MrMagoo
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53 minutes ago, Terrence1 said:
Earthquake
Next: Jean Simmons (2 movies)
Ava G. also bought the farm in THE SNOWS OF KILMANJARO (1952)
I just watched ELMER GANTRY (1960) where Simmons dies in the climatic revival tent scene. Burt Lancaster was fantastic in the leading role and deservedly won an Oscar. Shirley Jones played a very un-Shirley Jones-like character and also won a best supporting actress. A great movie.
Do we need the second Simmons death film?
If not.
Next: Elsa Lanchester
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19 hours ago, CoraSmith said:
James Dean himself. I didn't know he had so many uncredited roles.
Next:
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dracula (1992)
- Short Cuts (1993)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)
Tom Waits. He's great. I particularly liked him in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (2018)
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SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949)
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)
THE WINNING TEAM (1952)
PEYTON PLACE (1957)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
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10 hours ago, cinemaman said:
Fatal Attraction 1987 next: Henry Fonda
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) It is my favorite, all time western...definitely in my Top 10 of all my favorite films. It has one of the greatest endings in any movie. Also great, great death scenes (Jack Elam and Woody Strode get it). There are several (Robards goes down. The guys on the train. The opening family scene). Fonda was one of the all time great villains too. In addition, great, soaring musical score. Plus the haunting harmonica sounds. So many great things about that movie.
Next: Ava Gardner
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3 hours ago, Peebs said:
The Glenn Miller Story (killed off screen)
Next: Sean Connery
THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
Next: Sally Field
We need to get going on some actresses dying on screen.
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58 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Alan Arkin dies in Wait Until Dark (1967)
Next: John Garfield
Yes...and he also died in THEHEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1968)
I just watched CASTLE ONTHE HUDSON (1940). Garfield goes to the chair as the film ends. Does that count as a death scene? Or is it going to his death scene.
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26 minutes ago, Peebs said:
Terrence was the first to answer (Storm Warning) so I'll repost his. Thanks!🙂
When ready...anyone is welcome to come up with an Alan Arkin death scene.
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13 hours ago, Peebs said:
Thanks, Mr. Magoo! I forgot about Fat Man and Little Boy.
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Next: Doris Day
I believe she only dies in one movie. I just watched this recently as part of TCM's Doris Day month.
STORM WARNING (1951). I went back and looked at the Doris Day lineup for this month's TCM retrospective. I've not watched much Doris Day in years. While a beautiful and talented actress her films/roles never touched me all that much. I've never seen STORM WARNING. It sounds very un-Doris Day-ish. What was your impression?
Next: Alan Arkin
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3 hours ago, Peebs said:
Is it Identity (2003)?
Yes he did.....but I never saw the ending as my wife and I walked out of that movie early on. I think it might be the only time I've ever walked out of a movie. I thought it was simply dreadful.
I was actually thinking of FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (1989) He dies in that one too.
Nevertheless, you got it and you're up.
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Cathy O'Donnell
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ANGELS OVER BROADWAY (1940)
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON (1941)
FOR ME AND MY GAL (1942)
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
DESTRY (1954)
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7 hours ago, cinemaman said:
The Sand Pebbles 1966 next: Charlton Heston
I believe Heston dies at the end of THE OMEGA MAN (1971)
Next: John Cusack
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9 hours ago, CoraSmith said:
Richard Egan
Next:
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Great Escape (1963)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Shadows and Fog (1991)Donald Pleasence
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
THE HARD MAN (1957)
PAINT YOUR WAGON (1969)
BLAZING SADDLES (1974)
MISERY (1990)
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8 hours ago, Terrence1 said:
Next: Lana Turner
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Next: Steve McQueen
And yes...to go back a few questions: Thomas Mitchell played the role of Kid Dabb in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939). He dies in a plane crash at the very end.
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Last night I watched REMBRANDT (1936) one of several Charles Laughton/Elsa Lancaster (they were married) films. This was the first time for this one. To me, Laughton is one of the great actors of the 20th century and I'm never disappointed by his performances.
As always, Laughton was terrific. He was in almost every scene. I found the story fairly dry and wasn't connected to what was not much of a plot. Nevertheless, Laughton owned the screen and I found myself wanting to see the next scene. What will he do? Say? Sadly, not much happened. It was basically one scene after the other of Rembrandt talking, thinking out loud, espousing on something or other. It had a pretty good orchestral soundtrack. It had some interesting set designs and lighting effects which for 1936 I thought were worth seeing.
I would give the film a solid "B".
He was only 37 in this movie. It was produced just after he played Bligh and a couple years before Hunchback....both which were much more entertaining, dramatic roles. I've not seen the 1935 version of Les Misreables (how do you do the little dash above the "e"?) where he plays Javert. I'd like to see that. I bet he was good.
Laughton died in 1962 at only 63 years of age. Clearly, he was a great talent who died way too young. He never won an Oscar. Hmmmm....
On other boards about baseball we often debate about great players who should be in the Hall of Fame. It might be nice to start a thread on great actors who never won an Oscar. Laughton would be on my list.
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24 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
The thing that bugged me about THE KILLING FIELDS (And it has been quite sometime since I saw it) was that it had that “White Saviour” thing- Depicting the very real plight of an ethnic group but doing it through the eyes of a white hero which to me kind of belittled what it was trying to get across.
I can see that. There certainly is some cultural appropriation there.
I mentioned to my wife that I thought Picasso was reincarnated as an illustrator for THE SIMPSONS. She didn't agree.
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Two notes: I think it's TORTILLA FLAT (singular) and THE SHOOTING is from 1966, not 1996.
I do not like THE KILLING FIELDS, at all. I read the book on which THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is based, it was a strange read- reminded me a little of GRAHAME GREENE.
I appoint LornaHansonForbe my official editor.
As for THE KILLING FIELDS, it's a tough drama. Yes, it does wear one out. However, the direction, editing, cinematography and acting are true art. I went to Picasso's museum in Spain a couple years ago. I don't like Picasso....but there's no denying he had a gift.
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25 minutes ago, kingrat said:
I watched Call Northside 777, a documentary-style film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. Moments of great noir cinematography by Joe MacDonald, one of my favorites. Set in Chicago in the mid-40s. James Stewart plays a reporter who becomes convinced of the innocence of a convicted cop-killer (Richard Conte). Back in 1932 when the murder occurred, Chicago was corrupt. Lee J. Cobb is Stewart's editor, Helen Walker shines in a couple of scenes as Stewart's wife, and Betty Garde has the juicy role of Wanda Skutnik, the speakeasy owner whose eyewitness testimony sent Conte and his friend to prison. Fun fact: Betty Garde was the original Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! on Broadway because Charlotte Greenwood wasn't available. E.G. Marshall has a small uncredited role.
Speaking of uncredited roles, Jane Crowley is great in a small role as a woman in a sleazy bar who tips off Stewart to the location of Wanda Skutnik. Every one of the brief moments Jane Crowley is on screen seems absolutely taken from real life. I looked her up on imdb, and Jane Crowley was in over 50 films, always in uncredited roles.
SPOILERS:
The film is well-made and has a satisfying ending until I realized half an hour later that the major questions of the film were all unanswered. Who persuaded the witness to lie? Who were the cops protecting? How were these fall guys selected?
Wanda Skutnik. Great speakeasy, rum running, noir name!
I've only met one person in my life named Wanda. In elementary school almost 60 years ago. Anybody name their daughter Wanda anymore?
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36 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
The Other (1972) Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, the Udvarnoky twins. Granny with Russian accent
who has brought supernatural leanings with her from old country. Check. Cutesy pre-adolescent
twins. Check. Discombobulated mother. Check. Innocent bystanders who the twins can kill. Check.
Farm animals who might be subject to certain bloody sacrificial rites. Check. Set in 1930s Connecticut,
The Other is the story of two twins, one good and one not so good. Their granny instructs them in
various supernatural skills, the family having a long history of dealing in the other worldly. The twins
then start knocking off people they don't like for pretty picayune reasons. Then halfway through the
movie we discover that one of the twins actually died and the other one has some kind of spiritual
connection that allows him to communicate with his dead twin or some such nonsense along those
lines. The Russian granny learns too late that the surviving twin is a nogoodnik and decides to
burn herself and him to death in a barn fire. Unfortunately for granny, she dies but the twin survives.
In the last shot of the movie we see him looking out from an upper window, no doubt contemplating
more nasty doings. Said by some to be eerie, there is sometimes a thin line between eerie and silly,
and to this reviewer the silly side wins too often. There are also all the back and forths in the supernatural
goings on and things get too confusing. It would obviously be a different flick, but I would rather have
cut out the tired supernatural stuff and just leave it as a slice of life tale set during the Great Depression.
That is really the most interesting part of the movie. Maybe a less sappy version of The Waltons. This
was the only film for the Udvarnoky twins. They went back to their regular lives after the movie. In
today's social media landscape they likely would have been on twitter and maybe had their own cooking
show on The Food Network. Born too early. I remember seeing this when it first came out when I had
a period of spare time on my hands and just went one day to a local cinema to see it. It was fairly confusing
back then and fifty years hasn't helped all that much. A for effort, C for execution.
I recall this movie being a cheap attempt to draw in the ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) crowd. You are right. It was inscrutable.
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I was bored this afternoon and just watched FOOL'S PARADE (1971), a Jimmy Stewart piece of falderal. Stewart is released, after serving 40 years, from a West Virginia prison and is issued a $25,000+ check for what he earned working in the prison. It's suppose to be 1935. The entire premise of the movie is lost on me in the first 15 minutes. That's a stupid amount of money for prison work at the turn of the last century.
William Windom plays a traveling salesman and he's not too bad. Stewart holds the movie together, but I'm flummoxed why he wasted his time in this thing.
There is one interesting twist, however. George Kennedy plays a corrupt prison guard and Strother Martin plays one of Stewart's prison buddies....basically reversing their roles from COOL HAND LUKE (1967). I'm sort of ashamed to mention CHL and this movie in the same sentence.
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8 minutes ago, midwestan said:
Millie Perkins made a splash in the late 50's with her portrayal of Anne Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank". Warren Oates also played the lead role in the off-beat film, "Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia".
I did see that re. Perkins and Anne Frank. I've seen that film but admit her name didn't stick with me. Apparently, she was in some acting classes with Nicholson early on and they were professional friends. I thought in this film, THE SHOOTING, she came off quite well. Tough women in westerns are not easy to pull off. They're usually "damsels in distress" like roles and in this one she plays a gritty, don't give me any crap kind of female character. Worth the time, if not just to see a different turn.
As for Oates, reading more on him I saw how Peckinpaugh liked him a lot and gave him the lead in Alfredo Garcia as a reward for his good work. Oates was a ubiquitous cowboy...kind of in the Ben Johnson mold..or Jack Elam. He was in a bunch of good movies. He was only 53 years old when he died.
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I went and binged on 3 films last night. I must confess that I fast forward in a few places when they're riding horses in the desert or cars are seen driving someplace. I try to watch every word of dialog however.
First up: I rewatched THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (1982) because I wanted to see Linda Hunt's Oscar winning supporting role again. I also wanted to compare it to THE KILLING FIELDS (1982) which I had also recently rescreened. Their story lines had many similarities. Linda Hunt was simply fabulous. It's pretty amazing when you see an Oscar winning role. It's obvious. Peter Weir's direction was also first rate. I always wondered why he doesn't have a longer filmography. DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) and MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003) are 2 of my favorite movies, not just Weir films. I was also impressed with Sigourney Weaver's performance. I like to watch actors when they aren't speaking. How do they convey a feeling without words? Scene after scene, Weaver shows every kind of emotion; concern, amusement, fear, doubt, confusion...one after the other. Weir's lighting and camera angles are beguiling. The editing was extraordinary. There must have been a lot of film left on the cutting room floor. Perhaps it was the role, but Mel Gibson was much like Sam Waterston in THE KILLING FIELDS in that they both seemed to stumble through the film with a "This can't really be happening?" look on their faces. For me, watch it for Weir's artistry and Hunt's and Weaver's performances.
#2: TORTILLA FLAT (1942) another Steinbeck depression era California based book adaptation. Spencer Tracy does a decent William Bendix imitation in this one. Not exactly a Tracy like role, but satisfying nonetheless. Hedy Lamarr is gorgeous. I've not watched a lot of her, but I must say I couldn't take my eyes off her when she was on screen. John Garfield played the typical roustabout that he often does, even as a few times he slipped into a Chico Marx kind of Italian accent. Most of all, I enjoyed the performance of Frank Morgan. With a full beard and bushy hair he was unrecognizable. He had a a couple charming scenes with dogs that I thought were worth the price of admission.
And #3: THE SHOOTING (1966) with Jack Nicholson. I'd never seen it and always like early Nicholson performances. Millie Perkins was the female lead and I can't say I know much about her. She doesn't ring a bell. She was quite good even as the script was fairly opaque and left a lot of character details to the imagination. This was a pre-Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone era western. Warren Oates plays the male lead and I'm not sure I've ever seen him in a lead role elsewhere. He plays a good, shlubby cowboy and his back and forth...tough guy then bewildered cowpoke...performance is excellent. Reading about the movie I see it was given high marks by many critics even as it never caught on theatrically in the U.S. I thank TCM for showing it. Nicholson doesn't show up until almost 1/2 way in and he immediately elevates the drama. Again, he doesn't have to say a lot of words to convey his menace. The ending is somewhat ambiguous and the only quarrel I have with the film is it doesn't develop the relationship between the Warren Oates' character and his missing brother. The ending is suppose to tie it all up, I guess, but it was more confusing than satisfying. Nevertheless, it's worth a look.
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26 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Debatably PAUL NEWMAN.
To be sure....
I think the cinematographer on O'Toole films probably made a point of emphasizing his eyes. I give a slight....barely....edge to Pete.
Question: Did O'Toole and Newman ever appear together? I don't think so. A true clash of blue eyes. The audience would have been overwhelmed!
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In addition, I rewatched LORD JIM (1965). Another satisfying adaptation of a Joseph Conrad novel. Great story...interesting how it didn't receive a single Oscar nomination for anything. I thought it had multiple worthy possibilities. Editing, cinematography, acting (O'Toole).....
Man, did O'Toole have blue eyes or what? Can anyone name an actor with bluer eyes than Peter O'Toole?
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I've watched a couple recently.
Last night, CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962). I guess this is some sort of cult classic. I'd never seen it. The acting was decidedly 2nd rate, but the organ soundtrack was moody and gave it some cache'. In addition the cinematography and editing were not horrible. The ending was a bit spooky so for the era it came across OK. The final scene was filmed at the Saltair Resort on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. This place was abandoned even before the film was shot in 1962. I was in SLC 3 years ago and visited the place. It's still there. Visiting the Great Salt Lake is nothing to write home about.
In addition, I watched WITNESS TO MURDER (1954) with Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders and Gary Merrill. Again, Stanwyck delivers even as the script is ridiculous. The police detective, played by Merrill, would have given Fearless Fosdick a run for his money as most inept police detective of all time. Sanders plays the sophisticated, ruthless killer perfectly. If I closed my eyes I think I heard some Jeremy Irons-i-ness to him. The ending where Stanwyck is trying to escape Sanders and runs outside and up the outdoor scaffolding of a tall building under repair is one of the most implausible plot twists I've ever seen. That's the last place you'd go. Like that commercial where the teenagers hide in the garage full of chainsaws while trying to avoid the serial killer.
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Oh man, DeNiro gets blasted on live TV in JOKER (2019)
Next: Kathy Bates