lzcutter Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 *Doctor Detroit* *Somewhere in Time* Link to post Share on other sites
molo14 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'll suggest *Anatomy of a Murder-1959* Link to post Share on other sites
mickeeteeze Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 The Upside Of Anger. Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Paper Lion Robocop Link to post Share on other sites
mickeeteeze Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Somewhere In Time Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Ok, what about Minnesota? I think "Fargo" is people's first choice. Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Little Big League Link to post Share on other sites
molo14 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Fargo was definitely the first one to come to mind. This is a tough one for me. I thought maybe The Farmer's Daughter 1947 with Loretta Young. I looked it up but I couldn't find if the state was ever mentioned. I remember from watching it that it seemed to be set there. Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid The Long Riders Jesse James Link to post Share on other sites
hlywdkjk Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 *"I thought maybe "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947) with Loretta Young."* Hi molo14, This is the description in the TCMDatabase - "When she goes to work for a congressman, a Minnesota farm girl takes Washington by storm." I don't think the state of Minnesota is mentioned in the film but the "story" is similar to that of an actual Congresswoman from Minnesota, Coya Knutson. http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/119coya_knutson.html Also, the film is the debut of Minnesota-born actor James Arness. Link to post Share on other sites
molo14 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hi Kyle, Thanks for the info. I thought I remembered it as her being from Minnesota. I had no idea the story was based on an actual person though. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
mickeeteeze Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 "Ok, what about Minnesota? I think "Fargo" is people's first choice." YAAHH! Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Ok, Mississippi: Well there's "Mississippi Burning" and "Ghosts of Mississippi." Surely there must have been movies set in Mississippi before "The Defiant Ones" and the modern civil rights movement. Link to post Share on other sites
molo14 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I can think of three good ones: *Intruder in the Dust* 1949 *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* 1958 *In the Heat of the Night* 1967 Link to post Share on other sites
casablancalover Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 The most Minnesotan movie is *Grumpy Old Men* We just don't have enough kidnappings to make *Fargo* seem Minnesotan. :-) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 Are there any Mississippi movies that don't deal with race or Southern gothic? Link to post Share on other sites
hlywdkjk Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 *"Are there any Mississippi movies that don't deal with race or Southern gothic?"* - skimpole How about these - *Earthworm Tractors* - Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee, June Travis "When Mississippi salesman Alexander Botts learns that his fianc?e, Sally Blair, will not marry him unless he sells a big, important product, he dashes off a letter to the Earthworm Tractor Company." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=579 *The Long Hot Summer* - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles "Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=420350 *Summer And Smoke* - Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page "Alma Winemiller is the fragile, lonely, and oversensitive daughter of a minister in a small Mississippi town shortly before the first World War." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=4250 *The Horse Soldiers* - John Wayne, William Holden "In the spring of 1863, on board a boat on the Mississippi River, Union Army Col. John Marlowe of Illinois meets Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, head of the Union forces. Frustrated by the North's long inability to break through to the critical Southern stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Grant orders Marlowe to form a cavalry brigade and wreak havoc on Confederate supply lines within Mississippi." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=3658 *The Fugive Kind* - Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani "A drifter ignites passions among the women of a Mississippi town." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=75804 *The Sound And The Fury* - Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman "In the small Southern town of Jefferson, Mississippi, seventeen-year-old Quentin Compson has lived under the tyrannical rule of her step-brother Jason ever since her mother Caddy abandoned her at birth." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=90927 *Goodbye, My Lady* - Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Bradon de Wilde "In Mississippi swamp country, kindly Jesse Jackson is rearing his orphaned nephew Claude, whom he has nicknamed Skeeter." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/title.jsp?stid=76741 *This Property Is Condemned* - Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson "Alva Starr is a beautiful woman living in a small town in Mississippi in the 1930's. Her mother, Hazel, the proprietor of a boardinghouse for railroad workers, insists upon steering her into the arms of a prosperous middle-aged man, Johnson, but Alva falls in love with Owen Legate, a handsome stranger from New Orleans..." http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=4272 Some might think a few of these titles are a bit "gothic' - Williams and Faulkner do that - but none are so wild as *Baby Doll* which is also a Mississippi story. Kyle In Hollywood Link to post Share on other sites
ILoveRayMilland Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Wake me up when you get to Washington! -ILRM Link to post Share on other sites
hlywdkjk Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 *"What about THE REIVERS? (or maybe it does have some 'race' business) Or MY DOG SKIP?"* I passed on *The Reivers* because it seems most of the story takes place in Memphis. (Will know for sure when it begins in a few minutes.) And I don't know *My Dog Skip* though there's something familiar about the title. Is that a relatively recent film? As to "Southern Gothic", they are usually full of sexual pecadilloes of one kind or another - the more perverse the more "gothic" - like *Baby Doll*, *Reflections In A Golden Eye* or *Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte*. I tend not to label "primal lust" as all that "gothic" though. Kyle In Hollywood Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Ok, now for Missouri. My choice: Meet me in St. Louis. Link to post Share on other sites
tobitz Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 okay, now I REALLY want to see *Earthworm Tractors*. Always been a Joe E. Brown fan. Good to see it's out there for ten bucks. Meet Me In St. Louis seems like a good choice for Missouri, though Kansas City (1996), which I've never seen, crossed my mind. I'm wondering what others will suggest. Link to post Share on other sites
cascabel Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Missouri: *The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer* (1938). *Jesse James* (1939) and *The Return Of Frank James* (1940). Very different versions of *The Glass Menagerie* (1950, 1987). Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 What about Montana? Link to post Share on other sites
lzcutter Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 *A River Runs Through It* Never has Montana looked so beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites
scsu1975 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Montana Belle Link to post Share on other sites
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