HoldenIsHere Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Perhaps if Doris Day were being chased through the scaffolding instead of everyone standing in the apartment watching her escape. That would have been more interesting. Miss Day being chased through the scaffolding while wearing costumes by Irene is pretty attention-grabbing in and of itself. I wonder if Irene ever collaborated with Peanuts, the hairstylist on BEWITCHED? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Miss Day being chased through the scaffolding while wearing costumes by Irene is pretty attention-grabbing in and of itself. I wonder if Irene ever collaborated with Peanuts, the hairstylist on BEWITCHED? I never knew the hairstylist on Bewitched was named Peanuts! I guess I never paid attention to that in the credits. When I read your post, I was suddenly picturing Snoopy doing someone's hair! Was Day wearing heels running through the scaffolding? Or was she wearing flats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 "S.O.S. Iceberg" (1933)--Starring Rod LaRocque, and Leni Riefenstahl. Directed by Tay Garnett. German-American coproduction is a semi-documentary. The movie was filmed off the coast of Greenland and in Iceland. The film starts off with a long thanks from Carl Laemmle to the Danish Government, to the cast and crew, and to Nature. The plot is a love story between an explorer and a flier, and turns into a "man against the elements" film. The star is the footage of the Polar ice breaking and forming icebergs. There is a breathtaking sequence where a wall of ice falls into the sea and creates hundreds of icebergs. The documentary footage is worth the watch. The acting is ok, with Riefenstahl being a beautiful presence in her only American film as an actress. The films' documentary footage overshadows everything else. Slow starting film that improves as it goes along. 2.6/4. Source--YouTube; channel "Universal Vault". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 The Hypnotic Eye (1960) Weird, entertaining thriller starring Jacques Bergerac as a handsome but weird hypnotist and Allison Hayes as his sexy but weird assistant. Weird music score by Marlin Skiles. A bevy of beautiful babes do weird things to themselves, and a detective (weirdly played by some guy I never heard of) investigates. He is assisted by a police psychiatrist, who is also weird. This doctor plays the piano in a kimono and has a picture of Freud hanging in his office. Now I love mathematics, but I never had a picture of Isaac Newton hanging in my office – but then again, Newton was weird. There is a weird scene with some beatniks, one of whom recites a weird poem, while a few others play some weird music. In the climax, Bergerac does some weird stuff with the audience. Weirdest line of the film: “If you like my beautiful face so much, you may have it!” Oddly, I did not find this weird at all: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 What an odd film! I remember seeing it on tv many years ago, but I couldnt remember much about it except for that intro! (WHO'D FORGET THAT???) I did guess early on who was behind it all and why this time around...... Yeah, that beatnik scene had nothing to do with the rest of the movie. Could've been cut entirely. I guess it provided more weird atmosphere??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I never knew the hairstylist on Bewitched was named Peanuts! I guess I never paid attention to that in the credits. When I read your post, I was suddenly picturing Snoopy doing someone's hair! Was Day wearing heels running through the scaffolding? Or was she wearing flats? No she was wearing flats if I remember correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 you didn't feel kinda underwhelmed by the lack of ACTION! at the end of MIDNIGHT LACE? I've always felt a little let-down by it, especially since the same guy who directed SUDDEN FEAR directed LACE as well. (and say what you will about SUDDEN FEAR, its climax does not lack style and action.) Yeah, its hard to believe it's the same director. Must be the Ross Hunter influence....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 No she was wearing flats if I remember correctly. Doris ALWAYS wore the right shoe for the occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Doris ALWAYS wore the right shoe for the occasion. LOL! I seem to remember they were loafers, though I wasnt really concentrating on her shoes........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 "Modesty Blaise" (1966)--Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde. Directed by Joseph Losey. Spy parody is based on a British comic strip. Maybe I'd be more disappointed if I had ever seen the comic strip. Movie came off as another one of the James Bond spoofs that littered the screen in the 1960's (The Matt Helm series, the Dr. Goldfoot series, etc). Movie is about superspy Modesty Blaise (Vitti), who can change her appearance just by snapping her fingers. She is hired by the British government to protect a shipment of diamonds, which international thief Gabriel (Bogarde) is after. Blaise only accepts the job if Willie Garvin (Stamp) is allowed to work with her. Film goes on its way from there. Script is infuriating because it misses opportunity after opportunity for satire. It assumes that just because Blaise is a woman superspy, that alone is hilarious. Vitti does her best, and sounds like a smoky voiced Garbo, but the script leaves her high and dry. She gets most of her laughs from intonation, sight gags, and the glint in her eyes. Stamp is on the sidelines, although his appearance changes at will also. Bogarde as Gabriel is the funniest person in the film, whether he's refusing an egg because it's overcooked or reminding a potential killer that it's rude to point. Film does have Bogarde, and Blaises' changes Are spectacular, and so are the sets. There are setpieces that are homages to famous directors, which I found amusing. But film lasts too long (just short of two hours), there are too many dry spells without laughs, and Bogarde and company are off-screen for too long. Still worth a watch--maybe. 2/4. Source--YouTube. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 How about those wine glasses? If memory serves there were a couple even more outrageous than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Fedya--There were. Bogarde and his outfit were the funniest things in the film. "Champagne--Champagne!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The Hypnotic Eye (1960) Weird, entertaining thriller starring Jacques Bergerac as a handsome but weird hypnotist and Allison Hayes as his sexy but weird assistant. Weird music score by Marlin Skiles. A bevy of beautiful babes do weird things to themselves, and a detective (weirdly played by some guy I never heard of) investigates. He is assisted by a police psychiatrist, who is also weird. This doctor plays the piano in a kimono and has a picture of Freud hanging in his office. Now I love mathematics, but I never had a picture of Isaac Newton hanging in my office – but then again, Newton was weird. There is a weird scene with some beatniks, one of whom recites a weird poem, while a few others play some weird music. In the climax, Bergerac does some weird stuff with the audience. Weirdest line of the film: “If you like my beautiful face so much, you may have it!” Oddly, I did not find this weird at all: Where did you see this BTW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestan Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Where did you see this BTW? It was on Tuesday after "Lizzie", "Svengali", and the Lew Ayres-Basil Rathbone-Laraine Day movie whose title escapes me at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The Hypnotic Eye (1960) Weirdest line of the film: “If you like my beautiful face so much, you may have it!” I've always liked this film and particularly that line. I think it would be great on a double bill with She Demons, a film in which a bandaged-faced character (Mona) rips off her bandages and says "Would you go, if you looked like this?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Where did you see this BTW? I watched it on the TCM website, under "Watch TCM," then "Movies on Demand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I've always liked this film and particularly that line. I think it would be great on a double bill with She Demons, a film in which a bandaged-faced character (Mona) rips off her bandages and says "Would you go, if you looked like this?" Maybe TCM could feature a "face-off" theme. They could also include Terror From the Year 5000. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The Big Sleep (1978) Café au lait Noir (White Coffee) "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a stagnant lake or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that." 1978's The Big Sleep is best watched cold turkey. If you have never read Raymond Chandler's novel, and didn't know that the original tale took place in 1939, in Southern California, nor ever seen Hollywood's Bogart/Bacall 1945 Film Noir interpretation, you may find this version quite enjoyable. It took me about three viewings to really warm to the film, to forget where and when it was supposed to take place and just enjoy it for what it is, another Chandler novel adapted to the screen is always a bonus. I like it a bit better than it's companion 70's update take on Marlowe, Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) with mumbling Elliott Gould. 7/10 Fuller review here in Film Noir/Gangster thread and full rebiew with more screencaps (some NSFW) from the ITV Studios DVD here: http://noirsville.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-big-sleep-1978-cafe-au-lait.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The Big Sleep (1978) Café au lait Noir (White Coffee) "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a stagnant lake or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that." I see you did catch up with the '78 version again, cigarjoe, as you said you would. I haven't done so yet but I will. Difficult to compete with the 1946 Hawks/Bogart classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Never saw it. Does it have that double entendre laced "racehorse" discussion that the Bogart/Bacall had in the original? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 It was on Tuesday after "Lizzie", "Svengali", and the Lew Ayres-Basil Rathbone-Laraine Day movie whose title escapes me at the moment. Yeah, I caught it by accident. Something about the plot jogged my memory and I was right. I had seen it on tv many years ago as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 ... and the Lew Ayres-Basil Rathbone-Laraine Day movie whose title escapes me at the moment. "Fingers at the Window". Great atmosphere, solid chemistry between the leads, and Lew Ayres having a blast wearing a cape! Lot of fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The Hypnotic Eye (1960) He is assisted by a police psychiatrist, who is also weird. This doctor plays the piano in a kimono and has a picture of Freud hanging in his office. Now I love mathematics, but I never had a picture of Isaac Newton hanging in my office – but then again, Newton was weird. And Freud wasn't? Somehow, with your introduction of Isaac Newton to your review and your subsequent assessment of his nature, I was struck with a desire to see him and a temporally freed Sigmund Freud solve a 17th Century crime, a la "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I watched it on the TCM website, under "Watch TCM," then "Movies on Demand." Ok found it also on Sling TV on the TCM channel in the on demand list just click and you can watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Never saw it. Does it have that double entendre laced "racehorse" discussion that the Bogart/Bacall had in the original? Sepiatone No, that was all added by the studio to take advantage of the Bogart/Bacall chemistry, there was no love story, this film follows the novel pretty closely, except for time period and location. Double entendre! This film from 1978 dosen't need any stinkin' double entendre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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