phroso Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 THE QUARE FELLOW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Thanks, 6's. Next movie: An innocent man is getting phone calls from a would-be blackmailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Although the man's wife is actually the topic of the blackmail, he tries to resolve his problem without her help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 *The Gazebo* ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 THE GAZEBO is correct. My next clue was going to involve Debbie Reynolds' purchase of the gazebo, which would have been difficult to describe without using the word "gazebo." Thanks to Eve for sparing me from that ordeal. Good job. The thread is yours . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Thanks, phroso ? and happy to answer in a timely manner?I?ll be back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 A couple meets - but not cute - after he makes a harrowing getaway. Mistrust and animosity turn to attraction - but this blossoming of affection takes place under perilous circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 SABOTEUR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Not *Saboteur* this time? The man is involved with an espionage organization; the woman has a completely unrelated career. The film ends ambiguously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poinciana Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 The 39 Steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Good guess?but it?s not Hitchcock? ?though the hero is something of an innocent suspected of deeds he didn?t do and is caught up in events larger than himself. It?s a later film than *Saboteur* and *The 39 Steps* and stars a couple of Oscar winners and is directed by an Oscar winner (plus another Oscar winner in a supporting role). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm thinking THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Redford, Dunaway, ****, and Robertson all Oscar winners.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 You?re thinking is very good, phroso?*Three Days of the Condor* (1975) ?I?ve always liked the ambiguous ending ? Redford?s character realizing the NYT may not publish his story and the implications of that?Your thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Thanks, Eve. Next clue: A man travels to Los Angeles to visit a relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 *Nothing In Common* ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Not NOTHING IN COMMON (double negative!) Good guess, though. The man is going to live with his uncle. Both were raised in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 *The Loved One* ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 THE LOVED ONE, a freewheeling adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's hilarious novel, is correct. Good job, cmvgor, the board is yours . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Thanks, phroso. I stumbled onto Waugh's work in my early 20s, and I think I've read everything he ever published. It seems his work doesn't film well for American audiences, but this "freewheeling" approach makes *The Loved One* one of the most nearly successful efforts. And you can always get my attention with Robert Morley (the uncle). Next up: Early 60s film, B&W, WWII setting, fact based. A story worth telling, worth spreading, but, in this version, Hollywood trumps history somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Marine recruits go through their training, graduate, and board up for transport to the Pacific Theater of War. On a stopover In Hawaii, some friends go on a liberty, hook up with some girls, wind up in their apartment. One of the girls turns out to be a stripper; the Marines and the audience get a show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 The events recorded above get the action to about 1/3 of the movie's run. Other events, before America's entry into the war, focus on the hero. Per Hollywood, he was a street kid in California who was taken in and cared for by a Japanese-American family. Per History, he moved out of his family's home at age 13, and moved in with the Japanese-descended family. // He learned their language, and absorbed a lot of their culture. // After Pearl Harbor, his adaptive family were put in a separation camp, along with many other Japanese-Americans, on the theory that it would be easy for Japanese spies to hide among them. // Per Hollywood, the hero was reluctant and resentful when a Draft notice arrived for him. Per History, the lad went to Alaska and worked in a cannery until his 17th birthday, and then enlisted on that date. _Then_ the training and the wild liberty in Hawaii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 *Hell to Eternity* ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmvgor Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Eve, imagine my surprise that you were the one who tracked this down once you got that much information. It was the current HBO series *The Pacific* that made me think of this 1960 movie. That series stresses the deadly business of clearing some of those islands of fanatical Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender in spite of overwhelming odds. That contrasted with the Saipan experience, where PFC Guy Gabaldon eventually pursuaded some 15,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender, saving many lives on both sides. The History Vs Hollywood aspect continues with the casting of Gringo hunk Jeffrey Hunter as the Hespanic kid Guy Gabaldon, who accomplished this because he had mastered the language and the empathy to communicate so well with the enemy forces. Anyone intrested in the facts can find a pretty complete rundown in Wikipedia more than in the movie commentaries. Gabaldon was decorated for his accomplishments, of course, but there are still those who are miffed because he did not also get the Congressional Medal Of Honor, Eve's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Yes, cmvgor, you included everything but the cast in your description! Thanks, I?ll be back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Here?s one: Summertime?a hot city?a new neighbor who just wants to keep cool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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