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    Screenshot!

    in Games and Trivia

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    ..shot!!..must..   leave..    messa..         - screenshot # 3 - can you name this film

     

    Kid, I hope you don’t mind if I report this.....

     

    After studying your first frame for a while, I decided this looked like a Mr. Wong film, or a Sherlock Holmes film, or a Charlie Chan film. And I was right. :)

     

    Then, when you posted the poison dart gun photo, I figured more along the lines of a Mr. Wong film or a Charlie Chan film. And in fact, I found a Wong film with similar scenes, with an Asian lady waiting at a desk in Mr. Wong’s house, waiting for him to see her, when some bad guy sticks a dart gun through a window and shoots the lady!

     

    Before she dies, she quickly writes something on a piece of paper!!

     

    BUT, this is NOT the same as your film!! :)

     

    So I had to keep searching, and I finally found your film. :)

    Niagara (1953)

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    Thanks Fred!

     

    I agree, the color is very good-- is it Technicolor?

     

     

    IMDB says it is Technicolor.

     

    Regarding the blurry image, that could be caused by shrinkage of one of the three original B&W camera negatives, if they used that to make a modern print. That causes a registration problem and results in a double image, with one slightly smaller than the other two. Or, all three originals could have shrunk a different amount.

    Yellowface staging of 'Mikado' has to end

    in General Discussions

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    What trend is idiotic?    The trend to continue the use of yellowface or complaining about the recent use of yellowface?

     

    I'm talking about the modern trend to try to change the original 1885 opera, which is a humorous 1885 look at British politics in Asia, with some cute 1885 musical tunes and songs in it. To have used real Japanese people in the opera in 1885 would have been an insult. But the way it was and still is, it's more of a joke about the British colonial way of thinking, and not insulting about the Japanese. I just can't imagine real Japanese people singing those comic songs.

     

    It's like when I hear an Italian opera, I want all the singers to pretend to be Italians, whether they are or not. If they are funny goofy Italians in the opera, that's fine with me, if it's an old opera. Just as it is ok with me for Abbott and Costello to play dumb white guys.

     

    As a matter of fact, years ago I saw some kind of comedy WW II film, and it showed a scene of Japanese soldiers watching an Abbott and Costello movie and laughing a lot at their antics.

    Yellowface staging of 'Mikado' has to end

    in General Discussions

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    I've seen the old Mikado film, and I think this trend in the media/entertainment is idiotic. Some "modern" people are going nuts about this type of stuff.

     

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/opinion/yang-mikado-racism/

     

    "Each time, the use of yellowface has been defended as loving homage or harmless parody. Each time, when Asian-Americans have pointed out that we don't find the wearing of cosmetics and wardrobe to simulate Asian appearance to be "loving" or "harmless," our concerns have been dismissed.

     

    Which is why, despite my deep personal love of musical theater, I think these "traditional" productions -- yellowface productions -- of "The Mikado" have to end."

     

     

     

     

     

    Niagara (1953)

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    I'm watching "Niagara" with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten right now.  I've seen this film multiple times-- it's one of my favorites from the Marilyn Monroe collection.   There are many reasons I love this film.  I think it is one of Marilyn's best performances and it is a nice departure from the dingy blonde persona that she did so well.  She's a bit of a femme fatale in this one and I think this film shows that she was a good actress-- not just a personality.  I would never put her in the same league as Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck; but she is a better actress than she's typically given credit for. 

     

    Aside from Monroe, this film is also a film noir, which is my favorite genre.  There aren't as many film noirs that are in color.  The color in this film is beautiful and I don't think it would have been the same were the film in black and white.  The Niagara Falls setting is also excellent. 

     

    I agree with everything you said. You should be a professional film reviewer. :)

     

    And you are right about how this noir MUST be in color, and it is very good color too.

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    Screenshot!

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    Thanks, that better :D

     

    I know this next film and the stars, want me to tell you, or let others give it a try?

     

    How did you guess Woman on the Run?

     

    I saw that on TCM a couple of years ago. I put it on my Old Films YouTube thread. But I couldn't remember how it started or who was in it, so I couldn't look it up this time. Also, I got the start of it mixed up with a newer TV film titled ZODIAC, about the Zodiac killer, who killed a couple of people in a car at Lands End in San Francisco in the early 70s. Similar film scenes in both movies. And I didn't recognize any of the actors or that dog. :)

    Screenshot!

    in Games and Trivia

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    Cause for Alarm! (1951)

     

    I saw this film 63 years ago, and I remember that ivy covered house. :)

     

    I hated that film. This was shown as a double feature on the weekend, and I went with my parents. This was what I thought of as an "adult" film, meaning lots of boring adult talk with no action at all. For some reason, I've remembered a lot about this film all my life, and I always avoid seeing it if it is ever on TV.

    Screenshot!

    in Games and Trivia

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    Kid and others.....

     

    I wonder if it would be any fun for us to work together to contribute to the clues, based on your still photos??

     

    I'll try that a couple of times, such as....

     

    Ok, I see what looks like a British flag, so this seems like an African British colony. The film looks like it was made in the late 20s or early 30s, based on the model of old car. I'll guess the early 30s.

     

    The car seems to be arriving and people are running out to greet it??

     

    The lack of jungle or grassland suggests British East Africa, or perhaps South Africa.

     

    Here is a link to old British colonies in Africa:

     

    The_British_Empire.png

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    Did anyone like Belle de jour (1967) ??

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    Sure seems like you're closing yourself off to (literally) a whole world of movies with that attitude. This particular film wasn't even all that dialogue heavy, and sometimes I didn't even bother to read everything if I was really caught up in a specific scene. Didn't hamper my enjoyment.

     

     

    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. :)

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    Did anyone like Belle de jour (1967) ??

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    No.  What little I watched before getting bored.  Difficult to follow a plot (if there was one) while trying to read subtitles.  You can either read what they are saying or watch what they are doing - can't do both.

    If it was really any good, it would have been dubed into  or done in English to start with.

     

    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.

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