TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 The Other Side of Midnight (1977). Yes, I've wondered what that meant-- does it refer to the early morning hours between midnight and dawn..? Or does it mean the whole concept of midnight has an alter ego..? LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBeacon Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 "Catch-22" "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" "Black Snake Moan" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" I had to laugh. That is a funny one, isn't it..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Clouded Yellow Phffft The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Gigli To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar The Ruling Class The Wicker Man The Magic Christian The Night of the Following Day The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Great list Marsha. I need to go through a few of these individually: The Clouded Yellow...I have this film at home and the strange title prevents me from watching it! Phffft...any title that can be pronounced without vowels has a special place in my heart. The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain...geographers are still working on the meaning. To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar..just who is Wong Fu and why is she thanking him..? The Magic Christian..a spiritual oxymoron? The Night of the Following Day..what happened to the night of the previous day? The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie...glad someone thinks they're charming, but not sure if proletariats agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Thanks, TopBilled. The Clouded Yellow happens to be one of my favorite films. It stars Trevor Howard, a former member of the British Secret Service, who now has found work cataloguing butterflies in a country house where a murder occurs and which Jean Simmons is accused. "The Clouded Yellow" refers to a rare species of butterfly. Terrific suspense film which has not been shown on TV since I first saw it over 40 years ago. Watch it, when you have the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Thanks, TopBilled. The Clouded Yellow happens to be one of my favorite films. It stars Trevor Howard, a former member of the British Secret Service, who now has found work cataloguing butterflies in a country house where a murder occurs and which Jean Simmons is accused. "The Clouded Yellow" refers to a rare species of butterfly. Terrific suspense film which has not been shown on TV since I first saw it over 40 years ago. Watch it, when you have the time. Okay, I think I am going to make this film a priority later today. Your synopsis has me curious..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsan404 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Yes, I've wondered what that meant-- does it refer to the early morning hours between midnight and dawn..? Or does it mean the whole concept of midnight has an alter ego..? LOL I don't know, TopBilled, but you might be onto something. 40 years later and I still have no idea what it means, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 I don't know, TopBilled, but you might be onto something. 40 years later and I still have no idea what it means, lol. Well, Sheldon did pen a follow-up called 'Memories of Midnight.' So perhaps in the world of his characters, midnight is a state of mind as opposed to a specific time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIPPER Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Judy Holliday ---"IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU" (1954) ---- What is "it"? Doris Day --- "IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO JANE" (1959) --- "What" should happened to Jane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Judy Holliday ---"IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU" (1954) ---- What is "it"? Perhaps "it" is fame. Or love, since Judy falls for Jack Lemmon in the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? THE FIVE PENNIES THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? Recently TCM showed a musical I enjoyed called PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE and I still don't get what that title has to do with anything A couple movies with generic names that still confuse me are IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and REMEMBER THE NIGHT-- they both happen over many days, so what night are they talking about? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 Recently TCM showed a musical I enjoyed called PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE and I still don't get what that title has to do with anything A couple movies with generic names that still confuse me are IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and REMEMBER THE NIGHT-- they both happen over many days, so what night are they talking about? Interesting points, Lonesome. Thanks everyone-- fun stuff yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 two hundred sixty-eighth category Memorable narration DOUBLE INDEMNITY…by Fred MacMurray I REMEMBER MAMA…by Barbara Bel Geddes THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA..by Spencer Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 American Beauty--- Kevin Spacey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Blade Runner - Harrison Ford Million Dollar Baby, Shawshank Redemption - Morgan Freeman Days of Heaven - Linda Manz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 Celeste Holm was the uncredited narrator who sent all those letters to three wives: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlewis Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Daffy Duck in The Scarlet Pumpernickel, trying to sell a story to "JL" Warner Sylvester and Sylvester Junior to his shrink in Tweet Dreams and Freudy Cat Daisy Duck to HER shrink in Donald's Dilemma even though it was more HER dilemma with HIM. Donald imitating Ronald Coleman writing "Dear Diary" in Donald's Diary about dealing with Daisy... and joining the French foreign legion as a result Hilarious low-keyed John McLeish in a number of Goofy cartoons I always liked Dennis Day (Jack Benny's crooner and "innocent") playing multiple voices and narration in the "Johnny Appleseed" segment in Disney's Melody Time... and everything Sterling Holloway narrated, such as Lambert The Sheepish Lion and The Little House. Mighty Marvin Miller in Gerald McBoing Boing and Paul Frees talking to Donald as "Mister Spirit" in Donald in Mathmagic Land and narrating Mars And Beyond... and even the Haunted House in the theme parks. I loved both guys in the many travelogues they narrated as well as still-fun-to-listen-to radio programs like The Whistler, Suspense and Escape! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Orson Welles served as both narrator and male lead for The Lady From Shanghai (1947) which just concluded on TCM. And, maybe it's just me, but even when he was doing on-screen dialogue, it felt like his voice was coming from off-screen. William Holden also served both roles for Sunset Boulevard (1950). With a postmortem twist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 To Kill A Mockingbird - Mary Badham The Naked City - Mark Hellinger Network - Lee Richardson Brief Encounter - Celia Johnson All About Eve - George Sanders, Bette Davis and Celeste Holm Murder, My Sweet - Dick Powell A Bronx Tale - Lillo Brancato (Calogero, Age 17) D.O.A. - Edmond O'Brien Broadway Danny Rose - Sandy Baron Stand By Me - Richard Dreyfuss Stalag 17 - Gil Stratton Sunset Boulevard - William Holden The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles Radio Days - Woody Allen Annie Hall - Woody Allen Goodfellas - Ray Liotta Casino - Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci Apocalypse Now - Martin Sheen Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro The Barefoot Contessa - Humphrey Bogart & Edmond O'Brien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlewis Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Orson Welles served as both narrator and male lead for The Lady From Shanghai (1947) which just concluded on TCM. And, maybe it's just me, but even when he was doing on-screen dialogue, it felt like his voice was coming from off-screen. William Holden also served both roles for Sunset Boulevard (1950). With a postmortem twist. I heard that William Holden was initially going to be a talking corpse in the morgue, but I can't remember... was it shot and discarded or simply discarded in the script before filming? Orson Welles sounded like he was talking in a lavatory during Chuck Jones' Rikki Tikki Tavy. At least Roddy McDowell has better acoustics in The White Seal and Mowgli's Brothers. Ooof! I got to get animated films off of my brain here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIPPER Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Ronald Reagan --- "THE YOUNG DOCTORS" (1961) Cecil B. De MIlle --- "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" (1956) Morgan Freeman --- "WAR OF THE WORLDS" (2005) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamCasey Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 How many movies has Paul Frees narrated? Most recent one that I have seen was The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). One of his most memorable was The War of the Worlds (1953) where he gets to narrate on screen "for the sake of future history, if any." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted June 6, 2016 Author Share Posted June 6, 2016 Ooof! I got to get animated films off of my brain here. Actually, I'm glad you mentioned animated films-- because they never would have crossed my mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 In Disney's THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR TOAD, we had Basil Rathbone narrating the WIND IN THE WILLOWS cartoon and, one of my all time favorite narrations of all time, Bing Crosby narrating the LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW cartoon Paul Frees will always be the Haunted Mansion voice to me 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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