filmlover
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Okay, here we go:
Mr. Twiddle, Bull Weed, a singer, a coward, and a landowner are among the people we meet as a chilly prospector goes after a superhero. Others we meet are another prospector and a Spanish-Californian jailer.
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can agree with their choice of GWTW, Magnificent Seven, and Star Wars but these are ones I still hold among the greatest:
(not in any order)
On the Waterfront (1954) Leonard Bernstein
Ben-Hur (1959) Miklos Rozsa
Kings Row (1941) Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Wind and the Lion (1975) Jerry Goldsmith
Captain from Castile (1947) Alfred Newman
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Alex North
A Nun?s Story (1959) Franz Waxman
North by Northwest (1959) Bernard Herrmann
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And stay tuned in after the movie. When it played a few days ago, they added a short with Edith Head and the costumes Natalie Wood wore in the film
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I am going to have to post on Thursday. I am only in for half a day today and the workload is enormous.
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I will have to think about what I would change about the old film history later, but I do know that one thing I would change now would be the discrimination Hollywood has in TV and movies about hiring writers past the age of 30. In their belief that only young writers can know what the demographic audience they want, those writers who have written some of the greatest films ever and won Academy Awards for their work don't get work. That is my belief in why so many movies today are pretty bad.
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There is a drawback to that, Sandy, something I experienced many years ago. A local theater where I grew up had a special showing of a 1940s Batman serial in its entirety (somewhere between 12-15 episodes).
Before I continue, let me elaborate for a moment of what an individual chapter would consist of:
In the old days, a chapter would have the regular opening credits which would take a minute or two, then came a series of individual still images of the hero, sidekicks, villain, and henchmen, and a written description of what they had done plotwise up tot his point in the serial, then would come a few minutes of footage from the last episode that brought the hero to the point of the exciting cliffhanger, then show how he escaped, then would come several minutes of new footage to expand the story, a new cliffhanger ending, and then end titles. Since you would go once a week, it was necessary to provide so much repeat stuff in each episode in order to remind the audience (basically of kids) what happened seven days ago (they still do that with weekly TV drama shows). For each fifteen minute episode, you were seeing only 8 to 10 minutes of new stuff and the rest was what you had already seen. But that was okay, because in the days of the 1940s, it was just one chapter per week.
Now, we jump ahead to that special showing of the entire serial in the 1960s. It took about three to four hours to show the whole thing, and each episode had the entire opening credits EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, as well ad the recap slides EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, the repeat footage of the last episode EVERY...SINGLE...TIME, etc. etc. etc EVERY SINGLE TIME. After about three episodes, the audience was groaning. After five or six, people were rushing for the exit. I thnk I made it through but what an endurance test on the nerves it was.
At least, if they showed the entire thing on TV, you could TiVo it and fast forward through the repeat stuff.
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I'm wiped after that. I'll have to post a new one tomorrow. Have a good night.
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I do know it. GAD, when looking at the credits for Theater of Blood, I looked down the column and saw Vincent Price's name there and Diana Rigg's but completely missed Dennis Price squeezed between them. Sigh, sigh, sigh.
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You better give me this one. I don't think I've seen the film you are describing and that makes it hard.
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Dang, those British make a lot of movies. Could it be Nicolas and Alexandra? And did you know that three members of Theater of Blood are in that one, too?
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but need more of a clue with the remaining one.
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Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette
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Oh, of course, the Diana Rigg thing is A Little Night Music.
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Another wild guess, Somebody Up There Likes Me?
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Vincent Price was the quiz show host in Champagne for Caesar
Coral Browne was Mrs. Vincent Price
Diana Rigg in Evil Under the Sun? (if we are going for a TV reference other than Mrs. Peel, I will be in trouble)
But I am lost on family slaughter and marie's husband.
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Much too easy. Theater of Blood.
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Instead of "hangs around with," I could have said "goes roamin' with" but I thought that would be too obvious.
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And we have a winner.
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yes.
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And the art thief was only a one-time thing, a crime committed to stop another crime from being found out.
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The film is post 1940s.
The liontamer is male.
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lol, if I said more than that, it would probably give it away. Work from one of the other characters (after all, how many films had a lion tamer?). If you really need a clue, I will give one.
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When I lived in British Columbia, we got a number of stations from the Seattle area. One, KIRO-TV, used to have Friday nights late as horror night, and there was a funny horror host, Count something-or-other. I can't remember what he would talk about but I recall him being hilarious. The program would start with him in a Dracula costume getting out of a coffin and then he would talk about the films for that night. I seem to recall hearing the person who played him was also the general manager for the station.
There was also a kids program early each weekday morning called "J.P.Patches" but you knew they were writing comedy for the adults who would tune in before going off to work. It had nothing to do with movies but it was the same station and it used to crack me up.
And I don't know if it was the same station but there was one channel that would run a chapter of a Republic serial each afternoon.
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Since there are so many sleazy lawyers in films, let me add that it was a small part and what goes round comes round.
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Gad, I need something to slow you down. All correct.