FredCDobbs

Yeah, maybe, but there are a whole lot of movies that I don't want to see. The object of the "game" of being a film buff includes seeing the movies you want to see, and avoiding the movies you don't want to waste time seeing. This film is one long tease.... like spending $50 bucks for a lot of drinks at a strip bar, yet the dancing girls never take off all their clothes, and even if they do, maybe you don't have any sweetie to go home too. What's much better than a film like this is going home to a pretty good looking wife and shouting, "Honey, I'm home", and then honey comes to greet you in a see-through night gown. I.E. no movie is needed at all.

Bunuel seems to be a good technician.... his photography is good, his sound is good, his color is good, his actors are good, but his stories don't usually mean anything that everyone can agree on as making any kind of sense. The "hottest" part of this film presentation was listening to William Friedkin and Robert Osborne talk about it ahead of time. But the dull stuff started as soon as the film began.

I didn't care much for it, but I couldn't read the subtitles since I was lying down and they were all sideways. So, I never quite figured out the plot. However, I will say that I prefer Jean Harlow pre-codes to stuff like this.

Thank you. The way you have the pictures arranged, they look like they are in the same room.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE

THE THIRD MAN

Here is the ORIGINAL ending that was changed a few weeks after the film was released. This one had Jane Wyatt waiting and watching for him: The STANDARD ending, with no Jane Wyatt:

Brewster's Millions (1945)

What The Butler Saw (1950) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZSOL2Q_E8

RAINTREE COUNTY

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) ??

COMPULSION 1959

RETURN OF THE BLANK BOXES (1936) What a confusing mess!! apples forbidden fruit garden of eden adam eve ford tri-motor, landing in rainstorm, only angels have wings tea and sympathy, tea pot, tea cup, or T-pot, T-cup red arrows in two pictures, Robin Hood Meets William Tell??

Roman Holiday (1953)

Ha, you are like me.... you need to take notes as you watch certain movies. I finally made up a main-cast list for THE SEVEN SAMURAI, with photos and names, so I could remember all the characters correctly.

TCM has aired it under the title The Green Glove. It also has another English title, The Gauntlet. And it also has a French title, Le gantelet vert. IMDB lists it as a French and American film.

#1 sounds like OUT OF THE PAST, although you have some information mixed up. The beach was in Mexico and the creek was the East Walker River.

TCM has shown this film several times. A problem with searching for it with clues and keywords is because it is listed more as a crime film than a war film.

Yes.... when Paul Muni and his bodyguards enter a nightclub, while the band is playing St. Louie Woman, they look around then turn left to go to a table. As they walk, Jean is walking with a group of her friends toward the exit door. It is a wide shot, but it certainly looks like Jean. I love this particular scene, because it looks so pre-code, and I would love to have been in that same nightclub that particular night. The music sounds like a Louie Armstrong version of the song, and he was playing in a nightclub in Los Angeles during the time this film was being made. The studios often hired local bands for recording individual numbers for films with live band type background music. He wasn't famous enough at that time to be credited, so I don't know if it really is him and his band playing that tune. At about 1:45 into this preview clip, you can see Muni walking into the club, then he stops and says hello to some blonde girl who is walking out of the club, and that is Jean Harlow.

Yaaa, you gotta good one going!

Ok, I've got it. TCM has shown this film a few times, but I never watched it. I'll hold off naming it.

ZULU 1964 See the red coats.

The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) aka The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ickpl67DVTs This can be found on YouTube by using the search term: film noir crime With St. Louis in the title, and St. Louis being on the Mississippi River, with its old bridges in the 1950s, I took a look at this, and this was it. I was astounded to see Steve McQueen as the films star. I've never heard of the film before, or any of its actors.

Your first two photos give enough clues to send a researcher in the right direction. Wide river, big city, old-fashioned narrow bridge, 1950s car, the guy in the hat looks like either a cop or a crook. The city doesn’t look like New York, Chicago, or L.A., so it must be some other city, perhaps a Midwestern city.

The best part of the film starts with the train ride to Yuriatin. I don't watch the first half of the film anymore, but I still love the second half.