectives. I've already reported the jaw-dropping excision of an entire final reel from Lang's wartime spy movie Cloak and Dagger, a change that smacks of immediate postwar political 'adjustments' that wanted the public to stop hating Nazis and start hating Communists. And Lang's very first American film Fury has a curiously 'revised' final courtroom scene, where Spencer Tracy begins to say something very bitter about American justice, but then reverses himself and becomes contrite and humble. Across a cut, Tracy's haircut and costume seem different, and he's also suddenly filmed against a rear-projected courtroom. Savant's verdict: somebody decided to alter the movie after Lang was finished filming.” MORE HERE: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s3351die.html

Shubunka: [to Dorothy] You understood nothing. You're sweet, lovely, and good. You're also very young. Pay for my sins? You know what my sins were? I'll tell you. That I wasn't rotten enough. I wasn't mean and low and dirty enough. That's right, I should have smahed Cornell first. I should have hounded Jammy, kept after him, killed him myself. I should have trusted no one, never had a friend. I should have never loved a woman. That's the way the world is. Wait, live, find out yourself that's the way you have to be... the only way!

I liked it, but it certainly was depressing.. Seems that nearly everyone in the film was in trouble and either got killed or were arrested at the end.

False memory maybe? Maybe confusing 2 different films?

Yikes!!

483 Four angry men trying to reach a verdict on a hot muggy afternoon.

I like to watch THE THING in winter on a very cold night with the heat turned down low.

Was that Glynis Johns in The Adventures of Tartu?

"Honey, I'm home...... yoo hoo..... honey.... where are you? ....I'm home.... Hey, honey, what are these big seed pods doing in the living room?"

Ths is the only film in which Anders was a great character and actor..... I think it was because of Welles direction. Anders was so creepy and just great.

482 "So this is the way KFC is cooked!!"

Quentin Durward was the worst.

The title didn't match the film.

I think this was probably a good anti-Nazi propaganda film for 1943 audiences, since the Nazis were so mean and it took so few of them to totally control all the nice mild and decent people in that town. But it certainly hasn't held up as any kind of "classic".

The old streamlined look for space craft was for traveling through "air", which there is none of in deep space. The new plumbing design came from looking at real deep-space space craft which do not need to be streamlined in deep space.

Never mind.. Beaten by Swithin.