LonesomePolecat Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU All those Roy Rogers movies 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Bricks Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 THUNDER ROAD (1958) FLAMING STAR (1960) THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE (1967) BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) DELIVERANCE (1973) CONVOY (1978) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Honkytonk Man (1982) Tender Mercies (1983) Walk the Line (2005) Crazy Heart (2009) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Grand Ole Opry (1940) Cold Mountain (2003) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 A lot of great examples yesterday. two thousand two hundred ninety-ninth category Past their prime Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)Alexandra Del Lago in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1962) Ralph Furley in Three's Company 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Larry Renault (John Barrymore) in Dinner at Eight (1933) Norman Maine in all versions of A Star is Born Fanny Skeffington (Bette Davis) in Mr. Skeffington (1944) Blanche du Bois (Vivien Leigh) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Calvero (Charlie Chaplin) in Limelight (1952) Maggie Elliott (Bette Davis) in The Star (1952) Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) in The Band Wagon (1953) Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) in The Entertainer (1960) "Sir" (Albert Finney) in The Dresser (1983) Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) in The Wrestler (2008) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 Some of the aging gunslinger stories probably fit this category. For example, a dying John Wayne who has one last hurrah in THE SHOOTIST (1976). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Louis Mountain Rivera ( Anthony Quinn ) in Requiem For A Heavyweight 1962 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 All of the Space Cowboys (2000) Anybody who proclaims he or someone else is "getting too old for this sh*t"...: Danny Glover in every (I'm pretty sure) iteration of Lethal Weapon Danny Glover as Uncle Russell in Death at a Funeral (2010) John Mahoney to Clint Eastwood as Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire (1993) Bill Murray in Stripes (1981) also Warren Oates as Sgt. Hulka in Stripes (1981) Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Sol Roth ( Edward G Robinson) in Soylent Green 1973 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Susan Lawson ( Susan Hayward ) in Valley of the Dolls 1967 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Martha ( Elizabeth Taylor) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann in Postcards from the Edge (1990) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Shirley MacLaine's Aurora Greenway is too old for Bill Paxton's Jerry Bruckner in The Evening Star (1996) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, cinemaman said: Martha ( Elizabeth Taylor) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966 Not to mention "Swampy" Richard Burton as George! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 1 hour ago, TopBilled said: Some of the aging gunslinger stories probably fit this category. Joel McCrae and Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country (1962) -- but, gosh, I love them! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Queen Elizabeth I ( Bette Davis ) in The Virgin Queen 1955 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Ron Catlan ( Charlton Heston ) in Number One 1969 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 COCOON 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Wallace Beery / Jon Voight in The Champ (1931 / 1979) Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) John Wayne / Jeff Bridges in True Grit (1970 / 2010) Walter Matthau and George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (1975) Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Boule in Grey Gardens (1975) George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg in Going in Style (1979) Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982) Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni in Ginger and Fred (1986) Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, etc. in Galaxy Quest (1999) Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) (a similar "comeback" delusion to Sunset Boulevard) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Burt Reynolds and his younger self in The Last Movie Star Vincent Price as the washed up horror film star in Madhouse Spencer Tracy as the old school politician in The Last Hurrah Billy Crystal as the aging comic in Mr. Saturday Night 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 At the risk of repeating myself, there were a lot of fantastic examples yesterday! two thousand three hundredth category Winter weather WINTERTIME (1943) SNOWBOUND (1948)SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (1999) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Snowed Under (1936) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraSmith Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Below Zero Swing Time (1936) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Doctor Zhivago (1965) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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