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20 hours ago, speedracer5 said:

I love Sandra Dee.  I'll watch her "Gidget" her way through anything.  I will agree that she definitely wasn't the best actress in the world, but I like her and she does a good job in the films that she's in.  Gidget and A Summer Place are probably my favorites of her films.  I do agree that she may have been in over her head in Imitation of Life (especially in comparison to Susan Kohner), but I thought she was good as Lana Turner's daughter. 

I am intrigued by "Gidget Goes Erotic" (Which as I'm reading, I see it's about A Summer Place, which I also enjoy).  I like the part in Gidget, when she yells at her father and says "AND I'LL SEE THAT HE GETS IT!" I also like the part when she's doing the chest exercises in an effort to increase the size of her bosom--as if that'd really work. I know that it's supposed to build up the muscle underneath... but still... she didn't have that much time.  Gidget also features the world's worst bikini that Yvonne Craig has the misfortune of wearing. 

The somewhgat tragic SANDRA DEE literally drank herself to a fairly early grave, obviously due to BOBBY DARIN'S-(l936--l973) early demise. They say she really started boozing the hard stuff when constantly watching his nightclub performances & only increased after he died

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38 minutes ago, CaveGirl said:

Loved this review! Any review that gives the bear the superlative kudos over the human cast, is okay with me even with any grammatical mistakes, of which I saw few. If I typed from a phone, it would sound like Professor Irwin Corey wrote it, Lorna.

Good show!

She used to entertain guests doing that Mexican accent from BURNING HILLS (**)

[cigarjoe]

1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

I got very very sick Thursday evening and Friday morning, so I was laid up yesterday afternoon into the night. 

I saw most of THE BURNING HILLS, which was quite watchable...although Natalie Wood's  "keep your hands off of me you FEELTHY PEEG!!!" Accent could've used a touch of coaching. There was real chemistry between her and Tab Hunter though...and Tab looked right at home on a horse. Skippy Homier (of TOMORROW THE WORLD! Infamy) was quite affective as the Loathesome villain.

then I watched THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN (1972?) it was a John Huston film I had not seen, and often the case with John Huston I find is that his films are either complete masterpieces of machinery, or the most Godawful thing Ive ever seen. This one came somewhere in the middle, although it was certainly not bad. I read on the IMDb trivia section that Paul Newman stole the role from Lee Marvin, when he sneaked a peek at a script that Lee was sent while he was drunk in his trailer. That's kind of a real damn shame, because I would've loved to of seen Marvin in this part. Newman was fine, but I don't know, a bit out of his depth maybe. The rest of the cast was terrific, including Anthony Perkins who was wasted in a very small role at the very beginning and Victoria Principal, who is absolutely gorgeous. AvaGardner had one of her more interesting, and in many ways challenging parts. She only shows up in the last 10 minutes of the movie and a lot rest on her shoulders. John Huston also has a tiny part as Grizzly Adams, and he is absolutely wonderful.best actor in the film is easily the bear though. The bear was terrific. I also read on IMDb that the bear was inseparable best friends with a lion that was raised by the same handler and they shared a motel room on the shoot. In other "who would've thought?" hook up news, Perkins and Victoria principal also begin a relationship on set. 

(must've been a full moon or something.)

You didn't mention that its one of a handful of sub genre Westerns with a sort of the Music Video Westerns with a modern music sequence. The first one that influenced the trend had to be McCabe & Mrs, Miller but it was a whole soundtrack, not the same same thing as a sort of "singal" inserted into a soundtrack. I think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid got the ball rolling with "Raindrops," This one with "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," The Ballad Of Cable Hogue has "Butterfly Mornin's," The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox has "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams." Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (may have been the last one) with Gordon Lightfoot crooning "My Love for You." I think there are a couple of others. 

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4 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) - Olive Film BluRay beautiful print but no extras

Now this long underrated & unknown crime-drama/film 'noir in recent yrs has finally been getting it's due!? (easily ***1/2) & Belafonte was underrated too, now age 91

 

Robert Ryan especially excels again as the villain  Actually it may be among his 5 finest roles  THE SET-UP, BILLY BUDD, CROSSFIRE-(only shot at an *Oscar), WILD BUNCH   *BORGNINE used to tell a funny story about him on display in a tremendous docu first aired on PBS in 1986 THE SPENCER TRACY: LEGACY hosted by *KATE. & in 1 particular sequence from BAD BAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955-MGM) where *TRACY is just sitting at the gas a station & RYAN comes up to try &  get answers from him-(JOHN J. McCREEDY) & as *BORGNINE loved to laugh and tell it, *TRACY pretty much just mumbled a bit, staring at the ground, while ROBERT was trying to do everything to at least try & steal the scene, but it didn;'t work  (NOTE: for those interested that superb docu is easy to find online & dvd. It's also a bit sad because *KATE hosted from what was still mostly intact METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER   "A MUST SEE FOR HIS, HER & MOVIUE FANS!"   I was given it on dvd  geez, musta' been in early 1990's but had it taped from '86 too

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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

You didn't mention that its one of a handful of sub genre Westerns with a sort of the Music Video Westerns with a modern music sequence. The first one the influenced the trend had to be McCabe & Mrs, Miller but it was a whole soundtrack, not the same same thing as a sort of "singal" inserted into a soundtrack. I think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid got the ball rolling with "Raindrops," This one with "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," The Ballad Of Cable Hogue has "Butterfly Mornin's," The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox has "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams." Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (may have been the last one). I think there are a couple of others. 

Personally I've always liked Altman's very bizarre yet greatly made 1971 McCABE & MRS. MILLER as my favorite of his resume   Very unpredictable & like a ton of films around that era it was open ended  i.e. *FRENCH CONNECTION, SCARECROW, LAST DETAIL,  MEAN STREETS, WILD BUNCH, *MIDNIGHT COWBOY, FIOVE EASY PIECES, THE CONVERSATION & more. McCabe's one & only *Oscar shot was her, the beautiful *JULIE CHRISTIE

They didn't have to wrap these flix up with a nice little bow & left it to the imagination

 

 

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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

You didn't mention that its one of a handful of sub genre Westerns with a sort of the Music Video Westerns with a modern music sequence. The first one the influenced the trend had to be McCabe & Mrs, Miller but it was a whole soundtrack, not the same same thing as a sort of "singal" inserted into a soundtrack. I think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid got the ball rolling with "Raindrops," This one with "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," The Ballad Of Cable Hogue has "Butterfly Mornin's," The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox has "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams." Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (may have been the last one). I think there are a couple of others. 

2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

You didn't mention that its one of a handful of sub genre Westerns with a sort of the Music Video Westerns with a modern music sequence. The first one the influenced the trend had to be McCabe & Mrs, Miller but it was a whole soundtrack, not the same same thing as a sort of "singal" inserted into a soundtrack. I think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid got the ball rolling with "Raindrops," This one with "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," The Ballad Of Cable Hogue has "Butterfly Mornin's," The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox has "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams." Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (may have been the last one). I think there are a couple of others. 

cigarjoe, did you think JUDGE ROY BEAN was good though?   I always kinda' linked it to what you also cited BALLED OF CABLE HOGUE (strong ***)

 

& most of you I;m sure remember the 1940 terrific (***1/2) Western "THE WESTERNER" W/*COOP & *WALTER BRENNAN AS THE HANGING JUDGE ROIY BEAN. AMAZINGLY & DESERVEDLY WINNING *WAKTER HIS 3rd BEST S. ACTOR *GOLD

 

But you scooped me on the *LEE MARVIN-(l924-87) bit.  I do know originally *LEE was gonna' portray QUINT in JAWS. Then S. HAYDEN, but owed tons of$$$ to the IRS, so the settled on a superb ROBERT SHAW.  (DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY *LEE DIDN;'T TAKE ON QUINT THOUGH???)

THANKS

[LornaHansonForbes]

37 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:

You didn't mention that its one of a handful of sub genre Westerns with a sort of the Music Video Westerns with a modern music sequence. The first one that influenced the trend had to be McCabe & Mrs, Miller but it was a whole soundtrack, not the same same thing as a sort of "singal" inserted into a soundtrack. I think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid got the ball rolling with "Raindrops," This one with "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey," The Ballad Of Cable Hogue has "Butterfly Mornin's," The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox has "Lemon Drops, Lollipops and Sunbeams." Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (may have been the last one) with Gordon Lightfoot crooning "My Love for You." I think there are a couple of others. 

WOW, WHAT A LIST! 

The sequence absolutely reminded me of the scene in BUTCH CASSIDY AND...I had not seen any of the other films you mentioned tho, although I am very interested in seeing THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE. 

(I am SO BEHIND on my 70s films )

The MARMALADE ETC. musical moment was definitely my least favorite part of the film, as it was, the movie walked a really damn fine line between romanticizing/reducing through humor the violence and out right condemning it. But for the most part it was pretty successful, except for that damn scene...It had no place in this film and the song was stupid.

(although the bear featured prominently in the scene, and he was of course fantastic. )

[cigarjoe]

25 minutes ago, spence said:

cigarjoe, did you think JUDGE ROY BEAN was good though?   I always kinda' linked it to what you also cited BALLED OF CABLE HOGUE (strong ***)

 

But you scooped me on the *LEE MARVIN-(l924-87) bit.  I do know originally *LEE was gonna' portray QUINT in JAWS. Then S. HAYDEN, but owed tons of$$$ to the IRS, so the settled on a superb ROBERT SHAW.  (DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY *LEE DIDN;'T TAKE ON QUINT THOUGH???)

THANKS

Aside from McCabe & Mrs. Miller, I don't regard the rest as good Westerns exactly because of that abnormality, they are just sort of off genre unto themselves. I like Westerns quite a bit.

[LornaHansonForbes]

LEMONDROPS, LOLLIPOPS AND SUNBEAMS ??!!!?!?!

Christ, you could choke on all that kitsch.

[LornaHansonForbes]

I gave up on BRAINSTORM because it is such an obvious mess, but I left it playing in the kitchen. Just now I walked back in and it blew my mind to see Christopher Walken and Natalie wood entering the Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina-where I used to spend a week every summer, usually this exact week in July.

it is s LOVELY place!

in fact I am pretty sure that the location where Chris and Natalie have their "you go to hell, no you go to hell, no YOU go to hell, no YOU GO TO HELL"  fight was where i used to sit and read on the porch every day.

Fond memories...of my vacations that is, this movie sucks though.

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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

Aside from McCabe & Mrs. Miller, I don't regard the rest as good Westerns exactly because of that abnormality, they are just sort of off genre unto themselves. I like Westerns quite a bit.

Yeah, there about my overall fav. film genre

[speedracer5]

3 hours ago, spence said:

The somewhgat tragic SANDRA DEE literally drank herself to a fairly early grave, obviously due to BOBBY DARIN'S-(l936--l973) early demise. They say she really started boozing the hard stuff when constantly watching his nightclub performances & only increased after he died

I will agree that Dee lived a very sad life, which is interesting considering the image she often played on screen.  Dee was sexually abused by her stepfather when she was young and then had a mother who was very much the stage mother.  Dee's lifelong struggle with anorexia began when she was a teenage model.  After her divorce from Bobby Darin, whom she loved and didn't want to divorce, she became depressed and also became an alcoholic.  She was also a heavy smoker.  So while her smoking and drinking contributed to her death, it was ultimately her anorexia that caused the kidney disease that would ultimately kill her. 

[EricJ]

9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

LEMONDROPS, LOLLIPOPS AND SUNBEAMS ??!!!?!?!

Christ, you could choke on all that kitsch.

I knew the Lollipop Song from TD&tDF, so I was aware of the problem in 60's-70's Western-Comedies, but have to admit, I was unaware as to the extent of the problem with the others.

Certainly no human being would PUT a song with "Marmalade", "Butterflies" or "Rainbows" into a western ("Lookie here, we got us a Brony for a sheriff!"  ?  )  unless they were intentionally after B.J. Thomas's "Raindrops" money.  His song was everywhere at the time.

7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

I gave up on BRAINSTORM because it is such an obvious mess, but I left it playing in the kitchen. Just now I walked back in and it blew my mind to see Christopher Walken and Natalie wood entering the Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina-where I used to spend a week every summer, usually this exact week in July.

I've always been soft on Brainstorm, A) because it was one of the first movies I saw during my college years in the Big City, and B ) because of James Horner's early score (along with Krull and The Dresser, he put out some of his best ones in '83), but looking at it now...yeah, it's a bit of a mess.  It was SFX guru Douglas Trumbull's attempt to sell his idea of Showscan (a short-lived gimmick-screen version of what became "The Hobbit"'s High Frame Rate), but 80's 3-D had just come and gone and theaters weren't interested in another gimmick that required new projectors, so Trumbull had to just play around with changing screen ratio to create the "oo!" effect of the visuals.

And yes, this movie is a tourist vacation travel-video for coastal North Carolina, if no other is.  ?  I never realized Kitty Hawk had such a good-looking monument until the end of the movie.

[LawrenceA]

Dangerous When Wet (1953) - Technicolor musical romance from MGM and director Charles Walters. American farm girl Katie Higgins (Esther Williams) is convinced by fast-talking salesman Windy Weebe (Jack Carson) to try and swim the English Channel as a promotional stunt for his energy drink. While she prepares for the endeavor, she meets Frenchman Andre Lanet (Fernando Lamas) and romance blooms. Also featuring William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood, Denise Darcel, Donna Corcoran, Barbara Whiting, Bunny Waters, Henri Letondal, Paul Bryar, and Ed Fury.

More of Esther Williams' usual wholesome, corny, watery shtick, with the added exoticism of Lamas and Darcel. The most memorable sequence is probably the lengthy dream sequence where Williams swims with Tom & Jerry and other animated critters. This was the last of the nine Williams I had to watch, having seen none of her musicals before this. I can say that they weren't horrible for the most part, and I can understand their widespread appeal in their day.    (6/10)

Source: Warner DVD.

[LawrenceA]

Destination Gobi (1953) - Technicolor WW2 adventure from 20th Century Fox and director Robert Wise. Richard Widmark stars as US Navy CPO Samuel T. McHale, who is assigned to head up a very remote weather station in Inner Mongolia during the height of the Pacific Theater of WW2. What seems like the worst assignment imaginable becomes more complicated when a tribe of Mongolians set up camp nearby the weather station. The small American contingent must learn to live with their new neighbors, especially when the Japanese come calling. Also featuring Don Taylor, Earl Holliman, Dwayne Hickman, Martin Milner, Max Showalter, Murvyn Vye, Ross Bagdasarian, Judy Dan, Rodolfo Acosta, Leonard Strong, Richard Loo, and Russell Collins.

This starts out promising, with an unusual setting and story line, but it bogs down in the second half, before finishing up with a fairly silly finale. None of the cast really stand out, and most of the prominent "good" Mongolians are played by non-Asians in makeup, while the bad guys are all real Asians.    (6/10)

Source: FXM.

[Princess of Tap]

3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:

I will agree that Dee lived a very sad life, which is interesting considering the image she often played on screen.  Dee was sexually abused by her stepfather when she was young and then had a mother who was very much the stage mother.  Dee's lifelong struggle with anorexia began when she was a teenage model.  After her divorce from Bobby Darin, whom she loved and didn't want to divorce, she became depressed and also became an alcoholic.  She was also a heavy smoker.  So while her smoking and drinking contributed to her death, it was ultimately her anorexia that caused the kidney disease that would ultimately kill her. 

There are so many women that I have read and heard about --famous and not so famous --who have had  psychological and addiction problems rooted in sexual abuse from when they were girls.

We can recount the people associated with the golden age who have had these problems like:

Sandra Dee, Esther Williams, Natalie Wood, or Cheryl Crane.

This is such a common, but not ordinary problem - - I had a school friend who went to an early grave because of sexual abuse from her father from an early age. My guess would be that there are a great many more of these cases around than we would wish or hope to acknowledge.

The more we talk about these issues, the more women will have the courage and support to come out and discuss what has happened to them and get the social and professional support that they deserve.

In the end, Dodd Darin, Sandy's son,  said that she was medicating herself by drinking a fifth of whiskey every day along with various drugs. He had her hospitalized several times, but it couldn't prevent the inevitable. But she dealt with it as best she knew how.

And Sandra Dee is to be commended for maintaining her career the way she did considering all that had been placed upon her at an early age.

[LawrenceA]

Barracuda aka The Lucifer Project (1978) - Terrible eco-horror schlock from American General Pictures and director Harry Kerwin. Wayne Crawford stars as university marine biologist Mike, who is in the small coastal Florida town of Palm Cove to do some pollution testing on the local waters. A nearby chemical plant, run by the shady Papa Jack (Bert Freed), has been dumping unknown chemicals into the ocean, and it seems to be causing the local barracuda population to become overly aggressive. As Mike digs deeper into what's going on, powerful forces begin to close in. Also featuring Roberta Leighton, William Kerwin, Jason Evers, Cliff Emmich, Barbara Keegan, Bob J. Shields, Ruth Miller, Frank Logan, and Willis Knickerbocker.

This micro-budget travesty is a mash-up of Jaws and countless nature-gone-wrong horror tales, slathered in a thick coat of 70's conspiracy paranoia. The acting is woeful, particularly from star, co-writer, and underwater sequence director Wayne Crawford. William Kerwin, star of many of H.G. Lewis' memorable 60's horror films, plays the local sheriff. The killer fish are really secondary to the conspiracy plot, and the fish attacks consist of someone off camera holding a bad barracuda prop and slapping the actors and actresses with it while red fruit punch is generously squirted into the seawater. The movie's cynical ending is not unexpected. Perhaps the only redeeming feature, if barely, is the throbbing synth score from Klaus Schulze, which seems like an almost-there rip-off of Tangerine Dream.     (2/10)

Source: Svengoolie.

[Tikisoo]

I just watched 2017's IT. After reading others' comments here on this board I was worried about watching it alone, so watched it with MrTiki.

Not to worry-both of us had the same reaction- more laughter & bewilderment than fear. The storyline was confusing, it had very little cohesion and logic. I know IT's supposed to be "otherworldly" and sometimes the effects work on that level. But it's familiarity that scares us, it's hard to be scared of fake anything.

While the actor who plays the clown is good, too much weighs upon this performance for "good" to work. The clown has to be EXTRAORDINARY, and Tim Curry did that in the first IT movie. Tim Curry's clown was menacing, really coloring the performance. This clown was actually too "pretty" his face more girlish than a monster. A few of the kids were excellent, but only two of them (Beverly & Ben) were fleshed out enough for us to care about them. Too much time was spent on the CGI effects and not enough on the charactor development. And hoo-boy what an awful array of stereotype bad parents were depicted!
It can sometimes be tough getting adult viewers to connect with a child's role, but it certainly has been successfully done in the past when they're not so concerned with filling the screen with blood & gore.

I wish Hollywood would realize it's only scary if the viewer feels connection with the charactors. Otherwise it's just like watching a special effect studio's resumé of their visual trickery work.

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11 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

I gave up on BRAINSTORM because it is such an obvious mess, but I left it playing in the kitchen. Just now I walked back in and it blew my mind to see Christopher Walken and Natalie wood entering the Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina-where I used to spend a week every summer, usually this exact week in July.

it is s LOVELY place!

in fact I am pretty sure that the location where Chris and Natalie have their "you go to hell, no you go to hell, no YOU go to hell, no YOU GO TO HELL"  fight was where i used to sit and read on the porch every day.

Fond memories...of my vacations that is, this movie sucks though.

But as with Harlow's double in '37's SARATOGA-(Mary Dees), one can never see NATALIE'S in it?

[TomJH]

26 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:

I wish Hollywood would realize it's only scary if the viewer feels connection with the charactors. Otherwise it's just like watching a special effect studio's resumé of their visual trickery work.

Truer words never spoken, Tiki. That's why so many of their BIG Hollywood spectacles fail with me, whether it be their oversized monster rampaging flicks like the latest Godzilla or Kong: Skull Island (yeh the effects are good but you don't care what happens to anyone in the films) or so many of the big action hero movies.

The first Die Hard film worked away back in 1988 because, among other things, you cared about the characters. The two most recent Die Hard films, though, are mechanical exercises in which Bruce Willis' once human protagonist is just another indestructible cartoon character.

The first Die Hard remains a model of its kind, action filled, suspenseful, funny, with a lead character you actually care about. The first two sequels were okay but clearly following a formula. The fourth and fifth films in the series were trite, silly, over-the-top affairs with Willis just another dumb action hero. Now there's talk of a sixth Die Hard film. Ugg! The magic ended with the first film.

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21 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:

I just watched 2017's IT. After reading others' comments here on this board I was worried about watching it alone, so watched it with MrTiki.

Not to worry-both of us had the same reaction- more laughter & bewilderment than fear. The storyline was confusing, it had very little cohesion and logic. I know IT's supposed to be "otherworldly" and sometimes the effects work on that level. But it's familiarity that scares us, it's hard to be scared of fake anything.

While the actor who plays the clown is good, too much weighs upon this performance for "good" to work. The clown has to be EXTRAORDINARY, and Tim Curry did that in the first IT movie. Tim Curry's clown was menacing, really coloring the performance. This clown was actually too "pretty" his face more girlish than a monster. A few of the kids were excellent, but only two of them (Beverly & Ben) were fleshed out enough for us to care about them. Too much time was spent on the CGI effects and not enough on the charactor development. And hoo-boy what an awful array of stereotype bad parents were depicted!
It can sometimes be tough getting adult viewers to connect with a child's role, but it certainly has been successfully done in the past when they're not so concerned with filling the screen with blood & gore.

I wish Hollywood would realize it's only scary if the viewer feels connection with the charactors. Otherwise it's just like watching a special effect studio's resumé of their visual trickery work.

Tikisoo, never really been a horror fan, not nearly as much as GOLDEN AGE COMEDY, GANGSTERS, WESTERNS & WAR-0PIX & also saw this monster hit-(if you;ll excuse me) & thought it was mediocre (**-out of 4 stars) BEWARE, of course there are more comin'

[LornaHansonForbes]

4 minutes ago, spence said:

But as with Harlow's double in '37's SARATOGA-(Mary Dees), one can never see NATALIE'S in it?

There is an especially strange moment in BRAINSTORM when Wood and Walken's characters are selling their ridiculously over-the-top dream home to a couple because they are estranged and expecting to get a divorce.  For some reason they have a swimming pool river running through the middle of the house, which I can only imagine makes the whole place reek of chlorine. Anyhow there's a long shot where everyone is discussing the sale of the house and Natalie's back is to the camera the entire time. It's like a two minute scene. And I figured it must've been a double for Wood, but then at the very end she turned around and it was Natalie wood. I have no idea why they wanted to film the actual, real Natalie Wood with her back to the camera for two minutes, but apparently they did. As far as the rest of her shots being done with the double, I couldn't really tell, but I did not watch the movie closely after the first half hour

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2 minutes ago, spence said:

But as with Harlow's double in '37's SARATOGA-(Mary Dees), one can never see NATALIE'S in it?

WE SPLIT HERE ON BRAINSTORM THOUGH   Not a great film, but well-made & it's direrctor DOUGLAS TRUNMBULL designed many of the rides at Universal & other theme parks  It didn't get released until almost 2yrs after she went

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13 hours ago, cigarjoe said:

Aside from McCabe & Mrs. Miller, I don't regard the rest as good Westerns exactly because of that abnormality, they are just sort of off genre unto themselves. I like Westerns quite a bit.

Years ago some guy bet me that the very first singing cowboy was *THE DUKE in a B-Western & his name SINGIN' SANDY, but I won the bet because KEN MAYNARD was a little before him

 

Ironically HOLLYWOOD was built on that genre & to date only 3 have won the BP *OSCAR???

[LornaHansonForbes]

Also re: BRAINSTORM 

I read the lengthy IMDb trivia section for the film, and I got pretty lost. It talked about what the director wanted to do (F/X wise) and started talking about the aspect ratio and frames per second and it went over my head w/ technical moviemaking jargon. I guess maybe if they just shut up and let The Director do what he wanted to do, it would've been all right – but at the same time,  routine scenes in the film that did not require special effects were handled so poorly and some of the actors gave performances that were so subpar (looking at you Louise Fletcher) that I don't know, I have a feeling this thing was going to be a mess no matter what.