CharlieT
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I read the book "Hotel" before seeing the movie. Three characters stood out as miscast in my opinion. The description of the hotel manager fit Clint Walker more than Rod Taylor (although, Taylor probably was a better choice for acting ability alone.) The hotel thief, Keycase Milne, was not built anything like Karl Malden and Richard Conte was nothing like the described house detective. Conte could have played Milne. The detective could have been played by William Conrad.
On the positive side, Michael Rennie is very well cast as the British nobleman.
CharlieT
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My favorite war movies:
The Patriot
Glory
They Died With Their Boots On
Well, you didn't specify which war.
CharlieT
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OK. Fred Clark in Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. Rosalind Russell in The Trouble With Angels. Forrest Tucker in Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. I think Lee Patrick played the boy, but I don't know how to reference it to the clue.
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The Mother Superior sounds like Rosalind Russell and the yeti exploiter might be Forrest Tucker which would point towards "Auntie Mame." But I don't remember Fred Clark in the other "exploiter" role and I can't remember the name of the boy. Maybe someone else can follow up on this chain if it's correct. If not, then nevermind.
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OK, it needs to be said.
What's a shmata?
Nothing. What's a shmata with you?
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
CharlieT
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Just wanted to mention that a lot of the fans on this board will remember Ivan Dixon as Kinch on the TV series "Hogan's Heroes."
CharlieT
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The other Philip Seymour Hoffman film was "State and Main." Just asked my daughter and she was more than willing to correct me.
CharlieT
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Although I feel hardly qualified to choose among all of these entries, I feel they deserve to have some reaction from all of the regular posters here. Many of the themes are well thought out and show a sense of style, a sense of humor or both.
After perusing all lists, I cast my lowly vote for filmlover. To state reasons why would be to ignore the efforts of all of the other contestants, but choosing "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the Essential didn't hurt his chances. The entry of lzcutter also appealed to my own idea of a good way to spend a week in June.
Thanks to all of you for the time and effort invested and good luck as you head for the finish line.
CharlieT
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Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay, I came to say,
I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same,
I must be going. La la
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer through,
But I am telling you,
I must be going.
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Sons of the Desert?
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Now, now. This is not the place for name-calling, scarlett.
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Thanks, Rusty. But explaining what makes a beautiful woman beautiful is easy. Explaining what makes a plain woman beautiful is difficult.
The final courtroom scene is definitely a goose-bump moment. The only thing I didn't get to say about the movie is how much I enjoyed the score. Just hearing it makes me nostalgic for an era I never experienced except through the magic of the silver screen and this - my all-time favorite - film.
CharlieT
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Well, I guess it takes all kinds. ; )
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You should watch him in "Twister" and "The Big Lebowski." There's another good one that I think is called "Main Street" with Alec Baldwin.
CharlieT
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And a 20 second intermission.
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Yeah! I remember it. It starred Charlton Heston as an American soldier who has to hide out with the orchestra to avoid the Nazis for whom the orchestra is forced to perform before they are allowed to move on to their next scheduled gig. Maximillian Schell played the German commanding officer. I really enjoyed the music. Leonard Maltin wasn't very impressed with the film, giving it only one and a half stars.
CharlieT
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If they did "Watership Down" would it be considered redundant?
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They may have to expand that to 60 seconds.
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The most essential to me is "To Kill a Mockingbird." I saw this at as a twelve year old and felt even then it was one of the best movies I had ever seen or would ever see.
It was part scary movie, part comedy, part social commentary, part nostalgia and part a coming of age movie. It dealt with racism, single parent family life and raising of handicapped children (Boo, of course) at a time when there were few social agencies to assist. It dealt with the poverty brought on by the Great Depression. And it showed the fragility of the simple joys of childhood.
Add to that the performances of Gregory Peck, Paul Fix, William Windom, an up and coming Brock Peters and several unknowns including Mary Badham and Phillip Alford. And of course, Robert Duvall (God, I hope I spelled that right or CineSage Jr. AKA CineSage will be all over my illiterate butt.)
I would not pick a least essential. No matter which I would choose, someone else might feel it is one of the great cinematic wonders of all time. Just look at the debates on "Citizen Kane" and you see what I mean.
One of the fillers I saw on TCM had young people talking about some of the symbolism in one of the scenes in "To Kill a Mockingbird" as it was shown to them in class and I only saw this for the first time when they pointed it out. I know this is good, possibly great cinematic artistry, but all I need to know is if the film touches me in any way without looking for hidden meanings in juxtaposing of characters and inanimate objects. All I ask is to just be entertained.
CharlieT
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I always thought that it was Mantan Moreland that said, "Feet don't fail me now!" in the old Charlie Chan movies. Of course, I was just a child the last time I saw these films.
CharlieT
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Silly fantasies have their place in the entertainment industry. Not everything has to have a deep and redeeming message for viewers to ferret out. Actually, many classics could be classified as silly fantasies - and that's OK with me.
Song of Bernadette has a girl hearing voices (presumably the Virgin Mary) and seeing visions directing her to build a shrine and everyone thinks she's crazy. Although she doesn't give any dead people a ride in a VW minibus, it does have striking similarities, if you want to look at it that way. Looking at it with logic, the two films are nothing alike. As they say, that's what make horse races.
I still like the movie for the reasons I stated and the reasons you stated as well, jarhfive. It does go beyond baseball to more human themes. But that's just me, I guess.
CharlieT
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Would you say that McQueen is number 1 with a "Bullitt?"
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'Fraid I don't remember any reference to "Field of Dreams" in "Sleepless in Seattle." I do recall Tom Hanks and his brother-in-law getting maudlin over the end of "The Dirty Dozen" to rib Rita Wilson's crying over the end of "An Affair to Remember."
I really enjoyed FOD because of its connection to early vintage baseball. My only complaint was casting Ray Liotta to play Shoeless Joe Jackson. Liotta played him as a right-handed New Yawker, but Jackson was left-handed and from South Carolina.
Other than that, I choose to "suspend my disbelief." This is advice I always give my daughter whenever she questions motivations of actors or the credibility of some actions or reactions to way the movie is presented. One could tear apart the logic of almost any movie made if one wanted to, but where's the fun in that?
CharlieT
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Thanks for the correction. I'm sometimes good with the stars, but the supports can be hard to identify.