citslc Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Hi all, I'm putting together a video tribute to my grandfather and am needing any suggestions you may have of classic movies containing scenes with construction workers and/or architects. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 There is a scene in the movie TWO SECONDS where the men are working on building a steel girded building. Edward G. Robinson stars in this one. In the movie STRANDED with Kay Francis & George Brent, George is the foreman of a construction crew that is building a big bridge. Lots of scenes with the guys on the job. Both of these movies are shown on TCM. Good luck to you. Alix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alix1929 Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 I forgot about MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS A DREAM HOUSE. The scene between the contractor & Myrna Loy where she gives him her color choices for the interior paint is a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieloverny Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 The Fountainhead (1949) with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickerknickers Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 In 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,' there's a whole big sequence about building a house. As noted below, "The Fountainhead," is the ultimate 'construction' movie. Also, I believe that Buster Keaton had a famous scene where he's built a house and one wall falls down on top of him, but he escapes unscathed because it was the empty "window" portion that fell over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsoshoko Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Yes, the Buster Keaton scene was in "Steamboat Bill, Jr." An interesting fact of that is that Buster refused to rehearse it. He had faith in the stunt and he didn't want to waste a wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elyserbu Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 How about "Lillies of the Field" where Sidney Poitier builds the chapel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Markoff Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Paul Newman is the architect in 'Towering Inferno' --and that entire movie is probably the most architectural of any. Late-career Brian Denehy plays in a strange foreign flick "The Belly of an Architect" with gorgeous scenes shot in Italy but the plot is merely a pot-boiler about a failed marriage and a murder. No, it's not an architectnoiral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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speedracer5 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Hopefully the OP isn't still waiting for suggestions for their video compilation. In Miss Grant Takes Richmond, there is a funny scene where Lucille Ball helps all her female clients redesign the floorplans of their homes. The ladies take all the line markers (noting where the foundation is to be poured) and make all the rooms enormous, or tiny and the homes are overlapping. Then of course, there's The Brady Bunch Movie where Mike Brady is tasked with coming up with a design for his firm. Since this is a satire, and the Brady home (which he designed) is the only project of his that the audience actually sees (in the original show), every one of Mike's designs is just the Brady home with different foliage outside of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Land of The Pharaohs - pyramids Bridge on The River Kwai - RR Bridge Tycoon (1947) -RR construction South America 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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