HoldenIsHere Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 What a strange movie. The crying clowns! Scary . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminigirl Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I've seen it once all the way through, and I tried to watch it again last night. I couldn't do it; what a bizarre tale (and bad acting from a group of top-notch stars, IMHO). I realize it's camp; but it's bad camp! I ended up watching Elliot Ness and "The Untouchables"...............they don't disappoint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Is this the one Kim did before she took off for the farm to raise llamas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 YouTube wants $15 to watch this movie !! http://www.youtube.com/movie/the-legend-of-lylah-clare I watched about 3 or 4 minutes and found it to be tool "late '60s" for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Yet more evidence that too many people were taking too many drugs in the late 60s/early 70s. Kim Novak does her best, but no one could salvage this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefilmone Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 It's a very strange movie which seems to want to be a cross between "Sunset Blvd" and "Vertigo" with all the implied kinky sex the 60's could allow- its the Hollywood film Ken Russell never made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulio Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 MGM had clearly fallen from being the prestigious film company they had once been, by 1968. A quick look at some of the titles they released during 1968 give a clear indication of how far they had fallen. Very few of the titles were successes at the box-office or with critics although there are a handful that received kudos. Almost none of them, however, would end up on a listing of the great MGM films made. Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter 1968 Hate for Hate 1968 Revenge for Revenge 1968 The Biggest Bundle of Them All January 17, 1968 Sol Madrid February 7, 1968 The Power February 21, 1968 Day of the Evil Gun March 1, 1968 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich March 6, 1968 Stay Away, Joe March 8, 1968 Guns for San Sebastian March 20, 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey April 6, 1968 A Dollar Between the Teeth April 24, 1968 Battle Beneath the Earth May 15, 1968 Speedway June 12, 1968 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? June 19, 1968 The Helicopter Spies June 21, 1968 Dark of the Sun July 3, 1968 Kiss the Other Sheik July 29, 1968 A Time to Sing August 15, 1968 The Legend of Lylah Clare August 21, 1968 A Man, a Horse, a Gun August 1968 The Young Runaways September 11, 1968 Hot Millions September 19, 1968 The Subject Was Roses October 13, 1968 Live a Little, Love a Little October 23, 1968 Ice Station Zebra October 23, 1968 The Split November 4, 1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman November 14, 1968 The Impossible Years December 5, 1968 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminigirl Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 No, she hadn't met her future husband yet; after Lylah Clare she did take a break from acting for about four to five years, though.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I love Kim Novak in this movie. The nuances she brings to the convoluted character are amazing. I believe all of the major characters show moments of brilliance. I believe that an editing to shorten it by a third would do wonders but I believe little could be done concerning the poor selections in camera angles and staging. Ernest Borgnine's best lines are ruined by him being behind a desk. My best ranking of movies is not by stars or thumbs ups but by how often I wish to watch them. There are some which I would like to see each month and there are some which I would be happy to see once each year and there are some which I might wish to see next at some date late in the 32nd Century. This movie is solidly at the once-each-five-years mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulio Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Kim actually did one more film after "Lylah Clare" entitled "The Great Bank Robbery" which WB released in the fall of 1969 prior to taking a break. "Robbery" co-starred Zero Mostel and Clint Walker and was not successful. Sydney Guilaroff, who did Kim's hair for "Lylah Clare" once noted that Kim had thoroughly enjoyed filming the movie and was very upbeat throughout the shoot. He took her to dinner at Musso and Frank a couple of times during the making of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 MGM was saved from bankruptcy by *House of Dark Shadows* in 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 "Now you get your **** out there and tell 'em Lylah's comin'. Soon as she gets her harness on. And when she whistles, they squat. All of them! Every damn last one!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Yeah, Paulio, I saw that MGM promo early this morning. Most of those "films" were forgetable. I haven't even HEARD of most of them, and I was an avid moviegoer in those days. That MGM couldn't line up anybody better than the practically disbanded( at the time) HERMAN'S HERMITS for a movie based on a four year old pop song tells you something about the dire staits they were in at the time. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 You've got to be kidding??????????? (House of Dark Shadows???) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 > You've got to be kidding??????????? (House of Dark Shadows???) It had a built-in audience, all the fans of the TV show (many of them adolescents or teenagers who saw the movie more than once) flocked to see the movie starring their favorites from the TV show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 Was Kim Novak's "Lylah" voice dubbed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 > HoldenIsHere wrote: > Was Kim Novak's "Lylah" voice dubbed? Yes. The poor dubbing is most noticeable during her conversation with Molly. I do not know the name of the person who dubbed the voice but I remember reading that it was a person who was much older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted October 6, 2013 Author Share Posted October 6, 2013 SansFin, Elsa's exchange with Molly is a strange scene in a movie full of strange scenes. First we have Molly poking Elsa with her cane and verbally abusing her. Then Elsa becomes "Lylah" (along with the dubbed voice) and turns the tables on Molly, mocking her and tapping Molly's prosthetic leg with the cane that Molly jabbed her with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I doubt Dark Shadows was a huge moneymaker (though it probably didnt cost much to produce) I remember it playing out in a week or two and played mostly drive-ins and downtown grind houses......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 "You're behaving like a lady wrestler in drag!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 I just realized why the musical stinger that accents the moment when Elsa steps into Lylah's footprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theater (and other dramatic moments in the movie) is so amusingly familiar. Frank DeVol recycled this bit of music for THE BRADY BUNCH Hawaii episodes to accent the tiki statue that brough the Bradys so much bad luck, including Greg's near-fatal surfing wipeout and Alice's back injury during her hula lesson: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted April 5, 2014 Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 Yes, I am shamelesly bumping my LYLAH CLARE thread. Cue musical stinger "Oo-ee-oo-ee-oo WAH!" I do like the way THE BRADY BUNCH video on my previous post is now embedded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Yes, I am shamelesly bumping my LYLAH CLARE thread. I am sorry to say that I feel that you have no great claim to be shameless as that trait was all used up by the studio executives who released this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 I will never be able to forget this film....for all the wrong reasons. Yes, I think viewers' reactions to many parts of this movie are not the ones the filmmakers were aiming for. With Robert (WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?) Aldrich though one never knows. What did Aldrich hope would be our reaction to the crying clowns? Or to Barkwell dog food commercial at the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefilmone Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 The movie is suppose to be a shocking revealing look at the dark side of Hollywood- just look at the sleazy poster - which is sex crazed. The point of the commercial might be that Hollywood will manufacture stars and sell them like dog food and then dump them when someone younger more desirable comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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