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Post by mattgarth on May 2, 2020 3:41:05 GMT
Ford remained in the Naval Reserve in the postwar years, rising to the rank of Lieut. Commander -- and even did a three-month stint in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 3:56:39 GMT
Glenn not dancing:
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Post by teleadm on May 2, 2020 18:43:06 GMT
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Post by london777 on May 2, 2020 23:41:20 GMT
Now I will not sleep tonight. I have recently seen that line in another movie but I cannot remember where. Can anyone help me? Think it was low-budget and earlier, but my memory plays tricks these days. Just a long-shot: was it an in-joke in Le Mépris (1963) dir: Jean-Luc Godard, because I watched that fairly recently and it features Fritz Lang as himself?
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Post by politicidal on May 3, 2020 22:40:27 GMT
He did make an adventure film named Plunder of the Sun (1953) that tried to be in the vein of The Maltese Falcon meets Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Except it just doesn’t work.
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Post by mattgarth on May 3, 2020 22:44:30 GMT
And LUST FOR GOLD in 1949 was made in the shade of TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 10, 2020 3:13:42 GMT
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Post by london777 on May 17, 2020 15:49:29 GMT
Last night watched a movie I had never heard of: Mr. Soft Touch (1949) dir: Gordon Douglas & Henry Levin. It was in a genre I normally despise, comedy/thriller (except of course unless the comedy is black comedy). Worse, it was infested with "cute" kids. But I found it very watchable and that was down to Glenn Ford. He really is relaxing to watch. The tone of the move was odd. Mostly the usual Hollywood saccharin but there were a few very dark notes not normally encountered in such fare. We were told that the hero's best friend had been fed through a rock-grinder and now formed part of the freeway foundations. Evelyn Keyes, the leading lady, was hit on the head by her father as a child and now has to wear a hearing aid (and they were not inconspicuous in those days). While at the very end, when Ford has almost evaded the pursuing assassins by slipping past them dressed as Santa Claus, his girlfriend calls after him by name causing him to be shot three times at short range. A real Film Noir twist. Funny how film posters were designed to mislead. This one suggests a hard-boiled thriller rather than a (mostly) romantic/comedy. And Evelyn Keyes never appears like that. She is prim, proper, and morally and physically upright throughout.  |
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Post by mattgarth on May 17, 2020 16:55:22 GMT
Taking the top prize for the most misleading movie poster has to be the Warner Bros. 1945 picture PRIDE OF THE MARINES,
It was the true story of Al Schmid who was blinded by a Jap grenade on Guadalcanal and faced an emotional readjustment,
But the poster showed its three stars (John Garfield / Eleanor Parker / Dane Clark) merrily strolling down the lane arm in arm as if in a musical comedy.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 17, 2020 17:10:53 GMT
A personal favourite and I will watch anything he was in. The noirs and Westerns are my favourites.
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Post by mattgarth on May 17, 2020 17:22:52 GMT
Just finished watching RANSOM! this morning.
He plays an anguished father dealing with the kidnapping of his young son.
The ten-minute single-shot sequence when he goes on TV to display the half-million dollars that he won't pay may be his finest on film.
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