Name the pre-1970 film

[cmvgor]

Very respectable cast list. The two leads had successful TV series work ahead of them, as did several of the support players. The retiring lady novelist is played by a British actress who had some impressive and respected work behind her.

[cmvgor]

*Role Call*

 

The performers include 'Angel Martin' and 'Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushings'>

[cmvgor]

some 90 Views.

*More Role Call*

 

'Jonathan Hart' and 'Laura Petrie' are also involved.

[mudskipper]

"Don't Just Stand There !"...Let's put this question to rest.

[cmvgor]

Whew! Gladly. Barbara Rhoades as the martial arts expert was about the best thin in the movie.

 

'skipper's thread.

[mudskipper]

According to IMDB, the two leading men in this film had an "affair" during filming...Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but the film is about boxing in a Pennsylvania coal town and has the same title as a very recent movie...

 

Edited by: mudskipper on Sep 16, 2010 1:12 PM

[cmvgor]

mudskipper;

You identified my title at about 75 Views, and some 15-20 Views have accumulated since. Any other clues? Issue timeframe, etc?

[MilesArcher]

It sounds like "Iron Man" with Jeff Chandler and Rock Hudson.

[mudskipper]

Sorry, CMV, Miles already guessed the title. By the way, how do you find out how many times the thread has been viewed ?...Your thread, Miles..

[MilesArcher]

Thanks. On the page that lists the threads for the forum there are columns marked Thread, Author Views, Replies, and Last Post. Every time somebody views the thread, the Views number increases. Now:

When Billy Wilder was casting "Some Like It Hot", he tried to get Edward G. Robinson for one of the roles. When Robinson heard that George Raft was already in the cast, he refused to do the movie. Wilder tried to lure him by giving a role to his son, Edward Jr. It didn't work. Robinson and Raft had worked together in a movie some years before and they did not get along at all with each other. In fact, the story that has circulated is that they got into a fist fight. Can you name that earlier movie where they worked together?

[MilesArcher]

It sure was. They may have been fighting over their co-star, Marlene Dietrich. Your turn, speedy.

[mudskipper]

Name the movie where an older famous matador becomes the father of twins...a boy and a girl ...at the start of the movie.

[mudskipper]

Good work, six...did you see the film? Your thread..

[mudskipper]

You're right...esther williams might have been miscast, but she was popular then...

[cujas]

Is this some Fellini movie with Anna Magnani?

[mudskipper]

"Incubus" with William Shatner ?

[mudskipper]

Thanks....This one's a very good film with great acting:

 

The mayor gets stranded on top of a water tower high above the town and can't get down because of fear...

[mudskipper]

Hint: The Germans invade the little town...

[mudskipper]

Another Hint:-- Of course it's in Europe...and the people are hiding something from the invaders.

[cmvgor]

*The Secret Of Santa Vittoria* (1969) ?? (The townspeople hid the locally-produced wine.)

[mudskipper]

There you go, cmv...some great acting by. Anthony quinn as bombolini...your thread.

[cmvgor]

Thanks, skipper.

 

The novelist/scripter who created this story later wrote of it: For years I had wanted to write a mystery in which the criminal and his crime were out in the open to the reader, but the investegators on his trail were shrouded in mystery. This could best be done in a setting of espionage. (Paraphrase, not a quote.) The story he wrote was filmed in the early 1950s. The setting was among the British population if Sierra Leone, during the WW II years.

[cmvgor]

A police official's duties are concerned with the protection of British interests and Brit locals in a coastal Aferican country. After a shipwreck, he is entrusted with helping the Britsh subjects among the passengers (foreign ship). He falls for a young widow among the passengers and starts an affair.

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Edited by: cmvgor on Oct 8, 2010 9:50 AM

[cmvgor]

The police official's wife is unhappy in this outpost, feeling snubbed by local Brit society. // A local shady businessman, knowing of the affair, forces the official to look the other way while some diamonds are smuggled.

[cmvgor]

Things are closing in on the official, and his own religion and religious principles bother him most of all. Because he will not go to confession, he will also not take Communion. Trusted native associates are tortured and killed under conditions where he can prove nothing. Indirectly, he comes to learn that he is being investigated, and he dosen't know by whom. (This was, as mentioned, one of the effects the writer sought.) A longed-for promotion doesn't come through, and he had wanted to be able to let his wife move to South Africa until his tour of duty here was finished, and he could retire and join her.