LiamCasey Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Trader Horn (1931) - TCM I've been hoping to catch this one for years and, today, the stars have finally aligned. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Watching some Mr. Lucky episodes on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I discovered that The Great British Baking Show is back on Netflix! I wanted to watch it when it was on before and then didn't get a chance. I like this show, it's addictive. I like that it's free of drama and personalities. Nice people baking and supporting one another. This group seems more like they just wanted to be in the baking contest and less like they want to be on TV and be the next reality star. I believe that the new season of this show is returning to PBS in June. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I've been watching the miniseries The Night Manager on Amazon. Truly great-- Hugh Laurie is superb in it. The international locations and the top-notch production values help make this adaptation of John le Carre's bestseller a winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I've been watching the miniseries The Night Manager on Amazon. Truly great-- Hugh Laurie is superb in it. The international locations and the top-notch production values help make this adaptation of John le Carre's bestseller a winner. Isn't that with Tom Hiddleston, too? I just watched him in a movie this evening, The Deep Blue Sea. He was very good in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Isn't that with Tom Hiddleston, too? I just watched him in a movie this evening, The Deep Blue Sea. He was very good in it. Yes, Tom Hiddleston costars with Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager. They're both blond, but the dynamic is kind of like Cary Grant & Claude Rains in NOTORIOUS-- and the woman who is caught between them reminds me of a young Ingrid Bergman. There are six one-hour episodes and it's the best thing I have seen in a long time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Someone nicely uploaded this British classic on YouTube: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 "Young Frankenstein" (1974)--My favorite Mel Brooks movie--the Monster and the Blind Hermit bit is on now. "I was going to make espresso!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Right now I'm watching "A Summer Place" on TCM. I love this movie. It's so deliciously over the top melodramatic. The score is gorgeous. Sandra Dee is adorable. Constance Ford is a complete witch (the real word I wanted to use rhymes with this). This film is so much fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 The Black Camel--one of the first Charlie Chan films, the only one surviving based on the original novels. Set and filmed in Hawaii, has a first rate cast to serve as suspects for Warner Oland--Bela Lugosi (and his 'little pal' Dwight Frye), Robert Young, Sally Eilers. A murder of an actress on location in Hawaii becomes entwined with an unsolved murder years before. A third murder of a beach bum artist adds to Charlie's dilemma. No help from the kids in this one, although there is a rare Chan family moment as we get to see everyone at the dinner table. I figured out two of the murderers, but was surprised at the third. Interesting side note: author Earl Derr Biggers visited the set in Hawaii, and gave a copy of his novel to Chang Apana, the real inspiration for Chan. Although there are a lot of characters to keep track of, this one is worth seeing...and you can see what surfing looked like in 1931! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 "Second-Hand Hearts" (1982)--I can't believe Hal Ashby directed "Harold and Maude", "Shampoo", and "Coming Home" and also directed this piece of ****!? Barbara Harris is the only vaguely likeable character in this Mess. She was so good in "Family Plot", and she's bad in this one. I've decided I never want to see Robert Blake in anything ever again. I'm surprised the studio let this escape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 "Second-Hand Hearts" (1982)--I can't believe Hal Ashby directed "Harold and Maude", "Shampoo", and "Coming Home" and also directed this piece of ****!? Barbara Harris is the only vaguely likeable character in this Mess. She was so good in "Family Plot", and she's bad in this one. I've decided I never want to see Robert Blake in anything ever again. I'm surprised the studio let this escape. Hal Ashby was in really rough shape by that point in his life. I haven't seen the movie, but I've read how unwatchable it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 The Phantom of the Opera (1943) - DVD w/ Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Leo Carrillo, J. Edward Bromberg, Fritz Feld and Hume Cronyn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 The Phantom of the Opera (1943) - DVD w/ Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Leo Carrillo, J. Edward Bromberg, Fritz Feld and Hume Cronyn My favorite Claude Rains film. He's just too spectacular for words in this one. Universal went all out with the production design, and it shows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 The Phantom of the Opera (1943) - DVD w/ Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Leo Carrillo, J. Edward Bromberg, Fritz Feld and Hume Cronyn After I finished watching this one, I watched The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked documentary that was included as bonus material on the DVD. That documentary indicated that the Claude Rains character abandoned his wife and infant daughter in order to follow his musical muse and that daughter grew up to be the Susanna Foster character who was unaware that he was her father. But that Universal did not include that subplot in the completed movie because the studio was worried that the audience would have incestuous suspicions. Personally I think its inclusion would have gone a long way in explaining the motives of the title character. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 My favorite Claude Rains film. He's just too spectacular for words in this one. Universal went all out with the production design, and it shows. From a pure horror genre point-of-view, I prefer his The Invisible Man (1933). But his The Phantom of the Opera (1943) falls into multiple genre categories which should increases its appeal across a wider range. And, from an actor's point-of-view, it definitely provided Mr. Rains with a meatier role. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Right now I'm watching Thousands Cheer that I recorded off TCM a few days ago. The movie just started but ugh! There's my nemesis Kathryn Grayson. I absolutely detest her singing in every way I can possibly detest anything. She's horrible. They just showed Mary Astor in the audience, I think her smile was just her being polite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 I am watching Take Her, She's Mine with James Stewart and Sandra Dee. I enjoy this movie because I like Stewart and I like Dee. This movie also features John "The Butterfly Collector from Gilligan's Island" McGiver. I think later tonight, when it gets to be a more "noir-y" time, I may watch a selection from my noir catalog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 I may only have time for two film noir tonight (I start work at 6am), but my first entry is Gilda. I'm watching a blu ray copy from the Criterion Collection. I am still working on dinner and needed to watch something that I could watch and listen to and still know what's going on while I finished my soup and biscuits. I'm trying to decide what my next entry will be. I'm thinking Sudden Fear which I haven't watched yet or Fallen Angel. I wanted to watch Mildred Pierce the other day, so that may be a possibility as well. I love Ann Blyth and she's so great in that film, but I also love the part when Crawford slaps her--she had it coming. I'm DVR-ing Feud: Bette and Joan. It'll be a good thing to watch tomorrow night after work. Right now, it's dark and pouring outside. Perfect conditions for noir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 In honor of Robert Osborne, I'm watching an evening of my favorite films. First up is The Major and the Minor which just so happened to include a special Robert Osborne introduction on the DVD! I really like this film. This film, along with Kitty Foyle, made me a fan of Ginger Rogers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I was in the mood for something 'Neil Simon-ish', and was looking for two tv movies..Laughter on the 23rd Floor and The Sunshine Boys (with Woody Allen and Peter Falk)..couldn't dig up either..but I did find a Simon film I'd never seen--The Star Spangled Girl. well, he wrote the original play..perhaps the script writers lost something along the way. There are some funny bits with Tony Roberts and Todd Susman as roommates who publish an underground newspaper. Susman becomes infatuated (today we would call him a stalker) with 'oh gosh, is this the big city?' southerner Sandy Duncan. It goes downhill very quickly and predictably and it feels like they're rushing to get it over with. Oh, well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Now I'm watching Some Like it Hot! DAPHNE: "Men?! We wouldn't be caught dead with men! Rough, hairy beasts... with eight hands! And they...they only want one thing from a girl!" SUGAR: "Josephine, just imagine. Me, Sugar Kowalczyk from Sandusky, Ohio. On a millionaire's yacht. If my mother could only see me now. DAPHNE: "I hope my mother never finds out!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I'm watching a Robert Newton film from 1939 called DEAD MEN ARE DANGEROUS. It just started. No idea what it's about. But Robert Newton is always entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I have insomnia...so I am watching a kitchen sink drama by Basil Dearden. I'd never heard of this film before: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) - Comet TV Starring Vincent Price. Directed by Roger Corman (and the first of his Edgar Allan Poe movies). And written by Richard Matheson. Now that is a winning threesome! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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