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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 30, 2019 21:41:22 GMT
The Mummy (2017).
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 1, 2019 18:22:32 GMT
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 1942 - Was curious about this since it was reviewed here and I wanted to see the dachshund scene. I could not recognize Jackie Gleason or Phil Silvers immediately. I did not find many yucks in the movie and felt Bogart was being fairly straight until the scene where Martin Kosleck is asking him about his plans and Bogart is speaking gibberish. That was a good bit of verbal gymnastics by him. I thought Conrad Veidt showed a little comic flair himself in a couple of scenes, i.e. "2 Gs." I know that Warner Bros. was known as the studio where criminal characters were the focus--well in this case it leads to an odd dialogue bit where Kaaren Verne tells Veidt that the little people of America were rising up against them--but weren't all the ones attacking the Fifth Column meeting members in criminal gangs? As a war propaganda message, it was unusual morale boost!
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 1, 2019 22:13:03 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 1, 2019 22:26:42 GMT
Between Two Worlds is a nice remake of the original Outward Bound, I agree. Primo cast. Much as I likr Sydney Greenstreet I think George Coulouris sold it as a cold, unfeeling industrialist. He was so credible as to be near pitiable for simply being who he was. WHEN did you last watch BTW OR OB? I haven't seen OB yet. I ONLY said (typed, actually) that it was a good REHASH because it was/IS a good film on ITS own. RETREAD OR NOT.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 3, 2019 9:27:23 GMT
Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 3, 2019 9:57:05 GMT
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Post by louise on Dec 3, 2019 14:09:14 GMT
Fallen Idol (1947). Rather odd melodrama about a butler at the French embassy (Ralph Richardson) who is suspected of murdering his wife, and the extremely annoying child who complicates matters.
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Post by louise on Dec 3, 2019 16:12:30 GMT
Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Very loosely based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a Christian missionary in China. It would have been better without the gratuitous addition of a fictional love interest for her.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 5, 2019 5:12:22 GMT
Mammoth (2009).
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 5, 2019 10:40:16 GMT
I watched the movie Gypsy (1962) with Natalie Wood, Karl Malden and Rosalind Russell. I had watched it once before like 10-15 years ago. And i have honestly forgotten that it was a musical.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 5, 2019 18:21:45 GMT
The Thirty Nine Steps 1978, apparently this is the closest screen version of John Buchan's source novel, with the Big Ben climbing added. It's a pretty entertaining old-fashioned innocent man on the run movie, with many familiar British actors and actresses giving it style and class.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 6, 2019 6:14:42 GMT
La Femme Nikita (1990).
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 6, 2019 8:28:28 GMT
GUNMEN ON THE LOOSE aka CRASHOUT 1955 - William Bendix is not living the life of Riley in this story of escaped cons who have to keep their ruthless leader (Bendix) alive so they can get a share of his stashed loot. Arthur Kennedy is the least tainted of the group--they get picked off one by one due to circumstances-one gets burned alive.
ONE AFTER ANOTHER 1968 - Richard Harrison in yet another Italian western this time he wears glasses and gets into a war between Mexicans and a town official who wants to keep his past a secret. Has a scene where he burns out a wound with gunpowder Rambo-style.
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Post by louise on Dec 6, 2019 14:35:36 GMT
the Cheaters (1945). A businessman who has been rich but is now in financial difficulties (Eugene Pallette) is counting on inheriting a fortune from his old uncle. But when the will is read Pallette and his family are horrified to learn that the uncle has left his vast fortune to an actress who he saw thirty years before playing Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Pallette will only get the money if the actress is not found. So they hatch a plot to keep the actress from finding out about her inheritance so that they will get the money. The film is funny for the first half, but after the actress (Ona Munson) arrives, it all starts to get serious and is downhill from then on. A film that I started out really enjoying, but by the end was glad it was over.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 6, 2019 18:06:38 GMT
We're No Angels copyrighted in 1954 but didn't premiered until 1955, so year might differ from sourse to sourse. Three escaped convicts on Devil's Island in the invades a family on Christmas Eve with plannes to rob and murder them, but have second thoughts since they are so nice, and helps them having a memorable Christmas dinner, thankfully Basil Rathbone turns up so they have someone to dislike again. Enjoyable and a Christmas staple in my home.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 7, 2019 11:24:41 GMT
The Princess Diaries (2001).
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Post by louise on Dec 7, 2019 11:45:54 GMT
Catch Us If You Can (1965). Quite an interesting film featuring the Dave Clark Five pop group. A stuntman goes on the run with an actress who wants to get away from it all. Rather more downbeat than most pop group films.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 8, 2019 7:17:08 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 8, 2019 8:12:26 GMT
THE BETSY 1978 - Since it was mentioned here as a possibility for how Olivier would have done the Godfather I checked it out. I agree that Leslie Anne-Down stands out here--I wonder if THE SPHYNX effectively ended her theatrical movie career--she seemed really lost performance-wise in that dud--too bad. She was good in this and The First Great Train Robbery. Maybe a leading role was just too much? Anyway as for Olivier I figured he would come across as too frail but there's the scene where he crushes his son's hands (there was another Paul Rudd??) and he was impressively tough. But I think in the end, Brando was like the alpha male tough guy and that was how he was supposed to be, Oliver would have been more eccentric-maybe too eccentric to be a good Vito Corleone. As for the movie, I guess the final verdict is it is something of a lemon.
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Post by louise on Dec 8, 2019 17:58:41 GMT
Top Secret (1952). Comedy with George Cole as a sanitary engineer working for the Ministry of Defence. He bumps into a man carrying a briefcase containing plans of a secret atomic weapon, and they unknowingly go off with each other's briefcases. Through a series of misunderstandings, the men from the ministry become convinced that Cole is a spy and is going to sell their atomic plans to Russia. Meanwhile the Russians have got the same idea. Cole doesn't have a clue what is going on. Very amusing film.
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